The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-21
Librarian Davies Briefly Reviews
a Number of Recent Additions.
POPULAR AND TECHNICAL
A Large Demand Is Expected for Both
Styles-A Score of the Best Vol
umes and the Subjects
They Treat.

of recent additions in the line of natural
as this has always been in demand at the
Butte library and we have many readers
to whom this list will be very desirable.
Some of the books are popular in style.
while others are severely technical, but
we expect the demand for both kinds
will be equally great.
Probably no other work on the list will
be more called for than Hints on Anal
gamation and the General Care of Gold
Mills" by w. J. Adams of San Francisco.
This is a very short treatise, but the
length of the discussion is very weak
indication of the value of books of this
kind.
A work on a subject of growing interest
to scientists and to students of natural
history is Studies in Entomology
Practical Work on Insects, Containing
Suggestions and Outlines for Nature
Study and School Work" by Henry
Meade Bland.
Such of our readers as have followed
the recent history of the archaeological
researches among the classical scenes of
ancient Greece will be pleased % see the
three volumes VI sNiIludlS l.StSN ~
the British School at Athens.
1t is possible for the student to become
so absorbed in scientific Investigation as
to enjoy what to others are the dryes-
details as much as people at large revei
in their choicest recreations. But to the
general reader it is too often the case.
even to-day, that every department of
science is not only uninteresting, but that
it deals with subjects utterly removed
hn,l to If
eryday life. To such person the book
of Professor Lasser-Cohn of the Univer-
sity of Heidelberg on chemistry in
Daily Life" will be a revelation, consist
ing as it does Of popular lectures on the
chemical knowledge unconsciously en-
ployed by everybody and on the manifold
meeting points of the practical and the
theoretical.
Vols. l to of "The Conchologist" will
appeal to that limited class of our pat
rons who are interested in the study of
shells.
Professor John NJ. Coulter. who is well
known to the botanists in our locality as
the author of the Rocky Mountain Bot
any," which is the only satisfactory book
on the subject. is now engaged IN the
preparation of series of two books Tor
beginners in the study of the vegetable
kingdom Professor Coulter claims that
new, and that their plan is not only
more interesting. but more natural ana
practical than I" the methods heretofore
used The first book of the series is
PLANT Relations" The second is now in
preparation.
To the Masters of Medicine series
Professor Michael Foster of the Royal
Academy contributes biography of
Claude Bernard the celebrated French
physician and dscoVerer.
Few more important subjects have been
satisfactorily treated in a brief compass
than has the Natural History of Diges-
tion." by A. Lockhart Gillespie, which is
the latest volume in the contemporary
Science series
One of the leading writers on the sub
iect of evolution is Professor Ernst
Haeckel His Evolution of Man" AMI
History of Creation are two of the
most important books on the subject.
though rather dry and tedious. But both
books are now several years old and it is
of interest to read the present state of
the professors ideas In his brief essay
called the Last Link Our Present
knowledge of the Descent of Man"
The handsomest book on our list to-
day and the book that should be the mos;
generally popular treatise in the library
on the natural history of the lepidoptera,
is 1.-THE Butterfly Book; Popular Guide
to a knowledge of the Butterflies of
North America, with As Plates in Color
Photography" by w. J. Holland.
First Lessons in Linear Perspective"
by Frederick R. Honey, is a short hand
book on subject on which good treat
Uses are scarce.
One of those states which gives most
attention to the investigation of geology
is Iowa. We are glad to have the first
nine volumes of the Reports and Pa
pers" of the Iowa geological survey.
electrical Rules. Tables, Tests and
Formulae," by Andrew Jameson. is a
very practical work on the most mod
ern of the sciences.
There is no better book devoted to the
piping of buildings than practical Hot
Water Heating. Steam and Gas Fitting
by James ]. Lawler.
James Mason's Art of Chess is a brief
manual of a recreation to which many
of our young men are devoted.
To our chemical literature a distinct adj
dition is elements of Physical Chemis-
try" by J. Livingstone r. Morgan.
There are but few BILE popular
works on crystallography and mineralo-
gy. One of these Is Alfred J. Moses
"Characters of Crystals: an Introduction
to Practical Crystallography.'
Carl Peters has written a short essay on
the prehistoric records of mining. which
he calls "King Soomons Golden Ophr: a
Research into the Most Ancient Gold
Production in History" 1t is Interesting
to note that Mr. Peters. who must not
be COMPOUNDED with Edward Dyer Peters
jr, the author of Modern Copper Smet-
ing" in his argument supports the con-
illusions already made known to the world
in the hardly scientific works of H. Rider
Haggard
The Text Book of Physics; Sound" by