BOOK NOTICES. 379 
We find in it papers by Professors Snow, Smith, Patrick, and Carruth, of the 
Kansas State University ; Professor George F. Gaumer, of the University of New 
Mexico; Professor F. W. Cragin, of Washburn College, Topeka; Erasmus Ha- 
worth. Col. N. S. Goss, S. C. Mason, Robert Hay, and E. N. Plank. Also a 
description by Professor A. R. Grote of the entomological specimens discovered 
and collected by Professor Snow, in New Mexico. 
These papers are all of a practical character, showing a large amount of 
original investigation and research by the writers, and all tending to the develop- 
ment of the resources of the State of Kansas. We shall reprint some of these 
papers from time to time, as being exactly appropriate to and in accordance with 
the objects and design of the Review, from its inception to the present time. 
Old Italian Patterns of Linen Cross-Stitch Work : Collected and edited 
by Frieda Lipperheide, and published by Franz Lipperheide, Berlin, Ger- 
many. 
This work contains two collections : No. i contains thirty plates, fifty-six 
patterns, also thirty-two pages of explanatory matter, with eighty-one engravings. 
No. 2 contains fifty plates, eighty-five patterns, with thirty-six pages of in- 
structions, and seventy-eight engravings. Both are large quartos. Price of each 
collection is six marks. 
This is a very tasteful and useful work for ladies, and handsomely gotten up. 
The patterns have been selected with care, many of them were secured at the 
museums at Berlin, Hamburg, Vienna and Dresden ; some dating as far back 
as the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This work gives complete instruc- 
tions as to learning this beautiful art. It explains the patterns, materials, and 
the stitching, such as the ancient Greek, Italian, and Dutch stitches. 
It is very highly recommended by the German press. Among others we 
notice the widely circulated '■'Over Land and Sea," ^'Science and Art" and 
other famous journals. The director of the Hamburg Museum recommends it 
highly also. 
As specimens of typographical work, these volumes are unexceptionable. 
Both printing and engraving are most admirably done. 
OTHER PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 
Bulletin No. 5 of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History. The 
North American Batrachia and Reptilia found east of the Mississippi River, by 
N. S. Davis and Frank L. Rice. Bulletin No. 6, do.. Studies of the Food of 
Birds, Insects and Fishes, by Prof. A. S. Forbes. The St. Louis Medical and 
Surgical Journal, September, 1883, Vol. XLV, No. 3, Thos. F. Rumbold, Editor 
and Proprietor; $3.00 per annum. Crop Report of the State Board of Agricul- 
ture of Kansas for July, 1883, Wm. Sims, Secretary, Topeka, Kansas. "Tech- 
