The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-23

from their struggles, their failures and their
successes IL could be indicated how geological
ideas ana theories gradually took place.
could not but be impressed By the extraordinary
vitality which geology has now attained In
tho United States. Every department OF the
science has Its enthusiastic ~votaries. >
Ihis remarkably rapid development OF the SCI
ence has not arisen from any influence derived
from without, but springs, as 1t seems to me-
from the marvellous geological riches OF the
American continent itself. ss' Had the
study OF the earth begun in the New World
instead OF the Old, geology would unquestion'
ably have made a more rapid advance than IL
has done. The future progress OF tho science
may DO expected to be largely directed and
quickened by discoveries made in America and
by deductions from the clear evidence presented
on that continent"
The latest OF the small volumes In THE Lii
brary OF Useful Stories tAppletons) is The
Story Of Germ Life" by Prot. H.. w. Conn. Al
though recent discoveries have created q gen.
eral interest in the subject OF bacteria, to the
majority OF readers the Importance OF those
organisms. in many relations entirely in
dependent Of disease. Is unknown. In
these pages not only is their well.known
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their Importance as agents in other natural
phenomena-their miscellaneous uses in the arts
and ind soavengers, agents in fermcn-
tation, decomposition. &C.. as well as their gen.
eral history and the methods Of combating para
site bacteria in the treatment of disease.
There is plenty OF fun in tho verses and illus
~trations In Tho Bad Child's Book OF Boasts
Edward Arnoldl, though tho humor Of the for
mel Is sometimes Of a too sophisticated sort to
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verse that, after pointing out tho unsuitabihty
Of the lion as a playmate for tho very young,
continues thus:
The Tiger, on the other hand. Is kittenish and mild.
He makes q pretty play fellow for any little child;
And mothers Of large families who claim to common
sense)
VIII ind a Tiger well repay the trouble and expense.
On the other hand. both the pictures and the
verse dedicated to the Big Baboon may appeal
to either young or old:
The Big Baboon Is found upon
The plains OF Caribou;
He goes about with nothing On
"a shocking thing to dog.
But II he dressed respectfully
And let his whiskers grow,
How like this Big Baboon would b
To Mister SO and Sol
The book may be recommended to the small
boy, though with the hope that 1t will not have
upon him the dire effect limited at in the inlro-
duction:
The moral OF this priceless work
ar rightly understood)
Win make you-from q little Turk
UnnAturally good.
Another excellent children's book with dainty
and humorous illustrations 10 Tho Vege- Mems
Revenge" with pictures by Florence K. Upton
and verses by Bertha Upton. Longmans,
|! Green & Coz
Mr.. John Kendrick Bangs has written what
he describes upon the title page rs seven tales
Of domestic woe, in a volume called Paste
Jewels" (Harpers.) The stories toll OF tho
misadventures Of a young husband and wife in
their experiments with successive" hired girls"
They are, we are told in the preface. founded
upon fact.
We have also received:
Tho History Of Mankind" by Prot. Frederick
Ratzel. Translated from the second German
edition by A. J. Butler, NJ. A., with introduc.
ton by h. b. Tylor. ". c. L.. F. F. s. With col
ored plates, maps, and illustrations. Vol. II.
tMacmillansJ
The God Yutzo Of B. c. 763. by Lord Gilhoo-
ley. Second edition. Frederick a. Stokes.I
Smoking Flax" Halle Erminie Rives. IF.
Tennyson NeelyJ
SAohA.g ~ - Aob $50
lated by Augusta Rice Stetson. IF. Tennyson
NeelyJ
French Stumbling Blocks and English Step
ping-Stones." To which Is added q list Of
nearly 5000 colloquialisms which cannot be rem.
dered literally from English into French.
Francis Tarver. NJ. A. tAppletons.)
The Fall OF the Sparrow" NJ. c. Balfour.
tPutnams.)
1.-THE American System of shorthand: Tho
NE--. ~ D. .L--- -
Jerome b. Howard. 355th thousand. THE
Photographic Institute Company, Cincinnati.O)
"A Working System of Child Study for
Schools" Macmillan p. z. Groszmann. Phi. d.
&c. w. Bardeen.)
Nan in the City. or Mans Winter with the
Girls. A Sequel to Nan at Camp Chicopee."
Myra Sawyer Hamlin. Illustrated by L. J.
B%ridgman. Robcrts Bros.l
THE Scientific Basis of Medicine" I. W.
Heysinger. NJ. A, NJ. D. (Boericke & Tafel.)
by a Hairs Breadth" Headon Hill. (Dodd,
Mead s. Co..
Miss Nina Barrow" Frances Courtenay
Baylor. The Century Company
Canon schmid's New Tales of Good Fortune
Adapted BY the Rev. Thomas Jefferson Jenkins.
ID. H. cBride & Coz
18th Dagger and the Cross" Joseph Hatton.
tR- F.. Fenno s. Coz
"Two Studies in the History of Doctrine:
Augustine and the Pelagian Controversy. The
Development Of the Doctrine Of Infant Saliva.
tion." Benjamin B. Wardeld. Christian Lit
erature Company
Job Hildred, Artist and Carpenter" BY DR..
Richards. Edited by Ellen F. Pinsent. edward
Arnold.j
THE Picket Line Of Missions; Sketches OF the
Advanced Guard" With an Introduction by
Bishop w. X. Ninde. Eaton & Mainr.)
AN Army Wife" Capt. Charles King. IT,
Tennyson Seely.)
"The Heart Of It." William Osborne Stod
dard. IF. Tennyson Neoly)
5lew Qualifications.