The Portland daily press., 1881-11-28

adventure and hazard D5yond the expectation
of those not familiar with the sea.
A Colonial Monastery is paper OF curions
interest, by Prof. Seidensticker, on that branch
of the Dunkers known as the Solitary Brethen
and Sisters, of Ephrata Pa. The Hierogyphs
of Central America, by Prof. Edward s.
Holden, is an attempt to indicate basis for the
study of the Copan, Palenque, and other in
scriptions. The American Student at the
Beaux-Arts, by Richard Whiteing, is popu-
lar account of the experience which awaits an
American at the great art-school at Pari'. Mr..
w. d. Howells's new novel, which begins in
this number, is entitled A Modern Instance.
Mrs. Burnett, in her second installment OF
Through One Administration, continues TO
pique curiosity regarding her heroine, whom
she seemed to marry off to the wrong man at
the conclusion of the very first part. The other
material consists of New Roads to Trade, by
Charles Barnard. a short account of the differ
ent methods of instruction in the New York
Trade Schools, the Massachusetts and Stevens
Institutes of Technology, and the Worcester
Free Institute, Buchanan's Loyalty, by Hon
Horatio King, Among the Thousand Islands, a
poem by Emma Lazarus, and The Fountains
VI tuC Iediut oOuuOt l<ultu VI AhVH0SJ
postscript regarding the so-called Venus of
Melos, by Mr.. Stillman.
The Popular Science Monthly for December
gives in its twelve principal articles matter on
as many different subjects Of real value and
living interest to every one who thinks as he
reads. lieutenant Francis Winslow has the
first place, for the conclusion Of his important
paper on the Deterioration Of American Oys-
ter-Beds," in which he compares the fecundity
OF European and American oysters, explains
the causes that prevent more than one in twen-
ty million American oyster-eggs reaching ma
turity, suggests practical measures of improving
the security and prodactiveness of our beds.
DIR. Felix Oswald, bold and often too ae-
gressive iconoclast, but whose views on physi
cal education we'll deserve attention, exposes
some Popular Fallacies in the care of children
and In mistaken hygiene that are allowed to
interfere with the development of perfectly
sound constitution. In A Map Review, Mr..
Frank d. Y. Carpenter, O. E., describes map
of Lake Tahoe, the work of the United States
Engineer Bureau, as az illustration of the
methods of map-making, peculiarly American
and adapted to our extensive territory, which
have been developed in this country within
the last quarter of o century. In North Amer
lea in the Ice Period Professor Hitchcock, Of
Dartmouth College, presents view of what
has been ascertained concerning the extent
and operation of the glacial icesheet on this
continent. Mr.. Stanley M. Ward relates An
Experiment in Science-Teaching which he has
tried in public school in Pennsylvania, with
the best effects in awakening the interest OF
his scholars in studying the phenomena OF ma
ture. Foreign authors are also drawn upon
for their best work, and that, in view Of the
recent periodical meetings, of scientific associa-
tons, in unusual quantity this month. Profes-
sor Huxley's Rise and Progress Of Paeontolog
Is an historical review of the growth of sci
ence which is mostly of this century, and has
become one of the most important fields OF in
vestigation. Sir John Lubbock's A Half Gem
tury OF Science is concluded The whole ad-
dress makes brilliant showing of successful
achievement in every branch of theoretical
and practical investigation. DIR. Carpenters
Disease-Germs is mastery exposition of a
subject which is attracting and deserves more
attention than any other bearing on humar
ife and domestic economy ~. Delauneys
AS4uaiitJ duN 1hO4uoVieJ III A'oA hao d1boOtCu
much newspaper attention abroad, and is here
given for the first time in translation from
the French a Guebhard's Studies of Vortex
Rings, with its curious illustrations, leads the
reader from the sight of clouds of tobacco
smoke to the consideration of the way in which
matter may be constituted and worlds formed
DIR. Morrilli's Catholicism, Professionalism and
Suicide, reveals some curious facts concerning
the relative distribution of suicides in the two
countries dominated by the two principal
Christian religious systems. The portrait and
biography are of Dr. Paul Broca, the anthro
pologist The editor discusses Further Lessons
of the Yorktown Centennial, Miltancy aud In
dustrialism in Virginia, and Our Policy respect
ing the Panama Canal. The Popular Miscel-
lany and Notes contains briefer no
tices OF scientific facts and ideas, by no means
to be despised because they are short New
York; d Appleton & Co.