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418 letterpress. Of these folios, each containing the six sheets, we have received No. 1, Livingston, Mon.; No. 2, Ringgold, Georgia and Tennessee; No. 3, Placerville, Cal.; No. 6, Chattanooga, Tenn.; and No. 7, Pike's Peak, Col., to be supplemented by a special detailed map of the Cripple Creek district. Each folio is provided with stiff paper covers and cloth backs.

In a little book by Florence Bass, in the Nature Stories for Young Readers, entitled Animal Life, the subjects are mainly such insects or other animals as the children may observe for themselves. The lessons aim to give illustrations of some of the varied means of self-protection employed by animals; their methods of home building and of caring for their young; the transformations they undergo; the adaptability to their surroundings and coverings; and the "tools" with which the various animals are provided. It is intended to interest children in the animals, and to make them averse to giving them pain and to killing them. (Published by D. C. Heath & Co., 35 cents.)

Regents' Bulletin (of the University of the State of New York), No. 25, contains the secretary's report, with special papers on University Institutions, certain special topics, department reports, and notices of higher educational meetings; No. 28 contains the proceedings of the Thirty-second University Convocation, held July 5 to 7, 1894. Nos. 24, 27, and 29 are specially numbered as Extension Bulletins Nos. 6, 7, and 8. The first comprises the report of the Extension Department for 1893, with the circulars issued and other items of information; No. 27 is a record of the progress of extension teaching; and No. 29 embodies accounts of summer schools in 1892'93; in New York; other American schools; and foreign schools. The whole number of schools represented is a hundred and five.

Three plates of Enlargements of Lunar Photographs (Agrandissements de Photographies lunaires) published by W. Prinz, of the Belgian Royal Observatory at Uccle, are phototypic reductions, without retouching, of some of the enlargements which were presented by the author to the Belgian Academy of Sciences in April, 1892. They represent photographs taken with the great refractor of Lick Observatory, enlarged from ten to a hundred times, and among other things they illustrate the richness in details of the views taken with that instrument. They are of special value as permitting a closer study of the details of lunar relief—a study which, it is hoped, may cast some light respecting the origin of terrestrial reliefs. A question of priority is connected with this publication, which is made partly to enforce M. Prinz's claims and partly as a specimen of a proposed atlas. The photographs represent the circle Copernicus, the crater Bullialdus, Mare Humorum, and Mare Imbrium. Sent gratis to astronomers and observatories.

Nos. 14, 15, 16, and 17 of the Contributions to American Educational History, published by the Bureau of Education, under the editorial direction of Herbert B. Adams, present the History of Education in Connecticut, by Bernard C. Steiner; Delaware, by Lyman P. Powell; Higher Education in Tennessee, by L. S. Merriam; and Maryland, by B. C. Steiner. The histories are constructed in general on a common plan, beginning with the first establishment of schools in the State, tracing their development in the colonial or territorial period and under the State government; describing the more important academies and the colleges, and then the principal special and technical schools. The story of education in Connecticut is of peculiar interest; for that State was a pioneer in the establishment of public schools, which are almost coeval with its existence, and is still behind none.

In the Delaware history a logical rather than a chronological order is followed. The beginning of educational enterprise is traced to the middle of the seventeenth century, under the Swedish, Dutch, and English settlers; education in the towns is considered; next the colleges; then public education from its origin in 1796; and the education of the negro.

The history of higher education in Tennessee is in the main the history of private initiative and activity which has been characterized by broad liberality and farsightedness. By these means the State has become the seat of an exceedingly interesting and creditable group of academies and colleges of all kinds, and Nashville an important educational center. Of these institutions,