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27.-Principles of Chemistry; embracing the most recent Discoveries in the
Science, and the Outlines of its Application to Agriculture and the Arts.
Illustrated by numerous Experiments, newly adapted to the simplest Appara-
tus. By JOHN A. PORTER, M. A., M. D., Professor of Agricultural and
New York: A. S.
Organic Chemistry in Yale College. 12mo., pp. 474.
Barnes & Co.

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One of the best elementary works relating to chemistry that has yet been published. Besides embodying the tested verities of the science, it embraces all the more recent discoveries, bringing the work down to the present time. rangement is admirable-the typography clear and distinct. It has all the features of a good book-conciseness and perspicuity--and ai the same time is reIt is divested of that detail, which is markably comprehensive in its character. only of interest to the professional chemist. It brings the more important phenomena of the science within the reach of every school and every individual student. The relations of chemistry to the arts and agriculture are especially considered. The treastise is divided into four parts, viz.:-1. Physics. 2. Chemical Philosophy. 3. Inorganic Chemistry. 4. Organic Chemistry.

28.-Harpers' Classical Library. The Tragedies of Euripides, literally Translated or Revised, with Critical and Explanatory Notes. By THEODORE ALOIS BUCKLEY, of Christ Church. 2 vols., pp. 402 and 334. New York: Harper & Brothers.

Harpers' New Classical Library, as we have before remarked in noticing the previously published volumes of this series, is reprinted from "Bohn's Classical Library.' It comprises the most approved literal translations of the principal Greek and Latin authors. The "Tragedies of Euripides" are given without abridgement, and short, suggestive notes, adapted to the comprehension as well To the English reader, as the actual merits of the students, have been added. who has a taste for the classics, but who has not enjoyed the advantages of such an education, these volumes in his mother tongue will be highly acceptable. The style in which they have been produced by the American publishers will not suffer in comparison with the English edition of Bohn.

12mo., pp. 312. 29.-Parlor Dramas; or Dramatic Scenes for Home Amusement. By WILLIAM B. FoWLE. author of the "Hundred Dialogues," etc., etc. Boston: Morris Cotton.

Mr. Fowle, the author of this book, is one of the most successful and popular teachers in the Boston schools, and the pieces comprised in tuis volume have been written amid the duties of an arduous profession. The subjects are mostly related to the topics of the day, opening with the "Woman's Rights" question dramatized. The volume contains some fifteen different pieces, simply but cleverly constructed for representation. Two more amusing books than the " Parlor Dramas and the "Hundred Dialogues," or better adapted to the use for which they were designed by the author, we have seldom had occasion to notice.

30.-Bright Pictures from Child Life. Translated from the German by COUSIN FANNIE. 12mo. Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co.

of "child life" as This volume contains fourteen as attractive "sketches German genius ever produced, illustrated with nearly as many colored engravings. These stories, which have delighted thousands of German children, will, we feel confident, meet with equal favor here, in the pure English dress in which Cousin Fannie has arrayed them.

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