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subjects, his works including THE Present Dis
tribution of Wealth" and Americas Working
People" He was born at Columbus. Ohio. in
1850. and is a graduate Of Amherst
The current issue Of THE International Jour
nal Of Ethics" contains an interesting discussion
OF Professor James H. Hyslop's report on the
case of Mrs. Piper. the celebrated trance me-
dunn Of Cambridge, Mass The October number
of this quarterly included a criticism Of the re-
port by Professor James H. Leuba, whose re-
marks have evoked from Professor Hyslop
statement defending the position he has taken
in favor Of the spiritistic hypothesis. Professor
Leuba offers vigorous rejoinder. and 1t is not
impossible that very pretty controversy con-
corning spiritualism may be the outcome OF the
discussion now started.
The town OF Tisbury, Mass. has completed
unique municipal undertaking with the issu-
ance OF a volume OF Town and Proprietor's
Records" giving the history of Tisbury from
June %. 1869, to May 16 1864 The work is
arranged in chronological order. and is stated
to be in every detail exact copy Of the orig
inal text in print, giving the old Indian names.
signatures and sign marks. proprietor's deeds
town charter granted by Governor General Love-
lace OF New-York Colony. preface by DR.. Charles
Z. Banks. United States Marine Hospital Ser
vice; Supreme Court findings Of 1854 old meet
ing house records. Colonial and Revolutionary
records Of the town. land purchases by William
Peabody. Josiah Standish. etc: records of early
town. county and State elections" etc. The style
OF the work may be indicated by this extract:
we Japhet hannit Isaac wannalla Jacob sok-
kokkono Joshua seiknout sachim samuel.
Inackkacunit and pautoh. Late sachim of
Checkemmo was notified by mr. Experience May
new or his order that wee ware Chosen by mr.
Nathon skin and nathon Bassit select men Of
Chilmark: and by simon Athern and John Man
goe on monday the seventh day of February and
shew the place that is Called weechpooQuass
brook OF water and the bounds between the
Land Called Cheeckemmo: and the sachimship
Of Takymmy
The work of arranging and copying the records
was done by William S. Swift, the Town Clerk
Of Tisbury, and Jennie W. Cleveland, the As
sisiant Town Clerk.
The Macmillan Company has begun the pub
LEGATION Of a new quarterly, 1.-THE Artist En-
graver." the price OF which is 50 a number
THE Artist EngrHver" is a magazine devoted to
original work.
1t is understood that Johann Ambrosius Barth
the German publisher. has opened negotiations
with Harper & Bros. for the German rights
to Carl snyder's New Conceptions in Science"
The work will be translated into German and
published at Leipsic
Miss Rose E. Young. author of the novel
Sally OF Missouri is herself a daughter of Mis-
souri,. At eighteen she was a school teacher in
her native State. She then emigrated TO Texas
where she engaged in newspaper work. Later
she removed to Chicago, where she Joined the
STAFF Of medical magazine. Her next step was
to come to NewYork as the owner and manager
OF medical magazine. and it was then that she
became actively engaged in short story writing
Her book, Sally OF Missouri" deals with the
zinc boom days in the Ozark Mountain regions.
and is published by Mcclure. Phillips & Co.
Dr. Susie c. Rijnhart, author of With the
Thibetans in Tent and Temple" record of
travel and adventure the Thibetan tableland
from 1895 to 1900. is reported to be on her way
back to that barren country. The story of her
former wanderings through Thibet is published
by the Fleming H. Revell Company.
In Loci Critici" (Ginn & Coz Professor
George Saintsbury has made useful compia-
ton of passages illustrative of critical theory
and practice. The chief authorities from which
he draws are Aristotle Quintilian. Longinus.
Dante, the Italian critics Of the sixteenth cen
tury the Elizabethans. the French seventeenth
century critics and the leading authorities of the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in different
countries. The work is well calculated TO fulfil
the purpose for which it came into being-the
saving Of time and labor of students and teach
ers of rhetoric and literature by providing them
with handbook of critical excerpts. AS a rule,
Professor Saintsbury abstains from expressing
any opinion of his own except points of in
The Macmillan Company publishes a work
treating Of a subject about which it may be
said little is known in this country. The
author is DR.. Give Day, and the volume is
entitled The Policy and Administration of
the Dutch in Java" It is described as "a
eminent and administration of Java. begin
ming with the native administration that pre-
ceded Dutch rule and closing with chapters on
the recent economic and fiscal policy through
which Java has been administered. and the
present day government Of the island" The
author also studies the period of British rule in
Java.
The University of Chicago Press is making
plans for the completion OF it's series of Con
structive Bible Studies" designed to meet the
requirements of the modern Sunday school and
Of Bible classes in academies and universities.
The breadth Of the scheme is indicated by the
that the series will furnish Bible
studies suited to the varying needs Of the Sun
day school pupil, from the infant to the most
theological class. The supervising ed
itors are President William r. Harper and Pro-
fessor Ernest d. Burton. OF the University OF
Chicago.
Frederick Warne & Co. announce the publ
cation of From Paris to New-York by Land"
being Harry de Windt's account OF his remark
able journey across Siberia. via the Trans ST.