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REALITIES OF IRISH Lire. By W. Steuart Trench. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 
1880; 12mo., pp. 297; $1.00. 
The object of the author seems to be to give a clear and truthful account of 
the occurrences which violent party spirit or local prejudices have placed before 
the public distorted, and also to give to the English public, in particular, some 
idea of the difficulties in the way of progress or improvement in Ireland, as well 
as to show that in spite of these difficulties such progress and improvement are 
really practicable. The author writes from the vantage ground of long experience 
among the people he describes, and his stories bear the marks of truthfulnes and 
candor. 
Among the titles of chapters or tales may be given The Ribbon Code, The 
Potato Rot, The Revival, The School, The Battle of Magheracloon, &c. 
‘TRANSACTIONS OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE OF ST. Louris. Volume IV, No. 1; 
Octavo, pp. 190; R. P. Studley & Co., St. Louis, 1880; $2.00. 
We are indebted to Professor Nipher for the above-named work, which. con- 
tains two Reports by himself of his Magnetic Observations and Determinations in 
Missouri; a very interesting article by Judge Nathaniel Holmes, upon The Geo- 
logical and Geographical Distribution of the Human Race; one by Dr. G. Seyf- 
farth, upon Egyptian Theology, which displays a great familiarity with the lan- , 
guage and the history of Ancient Egypt; a very practical paper upon The 
Improvement of Western Rivers, by C. M® Scott; besides several others worthy 
of our future perusal. 
This Academy is of long standing and has done much good work, especially 
that of Dr. Engelman and Profs. Nipher and Wadsworth in Meteorology and 
Physics. 
OTHER PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 
The Report of the Board of Trade of Golden, Colorado, for 1879 and 1880, 
Learning and Health, by Benjamin Ward Richardson; Davis, Bardeen & Co., 
Syracuse, N. Y., 15c ; ‘‘ Egyptian Antiquities” found in America, Prof. F. W. 
Putnam; College Libraries as Aids to Instruction, U. S. Bureau of Education, 
No. 1, 1880; The Effects of Civilization on the Climate and Rain Supply of Kan- ~ 
sas, by H. R. Hilton, Topeka, Kansas; Report on the Interests and Condition 
of Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, by W. G. Elliot, President, 
March, 1880; Report of the State Engineer of California, 1880. 
