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KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 
Principal Greenwood, of this city, has 
commenced the delivery of a series of thirty 
lectures upon the Philosophy of Teaching, 
before the teachers of Kansass City and such 
other citizens as propose making teaching a 
profession or are interested in the subject, 
they are delivered at the High School build- 
ing Friday afternoons. 
ITEMS FROM PERIODICALS. 
Subscribers to the REVIEW can be furnished 
through this office with all the best magazines oj 
the Country and Europe, at a discount of from 
jj to 20 per cent off the retail price. 
The Afnerican Naturalist stands among the 
foremost of the scientific periodicals of the 
country, and at the same time it has a host 
of friends among non-professional readers. 
It probably occupies a field intermediate be 
tween the American fournal of Science and the 
Popular Sciettce Monthly ; less technical than 
the first and less speculative than the latter. 
We always take it up with the certainty of 
being entertained as well as instructed, and 
are seldom disappointed. The October num- 
ber presents geological articles by Prof. T. 
Sterry Hunt; a continuation of the report of 
the Naturalists' Brazilian Expedition, by 
Herbert H. Smith ; Man's Place in Nature, 
by W. N. Lockington ; a well-timed edito- 
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menclature ; reviews of late works ; notes by 
the various co-editors upon Geography and 
Travels, Mineralogy, Botany, Entomology, 
Zoology, Physiology, Psychology, Anthro- 
pology, and Microscopy. 
Science of August 31st apologises for an er- 
ror in a statement in a previous number re- 
garding the customs duties on periodicals, 
but excuses itself by saying that "our post- 
office regulations are so frequently changed 
that one can rarely tell whether he is the 
victim of a blunder or a whim," Inasmuch 
as such duties pertain solely to, and are reg- 
ulated by, the Treasury Department, it 
would appear that an apology to the Post- 
office Department is now in order. 
The Princeton Review^ edited by Jonas B. 
Libbey, is now in its fifty ninth year. The 
September number contains a reply by Pres- 
ident Porter, of Yale College, to Mr. Charles 
Francis Adams' attack upon the study of 
ancient languages in our colleges; a tariff 
article by Herbert Putnam ; one upon Incin- 
eration by Rev. John D. Beugless; "The 
Artist as a Painter," by John F. Wier, N. A. ; 
•'The Antecedent Probabilities of a Revela- 
tion," by David J. Hill, Ph. D. ; " Recent 
French Fiction," by J. Brandner Matthews. 
Bi-monthly, ^3.00. 
We learn from Science Observer, Sept. 2 1st, 
that the comet discovered by Prof. Lewis 
Swift on the 15th is probably that of 1812, 
though it has arrived some three months 
sooner than was anticipated. It will be 
within 60,000,000 miles of the earth about 
the middle of January, and visible to the 
naked eye. 
The September Magazine of American His- 
tory comes freighted with entertaining and 
instructive reading in generous measure, and 
with thirty or more attractive illustrations. 
It is one of the best numbers of this standard 
publication yet issued. The leading article 
is by Gen. John Cochrane, entitled "The 
Centennial of the Cincinnati," and is il- 
lustrated with portraits of several of the 
founders. 
The October number of the Popular Science 
Monthlv closes the twenty-third volume of 
that well-known periodical, which has had a 
most successful career of nearly twelve years. 
This number contains many valuable articles, 
partly original and partly selected, while the 
book notices and editor's table aie always 
able, fresh, and instructive. 
The Educational Advance, published by 
Thomas H. Frame, at Liberty, Mo., and ed- 
ited by Gilbert B. Morrison, improves with 
each number. It commenced its second vol- 
ume with September, and should receive 
a generous patronage as a home school jour- 
nal. $1.00 per annum. 
