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up with the "Kitchen," '' Dining-Room," "Butler's Pantry," "Laundry," and 

 " Engine." The house is heated by a " Furnace," and which is also a " Sugar 

 Manufactory." Nor is the house without mystery, for it contains a number of 

 "Mysterious Chambers." It is protected by a wonderful "Burglar Alarm," 

 and watched over by various " Guardians." A pair of charming " Windows " 

 adorn the "Facade," and a "Whispering Gallery" offers a delightful labyrinth 

 for our wanderings. 



Forestry of Northern Russia and Lands Beyond : Compiled by John 

 Croumbie Brown, LL. D. i2mo. , pp. 279. Edinburgh. Oliver & Boyd, 

 1884. 



Forestry of the Ural Mountains: John Croumbie Brown, LL.D. i2mo., 

 pp. 182. Edinburgh, 1884. Oliver & Boyd. 



The above named volumes make up thirteen works upon forestry by this 

 indefatigable investigator and writer upon this subject, most of which have been 

 noticed in the Review during the past four or five years. They are all designed 

 to supply British students of forestry with valuable information obtained by the 

 author from foreign travel. 



The awarding committee of the International Exhibition of Forest Products, 

 and other objects of interest connected with forestry, selected to award premiums 

 on forestal literature, spoke in high terms of the works of Dr. Brown, who, being 

 a member of the committee, could not compete for the premium. Each of Dr. 

 Brown's works is complete in itself, though an integral part of a series of volumes 

 in course of publication, designed to familiarize students in forestry with the 

 applications of forest economy in different lands; and Dr. Brown's personal ac- 

 quaintance with the systems pursued in most countries of the continent of Europe 

 was found of special service to the committee. 



In a prairie country like that west of us a complete knowledge of forestry 

 must necessarily be found of the greatest advantage, and we cannot avoid recom- 

 mending to the State Boards of Agriculture of Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, etc., 

 the purchase of a full set of these works. 



A Migration Legend of the Creek Indians : By A. S. Gatschet. Vol- 

 ume I. Octavo, pp. 251. Pubhshed by D. G. Brinton, Philadelphia, 1884. 



This is Volume IV of Brinton's Library of Aboriginal American Literature, 

 and is the result of protracted and careful study of the language and ethnology 

 of the Creek tribe and its ethnic congeners. 



The story related in these pages is, as its author states, wholly legendary, in 

 its first portion even mythical; it is of a comparatively remote age, exceedingly 

 instructive for ethnography and for the development of religious ideas; it is full 

 of that sort of naivete which we like so much to meet in the mutual productions 



