2 THE WEST AMERICAN SCIENTIST. 
With even less regard for their natural 
relations, and new names freely indulged 
; the Opuntics are badly jumbled | 
So which there is some excuse. ‘ 
Shemistry at a glance: a study in mo- 
H 
lecular architecture. No j 
Tuttle, 131 Lexington avenue, N. Y. The 
donfinent feature of is the 
elaboration and simplification of graphic 
formule, whieh the character and 
relation of substances are set forth with 
jacreared force and clearness. We hope 
see this work completed, and believe 
it should meet with wide use text 
boo 
by 
as, a 
América’s successful men of affairs: an 
encyclonedia of contemporaneous biog- 
raphy, edited by Henry Hall. The N. Y. 
ribune. 2 vol. : Volume 1 de- 
scribes the careers and characters 0 
anes tooo of the men niost picenpse BE 
i ce and practical pursuits in the 
ta oporiten district of New York, Vol, 
' 2 is devoted to the master spirits of the 
business world in the United States at 
large. examples of success in this 
work should prove a strong incentive to 
the'capable youth of America ‘to mak 
the most of their lives, to begin in youth 
to cultivate habits of thrift and thor- 
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haracter, energy and integrity, without 
wich a lasting success is impossible. 
™ Wealth is the main element by which 
the success of these men is estomated, 
ut as a concise ies of the million- 
airs of our day, and the origin of the 
wealth, the work is worthy of tere 
Stuy. 
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music-loving reader 
Biblioteca meets Mexicans. by Dr. 
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