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KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 



Among the Redwoods, E. R. Sill. Fee's 

 Legendary Years, (3t. E. Woodberry. An 

 Amei ican Flirtation, Grace Denio Litchfield. 

 Canada and the British Connection, Edward 

 Stanwood. The Contributors' Club. Books 

 ol the Month. 



The first number of the Central School 

 Jou7'nal, a sixteen page (12x9 in.) monthly* 

 devoted to practical education, will be is- 

 sued about the middle of December, 1884. 

 The Journal will be edited and managed by 

 Profs. E. M. Guilliams and S. A. D. Harry, 

 members of the faculty of the Salina (Kan- 

 sas) Normal University. These gentlemen 

 have had a great deal of experience as 

 teachers in both Public and Normal Schools, 

 and understand the requirements of a first- 

 class Educational Journal. 



The danger of incidental harm to the com- 

 munity, or to certain classes of people, from 

 ihe increased use of machinery, the exten- 

 ion of public works, etc., is greatly dimin- 

 ished when those who make the laws, and 

 especially those whose duty it is to interpret 

 them, recognize that law is a progressive 

 science ", that it is a means, not an end ; that 

 when a state of things arises for which there 

 is no precedent, a new precedent must be 

 made. How the most enlightened jurists 

 hold this principle constantly in view, and 

 how the common as well as the statute law 

 js thus made to keep pace with the general 

 advance of civilization, is admirably set 

 forth in the leading article in the North Amer- 

 ican Review for December, " Labor and Cap- 

 ital before the Law," by Judge T. M. Cooley, 

 of Michigan. To the same number, William 

 K. Ackerman contributes some suggestive 

 "Notes on Railway Management," Dr. Schlie- 

 mann tells what he found in his excavations 

 of the ruins of Tiryns, in Southern Greece, 

 and Principal Shairp supplements his schol- 

 arly article on "Friendship in Ancient Poe- 

 try" with one on "Friendship in English 

 Poetry." The other articles in the number 

 are, "The British House of Lords," by George 

 Ticknor Curtis, and "Responsibility for State 

 Roguery," by John F. Hume. 



Popular Science Monthly, conducted by E^ 

 Ij. and W. J. Youmans, is promptly on hand 

 and contains the following articles : The Re- 

 formation in Time-Keeping, W. F. Allen,, 

 (Illustrated). American Aspects of Anthro- 

 pology, E. B. Tylor, F. R. S. School-Culture 

 of the Observing Faculties, J. C Glashaw.. 

 Queer Flowers, Grant Allen. Alcoholic 

 Trance, T. D. Crothers, M. D. The Pro- 

 blem of Universal Suffrage, Alfred Fouillee. 

 Cannibalism as a Custom, A. St. Johnston. 

 Starvation — Its Moral and Physical Effects, 

 Nathaniel E. Davies, L. R. C. P. The 

 Chemistry of Cookery, W. Mattieu Williams. 

 The Perils of Rapid Civilization, C F. With- 

 ington, M. D. Religion and the Doctrine of 

 Evolution, Frederick Temple, D. D. Lique- 

 faction of the Elementary Gases, Jules Ja- 

 min. The Oil-Supply of the World, J I. 

 Oddities of Animal Character. Biographi- 

 cal Sketch of Edward B. Tylor, (With Por- 

 trait) Correspondence. Editor's Table: 

 Science in School Management ; The Abuse 

 of Political Power ; A Jewish Explanation 

 of Jewish Success. Literary Notices. Pop- 

 ular Miscellary. Notes. 



The exceptional success of the Christmas 

 Number of Harper s Magazine last year has 

 led the editor and publishers to attempt this 

 year to disappoint the public agreeably by 

 giving them a still finer Number. The De- 

 cember issue contains no less than six sepa- 

 rately printed plates, besides several other full 

 page illustrations, the frontispiece being a 

 reproduction, in the highest art of the wood- 

 engraver, of the charming picture of the 

 "The Boy Jesus in the Temple," by Prof. 

 Hofmann of Dresden, one of the chief contri- 

 butions of modern painting to religious art. 

 The engraving is the work of W. B. Closson, 

 from whose graver comes also in the same 

 issue a reproduction of the "Flora" of Titian. 

 The literary and artistic contents otherwise 

 furnish an extraordinary and delightful va- 

 riety of sketch, story, poetry, art, and music; 

 while in the Easy Chair Mr. Curtis writes of 

 " John Bull and Brother Jonathan at the 

 Christmas Fireside;" and in the Drawer Mr. 

 Warner has a pleasant prefatory word as to 

 "The Universal Christmas Feast." 



