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has been steady improvement; and in iSSo-Si there sion, resisting the ship's motions, and is to he avoidwere 3,057 free schools in the State, with 133,458 ed by acquiring the cap~city of perfect relaxationpupils. The right of local taxation for schools is is probably the true one, though the author errs in
urged. St~ciies in Longj~iiow,1 containing thirty- supposing it very new or original to himsel~ He intwo topics for study, with questions and references stances the loose-jointed gait of sailors, the relaxed
relating to each, is added to the "Riverside Litera- muscles of the good horseman, and like corroborature Series" of fifteen-cent pamphlets for the use of tions. We have no doubt that his treatise will be of
schools, reading-clubs, etc., in studying American real benefit to sufferers from sea-sickness; and even
authors. They are all good and suggestive little those who already re~arded muscular relaxation as
books. Ct~nnison, Cotoraa'o's Bonansa Cozinly,2 the key of the situation will get some hints of value
is a geological monograph, analyxin~ the mineral from it, as to putting their doctrine into practice.
wealth of the county in question. Sea-S~ckncss3 The popularity of En~7is/i as S/ze is S~o4's has
is a treatise, padded even beyond what book- led the publishers of one of the various reprints to
makers have rendered us familiar with, on the supplement it with farther extracts from tbe same
cause, nature, and prevention" of this familiar source, Her SCCOJZ(/5 far!.4 This "seconds part"
misery. While we' object to finding material for abundantly proves that the first part was not made
twenty-five pages spread over well nigh a hun- so complete by picking out Seflor Carolino's best
dred and fifty by endless repetition, platitudes, and points. The "familiar letters," anecdotes, and "iddigressions, we nevertheless recommend the book. iotisms and pro~erbs" are the best things in the
Its one idea-that sea-sickness is due to muscular ten- second part. "What comes in to me for an ear
I Studies in Longfellow. By W. C. Gannett. Bos- yet out for another"; "It wants to speak of the rope
ton: Houghton, Miinin & Co. For sale by Billings, Har- a in the house of a hanged"; "It want to take the ocbourne & Co. casion for the hairs," are among the proverbs recog 2 Gunnison, Colorado's Bonanza County. By John nizable with some effort.
K. Hallowell. Denver: Colorado Museum of Applied
Geology and Mineralogy. 1883. 4 English as She is Spoke: Her Seconds Part. New
Sea-Sickness-Its Cause, Nature, and Prevention. Yod~: G. P. Putnam's Sons; 1883. For sale by BilBy Wilbam H. Hudson. Boston: S. F. Cassino & Co. lings, Harbourne & Co.
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