EDITORIAL NOTES. 



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To any person remitting to us the annual siib- 

 scriplion price of any three of the prominent liter- 

 •ary or scientific magazines of the United States, 

 we will promptly furnish the same, and the Kan- 

 sas City Keview of Science and Indus- 

 try, besides, without additional cost, for one year. 



Whether we agree with Mr. Beecher or 

 not, few men can speak or write on any sub- 

 ject of public interest with so great a cer- 

 tainty that everybody will want to know 

 what they say. In discussing the question 

 as to how far ministers may properly go in 

 politics —which he does in the North Araeriean 

 Review for February — the great preacher 

 shows himself to advantage perhaps all the 

 more because it is a matter that touches him 

 personally as well as professionally. In the 

 same number of the Review, the question, 

 "How shall the President be Elected?" is 

 ably treated by five happily chosen wi'iters, 

 viz., two United States Senators, Dawes and 

 Vance ; a college president, F. A. P. Barnard, 

 of Columbia ; a New York lawyer, Roger A. 

 Pryor, and a well-known journalist, William 

 Purcell. The substantial agreement of four 

 •of them on the same point is significant. 

 Another notable article in this unusually 

 strong number is a review of " Holmes's Life 

 of Emerson," by the veteran historian, Geo. 

 Bancroft ; and still another is an essay by 

 Prof. C. A. Young on " Theories regarding 

 the Sun's Corona," which he skillfully brings 

 within popular comprehension. The Rev. 

 Dr. W. G. T. Shedd defends the dogma 

 ■" Endless Punishment," and Prof. G, Stanley 

 Hall writes on " New Departures in Educa- 

 tion." 



We suppose that we are in debt to Mr. 

 William Hosea Ballou, of New York, for 

 the following flattering notice in the Satur- 

 day Evening Herald of Chicago : " The Kan- 

 sas City Review of Science and Industry 

 is perhaps the only successful monthly west 

 of New York. When literary monthlies 

 find an uncongenial soil in the West, it is all 

 the more remarkable that a high-toned 

 periodical, devoted exclusively to science 

 and requiring seventy 8vo pages for each 



issue, should grow and thrive. The Review 

 is almost in its ninth volume. Its contribu- 

 tors are mainly Western men who have 

 conferred a lustre on the unlimited scientific 

 research of the vast prairies and vaster 

 mountain ranges. This successful exponent 

 of class journalism is -entirely the work of 

 its able editor, Mr. Theodore S. Case." 



We find in the Boston Literary World the 

 following appreciative notice of a new book 

 compiled and arranged by Messrs. Fulton & 

 Trueblood of this city : " The distinctive 

 features of Fulton & Trueblood's volume of 

 selections for readings, • Choice Readings 

 from Standard and Popular Authors,' are 

 the abundance, variety, and excellence of 

 the selections themselves, the prefixed dia- 

 gram of the elements of vocal expression, 

 showing the different kinds of thought em- 

 bodied therein, the representation of the 

 seven great orators of the world, the scenes 

 from popular dramas, and the appended de- 

 scriptive indices to selections from Shakes- 

 peare, the Bible, and Christian hymnology, 

 suitable for public use. The collection is 

 unusually rich, dignified, and suggestive." 



We have received the first number of the 

 Journal of Mycology, published at Manhattan, 

 Kas., and edited by Prof. W. A. Kellerman 

 of the Kansas Agricultural College, assisted 

 by J. B. Ellis of Newfield, N. J., and E. M. 

 Everhart, of Westchester, Pa. 



It is a neat little magazine of sixteen pa- 

 ges, and will be devoted to mycological 

 botany, special attention being given to the 

 North American fungi. It will aim to be 

 the organ of students of this branch of bo- 

 tanical science, and as such deserves the 

 patronage of all persons interested in it. 

 Monthly, $1 00 per annum. 



During 1885, subscribers to the Art Inter- 

 change will receive thirteen (13) full-page 

 colored supplements, some double size ; 

 twenty-six (26) extra pattern supplements, 

 containing over one hundred full-size outline 

 artistic designs, ready for tracing, applicable 

 to all the varied branches of art work. 



