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The Year-book Of Education For 1878. Edited By Henry Kiddie

and Alexander J. Schem. (Steiger, New York.)—This book is a sort of educa- tional dictionary. Articles on all kinds of topics connected with the main subject are arranged in......

Our Life And Travels In India. By W. Wakefield, M.d.

(Sampson Low and Co.)—This is a handsome volume, which has all the external advantages that could be desired, and which the writer has exerted himself very creditably to make......

Tr•amtcays. By D. Kinniard Clark, C.e. (crosby Lockwood...

exhaustive treatise by an experienced engineer on this modern and yet undeveloped mode of locomotion. In it will be found full information respecting the construction, cost, and......

Current Literature.

Michelle, and Little Jack. By Frances Martin. (Hurst and Blackett.) —Both of these are, in their way, striking and powerful stories. But while we admire Michelle very much, we......

Comparative Psychology. By John Bascom. (putnam, New York...

Low, London.)—In discussing the abstruse subject of the growth of intelligence, now brought into prominence by the speculations of Darwin and the evolutionary theory of the......

Rigornfa Venaticct. By M. O'connor Morris. (chapman An I...

—The author of this work is fond of apt quotation, but he has not thought fit to inscribe on the title-page as a motto two well-known lines which wo venture to think would be......

Studies In Spectrum Analysis. By J. Norman Lockyer,...

Kean Paul and Co.)—This twenty-third volume of tho " International Scientific Sol ins " is an aide account by a competent authority of the newest branch of chemical science. No......

Christiern The Tricked. By Henry Tagson. From The German....

by the Author. (Samuel Tinsley.)—This story is, in its way, a rehabilitation of King Christian II. of Denmark. Posterity has given him the name of "the Wicked," but the author......