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KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE, 
The Globe-Democrat S2iys: The recent ter- 
rible coal-mine accident in Colorado, has 
directed attention to the necessity that exists 
in other states, for better laws and closer 
surveillance in the matter of minir>g opera- 
tions. There is a general neglect in this 
respect, and no state, perhaps, does what it 
should to protect the lives of men engaged 
in mining. No law and no c?re can make 
mining entirely safe, of course, but improved 
systems of inspection and certain punish- 
ment for violations of fixed rules as to venti- 
lation, etc., would, no doubt, lessen the 
number of accidents. 
The North American Review, now in its 
69th year, maintains its high standing among 
thinking people by presenting able and relia- 
ble articles from the best informed writers of 
the day upon literary, political and scientific 
subjects. We copy a portion of Dr. A. N. 
Bell's article in the February number, upon 
•'Stove and Furnace Heating," being his 
views of the subject in a discussion of the 
merits of the heating question between him- 
self and Prof. Trowbridge. Among the most 
interesting in the March number are: "Is 
Our Civilization Perishable?" by Judge J. 
A. Jameson, who considers the several agen" 
cies by which the overthrow of the existing 
civilization might be effected. "A Dt fence- 
less Sea- Board," by General H. A. Sma^ley, 
is a description of the unprotected condition 
of the harbors and coast cities of the United 
States; and though the author employs none 
of the grts ol the rhetorician, his statement 
cannot fail to awaken the people of this coun- 
try to the importance of being in peace pre- 
pared for war. Other articles are " Liter- 
ary Resurrectionists," by Charles T, Cong- 
don; " How to Improve the Mississippi," by 
Robert S.Taylor; and "The Constitutional- 
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of Geography, Ethnography, and Anthro- 
pology, published at Munich, has just en- 
tered upon its fifty-seventh year, and bids 
fair to outrun all its modern competitors in 
usefulness and erudition. In the first num- 
ber of 1884, the able editor, Prof. Frie^ 
rich Ratzel, presents his readers with 
sketches on the distribution of marine algae,, 
on Malayan mythology, on Russian ethnol- 
ogy, on Waganda and Wanyoro commerce, 
on auriferous deposits of Atrato River (Isth- 
mus of Panama), and on Homeric geography. 
To this is added the most recent correspon- 
dence obtained by him from African and 
Asiatic explorers, written from their fields of 
research. 
In the Popular Science Monthly for March 
we find, as always, many good things, such 
as " From Moner to Man,'' by Frances Emily 
White, M. D.; "Green Suns and Red Sun. 
sets," by W. H. Larrabee; '' Mexico and Its^ 
Antiquities, "(Illustrated); "Fashion and De- 
formity in the Feet," by Ada H, Kepley, 
(Illustrated); "Science vs. the Classics," by 
Prof. C. A. Eggert; "The Chemistry of 
Cookery," by W. Mattieu Williams, etc., etc.. 
The editorial notes and literary notes are 
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The March Atlantic presents its usual ex- 
cellent array of gO( d articles, among which 
we note the continuation of S. Weir Mitchell's 
interesting story, " In War Time;" "The 
Discovery of Peruvian Bark," by Henry M. 
Lyman ; " Don John of Austria," by Alexan- 
der Young; " The Girdle of Friendship," by 
Oliver Wendell Holmes; "The Sources of 
Early Israeliti.h History," by Philip H. 
Wicksteed ; '' English Folk Lore and L')ndon 
Humors," "The Contributor's Club," etc. 
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