702 KANSAS CITY HE VIEW OF SCIENCE. 



as it is, in contra-distinction to the stereotyped addresses which commend only 

 the Public School as it might be, by Prof. Sydney G. Cooke, School Commis- 

 sioner, First District, Wayne Co., N. Y. All of these are valuable publications, 

 especially to teachers and students who expect to teach. 



Water Color Painting. By Aaron Penley. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 



1879. Kansas City Book and News Company ; 50c. 



This is No. 5 of Putnam's Art Hand-Books, those previously published being 

 Sketching from Nature, Landscape Painting in Oil Colors, Flower Painting, and 

 Figure Drawing ; all edited by Susan M. Carter, Superintendent of the Women's 

 Art School, Cooper Union, New York. This series, reprinted from the most 

 capable authors in England, and carefully edited by so competent and practical an 

 expert, must really be what it purports to be, an excellent guide to the student 

 and amateur in the various departments of fine art. The volume under consider- 

 ation is a complete exposition of the present advanced state of water color paint- 

 ing, as exhibited in the works of the modern schools, and its careful study will 

 enable the student who has the proper degree of taste, and the necessary patience 

 to practice the rules laid down, to become a skillful artist. It is just such a hand- 

 book as all such need lying on their tables for reference. The fact that the book 

 is in its thirty-eighth edition is a guaranty that it has been and is still highly ap- 

 preciated by artists and art students. 



How to Learn Short-Hand. By Arthur M. Baker. S. R. Wells & Co., New 



York; 25c. 



The demand for short-hand writers has, during the past few years, been rap- 

 idly increasing, and necessarily will continue to increase as the importance of all 

 time-saving appliances in business matters is more generally recognized by busi- 

 ness men. The telegraph and the telephone are largely depended upon by them; 

 but, for some unexplained reason, very few have adopted stenography as an aid, 

 though it would appear that they should be side by side in the counting-room. 



This little work is arranged especially for the use of those desirous of acquir- 

 ing the art without a teacher, and seems to offer the simplest, most practical and 

 best adapted system for general purposes that has been proposed. 



Metaphysics. A Lecture by Samuel Spahr Laws, LL.D. Statesman Print., 



Columbia, Missouri, 1879. 



Dr. Laws is President of the Missouri State University, and Professor of Met- 

 aphysics, and this lecture is one of a course delivered during the session of 1878-9 

 by the Faculty. The object of the author is, first, to disabuse his audience of the 

 impression that metaphysics is necessarily the abstruse and unintelligible subject 

 that prejudice and ridicule have caused it to be regarded ; and, next, to place be- 



