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KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 



with specialists in the kindred subjects of 

 Social Science, Jurisprudence, and Political 

 Fconomy, which are represented at this 

 annual meeting in Saratoga, By conference 

 with co-workers historical students may 

 widen their horizen of interest and cause 

 their individual fields of labor to become 

 more fruitful. The leading spirits in this 

 movement are Prof. Jno. Eaton, Prof. F. B. 

 Sanborn, Prof. C. K. Adams, Prof. M. C. 

 Tyler and Prof. H. B. Adams. 



The American Wood Preserving Com- 

 pany have been awarded the city contract 

 for paving Chestnut Street, St. Louis, from 

 Jefferson to Grand Avenue with gum lumber 

 treated by the zinc-gypsum process. 



Dr. Lewis Swift, director of the Warner 

 observatory, has received intelligence of the 

 discovery of a comet by Prof. E. E. Barnard, 

 of jSTashville, on the night of the 19th instant, 

 and the discovery was verified by the motion 

 of the comet the next night. It is in the 

 head of the Wolf, right ascension 15h., 50 m., 

 and 30s., declination south 17° 10^, and is 

 moving slowly in an easterly direction. It 

 seems to be growing brighter, and is probably 

 coming toward the earth. This is the first 

 comet discovered in the northern hemispheie 

 this vear. 



ITEMS FEOM PERIODICALS. 



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The August Harperh is especially note- 

 worthy for its papers on American places — 

 " The Gateway of Boston," in which W. H. 

 Rideing describes and Messrs. Halsall and 



Garrett picture Boston Harbor ; Salt Lake 

 City, described by Ernest Ingersoll, with 

 fifteen illustrations ; and R'chfield Springs, 

 a paper with special reference to their 

 medicinal waters, by F. J. Nott, M. D. Mr. 

 Boughton will continue his chatty "Artist 

 Strolls in Holland" in company with Mr. 

 Abbey. Art will be represented by a paper 

 on the work of the " Associated Artists " by 

 Mrs. Harrison, with charming illustrations 

 of the needlework designs of Mrs. Wheeler, 

 Miss Dora Wheeler, and others, as well as 

 by the frontispiece reproduction of Mr. 

 Dewing's rose-paiuting, "A Prelude ;" sport, 

 by " Antelope Hunting in Montana," with 

 illustrations by Beard and Frost; history, 

 by the first of a series of brillirtntly written 

 and illustrated papers on " The Great Hall 

 of William Rufus," by Treadwell Walden. 

 William Black's and E. P. Roe's novels will 

 have their usual superb illustrations by 

 Abbey, Gibson, and Dielman, and more of 

 the charming landscape illustrations by 

 Alfred Parsons will accompany a further 

 installment of Mr. Sharp.'s poem-pictures, 

 "Transcripts from Nature." There will 

 also be stories and poems by Mrs. Macquoid, 

 Mr. Bynner, Lucy Larcora, Mrs. Fields, and 

 others. A paper on "The Building of the 

 Muscle" will be contributed by Julian 

 Hawthorne. Among Mr. Curtis's topics in 

 the " Easy Chair " are National Conven- 

 tions and College Commencements. 



The Magazine of American History for Au- 

 gust comes laden with a variety of agree- 

 able surprises. It will attract many readers. 

 The opening article, " The Story of a Monu- 

 ment," by S. N. D. North, of the Utica 

 Herald, is a timely production, and of curi- 

 ous interest to the public in general. The 

 illustrations add greatly to its value, of 

 which is the fine portrait of Ex Governor 

 Horatio Seymour— frontispiece to the mag- 

 azine. The next article introduces a learned 

 discussion of the new and novel question, 

 " Did the Romans colonize America?" The 

 author, M. V. Moore, foreshadows futher 

 papers, and from the masterly skill with 

 which he handles the subject they will nat- 

 urally excite wide attention. 



