A Glance at Books. ly 



The American Geologist com^s to our table, containing 68 pages 

 of reading, with illustrations. Six of our leading American geolo- 

 gists, have combined to publish this much needed magazine for 

 one year. It should receive sufficient support to ensure its con- 

 tinued publication. It will be issued monthly at Minneapolis, 

 Minn., at $3.00 a year. 



OUR NEWSPAPER FILE. 



Ihe Youth's Companion will give in the current volume, among 

 other articles upon science and travel, a series of sketches of actual 

 experiences at sea, by Clark Russell; Tricks in mind-reading,' 

 by Dr. Chas. S. MInot, who has often exposed these impostures; 

 ' Animals with more than two eyes,' by Henry Walker; ' Harvard 

 Students on Cape Cod,' a description of a natural history expedi- 

 tion and of the discoveries, by W. W. Nolan, and 'Among the 

 Blue-Nose Fisher-Folk,' by J. M. Oxley. J. G. Wood, C. F. 

 Holder, John Burroughs and Arabella B. Buckley are among 

 others who will contribute facts and incidents in natural history 

 to this excellent family paper. 



A GLANCE AT BOOKS. 



Analytical Mechanics', an elementary treatise by William 

 G. Peck, Ph. D., LL. D., of Columbia College; comes to us from 

 the press of A. S. Barnes & Co., New York. The book was 

 designed as a text book for the School of Mines, and other col- 

 leges and schools of science, but is adapted to the needs of the 

 practical mechanic, treating as it does of the application of princi- 

 ples of mathematics and physics to mechanical engineering. It 

 embraces the result of much practical experience. 



The Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, 

 January to June, 1887. contains some interesting contributions on 

 trap-door spiders by G. F. Atkinson, and a sketch and bibho- 

 graphy of N- M. Hentz. 



Frank Gushing, of Washington, well-known for his archaeologi- 

 cal investigations among the Zuni Indians, is now in San Fran- 

 cisco, devoting himself to Chinese subjects. He has been 

 contending that the Chinese mythic language is the same as the 

 Zuni, and further says that he will agree to translate any Chinese 

 myth represented on the Chinese stage by means of his knowledge 

 of the Zuni myths. 



Abundant rains give promise of an excellent season for the 

 farmer and botanist. 



