EDITORIAL NOTES. 



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A NEW departure has recently taken place 

 in iron founding in this country. This is the 

 reproduction of various art works in iron 

 castings. Shields ornamented with repousse 

 work, helmets ornamented in relief, medal- 

 lions, plaques and Japanese bronze trays have 

 been used as patterns and successfully copied, 

 as well as many other objects of art, ancient 

 and modern. 



Prof. James A. Wickersham, of Law- 

 rence, Kansas, has written a play entitled 

 Aliso ^ Acne, which has been published in 

 handsome style by Brentano's Literary Em- 

 porium, New York. A poetical friend prom- 

 ises to review it for us next month. In the 

 meantime Prof. Wickersham has our best 

 wishes for its success on the stage, where he 

 expects to place it very soon. 



Prof. A. H. Thompson, of Topeka, who 

 has charge of the Dental department of the 

 Kansas City Medical College, has commenced 

 his winter course of lectures. 



ITEMS FROM PERIODICALS. 



The publishers of Good Company, which is 

 one of the best family periodicals in the 

 country, in commencing a new volume, an- 

 nounce as an inducement for new subscribers 

 that they wilJ, for ^3.75 sent to their office 

 at Springfield, Mass., furnish the back num- 

 bers of the year just closed as well as the 

 whole volume just commenced. $3.00 is the 

 regular yearly subscription, so that for 75 

 cents the subscriber receives nearly 1,000 

 pages of first class miscellaneous literature. 

 A " rare chance " indeed. 



Malaria: How caused and How prevent- 

 ed, will be a new book by Dr. Joseph F. Ed- 

 wards, whose works on Bright's Disease, 

 Constipation and Dispepsia have attracted 

 such marked attention from general readers, 

 the medical profession and the press. It is 

 nearly ready, and will be published by Pres- 

 ley Blakiston, Philadelphia. In style and 

 size it will be similar to the previous volumes, 

 and its peculiarity is that the author takes a 

 totally new view of troubles dependent upon 



malaria, and explains fully how general is 

 the misunderstanding of this important sub- 

 ject. 



The Wisconsin Historical Society has 94,- 

 ODO volumes and pamphlets in its library. 

 It also has nearly 4,000 bound newspaper 

 files in which the 17th and i8th centuries are 

 better represented, it is believed, than in any 

 other library in the United States. 



The Kansas City Review of Science and 

 Industry, for October, has its usual fine com- 

 plement of articles, original and selected. 

 These embrace geology, anthopology, chem- 

 istry, meteorology, medicine, hygiene, etc., 

 etc. The editoi is making this the best mag- 

 azine in the west, and we are glad to learn 

 that is meeting with deserved success. — Clin- 

 ton Herald. 



The first number of the second volume of 

 the Hu^nboldt Library series is Rawlinson's 

 Origin of Nations, and is a good beginning of 

 a new year ; since it not only presents one 

 of the most valuable works of modern au- 

 thorship, but also presents itself in a new 

 and convenient form for the reader. The 

 quarto size has been dropped and the octavo 

 adopted, a change which will be appreciated 

 by all readers of the series, especially if they 

 attempt to preserve the number, as they nec- 

 essarily will, by binding it in annual or semi- 

 annual volumes. Of the work itself it is not 

 necessary to say anything. The name of the 

 author and the title of the book are sufficient 

 to make it sell largely at the price, 15 cents, 

 to hundreds who could not afford it at the 

 ordinary cost. 



The Industrial Publication Company^ of New 

 York, is putting forth a series entitled "Work 

 Manuals," and intended for practical me- 

 chanics and artisans. Number II of the 

 series is the work of Fred T. Hodgson, who 

 has called it the Mechanic's Slide Rule and 

 How to Use it. It is a compilation of expla- 

 nations, rules and instructions suitable for 

 mechanics and others interested in the indus- 

 trial arts, and will be found a very useful aid 

 in the workshop. Price 25 cents. 



