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object of this volume is to furnish the student with French reading of not a difficult nature, and at the same time to give some insight into the great historical epoch to which it relates. It does not give a continuous history of the Revolution, but a series of sketches, the gaps between which can easily be filled up, and it closes with the end of the Reign of Terror. We are surprised not to find the name of Lamartine among the authors quoted from.

has endeavored to arrange this work so that it shall be adapted both to those who do and to those who do not wish to make a special study of advanced mathematics. Beginning with a summary of the new ideas associated with the use of algebraic language, which the student is to encounter, it gives the usual college course in plane analytic geometry; a part on geometry of three dimensions; and an introduction to the modern projective geometry.

volume contains reports of the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents and of the Secretary of the Institution, the latter being an extended summary of the work done during the year by the various scientific departments connected with the Institution. It contains also a "Record of Recent Scientific Progress," and numerous anthropological papers, some of which are illustrated, nearly all describing excavations in ancient American mounds.

Mental Contagion in Inebriety. By T. D. Crothers. M. D., Hartford, Conn. Pp. 9.

Public Relief and Private Charity. By Josephine Shaw Lowell. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Pp. 111. 40 cents.

Religious Unrest. By M. J. Savage. Boston: George H. Ellis. Pp. 14.

The Late Attacks upon the Coast and Geodetic Survey. Philadelphia: L. R. Hamersley & Co. Pp. 52.

International Health Exhibition. Catalogue of Exhibits of the Department of Education. Empire of Japan. Pp. 80. General Outlines of Education in Japan. Pp. 29. London: William Clowes & Co.

The Ellipticon. By J. L. Naish. New York; John Wiley & Sons. Two-page Chart.

"The Canadian Record of Science." Vol. I. No. 1, Quarterly. Montreal: Dawson Brothers. Pp. 64. $8 for eight numbers.

A Sketch of the Geology of Philadelphia and its Surroundings. By Professor Angelo Heilprin. Pp. 6, with Map.

A Contribution to the Study of Corvza Vasomotoria Periodica, or "Hay-Fever." By John N. Mackenzie, M. D. Pp. 16.

Notes on Injurious Insects. From the Entomological Laboratory of the Michigan Agricultural College. Pp. 31.

Transactions of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland. Baltimore, April, 1884. G. Lane Taneyhill, Secretary. Pp. 248.

Protection and Communism. By William Rathbone. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Pp. 42. 10 cents.

Home School for Physical Culture. D. L. Dowd, 19 East Fourteenth Street, New York. Pp. 24.

Microscopic Observations on Internal Parasites In Fowls and on Butter and Fats. By Thomas Taylor, M. D. Washington: Department of Agriculture. Pp. 7.

Sponge Spicules; A Supposed New Species of Cristatelia. By Edward Potts, Philadelphia. Pp. 12, with Plate.

The Azoic System and its Proposed Subdivisions. By J. D. Whitney and M. E. Wadsworth, Cambridge Museum of Comparative Zoölogy. Pp. 200.

National Educational Association, Department of Superintendence, February, 1884. Washington: Government Printing-Office. Pp. 176.

Bureau of Statistics, Treasury Department, Quarterly Report to June 80, 1884. Washington: Government Printing-Office. Pp. 160.

The Effect of Wind-Currents on Rainfall. By G. E. Curtis, Signal Corps, U. S. Army. Washington: Signal-Office. Pp. 11.

Finley's Tornado Predictions. By G. K. Gilbert. Detroit, Mich.: W. II. Burr & Co. Pp. 8.

The Miners Fund of New Almaden. By Samuel B. Christy, Berkeley, Cal. Pp. 8.

American Society of Civil Engineers. Address of President J. D. Whittemore. Pp. 18.

How to Study. By Professor S. T. Skidmore, Philadelphia. Pp. 16.

Suggestions for computing the Speed of Chemical Reactions. By Robert B. Warder, North Bend, Ohio. Pp. 4.

Emblematic Mounds. By Stephen B. Peet. Pp. 68.

Sex in Mind and in Education. By Henry Maudsley, M. D. Syracuse, N. Y.: C. W. Bardeen. Pp. 30. 10 cents.

Bulletin of the Bussey Institution, Harvard University. Boston: John Allyn. Pp. 120. 75 cents.

Papers on American Grasses. By Dr. George Vasey and Clifford Richardson. Washington: U. S. Department of Agriculture. Pp. 144, with 120 Plates.

Ottawa Field Naturalists' Club. Transactions, No. 5. Ottawa, Can.: Citizen Printing and Publishing Company. Pp. 152.

Catalogue of North American Hepatiæ. By Lucien M. Underwood. Peoria, Ill.: J. W. Franks & Sons. Pp. 138.

The Human Body, and how to take Care of it. By James Johonnot and Eugene Bouton. New York: D. Appleton & Co. Pp. 102. 50 cents.