, 1872-11-01
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

l3k.t8 " FIX J3S eta~a
REVENUE Law; {Alproyed June G, 1879 together
VII. tie Acts Of wi:l il is A1nendatosy: and fnu
FEE q Insrna T a. coTioas nalyical In.
dex and Full So2t;onal ,satcs ConT.isd " HORACE
E. Dresser. Ne,7 yor1: Harper Gioa. 1a12
Harper Bros. issuo these manuals yearly.
They arc compi1ea NTH care, and are OF great
uze in tllo comaing-rooE. The present annual
gives the present tariff Gnd internal taxes as
they hayo been changed by the act of June 6,
1872. which will reduce tho taxes by ebout $751;
100000. Of which 531 :G5D; $50 will be taken from
the customs duties, aud about 81, ,403, 000 from
the internal taxes.
TooEe Professor Ct Economic Science, University Of
Oxford. New I0rE: 6. 7: Putnam = Sons. Chi
cago: Jansen, AcClurg Go.
This work, which las been ravised for Amer
lean readers, is an attempt to give instruction
in the rudiments of social science in such Ian
gnage and form as to make the subject clear to
the youngest students. 1Ir. Rogers, the
author, is patient and faithful student,
if not brilliant investigation, and is best
known for his admirable edition Of tho works Of
Adam Smith, and his History of Agriculture and
Prices in England The subject Of social econ-
omy is introduced By contrasting tho difference
between the life OF savages aud Of civilized man,
and Calculating It's causes. The subjects dis
cussed arc rent, wages, corporation, prices,
profits money, the relations Of employer and
employed, parent and child, education, govern
nnent, taxes poor laws end kindred topics. The
treatment Of them is very elementary; under
the head of money for instance, the difficult
problems OF banking and currency are merely
referred to. 1Ir. Rogers is 3 Free-Irader, and,
in his chapter cn Restraints on Buying and Sell
ing, exposes the operation of Protective 1egis-
ton. The American editor offsets this by a
note stating that tie question is too complicat-
ed to be discussed here" The book ia FREQ
from technical arguments and technical language,
and is C. good guide to social Ecence both for
those who are children in years and children in
political economy.
HOW TO EDUCATE YOURSELF, WrTH OR WITH
Oct MASTERS. BY GEORGE CARY EGGLEscoS.
Eew York: G. P. Putnam Song. Chicago: Janseny
NcC1urg ). Co.
Even those who hare learned Professors, and
al the accessories of modern schools aud uni
vereities, about them, must educate themselves.
Mr. Eggleston denies neither this fact, nor the
converge, that self-educat;on is more likely to
be complete and symmetrical with these guides
than without them. But, though it might not
bo well to send students Of Geology to follow
Hugh Miller in tie stone-luar1les, or to study,
Divinity with Robert Collier at the anvil, there
are many who must de!Tc, and forge. and ham
naer, and who must Learn, if at all, without col
leg;ato gowns aud cIass-roon,s, and Faculties.
Fer these, afr. Egglestoo writes. What such
may do is shown b the fact that Mr.. HoTelIs,
the present editor OF tho -dtlantic MonMly.-a
scholar, poet, en- author, ana critic, with very
few srperio1s in America in the matter Of re-
fined and varied culture left school to learn
trade at the sgo Of 10, aud has never had mas
ter since.
Mr.. Egsleston shows how to mark out course
oF G+17S@ +r ha
of useless work expended i'll the public schools.
He places especial stress upon the study of
English. The classical and seieutinc schools are
each cosnmen1ea.: Languages, the higher
mathematics, physical science, moral and Intel
lectual science, are discussed aud valuable sug-
Restions given for their acquisition. In the
chapters on General. Reading, alr. Eggleston,
while not arguing against systematic study, ear
nestly recommends that, after mastery of the
elements OF education. if choice between them
must be made, general reading should take the
place Of textbooks. lie says: s'EStensice gen
e-sl reading may make cultivated. well-informed,
tile textbooks; but no amount Of Textbook
study, without extensive reading, ever brought
about such result This chapter is the most
instructive Of all. but is OF more suggestireness
and yalIe to these who hive achie;cc funda-
mental culture than to untrled minds.
TOWN GEOLOGY. By tis I.sv. CHARLES KINGSLEY.
New York: Appleton l. Co. Chicago: II. B. Kaane
/ Co.
cred to the young men Of Chester on the geol-
ogy Of their neighborhood. He has not made
his book handbook Of geological facts, but
las endeavored to render it of value to any
toEpsman in tho manufacturing districts Of
England erd Scotland Its local application
renders it nseful to American students only so
far as the geological phenomena Of this eon:i-
nent are coincident with those Of England, and
go far as they find Indictment to better methods
and more eager study in its enthusiasm. 11r.
Kingsley chose to present Geology tohis readers,
because it il the simplest md easiest OF all phys
1cal sciences. 1t appeals more than any other
cult experiments, and less expensive appa-
ratus. 1t is specially the poor mans science.
There ere some rcasons which lead him to COM
msnd Geology as 3 recreation for leisure hours.
Some branch Of natural Ec;ence he deems indis-
pensab1e; without it one cannot keep pace with
the thought Of ths age.
The prefaee-which is very long, and Of great
interests an impassioned appeal forgreaterat-
passage is the following:
say it deliberately, student Of society and his
tory Power win more and more it. all goes health
M o haxs e e
heirloom which the philosophers of the seventeenth
century left for the Of future generations, and
seem but too likely to repeat themselves again aud
sgain, au over the world, in the same
hopeless circle. Aristocracies of mere birth decay
and die, and give place. TO arissocracies Of new
wealth, and they again to .rari5tocraces Of genius
and, Wlen tAeSe laFe DloWu OF TIER steam,
with mighty roar, but without moving the engine
single yard. thea they but too likely to give place
to the worst a aretocraccs, the aEisocracy Of mere
t*order,'' which means organized brute force and
military desposm And, after that, what can come.
anarchy, and decay, and social death What
e1se unleas there be left III the nation tn the society
the salt Of the land, to keep il al from rott2g,
sufficient number Of wise men to form true working
aristocracy, an aristocracy Of sound and rational
Ecience7 # they be strong e2ough,-aEd they are
growing stronger day by day, over the civilized
world the future Of that world win on them mainly
depend. They will rule; aud they will be
ste to rule because tiey hare taken the trouble to
learn the facts and the laws Of nature.
. The work contains six chapters: The Soil Of
the Field; The Pebbles in the Street; Tho
Stones in the Wall; The Coal III tho Fire Tho
Lime in the Mortar The States on the Roof.
TIE PENNSYLVANIA pILGR1d, AND OTHER POEMS.
By JOIN GEEESLEAr WHITTIER. Boston James
r. osgood l. Co. Chicago: Jansen, McClurg l. Co.
a1r. Whittier gives us: in this volume, poems
which are full Of poetic thought, and q tender,
gentle humanity, as anything hcwrites nust be:
The one which begins the volume, and gives it
it's name, ia quiet aud dreamy sketch OF tho
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