BOOK NOTICES. 703 
The first and one of the noblest conceptions of all is Kaulbach's Genius of Painf 
ing; following this are the Dowie Dens o' Yarrow by Sir I. N. Paton. King 
Arthur and the Mystic Sword, by James Archer. A Dream of Ancient Venice, 
by J, C. Hooke, R. A. Death Coming as a Friend, by Rethel. De Block's 
Reading the Bible. Milton and Galileo in Prison, by Eyre Crowe. Edward 
Armitage's the Socialist. Buying the Wedding Gown, by Wm. Mulready. The 
Stirrup Cup, by Faed. The Arrest, by C. Claes. Launching the Life Boat, by 
T. Brooks, etc. 
The object of the author is a worthy one and has been well executed in the 
selection of pieces as well as in the descriptive text. The publishers' work has 
also been well done. 
Animal Automatism and Other Essays: By Prof. T. H. Huxley. No. 53 
of the " Library of Popular Science." Price, post-free, 15 cents. J. Fitz- 
gerald, Publisher, 20 Lafayette Place, New York. For sale by Kansas City 
Book & News Co. 
In this volume are contained five of the most instructive and interesting of 
Professor Pluxley's later essays : namely, that on the hypothesis that animals are 
automata, and its history ; that on Science and Culture ; on elementary instruc- 
tion in Physiology ; on the border territory between Animals and the Vegetable 
Kingdom ; and on Universities actual and ideal. 
OTHER PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 
Animal Automatism, and other essays, by Prof. T. H. Huxley, Humboldt 
Library, No. 53, 15c. Pilot Chart of the North Atlantic for February, 1884, 
from Commander J. R. Bartlett, U. S. Navy. Report of the Construction of 
the New Pension Building at Washington D. C, from J. V. Wurdeman. Ab- 
stract of an Account of Recent Archseological Excursions in Wisconsin and 
Ohio, by Prof. F. W. Putnam, from the American Antiquarian Society, October 
22, 1883. Announcement of the Correspondence University for 1884. English 
Illustrated Magazine, MacMillan & Co., $1.50. Ecce Montezuma, Vol. i, No. i, 
January, 1884, 4to., Albuquerque, N. M., $3.00. Double-Star Observations, 
1879-80, at Dearborn University, Chicago, by S. W. Burnham, M. A., reprinted 
from the Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society of England, by the Society, 
1883. Bulletin de la SocieteDe Sciences Naturelles, DeNeucbatel, TomeXHL, 
La liste des ouvrages re9us, publiee a la fin du Bulletin, tient lieu d' accuse de 
reception. Missouri School Journal, Vol. i, No. 10, 4to., 16 pp , semi-monihly, 
W. T. Carrington and J. L. Holloway, Editors, Jefferson City, Mo., $1.50. 
Circular No. 4, Bureau of Education, Recent School Law Decisions, Lyndon 
A. Smith, A. B., LL. M. Psyche, a Journal of Entomology, Vol. 4, December, 
1883, Cambridge, Mass., $2.00. Plant-Analysis for descriptions of Plants, by 
