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on Paul Jones, invention by T. C. Martin's paper on Tesla's recer.t work, the drama by a note on Mme. Rejane, with portrait, music by Henry T. Finck's biographical sketch of Stavenhagen, also with a por trait, statesmanship by Noah Brooks's article on Lincoln's re-election, art by a beautiful example of Cole's engraving in his Old Dutch Master Series, religious and educational interests by an article by Lyman Abbott on " Religious Teaching in the Public Schools," travel by a paper by Miss Preston on a new field of travel, " Beyond the Adriatic,'' fiction by Mr. Crawford's and Mrs. Harrison's serials, and by three short stories. "Some Curiosities of Thinking" are described by Dr. M. Allen Starr, of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, in The Popular Sc1ence Monthly for April. His cases include those of per sons with various strange hallucinations, with a defect in one part of the brain only, and some with powers beyond the normal for calculation or music.

The complete novel in the April issue of L1pp1nCOTt'S is "Alain of Halfdene," by Anna Robeson Brown. It is a stirring tale of the sea, pirates, rescuers, and Mt. Desert (then by no means so well known as now), in the days when Washington was President. The April number of Scr1bner's Magaz1ne con tains "Some Unpublished Letters of President Andrew Jackson," written in his most vigorous and assertive style, calling a man to account who ques tioned his claim for the full credit of planning and executing the great victory at New Orleans. There were never more characteristic Jackson letters pub lished than these. Another story from the archives of the I'inkerton Detective Bureau, an account of one of the boldest assaults for robbery on record and of the stealing of 515,000 worth of diamonds off a man's person, ap pears in McClure's Magaz1ne for April. The March number of the Pol1t1cal Sc1ence Quarterly opens with an exposition of the legal question involved in the matter of " Municipal Home Rule," by Prof. E. J. Goodnow; Mr. Edward Porritt presents another phase of the municipal question in explaining " The Housing of Workingmen in Lon don"; Prof. Simon N. Patten offers " A New State ment of the Law of Population"; Mr. H. C. Emery, of Bowdoin College, discusses at length " Legislation

Against Futures"; Prof. W. J. Meyers investigates the cost of " Municipal Electric Lighting in Chi cago "; Prof. J. B. Moore presents the first installment of a sketch of "Kossuth the Revolutionist"; and Dr. Frank Zinkeisen, of Cambridge, criticises the views of Stubbs and other historians on "AngloSaxon Courts of Law." The number contains, more over, the usual Reviews and Book Notes.

BOOK NOTICES. The Story of Chr1st1na Rochefort. By Helen Choate Pr1nce. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston and New York, 1895. Cloth. $1.25. The fact that this novel is written by a grand daughter of Kufus Choate will bring it prominently to public attention, but the gifted author has no need of any family reputation to establish her position as one of our foremost writers. The book is a truly remarkable one in every way. From a literary point of view it is equal to any novel published in late years, and viewed from the treatment of the subject it is a most powerful work. Anarchy is the theme, and a vivid and truthful picture is given of a com munity stirred, not to say maddened by discussions and appeals to passions. The scene is laid in Blois, a provincial town in France, and the principal char acters are a manufacturer, who is hated by his opera tives, because he has money and they have not. and his wife, Christine, who has become imbued with Anarchistic ideas. A parish priest, a sagacious, con servative man and a peacemaker, also plays a prom inent part in the exciting drama. The book is one of absorbing interest, and one which cannot fail to do a world of good. Daughters of the Revolut1on and the1r T1mes, 1 769-1 7 76: A Historical Romance. By Charles Carleton Coff1n. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston and New York, 1895. Cloth. S1.50. Mr. Coffin has made the stirring scenes which ushered in the Revolutionary War the basis of a delightful story setting forth the patriotism and devo tion of the mothers and daughters of the Republic. Boston is the scene of the narrative and the "Tea Partv," •• Lexington and Concord," "Bunker Hill" and other stirring events are vividly and graphically depicted. Of course a love story is interwoven, and a very charming love story it is. The manners and customs of our Revolutionary forefathers are faith fully set forth, and the book is illustrated with many rare portraits and prints of famous buildings. Historically the romance is of much value, while as a story it is of great interest.