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KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 



Lieutenant Schwatka continues in Good 

 Company, for June, his interesting articles 

 entitled "In the Land of the Midnight Sun," 

 and to the same number Mrs. General Wal- 

 lace contributes one on "The Land of the 

 Pueblos," while S. J. Douglas gives us "An 

 Ornithologist in Arctic Russia." 



The Atlantic, for September, will give the 

 second installment of Mr. Howell's delight- 

 ful novel, Dr. Breen's Practice, which prom- 

 ises to be the author's most successful work. 

 Among the miscellaneous papers will be an 

 interesting essay on The Housekeeping of 

 the Future, a charming sketch of A Floren- 

 tine Family in the Fifteenth Century, an ar- 

 ticle on The Future of Harvard Divinity 

 School, and a study of Fairy-lore by Mr. 

 John Fiske. The number will also contain 

 the concluding part of Mrs. Foote's story, In 

 Exile, and the continuation of Mr. James' 

 Portrait of a Lady, with the usual Literary 

 Reviews, Contributor's Club, and Books of 

 the Month. 



The Humboldt Library closes its first vol- 

 ume (755 quarto pages) with Popular Scien- 

 tific Lectures by Prof. H. Helmholtz, and its 

 publishers will furnish the whole set, bound, 

 for ^4.00. 



Prof. Henry A. Ward, of the Natural 

 Science Establishment, Rochester, N. Y., 

 has commenced the publication of Ward's 



Natural Science Bulletin. It will be issued 

 irregularly this year for gratuitious circula- 

 tion ; next year it will be published regularly 

 at a stated price. 



One of the most important contributions 

 to the August Harper's Monthly is Mr. Fred- 

 erick G. Mather's paper, "Water-Routes 

 from the Great Northwest." This paper is 

 especially timely in connection with the 

 opening of the New Welland Canal ; and all 

 questions of interest as to the future ascend- 

 ancy of the Erie Canal or the St. Lawrence 

 system, as well as the bearings of Mississippi 

 transportation and railway competition, are 

 very thoroughly discussed. The article is 

 amply illustrated with maps and plans. West- 

 ern merchants and shippers will find it to 

 their interest to study it. 



The North American Review, for August, 

 presents an admirable table of contents, but 

 the most notable article is the discussion of 

 Christian belief by Col. Robert Ingersoll and 

 Judge Jeremiah Black, which will attract a 

 wider attention than any article presented in 

 any magazine in the country this month. 

 The diiference between the two is like that 

 between an active, buzzing, and stinging pois- 

 onous insect, which, though brushed away 

 over and over, returns to the charge more an- 

 noyingly than ever, and a strong man, who 

 finally crushes it into an indistinguishable 

 mass. 



MI, CARROLL SlINAR!, 



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,'^In Carroll Co., 111. — Incor- 

 porated in 1852, offers at- 

 tractions peculiarly i(s own, 

 A in which originality it has no 

 peer. In thorough, practical, 

 common sense work it acknowl- 



\ edges no superior. 



The "Oread," {the students' Journal) gives parthu/ars and is sent Free. 



