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most flattering terms, and commends this book to the teachers of the country as 

 worthy of their adoption as a text-book in their schools. 



It is divided into three parts, viz : Matters of Taste, under which head he 

 treats of principles of art, principles of taste, floral taste, etc. Secondly, Matters 

 of Art, such as the art of design, ornamental gardening as an art of design, the 

 study of nature, first principles of association, study in landscape gardening, etc. 

 Thirdly, Matters of Fact, under which he discusses correct judgment, home 

 gounds, public improvements, grounds of institutions of education, and the bury- 

 ing ground. 



The work is written in graceful style and the subject is* presented logically 

 and impressively. No one can read it without being convinced that Mr. Kern 

 is master of the subject and that his thoughts are worthy of careful attention and 

 general adoption. 



OTHER PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Meteorology of the Mountains and Plains of North America, an address be- 

 fore the Cattle-Growers' Convention at St. Louis, by Silas Bent, St. Louis, Mo.j 

 E. P. Studley & Co., printers. Annals of Mathematics, edited by Ormond Stone 

 and Wm. M. Thornton, Office of publication University of Virginia, Vol. I, No. 



4, Charlottesville, Va. Trumbull, Reynolds & Allen's Annual for 1885, Kansas 

 City, Mo. Journal of New York Microscopical Society, edited by Benjamin Bra- 

 man, Vol. I, No. r. New York; $1.00 per year. Journal of Mycology, edited by 

 W. A. Kellerman, Ph.D., and assisted by J. B. Ellis and B. M. Everhart, Man- 

 hattan, Kansas, January, 1885, Vol. I, No. i; $1.00 per year, 15c. a number. 

 Supplemental report of the Railroad Commission of Tennessee, by John H. Sav- 

 age, Nashville, Tenn., Albert B. Tavel, printer. The Iowa Historical Record, 

 published by State Historical Society at Iowa City, January, 1885, ^o'- I? ^O- ^• 

 Water Purification for Steam Boilers and Laundry Purposes, William Tweeddale, 

 Topeka, Kansas. The Canadian Science Monthly, No i, Vol. Ill, Wolfville, N. 



5. The Humboldt Library, 'Ho. 65, price 15c.; Conditions of Mental Develop- 

 ment and other essays, by Wm. K. Clifford, J. Fitzgerald, Publisher, N. Y. 

 United States Consular Reports : Labor in Europe, Letter from the Secretary of 

 State; Washington Government Printing Office, 1885. Circulars of Information 

 of the Bureau of Education, No. 7, 1885: Aims and Methods of the Teaching 

 of Physics, by Professor Charles K. Mead, Washington, D. C. Prix-Courant, 

 d' une Choix de Graines, spicialement recommandables pour, 1885, Monsieur le 

 Director La Compagnie Continentale d' Horticulture Gand (Belgique), Colum- 

 bus, Ohio: Its Commerce, Industries and Resources of 1885, published by the 

 Columbus Board of Trade. Early Migrations, Arctic Shifts and Ocean Currents, 

 by Charles Wolcott Brooks, San Francisco, California, 1884. The Auk, Vol. II, 

 No. I, January, 1885, Boston, Mass., Estes & Laureat; $3.00 a year, 75c. a 

 number; edited by J. A. Allen, Cambridge, Mass. Department of Interior, 



