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KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 
ITEMS FROM PERIODICALS. 
Subscribers to the Review can be furnished 
ihrough this office with all the best magazines oj 
the Country and Europe, at a discount of from 
vj" to 20 per cent off the retail price. 
The Atlantic Monthly, for December, pre- 
sents the following attractive table of con- 
tents : A Roman Singer, XI., XII., F. Ma- 
rion Crawford. Mary Moody Emerson, Ralph 
Waldo Emerson. The Initiate, A. F. Re- 
collection of Rome during the Italian Revo- 
lution, III, William Chauncy Langdon. O- 
Be-Joyful Creek and Poverty Gulch, H. H. 
The World Well Lost, Edmund C. Stedman. 
Newport, XK-XIV, George Parsons Lathrop. 
Bermudian Days, Julia C. R. Dorr. Some 
Alleged Americanisms, Richard Grant White. 
Luther and His Work, Frederick H. Hedge. 
Social Washington, Henry Loomis Nelson. 
Mr. Longfellow and the Artists, Foreign 
Lands. Recollections of a Naval OfiScer. 
Recent Poetry. The Contributors' Club. 
Books of the Month. 
Harper'' s Magazineiox December is a Christ- 
mas Number, with an exlraordioary wealth 
and variety of papers, poems, and pictures, 
by an array of auhors and artists (American 
and English) seld m, if ever, brought togeth- 
er before. This will take the place of the 
mammoth Harper's Christinas of 1882, which 
will not be repeated this year. 
The Number has four extra plates, in addi- 
tion to its usual 160 well-filled pages. The 
illustrations alone have cost, it is stated, over 
§ 10,000. 
The Number opens with achirming Christ- 
mas title-page, drawn by Dielman, the artist 
of '' A Girl I Know," in which pretty pir_ 
tures of Santa Claus aad his reindeers and of 
the Christmas waits are united by a wreath 
of Christmas holly. 
The opening paper is by George William 
Curtis, the first distinctive article outside of 
the Easy Chair that he has written for years. 
It deals with " Christmas,'' old and new, and 
pariicularjy with how the Pilgrim Fathers 
declined to celebrate it. 
The poet, Whittier, contributes a most 
worthy and beautiful Christmas poem, '' 1 he 
Supper of St. Gregory," illustrated by F. S. 
Church. 
The Editorial Departments are as bright 
as usual; the -Orrttf^^ has a pleasant introduc- 
:ory Christmas, bit from the pen of Charles 
Dudley Warner, and several illustra"ions. 
The Publishers announce that this notable 
Number (in which nothing is continued over 
from the volume just finished) is but the be- 
ginning of a series "unexampled in maga- 
zine literature." 
As Harper's Monilily begins i s volumes 
with the December number, now is the time 
for our subscribers to avail themselves of our 
:lubbine: offer made else%vhere in this issue. 
Popular Science Monthly for December of- 
fers the following literary and scientific feast : 
Alexander Von Humboldt, by Emil du Bois- 
Reymond, (with portrait). Suggestions on 
Social Subjects, by Professor W. G. Sumner. 
The Habitation and the Atmosphere, by M. 
R. Radau. A Belt of Sun-Spots, by Garrett 
P. Serviss, (Illustrated). The Morality of 
Happiness, by Thomas Fos'er. Genius and 
Heredity, by M. E. Caro. The Remedies of 
Nature. — Enteric Disorders, by Felix L. Os- 
wald, M. D. Land-Birds in Mid-Ocean, by 
George W. Grim. The Illusion of Chance, 
by William A, Eddy. Female Education 
from a Medical Point of View, by T. S. Clous- 
ton, M. D, The Chemistry of Cookery, by 
W.Mattieu Williams. Vinoui Superstitions, 
by Dr. Tn. Bodin. Malaria and the Progress 
of Medicine. The Loess-Deposits of North- 
ern China, by Frederick W. Williams. The 
Natural Setting of Crystals, by J. B. Choate. 
Surface Characters of the Planet Mars. The 
New Profession, by Henry Greer. Concen- 
iric Rings of Trees, by A, L. Child, M. D. 
Correspondence: Human Foot-Prints in Strat- 
ified Rock, Asthma and its Treatment, Ani- 
mal Friendships. Editor's Table: Dead-Lan- 
guage Studies Necessarily a Failure, Queer 
Defenses of the Classics. Literary Notices. 
Popular Miscellany. Notes. 
