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THE SCIENTIST. 
Food on a Scientific Plan, by Helen M. 
Ellis; Women in Astronomy, by Esther 
Singleton; Qualifications Requisite for the 
Trained Nurse, by Lisbeth D. Price; The 
"Art of Visiting, by Kate Gannet Wells; 
Women in the Land Office, by Ella Loraine 
Dorsey; The German Girl of the Middle 
Ages. The editorials treat of Christmas- 
tide, Foreign Visitors to the Columbian Ex- 
position. The Methodist Ecumenical Coun- 
cil in Washington, and Literature as a 
Profession. There are the usual depart- 
ments devoted to the Chautaucjua I^iterary 
and Scientific Circle. 
The Popular Scientific 3£ontJily, 
for December, 1891, contains : The Rise of 
the Pottery Industry, by Edwin Atlee Bar- 
ber; The Development of American Indus- 
tries Since Columbus, X. (illustrated); 
Progress and Perfectibility in the Lower 
Animals, by Prof. E. P. Evans; Type-Cast- 
ing Machines, by P. D. Ross, (illustrated); 
Breathe Pure Air, by the Rev. J. W. Quinby ; 
Dress and Adornment, IV:, Religious 
Dress, by Prof. Frederick Starr, (illustra- 
ted); Some of the Possibilities of Economic 
Botany, (Concluded) by Prof. George 
Lincoln Goodale; The Lost Volcanoes of 
Connecticut, by Prof. Wm. Morris Davis, 
(illustratedi; The Training of Dogs, by 
Wesley Mills, M.D., (illustrated); Silk 
Dresses and Eight Hours' Work, by J. B. 
Mann; Dust, by J. G. McPherson; Sketch 
of Dimitri Ivanovicii Mendeleef, (with Por- 
trait). Correspondence — Righting the Bi- 
cycle; The Kelley's Island Groove. Ed- 
itors Table— The Strong Man; Political 
Justice; Tramp Colonies. Literary Notices; 
Popular Miscellany; Notes. 
The Eclect ic Magazine of Fore ign 
Literature for November contains the fol- 
low^ing articles : The New Emperor and 
His New Chancellor; The Great Work; 
The Antipodeaus; Herrick Ibsen; Adver- 
tising in China; The Story of a Violin; The 
Spanish Story of the Armada; Russia Under 
Alexander III.; Accidental Conversation; 
Science and Society in the Fifties; The 
Blind Summit; Secret Societies in China; 
Marlowe; The Wild Woman as Social In- 
surgents; The Abbe's Repentance; Im- 
pressions of England; The Ballad of the 
Hulk; Ernest Renan; On the Ancient Be- 
lief in a Future State. 
The 'Literary Light contents : Ori- 
gin of Life— A Criticism of Mr. Geo. Davis^ 
Theory, by Leroy Berrier; Wanted— A 
Novelist for Woman, Jane Mead Welch; 
From a Book Label, Poem; Art of Book 
Selling; Topical Scrap Books and How to 
Fill Them. The last article will be found 
of interest to many. We have found the 
envelopes themselves to form a convenient 
scrap book, each article to be numbered 
and indexed on back of envelope. 
Plain Talk for November : A 
Night of Peril; Games and Pastimes; Lad- 
ies department has many things new; Nu- 
mismatics; Philately, Under Natural His- 
tory; The Greatest of Volcanoes; Do Pearls 
Get 111? Deep-Sea Sponges; Bumble B ^es 
and Red Clover; All About Bananas; 
Archfeology is represented by an article on 
Indian relics in Montgomery county, N. Y. 
An Ohio Earthquake. 
The Mineralogists Monthly for 
November has a very interesting account of 
the Mammoth Cave of Indiana; Uranium 
in the Black Hills; Gold Mining in Penn- 
sylvania; Pre historic Monsters; Traveling 
Mountain and other notes of interest. 
Aluminum Age for November 
contains notes on Alumina and Aluminum; 
New Way of Making Steel Castings; 
About Pyritic Ores, an Economic Process 
of Smelting. 
Journal and Proceedings of the 
Hamilton, [Canada) Association for Ses- 
sion 1890-91. 
Contents :— Officers, 1890-91; Officers 
since 1857; Abstract of Minutes; Early 
History of Hamilton; Surface Geology of 
the County of Lincoln and Neighboring 
Counties; Egypt, with some Account of the- 
Book of the Dead; Connecting Links; 
Flutes of the Time of Moses; Botanical 
Jottings; Reports of Philological Section; 
Anglicism in Lower Canadian French; Re- 
port of Bilological Section; Notes on Do- 
mestic Animals; Report of Geological Sec- 
tion; Stromatoporidfe; Notes on Burlington 
Heights; Notes on the Asteroids, etc.; In- 
dian Ossuary of Burlington Beach; Notet^ 
on Ccelentarata; Notes on Marine Animals; 
Irish Celts and their Relics; Reports of 
Officers. Five full page plates. 
