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TRIsMUs NAsCENTIUM; OR, THE LoCKJ.
OF INFANTS. By ]. Y. HARTIGAN, NJ. d.

TRIsMUs NAsCENTIUM; OR, THE LoCKJAW
OF INFANTS By ]. +. HARrIGAN, NJ. d.
This monograph by DIR. Hartigan, which
has been republshed in pamphlet form from
the American journal of the Medical Sciences
of January, is a valuable contribution to
medical literature. DIR. Hartigan gives the
histor of this usually believed fatal disease,
its cause, prevention, and cure, and supple
ments this by record of cases and post
mortem examinations, with o statistical
table of 800 deaths. In his theory of the
cause and method of treatment, DR.. Hartgan
comedies With the late. DR.. j. Marion Sims,
who took so great an interest in this
subject that, on his last visit
to this city, just prior to his death,
he called upon DR.. Hartigan and compli-
mented him upon the work no had under
taken, assuring him that, in his opinion, his
reasoning was sound, and that the time
would come when this so long dreaded dis
ease would yield to intelligent and enlight-
enod treatment. DIR. Hartigan has certainly
given the faculty food for thought and inves-
tigation, and his little book should be care
fully read by every physician in the country.
LITERARY NOTES.
Allan Pinkerton, the famous detective, is busily
engaged in finishing his strikingly interesting
book, Thirty Years a Detective" soon to be pub
llshed by q. W. Carleton IL Co. This work will
contain a resume of all the criminal practices
known at the present time 1t will fully explain
the modus operdndi of the most noted professional
and expert bank burglars counterfeiters, fOrgers
&C., with illustrations Of their ingeniously con-
structed tools and implements, many of which
have been captured by Maj. Pnkerton while In
the possession of the men who were skilled in
their use. Every invention known to the cri mi.
nal will be made public in this work, aud many
valuable secrets hitherto unknown ill be d.
vuged. The modes of the plckpockets, river
thieves palace car robbers, aud bank burglars arc
also exposed and explained.
January Choice LtcrdtUre.--The January issue of
this excellent magazine, which begins new
volume, contains an interesting array OF
contents including "Tho New Hero" by
Theodore Watts, an entertaining study Of the
way poets and artists treat child.llfe;
"Lulher in Politics." by Karl Blind; alex
ander Won Humboldt" n biographical and crit-
cal study by the president of the University of
Berlin; "rhe Ethics of Arlosto," delightful and
scholarly study, by II. NJ, Clerk; revolutionary
Ethics and Christianity" by Goodwin Smith; "An-
Client International Law" by ii. BrOugham Leeeh;
"OltcGst Russia" powerful article, by the i'm
pr.soned Prince KrapOtkine; "Reminiscences of
Thorwaldsen," Evolution and Mind" and
"sclence Notes." by W. NJ. Williams. John B.
Alden, publisher, Is Vesey street. New YORK.
The first installment OF u new novel, by Mrs
Cashel Hoey, entitled "rhe Lovers Creed,' pub.
llshsd in tho February number Of the Domestic
Monthly. The title is taken from the line by DR..
Holmes; "One, and one only, is the lovers creed
Mrs. Cashel Hoey occupies prominent place
among the most popular English novelists, posi-
ton won by her powerful stories, 1.-THE Question
OF Cain" and "a Golden Sorrow" As it is now
four or live years since she has Published any
thing, her new story will be eagerly welcomed.
II will run for some months as u serial in tho
Domestic MOnthly illustrated by charming draw
ings by d. Macnuh engraved by swain of London,
The Domestic MOHH y Is published by Blake IL Co.
Sj3 Broadway, New York,
An anecdotal paper on Gustayo Courbet the
eccentric French artist and communist, will be
contributed to the February Century by Titus Nun
son Coan. Among the illustrations will DO full :