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KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 



Harper's Monthly is un usually rich, as iti 

 December contents show : Decorating the 

 Church for Christmas, drawn by F. Dielman, 

 (Frontispiece); The Columbia River, Cleve- 

 land Rockwell, (with 13 illustrations); Will- 

 iam Black at Home, Joseph Hatton, (with 6 

 illustrations); Found Drowned — A Poem, Di- 

 nah Mulock Craik, (with I illustration by Ab- 

 bey); The Great Sea-Port of Western France, 

 Thomas W. Knox, (with 12 illustrations); 

 The Bride-Cake — A Poem, Robert Herrick, 

 (illustration by E. A. Abbey); Southern Cal- 

 ifornia, III, William Henry Bishop, (with 18 

 illustrations); Some Day — A Poem, Isabella 

 Grant Meredith ; His Poetrie his Pillar — A 

 Poem, Robert Herrick, (illustration by E. A. 

 Abbey); Cameos of Colonial Carolina, P. D. 

 Hay, (with 9 illustrations); The Singular 

 Vote of Aut Tilbox, (with 3 illustrations by 

 A. B. Frost); Storing Electricity, Henry Mor- 

 ton, (with 7 illustrations); For the Major — A 

 Novel, Constance Fenimore Woolson, (with 

 I illustration); Among the Rose-Roots — A 

 Story, A Working- Girl ; New England in the 

 Colonial Period, John Fiske ; The Two Fleets 

 — A Poem, Eugene Bolles; Tom's Moniment 

 — A Story, busan Hartley Swett ; Shandon 

 Bells — A Novel, William Black, (with an il- 

 lustration by William Small); Editor's Easy 

 Chair ; Editor's Literary Record ; Editor's 

 Historical Renord ; Editor's Drawer. 



The Popular Science Monthly presents the 

 following table of contents for December : 

 Mr. Goldwin Smith on "The Data of Ethics," 

 by W. D. Le Sueur, B. A.; TimeKeeping in 

 London, I — by E. A. Engler, (illustrated); 

 The Relations of the Natural Sciences, by T, 

 Sterry Hunt, F. R. S.; Brain- Weight and 

 Brain-Power, by J. P. H. Boileau, M. D.; 

 The Cell-State, by Professor Ferdinand Cohn ; 

 American and Foreign Asphalts, by E. J. 

 Hallock, Ph. D.; Speculative Zoology, i— by 

 Professor W. K. Brooks ; Annual Growth of 

 Trees, by A. L. Child, M. D.; Science in Re- 

 lation to the Arts, 1 1 — by C. W. Siemens, F. 

 R. S.; Musical Sensations, by M. Hericourt ; 

 Is FingaPs Cave Artificial ? by F. Cope White- 

 house, M. A., etc., (illustrated) ; The Spec- 

 troscope and the Weather, by C. Piazzi Smith; 



Criminality in Animals, by A. Lacassagne ; 

 Sketch of Matthias Jacob Schleiden, (with 

 portrait); Entertaining Varieties; Editor's 

 Table : Spencer's Impressions of America — 

 Principle in Small Things ; Literary Notices ; 

 Popular Miscellany; Notes. 



In connection with the first volume of the 

 " Surgeon's Stories "—Times of Gustaf Adolf 

 — which Jansen, McClurg & Co. will issue in 

 a few days, the following from a late number 

 of the New York Nation will interest our 

 readers : 



"A noticeable literary phenomenon is the 

 sudden and widespread revival of the * Sur- 

 geon's Stories,' by Prof. Z, Topelius, a trans- 

 lation of which is in the press in this country, 

 and will probably also be brought out in 

 England. A new translation of them is be- 

 ing also made in Germany, and a new edition 

 has just appeared in Denmark, published by 

 P. G. Philipsen, Copenhagen; the translator 

 being Fr. Winkel-Horn. Finally, the Swed- 

 ish publisher of Topelius's works, Albert 

 Bonnier, has in preparation a superb illus- 

 trated edition, the designs for which are by 

 Larsson (the sameartist who illustrated Bish- 

 op Wallin's fine poem, 'The Angel of Death,') 

 and will number 350, or between fifty an'd 

 sixty for each volume. Few works offer such 

 abundant material to the artist. Topelius's 

 tales cannot fail to have a great success in 

 all Protestant countries, and Mr. Bonnier in- 

 tends issuing an edition of 15,000 copies of 

 the new illustrated series, at the same price 

 as that of the original edition without illus- 

 tration." 



The New York Observer^ pioneer of the re- 

 ligious press, enters upon its sixty-first vol- 

 ume with the new year. Undenominational, 

 unsectarian, evangelical and national, it is 

 just the right kind of a newspaper for family 

 reading and is a favorite wherever it is taken. 

 JPj 15 per annum. 



Prof. Geo. C. Swallow, for many year* 

 connected with the University of Missouri, 

 and formerly State Geologist, has removed 

 to Montana Territory and is now editing the 

 Helena Independent. 



