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Current Literature.

it May Chaplet. By Kenelm Digby Baste, Priest of the Oratory of St. Philip Nori. (Washbourne.)—The interest of this volume, which consists in the main of translations from a......

The Metric System.*

IN the month of August, 1866, the Hon. J. A. Kurson, at that time Chairman of a Committee of the American House of Repre- sentatives on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, addressed......