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KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 
Psyche, an entomological magazine of high 
standing in scientific circles, is now in its 
tenth year, but has never reached the paying 
basis that its excellence merits. Of the asso- 
ciate editors, four are the State Entomologists 
respectively of Michigan, Illinois, New York 
and Kansas. Prof. Trelease is a botanist, 
Professor in Wisconsin State University. Dr. 
Dimmock is a graduate of Harvard College 
and the University of Leipzig; Mr. Mann is 
Assistant Entomologist of the U. S. Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, and was formerly Ento- 
mologist to the Government of Brazil. Mr. 
Mann has been editor of Psyche from the 
outset. It is published monthly at Cam- 
bridge, Mass., at ^i.oo per annum. 
The Atlantic Monthly for November, 1883, 
presents the following excellent table of con- 
tents : A Roman Singer, IX., X. F. Marian 
Crawford. Ezra Ripley, D. D., Ralph Waldo 
Emerson. The Trustworthiness of the He- 
brew Traditions, Brooke Herford. Charon's 
Fee. Newport, X., XI. George Parsons La- 
throp. A Noble Lady, Maria Louise Henry. 
En Province, V, Henry James. Omens, Edith 
M. Thomas. The Bird of the Morning, Olive 
Thorne Miller. Random Spanish Notes, 
Charles Dudley Warner. Recollections of 
Rome during the Italian Revolution, II., 
William Chauncy La,ngdon. An Only Son, 
Sarah Orne Jewett. Venice, Christopher P. 
Cranch. The New Departure in Negro Life, 
O. W, Blacknall. What Instruction should 
be given in our Colleges? Albert S. BoUes. 
A Good-Bye to Rip Van Winkle, Gilbert A. 
Pierce. The Songs that are not Sung, John 
Boyle O'Reilly. The Hast and the West 
in Recent Fiction. James Buchanan. The 
Contributors' Club. Books of the Month. 
The Mexican Financier gives an account of 
a new fuel invented in the City of Mexico 
called " turbato." It consists principally ol 
bog peat, of which there are immense quan 
titles in Mexico, mixed with a proper propor 
tion of bitumen or chapopote. The fuel is 
made in five different classes: for locomotives 
stationary engines, smelting purposes, smiths 
fires, and household purposes. It burns free- 
ly and without much smoke, giving a higher 
dynamic equivalent of heat than the same 
amount of wood, and very nearly as great as 
the best English coal. It can be manufac- 
tured and sold in Mexico at a price consider- 
aMy below coal or wood. 
The Educational News, published at Ad- 
rian, Michigan, by Wm. B. Mumford, says 
of the Review, "Its readers get value re- 
ceived for their investment." 
Popular Science Monthly, for November, 
gives considerable space to the "Greek Ques- 
tion." It contains an article by Professor 
Josiah P. Cooke, of Harvard College, and an 
editorial by Professor E. L. Youman in oppo- 
sition to that of President Porter in the last 
North American Review, and in support of 
Charles Francis Adams' attack upon the study 
of this language in colleges. 
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