62 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 
THe SpELL-BounpD FIppLER. By Kristofer Janson. 12mo., pp. LOX. tees 
Griggs & Co., Chicago, 1880; $1.00. 
For the past year or two this enterprising firm has been publishing, princi- 
pally under the editorship of Professor Rasmus B. Anderson, of the University of 
Wisconsin, a series of books illustrating the literature of the Norse-Land. Among 
these have been put forth in handsome style The Norse Mythology, The Viking 
Tales of the North, Echoes from Mist-Land, The Younger Edda, &c. 
The Spell-Bound Fiddler is a tale by Kristofer Janson, relating in narrative 
form the events of the life of the wonderful musician of Norway, Torgeir Au- 
dunson, and evidently intended as an effort to break down the puritanism of the 
country, which fosters a prejudice against all other than church music and pre- 
sents an obstacle to the progress of the Orphic art among that gifted people. 
The introduction, by Prof. Anderson, contains among other interesting facts, 
some passages in the life of Ole Bull not hitherto published. 
Sea AIR AND SEA BaTHING. By John H. Packard, M. D. 12mo., pp. 121; 
Presley Blakiston, Phila., 1880; 5oc. 
With felicitous appropriateness Health Primer number XI, bearing the above 
title, makes its appearance, containing just the proper directions upon sea bath- 
ing, sea-side resorts, accidents in bathing, sea bathing for invalids, amusements at 
the sea-shore, cottage life at the sea-shore, sanitary matters, the sea-shore as a 
winter resort, excursions to the sea-shore, &c. With the mercury in the eighties, 
as during last week here, such a book will be sought for with avidity and read 
with profit by all who contemplate summering at the sea-side. 
A SERIES OF QUESTIONS IN ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE. By Mary F. 
Hendrick. t12mo., pp. 76; Davis, Bardeen & Co., Syracuse, N. Y., 1880; 
B25: 
The writer of this little work is Teacher of Reading and English Literature 
in the State Normal and Training School, Cortland, N. Y., and necessarily brings 
to the task a large experience. Her object is to present to her pupils the subject 
of literature in connection with prominent historical epochs and to suggest, by a 
series of questions, noted authors of each and their best known works; and the 
volume closes with a list of reference books and a course of reading embracing 
only the most prominent and standard authors. 
Such a book properly studied cannot fail to be of great value to such readers. 
