The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-15

| w. ]. Beal, NJ. s., PHI D., professor
! of botany and forestry in Michigan
Agricultural College has just brought
out through CHM & Co., little manual
for the use of young botanists and
teachers under the name of "Seed Dis
persal." 1t tells in the prettiest way
about how the plants, although rooted
to the ground, contrive to get about by
means of the air and water, by running
through the ground and by being
transported hither and yon in the
mouths or on the bodies of animals
There is an abundance of good illustra-
lions.
| A graduates magazine, "The Tech
nology Review" has just been issued
by the recently organized Association
of Glass Secretaries of the Massachu-
sets Institute of Technology. 1t is an
octave volume of 14O pages, attractive
in appearance and of the best work
manship. The cover, designed by Hap
good and printed on army brown paper,
is very handsome. The first number
contains the announcement a photo
graph with biographical sketch of Pres
ldent Crafts; articles on 1.-THE function
of the laboratory" by Professor Silas
w. Holman, and on the "Pferce build
lng by Professor Eleazer r. Homer,
the architect; reprints in fac-simile of
early institute documents and letters
AL in the first and more general half.
The latter half, seventy pages, is given
to news of the institute, of the under
graduate and graduate classes.
/ An excellent review of Professor Hol-
mans recent book on Matter, energy,
force and work" is given by Dr. Good
win. There are several diagrams, line
drawings and half-tones.
Il c n1~1 10 e.axr
sixth volume of The Century is more
notable for the permanent value of text
and Illustrations, or for the timeliness
| OF ITS contents. Notable descriptive pa
pers on the Spanish war, and ESSAYS,
editorials and historical articles on
/ questions involved therein, such as the
acquisition of Porto Rico and the
Philippines, appeal to the reader to
/ whom the present is second in imnor-
tance only to the future; and those who
love to study the past, either for its
own sake or to obtain new light upon
the problems of today will find in this
handsome volume MAY October 1881
much that is helpful in Prof. Bryce on
Equality and Capt. Mahan on the Ar
mada, in DR.. D. G. Brinton on Euro
pean superstitions. President Gilman
on Iocqueyille's Democracy of Amer
lca, and Prof. Sloane on Bismarck-in
Mrs. Van Rensselaer, on Old New York
and Ambassador White on a famous
russian Statesman, though the past of
Or. Whites and Prof. Sloane's articles
is very recent one. Fiction is album
dant and brilliantly represented by DR..
Mltchell's Francois" Mark Twain's
Inc Austrian Edison" and Others Six
tull-page wood engravings continue
Coles great series of "Old English mas
ters;" and three by Wolf and one by
Altken reproduce as many of Colbert
Stuarts portraits of women" But these
, are only few of many large and
smaller illustrations on which the re-
sources of The Century's art depart
ment have been lavished.
The two bound volumes of ST. Mich
, olas for young folks, for the year end
ing October, 1898, show a successful eff
fort on the part of Mary Mapes Dodge
and her associates to mingle instruc-
tlon with amusement. Rudyard kin
llngs Just SO Stories" alternate with
Illustrated articles on American war.
shlpS and guns and armor
: ana Frank r. Stocktons "Buc-
cancers and Pirates jostle Tudor
jerks Boys in Armor," and empha-
SIZE the peaceful tone of the verses OF
Miss Edith Thomas and Miss Mildred
5 Howells. 1t was in these numbers OF
ST. Nicholas that such of this season. s
laVorlte DOCKS appeared, as Mrs. Jack
sons Denise and Ned Toodles," Trow-
bridges Two Biddicut Boys" Hughes
: Lakerim Athletic Club" "Fezandies
Through the Earth" and Miss Clouds
4 Down Durley Lane" The variety
OF the magazines contents might be
easily Illustrated. Mrs. Stuart's dar-
Key, stories contrast stril1ingly enough
with papers on natural history on the
bell-towers of Italy and on CANDLE
/ in SNxrA mt.
the Wheel" for bicyclers, is as far re-
moved as possible from James Whit
: comb Riley's mister Hop-Toad" and
Gelett Burgess "Purloined Christmas
, and "A Giant Baby" Then there are
comical pictures and letters from young
readers and pages upon pages of puz-
zles, to say nothing of "Truzzles" with
explanatory diagrams
Although the name of John Hancock
) has long been so familiar to every
J American, surprisingly little of real in
formation about him has been current.
even in his native state and native
city so that Mr.. Abram English Brown
: must be accounted something of a pio-
neer and explorer in his John Han
COCK, His Book" recently published by
Lee & Shepard The volume is based
on Hancock's letters, which throw
fresh light on Hancock's relations to
the revolutionary cause and upon his
attitude and that OF hiS associates to-
ward the colonial policy of the mother
country. Much interesting matter of
: social and domestic nature has been
yielded by his private letters to his
Wife Much of purely human and per-
sonal interest has been added to the
! historical narrative. The revolution
: airy patriot who wrote his signature on
the Declaration of Independence $50
that George the Third may read with
out his spectacles' was a Boston busi-
ness man of ability, q true son of New
England, simple in mis- manners, yet
dignified; generous to others, a hard
worker, public spirited shrewd in
financial transactions An excellent
sketch of business methods In the col
onies previous to thy revolution con-
cludes what is an able and enjoyable
history biography Tt is dedicated to
Senator Hoar.
DR.. Edward Everett Hale is the au-
thor of Historic Bosom and Its Neigh
borhood," which is published by APP
pleton q Co. in their series of Home
I Reading Books. DR.. Hale is peculiarly
. fitted to handle this subject in a slim
ulating and entertaining fashion, and
nothing but praise can be given this
handy little volume.
|
THE Life and Letters of Lewis Car
roll" by his nephew, s. d. Collngwood
with one hundred illustrations, many OF
them from photographs by Carroll him
self, will be published by The Century
Co. on February 4. Other books to be
issued simultaneously by the same
house are 'The Maine" a personal mar
rative of the destruction of the battle
ship, by her commander Capt. Charles
, D. Sigslbee. U. S. NJ; Campaigning In
Cuba" the story Of the capture Of San
, tiago, by George KEENAN,, author OF