720 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 



The author claims that the signs of the times are propitious, that at present 

 the conflict between reason and faith, science and religion, presents many hope- 

 ful indications of an approaching conciliation and that the most candid men on 

 all sides of the question are "hourly catching glimpses of the everlasting har- 

 mony which pervades the universe of being and thought." 



^ It is a book that presents the whole subject fairly, thoughtfully and, as we 

 regard it, with powerful force in favor of theism. 



Wonders and Curiosities of the Railway : By Wm. Sloan Kennedy, i 2 

 mo., pp. 254. Second edition. S. C. Griggs & Co., Chicago. For sale 

 by M. H. Dickinson, $1.25. 



This handsome and admirably illustrated book contains a condensed history 

 of railroad building and progress all over the world and is a most interesting 

 volume to the general reader, as well as to the railroad man. Commencing with 

 "Beginning in Europe," we are next instructed as to the first American rail- 

 roads; then as to the "Banding of the Continent," "The Locomotive in Slip- 

 pers," "A Mosaic of Travel," ''A Handful of Curiosities," in railways and loco- 

 motives ; an account of mountain railways, vertical railways, tramways ; the 

 uses and functions of railways in war, the luxuries of travel as shown in the 

 private cars of Vanderbilt and others ; descriptions of old and new styles of 

 rails, trains, etc. There are more than twenty illustrations of ancient and modern 

 railroad cars, engines and other improvements. 



Taken altogether this book is a success and will have a heavy run if " found 

 out " by the public. 



Medical Electricity: By William White, M. D. i2mo., pp. 203 Fowler 

 & Wells, New York. For sale by M. H. Dickinson, $2.00. 



This is a manual for students, intended to show the most scientific and ra- 

 tional application of electricity to all forms of acute and chronic disease by the 

 different combinations of electricity, galvanism^ electro-magnetism, magneto-elec- 

 tricity and human magnetism. Dr. W^hite is professor in the New York Medical 

 College for women, and brings to the subject a large experience in the treatment 

 of all classes of diseases and, while he does not discard drugs altogether, he be- 

 lieves that electricity can be made to take their place in many instances. His 

 style is good and his directions for the application of this remedial agent clear 

 and precise, so that no one need make any mistake in its use. 



Technical Education, and Other Essays: By Prof. T. H. Huxley. Price, 

 post free, 15 cents in postage stamps. J. Fitzgerald, Publisher, 20 Lafay- 

 ette Place, New York. 



This latest number of the "Library of Science" is one of the'most valuable 

 and interesting in that popular series. Besides the essay on "Technical Educa- 



