Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-02-14


for. He does this with good deal of acuteness
and in very emphatic language. If this argu-
ment had been addressed to the court, it might
possibly have influenced the decision.
CHARLES c. CHATFIELD Co New Haven,
are publishing series of scientific essays, in
small, handsomely printed pamphlets, which
can not fail to interest those who give any at
tention to the discussion of scientific questions.
We have seen five of these pamphlets as fol-
lows Il. physical Basis of Life" by Professor
Huxley. 2. Correlation of Vital and Physical
Forces" by Prof. G. F. BARKER. s. GAS Re-
CARDS Protonlesur, in Relation to Prof Huxley's
Physical Basis of Life;" being the ablest review
of Huxley that has appeared; written in En-
gland by j. H. Stirling. 4. "0n the Hypothe
sis of Evolution, Physical and Metaphysical
by Prof. Edward D. Cope. 5. Three Scientific
Addresses" by rof. Tyndall, which fill PAM
phlet of IA pages. There are not many PERSONS,
claiming 10 be intelligent, who are entirely ues-
titute of interest in the present doc ines claims,
controversies and tendencies of science. There
fore, these pamphlets are not likely to lack
readers. Those who neglect scientific discus
sion, should consider that knowledge, in these
days, implies something more than "literary
culture" and the routine of profession. For
sale by Sanford & Co.
A Textbook OF ELEMENTARY CHEMISTRY:
Theoretical and Inorganic BY George F. Baker,
NJ. D., Professor of Physiological Chemistry, in
Yale College. Charles c. Chafeld & Co., New
Haven, publishers. This seems to us, in
some respects, the best elementary treatise Oh
chemistry we have examined, provided it be
used in connection with actual experiments in a
laboratory, under the direction of competent
teacher. And the study of chemistry in books,
without the aid of actual experiment and verif-
cation, can not produce satisfactory results.
Professor Baker has aimed to make the book as
complete as possible, and to adapt ii to the
| special uses for which a textbook is designed.
His arrangement is excellent; and he gives the
principles of the science as they are held now
by the best chemists. The science of chemistry
is not now what it was twenty or even ten years
ago; consequently, the older textbooks are out
of date. The jrst part of this book is devoted to
theoretical chemistry, the latter to inorganic
chemistry, and the pictorial illustrations are
| abundant and well executed. For sale by San
ford G. Co.
SONGS OF YALE: New Collection of College
Songs, edited by Charles S. Elliott, A. NJ.
Second Edition. New Haven: Charles c. Chat.
field & Co., publishers. Mr.. Elliot has endeav-
ored 10 make a complete collection of the college
/ songs current at Yale, and heard in other col
leges; and he gives us fifty-fve Of them set to
music. "Upidee" and some of the others have
been heard on our Streets when some of the
| students drawn here by the regattaS have en-
livened the night with ga high old time" Some
| of these songs are good; Others are not of the
most elevating character; but they all show us
one popularity of college lie, and enable us to
understand some of the influences that regulate
much of the wild, and sometimes, questionable
behavior of college students, who are associated
in similar pursuits at a time when they have a
larger fund of animal spirits than of sober rea
son. The book, which is handsomely printed,
will be in demand in the colleges; and many
besides college students will examine it, For
sale by Sanford 6 Co.
The LAKESIDE MONTHLY, for February, is
unexceptionable in Typography and mechanical
execution, but rather dreary editorially. If we
may believe the Chicago correspondent of the
New York Mail, better days are in store for this
magazine. Bret Hart, it is said, has been pre-
vailed upon to become its editor, with a salary
of $4,000 year and an interest in the magazine,
aud in future all his productions will appear in
| its columns. Those who were interested in
| bringing Mr.. Harte to Chicago at first proposed
TO buy the Overland Monthly and transplant it,
but that scheme failing, they purchased the
Lakeside and made Mr.. Harte the above Offer
which he is understood to have accepted.
The LAW SCHOOL OF HARVARD COLLEGE,
by Joel Parker. New York: Hurd & Houghton:.
A writer in the American Law Review Tor Octo-
Der, having made the assertion that "for long
time the condition of the Harvard law school
has been almost dis grace to the commonwealth
Of Massachusetts" M Parker, who for many
years was the Royal professor in that instltu-
ton, is moved thereby to defend the manage
nent of that Institution while he was connected
with 1t, and especially it practice at that time
of comforting degrees without preliminary ex.
aTninuons, which is the principal cause of offence
to the Law Review. The defence is written with
much sharpness and Vigor, and makes pam
phlet of tify pages.
HE PEOPLES MAGAZINE, for February, con-
tains many articles of interest, some of them
remarkably well illustrated. That OIL the Mont
Gents tunnel, gives an excellent account of the
origin and progress of that work, and, with the
accompanying engravings, conveys better idea
how the excavation is accomplished than is
readily obtained elsewhere. The article entitled
$40 San Francisco and Back" is also interest
ing. This magazine is published in London
hr fba c, MI
edge, and in New York by Pott and Amery
The PSYCHOLOGIST, for February, has an il
Illustrated article on the French mitraleuse, one
on narrow gauge locomotives, with three adj
mirably executed full page engravings. All
| sorts of information on industrial and scientific
subjects can be found in the numerous articles,
long and short, which make up this excellent
| magazine.
The MANUFACTURER AND BUILDER.-The
principal illustrated article in the February
number of this magazine is on the manufacture
and uses of gutta percha. Others treat of I'M.
portant discoveries in agriculture, on fan flow
ers and piston flowers, on fish oil manufacture,
on Giffords injector, and great variety of
other subjects.
| ALMASAcs. We have received the Tribune
Almanac and the World Almanac, issued from
the offices of the newspapers in New York
whose names they bear, and the Gazette Annual
| Register from the office of the Cincinnati Ga
zette-all for the year 1871. They each COM
| prise an astonishing amount of political and
other information compiled with great care and
labor. In some points, in which we have made
the comparison, the World Almanac is more
correct and better arranged than its rival of the
Tribune; butwe are unable to say, whether this
superiority is generally maintained. Either of
them Is, no doubt, generally accurate and will
De found extremely useful as a statistical and
political manual of reference The price of each
, is twenty cents.
DICKENS AND CRUIKsBANK-Thefo following
curious letter from George Cruikshank is said
to have been written in answer to one request
ing him 70 decide wager between an American
, gentleman and an English publisher, in which
{ tue former maintained that Mr. Cruikshank had