lis KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 



whether as to his associations or literary tendencies and occupations, though he 

 had not by any means reached the acme of his fame at that time. 



His Ufe was in most respects an exemplary one, for though hasty in temper 

 and sometimes rough in speech, he was industrious, affectionate and just. His 

 biographer says " When the Devil's advocate has said his worst against Carlyle, 

 he leaves a figure still of unblemished integrity, purity, loftiness of purpose and 

 inflexible resolution to do right, as of a man living consciously under his Maker's 

 eye and with his thoughts fixed on the account which he would have to render 

 of his talent." The book is a cheap but well printed edition, illustrated with por- 

 traits and representations of localities. 



Garfield's Place in History. By Henry C. Pedder. Octavo: pp. 104. G. 

 P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1882. For sale by M. H. Dickinson; $1.25. 



This essay is a careful analysis of the character of the late President and a 

 faithful comparison of his position when assassinated with that of Mr. Lincoln and 

 other rulers under similar circumstances, taking into account the status of the 

 Government at the different times. 



In comparing Mr. Garfield with his predecessors he says, " In order of Prov- 

 idence, Washington represented national independence ; Lincoln national unity 

 and Garfield national independence and unity, made stronger and more beautiful 

 for the force of his intellectual grasp, his nobleness of life and his breadth of cult- 

 ure." As an orator and scholar, he justly places him in the foremost rank of 

 Americans and properly holds him up as an example to American worth. 



It is a well written essay and the future historian will doubtless justify many 

 of the author's conclusions. 



OTHER PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



The Inception, Organization and Management of Training Schools for 

 Nurses, from the Bureau of Education; Third Annual Report of the Archaeologi- 

 cal Institute of America; Official Army Register for 1882; Journal of the Ameri- 

 can Agricultural Association; The Currents and Temperatures of Behring Sea, 

 (Appendix 16 to U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey for 1880), by W. H. Dall;, 

 Centennial History of Licking County, Ohio, by Isaac Smucker; The Opium 

 Habit, Its Successful Treatment by the Avena Sativa, by E. H. M. Sell, A. M., 

 M. D., New York; The Millstone, April, 1882, Indianapolis, $1.00 per annum;. 

 The Death-Rate of Memphis, by Geo. E. Waring, Jr., Newport, R. I.; The Ed- 

 ucation of the Blind, a historical sketch by M. Anagnos, Boston ; Soils and To- 

 bacco Lands of Missouri, by G. C. Swallow, LL.D.; Money and Its Substitutes, 

 by Horace White, New York ; Imports, Exports and the French Treaty by J. K. 

 Cross, Esq., M. P., London, England; Creation or Evolution, Geo. C. Swallow, 

 LL. D., Columbia, Mo.; Johns Hopkins University Circular, No. 13, Proceed- 



