The record-union., 1891-04-11
new PUBLICATIONS.

The ''California Educational Review
is a new magazine published by the Edu-
catiOnal Review Publishing Company,
T2l Market street, San Francisco, with
Fred. NJ. Campbell and Albert Lyser as
editors Nos. | and contain fine pOr-
traits Of John SWEET and Superintend-
ent j. W. Anderson, respectively, and
sketches Of the lives Of these two we'll
known educators. The new magazine is
Well-Stock ed with choice original matter,
freely illustrated, and is edited with vigor
and scholarly grace. We should say
that il it continues as it begins it will
prove a very valuable factor in educa-
tional progress. The publishers request
our opinion of the scheme and character
Of the magazine. They have it in the
foregoing expression, and we may add
that in the promise to make the Re
view a complete record Of progress in
school management, and that its pages
shall contain the latest expositions of
the development of education as a sci
ence, as well as the best method or
device for applying the principles of that
science in the training of the young"
there is outlined a field Of wide useful
ness, and that we believe the editors to
have the capacity to make the Review
fill it. But Of course they must continue
as they have begun. and gather to its
pages the best thinkers and writers and
admit free debate, and make the maya
zine 1.-The exponent of the thought and
practice Of the best teachers" 1t would
be very gratifying to the public to have
the Review affirmatively declare for a
perfectly free, fair, ample, and unbiased
trial of the State textbook system.
The "Sanitarian'' for March CA. w.
Bell, 4. NJ, NJ. D., editor, Brooklyn
presents a fine table of contents. Besides
the news, reports, notes and statistical
departments, always full and interesting,
Il +l,s.r.E- Ell
lows: what Constitutes a Filth Dis
ease?" S. w. Abbott, NJ. D., Secretary
Massachusetts State Board of Health;
"Curability of and Immunity From In
fictitious Diseases" Another New Pro-
duct-The Upas Tree transactions of
the American Climatological Associa-
tiOn;" discussion on Nervous Diseases"
Drs. Solly, Denison and Eskridge; "Ac-
climation of the Consumptive to the Cli-
mate of Colorado" DR.. III. o. Dodge of
Boulder, Col; discussion, Drs. Ingals
! and Dodge; ION the Return of Cured
Tubercular Patients From High Alti-
/ tudes,' Frederick /. Knight, Nj. D., Bos-
/ ton: discussion, Drs. Solly, Bowditch.
/ Fisk, Rogers, Eskridge, Bancroft, Pitner,
/ DeniSon, Baker and Knight: "Hayten
/ Fever" A. NJ. Moore, NJ. D., Surgeon,
! United States Navy; ''Sitka, II. b. Fits,
/ NJ. D., =. A. Surgeon, United States
/ Navy: "Medical Excerpt 7. p. Cor
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vantages Of the Peroxide of Hydrogen"
! The Abnormal Primer" is bur
/ lesque upon the primer of the schools.
/ We fail to discover the wit in this sort of
work. 1t is very easy to burIesque the
/ first efforts of the child to read, to write
travcstics upon the simple lessons teach
ers must employ. But wherein is the
wit OF such miserable attempt as this:
/ This is my dog Jip.
.Jip has a Jag on.
He sits and looks at me.
When / look at him | see two Jips.
Each Jip has jag.
/ Has Jip jag?
| No; he has my jag.
Jip, Jip, that is my jag.
! One jag and two gags are-jags.
The intelligence that is capable of
attempting To palm off such trash as that
! for wit is little short of idiotic. The pub
! fishers conceal their identity-they do
/. well. Whoever wrote upon the upper
margin California State Series," think
ing to poke fun at the State textbooks,
put himself upon a level with the idiocy
1 that produced the book. Silver Burlesque
Company, publishers.
The April number of the i"Quarterly
Journal of Economies contains two
noteworthy articles on the application of
the doctrine of economic rent to capital
and labor as well as to land-one by Pro-
fessor J. b. Clark of Smith College, and
the other by j. y. Hohson of London,
the two writers having come to similar
results independently and simultane-
ously. Professor Adolph Wagner of Ber-
lin contributes an important article on
| Marshalrs principles of Economics" :"
and Dr. William Cunningham reviews
Gross's work ON the "Gild Merchant"
There is an unusual number of shorter
articles and communications, the regular
photography, and a survey of the social
and economic legislation of the several
States in 1890, prepared by W. Il. Shaw of
Alnnn,r pnl hnl for II 1.H-n RI l. nj ,.n.-