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The work is attractive in appearance and style, and even the most technical 

 parts are written in an easy and popular manner that will interest every sports- 

 man as well as furnish valuable information to the amateur natar alist. The en- 

 thusiasm of the writer soon extends to the reader and when he lays the book 

 down he feels that he has gained instruction and entertainment of a new and sat- 

 isfactory kind and, if the information furnished is put to proper use, that he may 

 avoid many an attack of dispepsia and other life-shortening disease. 



Underground Treasures, How and Where to Find Them. By James 

 Orton, A. M. 12 mo. pp. 145. Philadelphia, 1881, Henry Carey Baird 

 & Co.. $1.50. 



This little work, notwithstanding its somewhat fanciful title, is a genuinely 

 practical and useful one, being intended not for mineralogists, but for the land- 

 holder, the farmer, the miner, the laborer, even the most unscientific. It is 

 designed to enable such to discover for themselves minerals and ores of use in 

 the arts and thus develop the resources and ascertain the value of any particular 

 tract of land or bed of supposed mineral. It is offered as " a key for the de- 

 termination of all the useful minerals within the United States," and, being the 

 careful production of such a student and naturalist as the late Professor Orton, 

 there can be no question of its entire reliability in this respect. 



This is a new edition carefully revised by the author and handsomely illus- 

 trated. 



Report of the Commissioner of Education, 1879. Hon. John Eaton; pp. 

 757, octavo. Government Printing Office. 



In submitting his tenth annual report, covering the year 1879, the Commis- 

 sioner of Education states that the demand upon the office for information has 

 been greater than during any previous year. The printing of circulars has been 

 more than double, and pet the number has not been sufficient to set forth all the 

 information desired upon, important phases of education. The circulars are en- 

 titled as follows : 



No. I, 1879. Training schools for nurses. 



No. 2, 1879. Papers, addresses, discussions, and other proceedings of the 

 Department of Superintendence of the National Education Association, at the 

 meeting held at Washington, D. C, February 4, 5, and 6, 1879; the proceed- 

 • ings of the Department of Superintendence of the National Education Associa- 

 tion for 1877 ; and the proceedings of the conference of the presidents and other 

 delegates of State universities and State colleges for 1877. 



No. 3, 1879. The value of common school education to common labor, by 

 Dr. Edward Jarvis, of Worcester, Mass.; together with illustrations of the same 

 as shown by the answers to inquiries addressed to employers, workmen and ob- 

 servers. 



