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in attempting, as his first effort, so large a work. As a writer of short sketches 

 he doubtless would succeed better and probably acquire, in time and by prac- 

 tice, the degree of skill in the handling of his subjects and the versatility of style 

 requisite to satisfy the popular taste in book-writing. 



OTHER PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Education in France, from the Bureau of Education, 144 pages octavo ; 

 Ctel et Terre, a popular Review of Meteorology and Astronomy, published at 

 Brussels, Belgium, monthly; a Cartoon entitled "The Press in Danger," issued 

 by the Anti-Monopoly League; Catalogue of Professors and Students of the State 

 School of Mines of Colorado, Golden, Colo.; Joseph's Coat, by David Christie 

 Murray, G. P. Putnams' Sons, N. Y. 50 cents; Sabbath Observance, Its Origin, 

 History and Significance, by Williain Emmette Coleman, San Francisco, Cal.; 

 Report on the Restoration of American Shipping in the Foreign Trade, San 

 Francisco, November 15, 1881 ; Addresses of Hon. Geo. B. Loring, Commis- 

 sioner of Agriculture, and Prof. C. V. Riley, U. S. Entomologist, at Cotton Con- 

 vention, Atlanta, Ga. , November 2, 1881; The Longitude of the Morrison Ob- 

 servatory, Glasgow, Mo., by Professors J. R. Eastman, U. S. N., and H. S. 

 Pritchett, of Washington University. 



SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY. 



WESTERN ARTISTS. 



BY MRS. M. W. HUDSON. 



" Western Artists ! " the cesthete will exclaim, " Preposterous ; there are no 

 western artists. This country is too new. Artists keep near to centers of art 

 and wealth." What, then, shall we call these dabblers in water-colors and oils 

 who wear sombreros and oil-cloth coats, and carry camp-stools and sketch-books 

 over the Rocky mountains the year round ? 



The sojourner in that vast region can hardly go amiss of one or more of 

 these picturesque individuals on either a summer's or a winter's day. They 

 swarm to this great open picture-book of nature in the warm seasons, and many 

 remain to study the mid-winter " effects." Denver is full of studios, and hun- 

 dreds of wealthy people from the eastern States, who visit the mountains, take 

 home with them paintings for which they pay from twenty-five to five hundred 

 dollars, each, or they give an order to a resident artist for a view which has es- 

 pecially pleased them, or they designate the kind of picture they desire; that is, 



