EDITORIAL NOTES. 
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Dr. a. L. Chapman, editor of the Medical 
Era and Sanitarian, in his September num- 
ber, affirms that " there is no fact in geology 
or science which contradicts anything that 
Moses said " and declares himself ready to 
discuss the question "with any responsible 
antagonist who will pay a decent regard to 
the rules of logic and the facts of science." 
Harper's Magazine for September is an ex- 
ceedingly attractive number, varied in its 
contents, and richly illustrated. One of the 
most timely of its articles is that on " Re- 
cent Building in New York" — an intelligent, 
critical estimate of the *'New Departure" in 
architecture — illustrated by eighteen charac- 
teristic pictures. 
The London Journal of Science for August 
contains, among other interesting matter, an 
account of Dr. Edwin R. Heath's explora- 
tions in Bolivia, written by Prof. J. D, 
Parker. As both explorer and writer are 
citizens of this immediate locality and well 
known to most of our readers, it is gratifying 
to note their recognition in a magazine of so 
high repute in scientific circles abroad. 
One of the most meritorious weekly publi- 
cations is the " Ausland^^ of Munich, a Ger- 
man periodical which for the last sixty years 
has been succesful in popularizing the results 
of natural and historic science, of ethnology 
and anthropology ; hasgiven lucid sketches on 
fine arts, on new inventions, and the march 
of exploration and foreign travel. The pre- 
sent volume of the *' Ausland^^ gives interest- 
ing descriptions of past and present polar 
expeditions, of the pastoral pursuits of the 
Southern African natives, of the geography of 
China, and the interior of South America, 
etc. The editor of the magazine, Prof. Rat- 
zel, recently began to add illustrations to the 
instructive contents of this widely circulated 
sheet. 
The Atlantic Monthly for September, 1883, 
has the following table of contents : A Ro- 
man Singer, V., VI., F. Marion Crawford. 
En Province, III, Henry James. King's 
Chapel, Oliver Wendell Holmes. Our Nom- 
inating Machines, George Walton Green. 
Poets and Birds: A Criticism, Harriet C. W. 
Stanton. Newport, VI., VII., George Par- 
sons Lathrop. Glints in Auld Reekie, H. 
H. Chrysalides, A. F. Annexed by the 
Tsar, William O. Stoddard. Along an In- 
land Beach, Edith M. Thomas. Merimee in 
his Letters, Maria Louise Henry. Character 
in Feathers, Bradford Torrey. Lily of Strath- 
Farrar, Thomas William Parsons. The Civil 
War in America. Mark Twain's Life on the 
Mississippi. The Spanish Peninsula in Trav- 
el. Two Journalists. The Contributors' 
Club. Books of the Month. 
We have received, too late for proper 
mention, the first and second numbers of 
the Pattern Book of Old Italian Embroidery, 
edited by Madam Frieda Lipperheide, at 
Berlin, Germany. They are admirably print- 
ed and superbly illustrated, and will be fully 
noticed next month. 
