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There is no doubt that the Indians have been sadly mistreated by dishonest 

 •contractors and avaricious agents, who were false to their trusts, but here in the 

 West the Indian character has lost the halo of glory which surrounded it in the 

 past and in the far off East, and the people are not likely to be aroused to any 

 extreme sense of the great injustice and cruelty that have been practiced upon 

 them by a book of this character. No one on the western borders of the United 

 States believes that the " Government makes its army an instrument for oppress- 

 ing and pillaging the weak, and the tool of thieves," as the New York Tribune 

 says, in commenting favorably on this book. 



We have a due regard for Mr. Miller as a poet, but we honestly believe that 

 in this case he has given too loose a rein to his fancy for his credit, even as a re- 

 liable romancer. 



Doubtless the work will meet with a large sale and will have a good effect in 

 moulding a public sentiment which will compel the appointment of a better class 

 of agents and a more rigid surveillance of them by the Government. For this 

 purpose it may be that exaggeration and injustice can be condoned. 



OTHER PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



The Alienist and Neurologist, quarterly, i6o pages, C. H. Hughes, M. D., 

 St. Louis, $5.00 per annum; The Harvard University Bulletin, No. 19, by Jus- 

 tin Windsor, Librairian, June i, 1881; Studies in Astronomy, a lecture elaborat- 

 ed for general readers, by Arthur K. Bartlett, Battle Creek, Michigan; On the 

 Determination of the Error and Rate of a Clock, by the Method of the least 

 Squares, by Prof. Ormond Stone, Cincinnati, Ohio; Report to the Governor and 

 39th catalogue of the Missouri University, 1880-81 ; On an occurence of Gold 

 in Maine, and a Microscopical study of the Iron Ore, or Peridotite of Iron Mine 

 Hill, Cumberland, R. I., by M. E. Wadsworth, May, 1881; The Tourist, by 

 Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago, 1881 ; American College Directory, vol. 3, 1881, 

 C H. Evans & Co., St. Louis, Mo.; Twelfth Annual and Thirteenth Statistical 

 Report of the Cincinnati Board of Trade and Transportation for the commercial 

 year 1880, and the fiscal year ending March i, 1881, by J. F. Blackburn, Secy. 



SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY. 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



The following is the text of the act of the Legislature of Arkansas officially 

 determining that the correct pronunciation of the name of the State is " Arkan- 

 saw :" 



