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 Take for instance her naïve accounts of her intercourse with the Duchess du Barry, Catharine II., and Lady Hamilton. The most interesting of her souvenirs are those connected with the reigns of Louis XVI. of France, of Catharine II. and Paul I. of Russia, of Queen Caroline of Naples, and of George III. of England, and the most distinguished of their subjects in every department. D'Alembert, La Harpe, Abbe Sièyes, Talleyrand, Prince Kaunitz, Poniatowski, Potemkin, Angelica Kauifmann, Catalini, Mademoiselle Mars, Madame Récamier, the Duchess of Devonshire, Herschel, Sir Francis Burdett, etc., furnish abundant subject-matter for her lively and gossiping details.

lectures upon this subject, delivered at the South Kensington Museum in 1876, and subsequently printed in a pamphlet form, were noticed at the time of their appearance. He dwelt upon the methods of observation requisite in ordinary field geology, with practical directions for noting and recording the facts observed. It met with a cordial reception, and a large impression was disposed of. The author has now rewritten and enlarged the work, dropping the lecture form, increasing the illustrations, and giving it a shape that will make it a standard guide for geological students. The book assumes that the young geologist has read some good text-book and got a general knowledge of the elementary principles of the subject, and then wishes to become acquainted with the science as a reality. It is for the use of those who, having a book-knowledge of geology, "find themselves helpless when they try to interpret the facts which they meet with in the field. The practical knowledge of which they feel the want is not to be gained from books. It must be sought in quarries and ravines, by hillside and seashore. But hints regarding what should be looked for and how to set about the search may not be without some usefulness; and these it is the object of the following pages to give."

is announced that this series will contain four more works—"The Cultivation of the Memory," "On the Use of Words," "On Discipline," and "On Class-Teaching." The publishers say: "These manuals were originally published in England, having been prepared, at the request of the Literature Committee of the National Educational Society, by men distinguished at their several universities, and possessed of large experience as teachers. They have been carefully revised and adapted to the wants of American teachers, and it is hoped will prove a valuable addition to the literature of the art and science of teaching." We suspect that these distinguished university men are myths; at any rate the present volume betrays no such distinguished origin. It is a very good little compilation from various authorities; but how comes it that, while Spencer, Taine, and Darwin are quoted, no mention is anywhere made of Miss Youmans's essay "On the Cultivation of the Observing Powers of Children," which is freely copied, and whole pages taken bodily without any recognition? The publishers bring out the series in a very neat and substantial form.

the past year the Trustees of the Peabody Museum took possession of the new building specially erected at Cambridge for the purpose of holding their ethnological and archaeological collections. The report contains, besides a description of this building, a history of the Peabody Museum, by the Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, the report of the Curator, and a number of contributions on archaeological subjects, viz.: Dr.-Abbott's second report on implements found in the glacial drift of New Jersey; remarks on the method of manufacture of several articles by the former Indians of southern California, by P. Schumacher; on cave-dwellings in Utah, by E. Palmer; on the manufacture of soapstone pots by the Indians of New England, by F. W. Putnam; on a collection