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ITEMS FROM THE PERIODICALS. 
THE Rocky Mountain Medical Review, edit- 
ed by A. Wellington Adams, M. D., reaches 
Number seven of its first volume with the 
March issue. It is a handsome, ably con- 
ducted journal, published at Colorado 
Springs, Col. Among the original articles in 
the November number, besides that of Dr. 
Adams, on the Thermograph, copied in the 
REVIEW, this month, is a very excellent one 
upon ‘The Influence of Altitude upon Res- 
piration,” by S. E. Solly, M. R. C.S., which 
will be found of service to all who read it, 
whether medical men or invalids. 
PRESLEY BLAKISToN, the well known pub- 
lisher of medical works, in Philadelphia, has 
changed the title of his medical journal to 
The American Specialist, which is edited by 
Chas. W. Dulles, M. D., and published 
monthly at $1 50perannum, It is attractive 
in appearance as well as valuable in sub- 
stance. 
THE Humboldt Library, Nos. 18 and 19, 
give respectively, ‘‘ Lessons in Electricity,” 
by Prof. John Tyndall, and ‘‘ Familiar Essays 
on Scientific Subjects,” by Prof. R. A. Proc- 
tor, at the usual low price of 15 cents each. 
THE Journal of the Anthropological Institute 
(London) for November is just received. It 
presents a number of articles which cannot 
fail to interest its readers, among which are 
Notes on the Romano-British Cemetery at 
Seaford; Notes on Fijian Burial Customs; 
The Ethnology of Germany, etc., etc. This 
valuable periodical is published quarterly at 
$1 oo per number of 112 pages, and can be 
clubbed with the REVIEW at reduced rates. 
HARPER’S MONTHLY for March offers the 
follows: Bedford Park, Moncure D. Conway ; 
with eight illustrations. The University of 
Leiden, W. T, Hewitt; with ten illustrations. 
The Arran Islands, J. L. Cloud; with ten 
illustrations. Possibilities of Horticulture, 
S. B. Parsons; with nine illustrations. A 
Glimpse of an Old Dutch Town; with sixteen 
illustrations. Richard Henry Stoddard, a 
KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 
poem; Henry Ripley Dorr. The Grave-dig- 
ger, Robert Herrick; with full page illustra- 
tion by Abbey. A Nation in a Nutshell, 
Geo. P. Lathrop; with twelve illustrations. 
Anne; a novel, Constance Fenimore Wool- 
son; with three illustrations by Reinhart. 
The French Republic, George Merrill. 
Hands Off; a.story. A Talk on Dress, Maria 
R. Oakey. A Help-meet for Him; a story, 
W. M. Baker. The Family Life of the Turks, 
Henry O. Dwight. A Laodicean; a novel, 
Thomas Hardy; with an illustration by Du 
Maurier. Editor’s Easy Chair; Editor’s Lit- 
erary Record; Editor’s Historical Record; 
Editor’s Drawer. 
THE contents of Zhe Atlantic Monthly for 
March, 1881, are as follows; Friends; a duet, 
VI—VIII; Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Story 
ofagreat Monopoly; H. D. Lloyd. Arachne; 
Rose Terry Cooke. The Portrait of a Lady; 
EXSY XOX; Elenry James) Jin htem seven 
Days; Francis L. Mace. New York Thea- 
ters. The Genesis of Genius; Grant Allen. 
Before Dawn; Maurice Thompson. The 
Wives of Poets, III; William M. Rosetti. 
The End of the War; Theedore Bacon. Ran- 
dom Recollections of England; Richard 
Grant White. Boston to Florence; Oliver 
Wendell Holmes. The Eleventh Hour; 
Katherine Carrington. Recent French and 
German Essays; War Ships and Navies; 
Tennyson’s New Volume, and other Poetry; 
Challoner’s History of Music; The Contribu- 
tors’ Club; Books of the Month. 
THE North American Review has eight origi- 
nal articles by prominent writers, among 
which are Theology in the Public Schools, by 
Bishop A. C. Coxe; The Isthmian Ship Rail. 
way, by Captain James B. Eads, which is 
exhaustive in argument and fact, and which 
has one map that of itself is satisfactory evi- 
dence of the advantages of his route over all 
others; The Effects of Negro Suffrage, by 
Chief Justice H. H. Chalmers; The Success 
of the Free School System, by Prof. John D. 
Philbrick; Theological Charlatanism, by 
Prof. John Fiske, in which he handles Rev. 
Joseph Cook without gloves, etc., etc. 
