Analyses of Booh. [November, 
without saying a word on the British Museum.” But he has 
nothing to say concerning that momentous change which has 
made the Museum practically inaccessible to many of its former 
students. 
At a meeting of the Mason College Union the question of 
ciemation was brought forward, and a motion in its favour was 
carried by a majority of thirty-two to ten. The arguments 
against cremation were not remarkable for either novelty or 
cogency. One speaker seemed to lay weight on the circum- 
stance that a Parliamentary majority of nearly two to one had 
recently declared itself against cremation, — as if Parliaments 
were localities favourable to any movement in the right direction ! 
Professor Sonnenschein suggested burial in light wicker baskets, 
probably forgetting that the waste of land in the outskirts of our 
cities would thus be perpetuated, and that, though decay would 
be accelerated, disease-microbia would find every opportunity for 
free dissemination. 
“ Student-Life in Paris” is an able article, in which the black 
spot of French higher education — the dominating bureaucratic 
influence — is strangely overlooked. 
In a debate on the proposition that “ Where ignorance is bliss 
t is folly to be wise,” Miss Cohen contended that “ sorrow is a 
moral force, and should be utilised, not shunned.” Considering 
that sorrow is physically debilitating, and that it interferes with 
the cultivation of the intellect, it should be considered whether 
some of the teachings of the present century are anything 
more than attempts to bring their author’s previous opinions into 
apparent harmony with the principles of Evolution. 
Papers on the Pollution of the Clyde at Glasgow, with Plans for 
the Collection and Treatment of the Sewage by Precipitation. 
By G. W. Muir. Glasgow: W. Porteous and Co. 
The near approach of the cholera, and the possibility that in the 
next season it may do something more than approach, have 
revived the fading interest in sanitary reform. Some sense and 
probably more nonsense have been talked on the subjedt ; the 
impracticable notions of the late Royal Rivers’ Pollution Com- 
mission have been once more raked out of the dust-bin of the 
past, where it seems not to have become entirely purged from 
that lack of truthfulness by which it was characterised a dozen 
years ago. 
Among other communities the good city of Glasgow became 
conscious that it, too, has a very unsavoury — though once 
