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THE SCIENTIST. 
Literary Notes. 
The Popular Science Monthly is 
rapidly coming to the front as an illustrated 
magazine. Until recently it published only 
a few simple drawings, where they were 
specially needed to supplement the text, 
but the January numl)er is to have no less 
than sixty illustrations. Those in the arti- 
•cle on American Pottery are especially 
noteworthy, and the other illustrated arti- 
cles are Remarkable Bowlders, Tail-like 
Formations in Men, The Aviator Flying 
Machine, and The Musk Ox. The frontis- 
l)iece is a portrait of Prof. Elias Loomis. 
The kinship which Darwinism 
recognizes between man and the brutes is 
strongly confirmed by the facts in an arti- 
cle on Tail-like Formations in Men, to 
appear in the January Popular Science 
Monthly. The researches of several Ger- 
man physiologists are here presented, and 
pictures of a number of these strange 
formation> are given. 
Theology and Political Economy 
is the subject of Dr. Andrew I). White's 
next chapter in his Warfare of Science 
series in The Popular Science Monihlif. 
Paying for the use of money is the matter 
in which the church has most seriously 
obstructed commerce, and a full history of 
the conflict over interest is given in this 
article. It will be published in the Monthly 
for January. 
An illustrated sketch of certain 
Remarkable Bowlders, by Mr. David A. 
Wells, is to appear in The Popular Science 
Monthly for January. These immense 
stones, weighing thousands of tons and 
found hundreds of miles from their places 
of origin, give striking testimony to the 
mighty power of glacial action. 
Mr. Carroll D. Wright will have 
an interesting study of Our Population and 
its Distribution in the January Popular 
Science Monthly, showing the movement of 
the center of population westward, and 
how the people are distributed witli respect 
to topographical features of the country, 
rainfall, humidity, etc. 
All interested in the teaching of 
young children will be glad to read Mrs. 
Mary Ailing Aber's account of An Experi- 
ment in Education, in the forthcoming Jan- 
uary Popular Science Monthly. It is a 
sample of the sporadic efforts to introduce 
little children to real knowledge, which 
promise valuable results in the near future. 
The Chautauquan for January 
presents the following attractive table of 
contents: The Battles of Saratoga, by 
John G. Nicolay; Domestic and Social Life 
of the Colonists, IV., by Edward Everett 
Hale; Trading Companies, by John H. 
Finley; The History of Political Parties 
in America, IV., by F. W. Hewes; States 
]Made From Territories, I., by Dr. James 
Albert Woodburn: Sunday Readings, Se- 
lected by Bishop Vincent; Physical Life, 
IV., by ]\Iilton J. Greenman, Ph.B.; Na- 
tional Agencies for Scientific Research, 
IV., by Major J. W. Powell, Ph.D., 
LL.D.; Science and the Feeding of Ani- 
mals, by V. Hallenbeck, A. M.; The 
Cruise of the "Quaker City,'' by Mary 
Mpison Fairbanks; Progress in the Nine- 
teenth Century, by Edward A. Freeman; 
Some Propositions of Nationalism, by 
Edward Arden; Niagara the Motor for the 
World's Fair, by Prof. John Trowbridge; 
Is Oratory a Lost Art? by E. Jay Edwards; 
Practical Questions in the Italian Govern- 
ment, by Vi If redo Pareto; Richter, a 
Painter of Picturesque Portraits, by Mau- 
rice Thompson; The Legal Relation of 
Parent and Child, by JNlary A. (ireene, 
LL.B.; The Kindergarten Movement in 
Chicago, by Antoinette Van Iloosen Wake- 
man; How Women Figure in the Eleventh 
Census, by ^Margaret N. Wisliard; The 
Temperance Tidal Wave in Boston, by 
Mary A. Latbury; Women's Robes in the 
Orient, by Countess Annie de Montaigu; 
