and one of a remarkable Henri Deux cabinet inlaid with ivory, and many practical suggestions for home decoration and furnishing. Price, 35 cents; $4 a year. Montague Marks, publisher, 23 Union Square, New York.

TOPICS OF THE TIME.-G. P. Putnam's Sons of New York are publishing a series of representative essays on questions of the day in twelve volumes, duodecimo, edited by Titus Munson Coan. In each volume are from five to eight of the best articles and papers which have appeared recently in the English and French. reviews and magazines. Each volume is devoted to a special class of topics.

The volumes are entitled: I. Social Problems; II. Studies in Biography; III. Studies in Literature; IV. Historical Studies, among which is the Article on "Village Life in Norfolk (England), six hundred years ago," which attracted so much attention lately in the "Nineteenth Century." V. Questions of Belief.

The price of the 12 volumes, in cloth, is $6; in paper, $2.50, or 25 cents per volume.

"DON'T" is a spicy little volume on etiquette, published by D. Appleton & Co., of New York. As a specimen of the cautions given, the following may be quoted: "Don't conduct correspondence on postal cards; a business message on a postal card is not out of the way, but a private communication on an open card is almost insulting to your correspondent. It is questionable whether a note on a postal card is entitled to the courtesy of a response.

TRAINING SCHOOLS FOR NURSES.-Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons, of New York, are publishing a series of small hand books which deserves wide circulation. Of these books the little volume whose title is given above, may be mentioned as a representative. Another volume is "Hand Book for Friendly Visitors among the Poor," and "Health Notes for Students," by Burt G. Wilder.

THE HUDSON LIBRARY is the title given by Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons, of New York, to a series of large paper-covered volumes in quarto, in which they will reprint some of the best works of fiction which have lately appeared in Europe. One of the first of these issues contains a German historical novel by Amely Bötte, with the title of "Madame de Staël."

INDEX.

In this Index the names of Contributors of Articles are Printed in Italics.

Training School for Nurses, noticed, 844 | Whiton (J. M.), Darwin and Dar-
Trowbridge (W. P.), The Importance

of Experimental Research in Me-
chanical Science. Article,
Tucker (J. L.), Speech before the
Episcopal Church Congress in
Richmond, Va. Lewis Grout,
Ulrici (Prof.), Answer to Prof.
Wundt's Open Letter. Spiritism
a Scientific Question. Translated
by J. B. Chase,

Wages, Recent Theories of. Rev'd
by J. B. Clark,

Wealth Creation, noticed,

winism. Article,

Williams (J. M.), The Conscience.
Article,

51

400

835

- 137

723

Wilson (W. D.), The Foundations of
Religious Belief, noticed,

Wright (G. Fred.), Studies in Science
and Religion, noticed,

1 Wundt (Prof.), Open Letter. Spir-
itism a Scientific Question. Prof.
Ulrici's Answer to. Translated
by J. B. Chase, -

354

842

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