February 24, 1888. J 



SCIENCE. 



BOOK-NOTES. 



— D. C. Heath & Co. will publish, March i, 

 the Old English epic poem ' Judith.' It 

 will be edited with introduction, translation, 

 and glossary, by Prof. Albert S. Cook of the 

 University of California, who has endeavored 

 to adapt it to the scholar, the academic stu- 

 dent, and the general reader. 



— TheMiddlese.x Institute, Maiden, Mass., 

 proposes to publish a flora of Middlesex 

 County, giving a complete list of the phaner- 

 ogams and vascular cryptogams. In the 

 lower cryptogams, lists prepared by special- 

 ists will be given, as complete as the present 

 state of knowledge permits. The issue of 

 the work is dependent on subscription. 



— An earnest and vigorous exposition, in 

 a cheap, handy form, of the moral aspects of 

 the international copyright question, is some- 

 thing that has been much needed. Such a 

 paper has now been published by Charles 

 Scribner's Sons of New York, in the well- 

 known paper-covered series of this house, at 

 a price which ought to insure for it a circu- 

 lation of hundreds of thousands throughout 

 the country. The title of the pamphlet is 

 'The National Sin of Literary Piracy,' and 

 the author is the Rev. Dr. Henry Van Dyke. 

 Dr. Van Dyke considers the subject under 

 three phases : (I) the nature of the national 

 sin of literary piracy, (2) its punishment, and 

 (3) its cure. His paper is well worth reading, 

 and ought to touch the public conscience and 

 have its effect upon public opinion. The 

 publishers will send any one a copy upon re- 

 ceipt of five cents. 



— In glancing over the table of contents of 

 Tlie Chauiaiiqiian for March, one is struck 

 with the excellence of the names. Among 

 them are Maurice Thompson, Hjalmer 

 Hjorth Boyesen, Pres. C. K. Adams of Cor- 

 nell University, the Rev. Lyman Abbott, 

 Lieut. Frederick Schwatka, Dr. Titus Mun- 

 son Coan, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, Mrs. 

 Mary A. Livermore, and many others equally 

 well known in the literary world. 



— The aim of the magazine Our Little 

 Men Mid Women, 1888 (Boston, D. Lothrop 

 Company) is to interest children just at the 

 time they begin to read for themselves, and 

 lead them along for a year or two with pic- 

 tures and stories and pleasant tasks, — so 

 pleasant as to make them forget the task 

 part altogether. Babyland, 1888, in general, 

 will be about the same as in 1887. 



— March 25, the New York Shakspeare 

 Society will issue the first volume of ' The 

 Bankside Shakspeare ' on an entirely novel 

 plan, being the text of the earliest version of 

 each play printed in the lifetime of William 

 Shakspeare, paralleled with the 1623 or first 

 folio text, and both texts numbered line by 

 line, and scrupulously collated with both the 

 folio and quarto texts. The Bankside edi- 

 tion entirely disposes of the Donnelly cipher. 

 It prints the earliest text side by side with 

 the 1623 text, thus showing at a glance the 

 mutations, augmentations, and curtailments 

 which the plays underwent during their fifst 

 stage life at the hands of literary pirates. 



stage censors, and careless printers, and in 

 the mouths of the actors, thus rendering it at 

 once apparent that in neither text could a 

 cipher be found to-day by an exact mathe- 

 matical process, even had one been originally 

 concealed therein. L. L. Lawrence is clerk 

 of the publication committee of the Shak- 

 speare Society of New York, P.O. box 5, 

 Newtown, Queens County, N.Y. 



Calendar of Societies. 



Engineers' Club, St. Louis. 



Feb. 15. — O. L. Petitdidier, Practical Notes 

 on Masonry and Stone-Laying. 



Engineers' Club, Philadelphia. 



Feb. 4. — A. Marichal, Rainfall. 



Torrey Botanical Club, New York. 



Feb. 14 — Isabel S. Arnold, Notes on the 

 Flora of the Upper Chemung Valley ; Exhibi- 

 tion of microsc )pLcaI objects by members of the 

 Section of Histoligy. 



Philosophical Society, Washington. 



Feb. 18. — H. H. Bates, Increasing Industrial 

 Employment of the Rarer Metals ; F. W. Clarke, 

 The Determination of Atomic Weights ; A. W. 

 Greely, Trans-Mississippi Rainfall ; J. W. 

 Spencer, Notes on the Drift North of Lake 

 Ontario: William Hallock, Note on the Forma- 

 tion of Alloys. 



Feb. 22. —G. W. Hill, On the Interior Con- 

 stitution of the Earth as respects Density; H. 

 A. Hazen, A Failure in the Application of the 

 Law of Probabilities. 



ved at Editor's Office, Feb. 

 13-18 



Bloxam, C- L. Chemistry, Inorganic and Organic. 6th 

 ed. Philadelphia, Blakiston. 788 p. 8°. S4.50. 



Bureau of Education. Report of the Commissioner of 

 Education for the Year 1885-86. Washington, 

 Government, yga p. 8°. 



Cornell University Register, The, 1887-88. Ithaca, 

 N Y., Cornell Univ. 216 p. ]2°. 



Damlar. W. The Tail of the Earth ; or. The Location 

 and Condition of the "Spirit World." Brooklyn, 

 The Author. 60 p. 8°. ascents. 



Gibson, J. Chips from the Earth's Crust ; or. Short 

 Studies in Natural Science. New York, T. Nelson 

 &Sons. 304 p. 16°. ?i.25. 



Great Waterfalls. Cataracts, and Geysers. New 



York, T. Nelson & Sons. 288 p. 16°. St.25. 



MoNTElTH, J. Familiar Animals and their Wild Kin- 

 dred. Cincinnati, Van Antwerp, Bragg, & Co. 

 208 p. 16°. 



Seidel, R. Industrial Instruction: a Pedagogic and 

 Social Necessity. Tr. by Margaret K. Smith. Bos- 

 ton, Heath. 170 p. 12°. Socents. 



Slater, J \V. Sewage Treatment, Purification and 

 Utilization. Ne^v York, Van Nostrand. 271 p. 



Stewart, B., and Gee, W. W. H. Practical Physics. 



Vol. I. Electricity and Magnetism. New York, 



Macmillan. 221 p. 16°. 60 cents. 

 Van Dyke. H, The National Sin of Literary Piracy . 



New York, Scribner. 23 p. 16°. 5 cents. 

 West, Mary Allen. Childhood : its Care and Culture. 



Chicago. Woman's Temp. Publ. Assoc 772 p. 8°. 

 Wh.^t Shall we Talk About ? or. Things that Every One 



ought to know. New York, T. Nelson 8l Sons. 



320 p. 16°. Si. 

 Woodward, C. M. The Manual Training School. 



Boston, Heath. 374 D. 8°. S2. 



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