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Troano ; illustrated by nine plates and one hundred and one figures, by Cyrus 
Thomas, Ph.D., with an introduction by D. G. Brinton, M. D. 
We shall take occasion to refer to this volume again hereafter, as the subjects 
discussed and the able writers of the articles deserve more than" a mere passing 
notice, such as we are confined to at present. 
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Bulletin of the Philoso])hical Society of Washington, Vols. IV and V. Notes- 
on Copper Implements from Mexico, by F. W. Putnam. Report of the Fish 
Commission of the State of Missouri for tlje years 1881 and 1882. How You 
may aid the Civil Service Reform, by Alexander Fullerton. The Biographer, 
May, 1883; Illustrated; $2.50 per annum. Proceedings of 4th Missouri State 
Pharmaceutical Association at Kansas City, October 25, 1882. Proceedings of 
the American Forestry Congress, Cinncinati, April, 1882, and Montreal, August, 
1882. Technical instruction in France ; Circular No. 6, Bureau of Education, 
Johns Hopkins University Circulars, Vol. II, No. 22, price loc. Kansas: Its 
Resources and Capabilities; Its Position, Dimensions and Topography, prepared 
by Wm. Sims, Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, Topeka. The Acadian 
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Answers to inquiries about the U. S. Bureau of Education, Chas. Warren, M. 
D. The 14th Annual Report of the American Museum of Natural History, 
May, 1883. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History: The Atlantic 
Right Whales, Joseph Bassett Holder. The Eclectic Monthly and Educational 
Journal, Vol. Ill, No. 5, Little Rock, Ark,, J. Kellogg, Manager, $1.50 per 
annum. 
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY. 
THE DRAMATIC PROFESSION. 
E, R, KNOWLES. 
'' I think I love and revere all arts equally, only putting my own just above the others, 
because in it I recognize the union and culmination of all. To me it seems as if when God 
conceived the world, tt at was poetry; He formed it, and that was sculpture; He colored it, 
and that was painting; and then crowning work of all. He peopled it with living beings, 
and that was the grand, divine, eternal Drama." — Charlotte Cushman. 
Let philosophers hold what different theories they will, one system of philoso. 
phy in particular must have a great attraction for any actor devoted to his pro- 
fession; namely, that phase of idealism which maintains that all material objects 
