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KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 
of which have been packed away in cellars 
and out-buildings for the past twenty years. 
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It has an able editorial corps, with contribu- 
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free. 
The Atlantic Monthly, for April, opens with 
the second chapter of Mr. Craddock's story, 
"Drifting Down Lost Creek." There fol 
lows a paper on presidential nominations, by 
Oliver T. Morton, The interesting serial 
stories, "A Roman Singer," " En Province," 
"In War Time," are each continued. N. S. 
Shaler contributes an original and highly sug- 
gestive theory upon the red sunsets. George 
Parsons L^throp has a poem entitled, "Night 
in New York." The above gives only a por- 
tion of the varied table of contents that is 
offered in the present number. 
The January issue of Van Nosttand^s En- 
gineertng Magazine was the first number of 
the thirtieth volume. It is, as we have often 
said, the best periodical for practical and 
skilled engineers published in this country, 
and as such deserves their generous support. 
That it has not received it, however, is quite 
evident from the following remarks by the 
publisher: " The continuance of its publi- 
cation will depend, therefore, very much 
upon its support for the present year. If our 
educated engineers can afford to permit its 
discontinuance from lack of adequate support, 
the publisher certainly can aflFord to do so, to 
his advantage." It is to be hoped that so 
valuable a magazine will not be allowed to 
fail for want of support, when there are so 
many engineers in the country who not only 
can readily afford to take it, but who also 
actually need such an one for the sake of 
keeping up with the progress of the scientific 
and technical work in their profession. 
The Review of Science and Industry 
at Kansas City is about to begin a new volume 
under favorable auspices. This journal now 
ranks next to the Popular Science Monthy in 
this country, which it very much resembles 
in size and form. The Review is ably edit- 
ed, has a wide contributing patronage from 
American scientists and is a credit to the 
West, — Chicago Saturday Evening Herald. 
Prof. W. P. Trowbridge, of the School 
of Mines, Columbia College, contributes to 
Harper^s Monthly for April a very important 
and timely paper on Modern Sanitary Engi- 
neering, full of valuable suggestions relating 
to the water-supply of large cities, the sewer- 
age of large inland and coast towns, the sub- 
soil drainage of cities, house-drainage, and 
ventilation. 
The North American Review for April, has, 
among its other papers, a discussion by N. 
Dingley, Jr., M. C, and John Codman, as to 
the decline of American shipping. Rev. Dr. 
Phillip Schaff writes upon the development 
of religious freedom, Julian Hawthorne 
takes up the subject of literature for child- 
ren. Rev, Drs. Mortimer and Heber Newton 
discourse upon recent critcisms of the Bihle. 
The Medical Index, is the title 0/ a new 
journal just started in this city. It is hand- 
some in appearance and solid in contents. It 
is edited by Drs, J B, Browning, F. F, Dick- 
man, and N. A, Drake, and managed financi- 
ally by Drs. J, W. Elston and A. P. Campbell. 
Forty pages; monthly: ^2.00 per aanum. 
