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244 the Medical School of Maine. The object of the work, as stated in the preface, is to supply the want of an English text-book in which the functions of living tissue are closely compared and combined with its texture; or, in other words, a book wherein the relations of physiology to histology are carefully presented; for, while there are many good works on physiology, to which the student can refer for a knowledge of the subject, a concise treatise, within the limits of the means of medical students, has been a want hitherto supplied only by treatises in French or German. The book is embellished with 150 woodcut illustrations.

pamphlet of 76 pages contains the separate Reports of the Commissioners, Nathan Allen and Wendell Phillips, to which is added, in an appendix, a letter to the Commissioners by S. E. Sewall. The Report gives the number of insane in the State as, approximately, 3,624, but the Commissioners are persuaded that, if more thorough measures were taken for ascertaining the number, they would exceed four thousand.

observe with pleasure the addition of four pages to the Engineering and Mining Journal, edited by Richard P. Rothwell, C. E., M. E., and Rossiter W. Raymond, Ph. D. Heretofore its weekly issue consisted of sixteen pages, now it is twenty. But, besides enlarging, the publishers announce their intention of otherwise adding to the value of the journal. Thus they will make more liberal use of engravings to illustrate subjects of professional interest, and questions of practical importance in mining, metallurgy, and gas-engineering, will receive special attention. Another new departure, something in the nature of Notes and Queries, is announced, and cannot fail to enhance the value of the paper. It is the publishers' desire to have their pages used as a" "medium for asking and giving information on subjects connected with mining and metallurgy, or general science." Subscription, $4.00. Publication-office, 21 Park Place, New York.

—If the last volume of this series, on "Fungi," be thought somewhat remote from the urgent solicitudes of the American mind, no such objection can be urged against the contribution of Prof. Jevons to this series, now in press, entitled "Money and the Science of Exchange." Prof. Jevons is not only a logician of originality and eminence, and author of a recent profound work on the "Principles of Science," but he is a professional student of political economy, and the author of important works upon this subject also. He brings a disciplined mind and a comprehensive knowledge of the subject to the discussion of that important branch of economical science which deals with currency, and may be expected to give in his new volume a clear and compact statement of the subject, as far as its scientific principles have been worked out. Such a volume cannot fail to be useful in this country, where the interest in money is so intense as to be surpassed only by the general ignorance of its nature, offices, and laws.

""—Under this title an anonymous work will be shortly issued from the press of Macmillan, treating of the religious bearings of the most advanced science, in such a way as to arouse the interest of both scientific and religious thinkers. Since its announcement the work has been anxiously looked for, and there is much speculation as to its authorship.

The Religion of Humanity. By O. B. Frothingham. Pp. 338. New York: Putnam's Sons. Price, $1.50.

Home Sketches in France. By Mrs. Henry M. Field. Pp. 256. New York; Putnam's Sous. Price, $1.50.

Fifth Catalogue of Seventy-one Double Stars. By S. W. Burnham, Esq. Duplicity of the Principal Star of New Scorpii (same author). Reprint from Royal Astronomical Society notices.

Iron and Steel. By Adolf Schmidt, Ph. D. Pp. 12. St. Louis Times print.

History of Greece, By C. A. Fyffe