256 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 



Secret Orders, are especially rich in this respect. Mrs. Waite is the wife of the 

 author of " A History of the Christian Religion to A. D. 200," that has attracted 

 a great deal of attention, and is a writer of taste besides possessing keen 

 powers of observation. 



The Present Religious Crisis. By Augustus Blauvelt; i2mo. pp. 196. G. 

 P. Putnam's Sons, New York. $1.00. 



A graduate of Rutgers College at New Brunswick, N. J., and of Hertzog 

 Theological Seminary, connected with the same institution, the author of this 

 book took up the study of the Bible for the purpose of vindicating the traditional 

 Protestant conceptions about it and religion against all the assaults of modern un- 

 believers. Unfortunately he undertook to do this by merely invoking ordinary 

 evidence and reasoning, and the result was thus : " He has come more and more 

 distinctly to perceive that the traditional Protestant conceptions about both the 

 Bible and religion, instead of being scientifically defensible even down to details, 

 require a revision and restatement of the most revolutionary nature." These he 

 attempts in the present volume, which is but the first of a series, the second of 

 which will be called the " Religion of the Jesus," and the third "Supernatural 

 Religion." How well he may succeed is for the reader to judge. For our part 

 we neither like the tone of the writers, his manner of stating his case nor his line 

 of argument, although he makes a show of exceeding liberality and draws largely 

 upon other writer for his facts and illustrations. 



OTHER PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



The Elements of Forestry, by Franklin B. Hough, Ph. D. Kin and 

 Clan, a lecture before the Historical Society of New Mexico, by Prof. A. E. 

 Bandelier. The Record, a monthly magazine devoted to classical literature arwi 

 historical criticism, C. V. Waite & Co., Chicago, 111. The Grain Cleaner, month- 

 ly, Clifford F. Hall, Moline 111., Vol. V, No. 5. The Isthmian Canal, by L. U. 

 Reavis, with an introductory letter by Capt. Silas Bent, St. Louis, Mo. First 

 Annual Report of the Committee of the Archseological Institute of America, on 

 the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Notes on the Habits of 

 Some Western Snakes, by H. A. Brous, M. A , M. D. T\\q Journal of Compar- 

 ative Medicine and Surgery, a quarterly journal of the anatomy, pathology and 

 therapeutics of the lower animals, Vol. Ill, No. 3, W. L. Hyde & Co., New 

 York, $2.00. Natural History of Pettis County, Mo., pp. 19, by F. A. Samp- 

 son, Sedalia, Mo. General Notes on Anthropology, Prof. Otis T. Mason. A 

 Science Based on Assumptions, pp. 16, Hon. W. D. Kelley. Second Annual 

 Report of the Astronomer in charge of the Horological and Thermometric Bureaus 

 in the Observatory at Yale College, 1881-82, by Leonard Waldo. 



