In this little book Dr. llubcr bas given Us a model manual of microscopical tecb 

 nique in the Idboratory study of histology. The subject matter is divided into con- 

 venient chapters, commencing with the cell and cell division (.karyokinesis) in plant 

 and animal life, and gradually developing, by easy stages, the mosi complex tissues 

 of ihe animal and vegetable organism, between each lesson biank pages are inter- 

 leaved, to be used by the student lor di awing the objects seen by him with a pencil 

 or ciayon— a most excellent plan as nothing fixes the appearance and characteristics 

 of objects more hrmly on the mind ihan drawing them, either free-hand or with a 

 cameia lucida (the former being prefeiable, sis ii educates the hand and eye). With 

 each subject is given the source and origin, the best methods for ob^iining and pre- 

 paring it, and attention is called to the most noteworthy or characteristic points for 

 examination, 



The second part of the book is devoted to methods for laboratory work : soften 

 ing, hardening, decalcification, etc., of the matter in gross; embedding, sectioning, 

 staining and mounting, eic. The best stains, with methods of preparinp< the same, 

 and, in short, a general formulary for the various reagents, etc., coucludes the work, 

 which is intended, as stated, as an aide memovre supplementary to a course of lec- 

 tures on histology. 



We congratulate Dr. Huber on the skill with which he has developed the idea, 

 and the didactic methods which he has employed. Such a book cannot but prove a 

 great help to both student and teacher, and it should be more widely known — St, 

 Louis Medical and Surgeofi's Juumal. 



JOHNSON. — Elements of the Law of Negotiable Contracts. By E. F^ 

 Johnson, B.S., LL.M., Professor of Haw in the Department of Law 

 of the University of Michigan. 8vo., 735 pages. Full law sheep 

 binding. $3-75- 



Several years of experience as an instructor has taught the author that the best 

 method of impressing a principle upon the mind ol the student is to show him a prac- 

 tical application of it. To remember abstiact propositions, without knowin their." 

 application, is indeed difficult for the average student. But when the piimaryprin- 

 ciple is once associated in his mind with particular facts illustrating its applica- 

 tion, it IS more easily retained and more rapidly applied to analo ous cases. 



It is deemed advisable that the student in the law sh juld be required, during his 

 course) to master in connection with each geneial branch of the law, a few well-se- 

 lected cases which are illusti ative of the philosophy of that subject. To i equire each 

 student to do this in the larger law schools bas been found to be impracticable, ow- 

 ing to a lack of a sufficient number of copies of individual cases. The only solution 

 of this difficulty seems to be 10 place.in the hands of each student a volume contain- 

 ing the desired cases. In the table of cases will be found many leading cases printed 

 in black type.— PVom Pre/ac6. 



LEVI-FRANCOIS. — A French Reader for Beginners^ with Notes and 

 Vocabulary. By Moritz Levi, Assistant Professor of French, Univer- 

 sity of Michigan, and Victor E. Francois, Instructor in French, Uni- 

 versity of Michigan. 12 mo. 261 pages. $1.00. 



This reader differs from its numerous predecessors in several respects. First, 

 being aware that students and teachers in the French as well as in the German de- 

 partmtnts of high schools and colleges are becoming lired of translating over and 

 over again the Sdme old fairy tales, the editors have avoided them and selected tome 

 interesting and easy short stories. They have also suppressed the poetic selections 

 which are never translated in the class room. Finally, they have exercised the great- 

 est care in the gradation of the passages chosen and in the pre:paiaiion of the vocab- 

 ulary, every French word being followed not only by its primitive or ordinary mean- 

 irg, but also by the different English equivalents which the text lequires. After 

 careful examination, we consider this reader as one of the best ou the American 

 maiket. 



LYMAN-HALL-GODDARD.— ^/^^(5r(z. By Elmer A. Lyman, A.B., 

 Edwin C. Goddard, Ph.B., and Arthur G. Hall, B.S., Instructor 

 in Mathematics, University of Michigan. Octavo. 75 pages. Cloth, 

 90 cents. 



