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understandingly treated. This prelude 10
the Reformation takes up III of the 2SS
pages of the volume. The remainder is given
to worthy and eminently readable treat
ment OF the great drama of political and re-
igous reform. In every respect the manual
is worthy of high praise.
| MANUAL OF METALLURGY, BY William Herry
Greenwood. F. c. S. Volume /. New York; G. p.
| Putnams Sons. fFor sale by Loring Short 81
| Harmon.
| This number of "Putnam's Advanced
Science Series' will be found to be an admir-
able manual Of metallurgy, well adapted to
| the wants Of the advanced student. 1t Is
based largely upon the mstallurgical syllabus
Issued by the Science and Art Department of
the Royal School of Mines, and is a condensed
and succinct account of the theory and
| practice involved in the varied operations
| comprised in the metallurgy of those metals
which are of general application to the arts and
manufactures. The present volume is devot-
ed to fuel, iron, STEEL tin, antimony, arsenic,
bismuth and platinum. The second and con-
Guiding volume, soon to be issued, will treat
OF copper, lead, zinc, silver, gold, mercury,
| nickel, COBALT and aluminium.
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF GENERAL
BIOLOGY. By Thomas c. MacGinley. New York:
g. P. Putnams Sons. For sale by Lorng, Short &
| Harmon.
| Another volume of Putnam's elementary
science series will be cordially welcomed by
all junior science students. The study of the
laws of life cannot be else than interesting.
and is made douby interesting when present.
| ed by so competent and entertaining a teach
er as Mr.. MacGinley. The aim of the au.
thor is to thoroughly acquaint tie student
with the characters of few well-marke
| typical beings, with whitehall others may be
compared, and around which, as centres,
they may be conveniently grouped. With this
| object in view numerous Illustrations are
introduced, which render the facts of anat-
omy and physiology more ineligible and
more easily remembered.
THE CRUsADEs. By George W. Cox, NJ. A. New
| York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co. For sale BY
| Loring, Short & Harmon.
The second volume of the '.Epochs of His
| tory series admirably assists in CARRYING out
the plan so successfully entered upon in the
first. The epoch of the crusades is the most
brilliant and bewildering period of European
history. 1t is difficult for us to understand
at this late day that utter absence of local
| pride and that fervor of religious feeling
which combined to carry the princes and
potentates OF Europe to Asia to fight for the
recovery of the sepulchre of Christ. The es-
tablishment Of the principality of Antioch
and of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, is the
most romantic episode in modern history.
| The long period of two hundred years, from
the council of Clermont to the downfall of
| Acre, is unders.andingy treated and clearly
| and vividly described. By way of prologue we
have the Persian and the Arabian conquests
| of Jerusalem, aud in the way of epilogue the
suppression of the military religious order of
the Temple. The value Of the volume is
much increased by its outline maps and by
the marginal notes freely strewn along the
neatly printed pages.
RHYMES OF NONSENSE, TRUTH AND Fiction. By
Prof. Chaucer JONES' w. H. b. With illustrations
by Sir Michael Angelo Raphael Smith. c. G. B.
New York G. W. Carlton & Co. For sale by Bal
ley g. Noyes.
This is one of the most delightfully."- absurd
books possible, rivalling the famous Edward
Lear's "Nonsense Book'-dear alike to child
hood and age-and in many respects su-
perior to its English prototype. The pictures
for instance, are much funnier than Lear's as
tney are more elaborate, give more attention 10
facial and attitudinal expression and are less
violently extravagant-although no one can
claim that these lack extravaganza.
Under the initials following the published
name of the author and illustrator,
one detects w. II. Beckett and G. G. Bush
two merry fellows, well known and liked
in these parts, abounding in fuu and mu-
sic, and leaders in all frolics. Some of the
rhymes have a local application which will
be recognized by those who know the parties
and in some of the pictures are well defined
carcatures of real people. OF course the
verses without the illustrations, which give
them point, are very incomplete, but we can
not refrain from reproducing few samples,
heartily recommending to all and singular an
immediate perusal of the book.
A certain Miss Susan Van Dusen
Once smiled on doctor named Cusen;
The impudent pill
Went and sent in a bill
For amusin' Miss Susan Van Dusen.
A sleepy old fellow named Shirley
Told hen she was cackling too early;
She answered him straight,
81 can't cackle late
And that's why cackle so early"
girl ate bot mustard plaster,
And kept talking faster and faster;
She, when asked not to Spout"
Said the thing drew her out;
Viii; her friends thought dreadful disaster.
|
| There was a young girl in Montclair,
Whose brains seemed to to front hair,
SO she said, ''Tll be hanged
If don't wear it BANGED"
This hair-bsained young girl in Montclair.
| An inebriate named Julius Slater,
| Tumbled into Vesuvius' crater;
When asked what sent him in,
| He replied with grin,
| 1t was ''onIy drop of the erathur."
| young woman swore she'd be won
By the first creature under the sun
That had courage to pop;
Twas gun in a shop,
And her child was a "son of gum"
host, with his mouth full of soup,
Was requested to sound war-whoop;
| He thought his guests chatting,
So he burst out a-laughins,
And wasted a mouthful OF soup.
There was an old lady out West
| Who endeavored her levellest best
| And not have It choke herr
| This sanguine old lady out West.
chap who thought he understood
How to make bad boys be good,
Found out he must fall
| When one asked for the tale
| OF the whale IN the Ark in the flood.
| strong-minded woman named Brown,
| To the sea, as a captain, went down;
| She soon called the physician,
| And threw up her position
And Is now settled down in a town.
| A great Congregational preacher
| Told hen, ''You're a beautiful creature;''
| The hen upon that
| Laid two eggs in his hat;
| And thus did hen reward Beeeher
| A little old maid in, Bar Mills
| Kept dosing with syrup of squis,
| Which made her so sweet
She was most fit to eat:-
| This lovely old maid at Bar Mills.
| thoughtful old lady decided
| That she must, with a COW, have collided,
| When she found herself scaling
| very high paling,
| With her bonnet and specs all one-sided.