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EDITORIAL. 
is  suspended  for  the  present,  owing  to  the  meagre  patronage  extended  to 
it.  Mr.  B.  trusts  that  it  will  reappear  at  a  future  date,  but  at  present  bids 
his  friends  adieu. 
The  Chemical  News  and  Journal  of  Physical  Science,  Vol,  1,  No.  1.  18G7. 
Edited  by  Wrn.  Grookes,  F.  R.  S.  Published  by  W.  A.  Townsend  and 
Adams,  New  York,  July,  1867. 
The  question  of  the  legal  right  of  republication,  in  the  absence  of  an 
international  copyright  law,  may  seem  clear  to  those  who  oppose  that  law, 
but  the  circumstances  under  which  the  above  publication  is  issued  certainly 
calls  for  a  word  at  our  hands,  and  all  interested  in  scientific  literature. 
The  New  York  issue  professes  to  be  a  reprint,  and  yet  the  arrangement  of 
the  matter  is  altered,  the  paging  is  altered,  and  the  numbering  is  changed. 
Journals,  in  quoting  from  the  reprint,  forget  this,  and  at  once  mislead  their 
readers.  For  instance,  in  the  nnmber  of  the  Franklin  Institute  Journal 
just  received  is  an  article  on  Cantharidin,  credited  to  Chem.  News,  Vol.  1, 
No.  2,  for  August,  whereas  it  really  should  have  been  credited  to  Vol.  15, 
No.  391,  for  May  31.  To  show  the  annoyance  that  will  be  caused  by  this 
mixing  up  and  derangement,  we  were  at  first  unable  to  find  the  article  on 
Cantharidin  in  the  original  !  If,  therefore,  the  reprint  must  take  place,  let 
it  be  word  for  word,  page  for  page,  and  date  for  date.  It  would  be  better 
that  the  American  publishers  should  sell  the  original,  as  agents  for  the 
London  publishers,  at  a  fair  profit,  but  in  case  that  cannot  be  done  let 
them  issue  zfac  simile,  properly  dated. 
Synopsis  of  the  Course  of  Lectures  on  Materia  Medica  and  Pharmacy  deliv- 
ered in  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  with  five  Lectures  on  the  Modus 
Operandi  of  Medicines.  By  Joseph  Carson,  M.  D.  Fourth  edition,  re- 
vised.   Philad.:  Henry  C.  Lea.    1867,  pp.  272. 
This  new  edition  of  Dr.  Carson's  syllabus  has  been  rendered  more  use- 
ful to  the  student  by  the  introduction  of  five  lectures  on  the  operation  of 
medicines,  fully  written  out,  so  that  the  student  may  have  them  before  him 
for  careful  study,  and  thus  aid  him  in  grasping  this  important  and  difficult 
subject. 
The  Physician's  Visiting  List  for  1868.    Philad.:  Lindsay  &  Blakiston. 
This  annual  visitor  is  again  on  our  table,  and  reminds  us  to  tell  our 
medical  friends  that  their  wants  have  been  provided  for  by  the  publishers 
in  a  new  edition  of  this  useful  pocket  companion. 
is  it  If  a  booh  for  every  man ;  a  companion  to  Why  Not?  a  book  for  every 
woman.  By  Prof.  Horatio  R.  Storer,  M.  D.,  of  Boston,  Vice-President  of 
the  American  Medical  Association.  Boston  :  Lee  &  Shepard.  1867, 
pp.  154,  18mo. 
The  same  reasons  that  caused  the  approval  of  "  Why  Not  ?"  in  our  July 
