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But Americans are not Germans, replies a gentleman “of the old 
school”, If so, what is. the difference? We have the financial 
ability, and there is no deficiency of mind in certain classes in the 
United States. One answer is, that there is a dissociation of the 
mind and the money. Occasionally an attempt is made to effect a 
combination. Sometimes the method is grotesque; as when a 
wealthy merchant recently offered a University the sum of $200,000, 
to put his son through a four years’ course, and make him a professor 
afterwards, Sometimes the attempt is successful, as in the case of 
the Allis Laboratory of Milwaukee. We can only say may there 
be many Allises in the future of our history, and may they be as 
judicious in their selection of workmen. 
We suspect, however, that this state of affairs will not last. The 
Universities are doing their good work of educating the people, 
and from these will spring, from time to time, men who understand 
the growth of the human mind, and how to aid it. 
RECENT LITERATURE. 
WINCHELL’s GEOLOGICAL SruDIES.!—[In this work we have an 
aid to the study of Geology in its various departments, which will 
have a distinct influence in advancing the knowledge of the science. 
The student, whether in the school-room or in the field, will find its 
med undoubted, whether the clearness of the descriptions or the 
excellence of the illustrations be taken into account. The long 
experience of the distinguished author, both in original research, 
and in teaching, qualify him especially for the production of a work 
like the present. The departments of stratigraphic and dynamic 
geology may be specified as the best, as they are the most extended 
divisions of the book. We cannot speak as highly of the palæon- 
tological part. The list of the “ most important types of animals 
and plants,” beginning on page 305, is mostly constructed either after 
antiquated models, or else after false lights of modern character. 
The Vertebrata are especially bad, and the nomenclature adopted is 
mostly one which the student will have to forget, if he or she be so 
unfortunate as to have remembered it. With this defect remedied 
in future editions we can heartily recommend the work for general 
! Geological Studies or Elements of Geology for High Schools, Nor- 
mal and other Schools; with 367 illustrations. By Alexander Winchell, 
LL.D. Second edition: Chicago: S. C. Griggs & Co. 8vo. pp. 513. 
