. Review of reviews and world's work. , has come. Among those who write mostfascinatingly and authoritatively on the subject of oursolar system is Miss Mary Proctor, author of Storiesfrom Starlandand other books of popularized . latest attempt to make astronomy intelligible isentitled Giant Sun and His Family (Silver, Bur-dett). It is a simple, clear, and told .storyof our own solar system with reference to , with very graphic descriptions of the astro-nomical facts which liave heretofore eluded our mentalgrasp by their vastness. It is illustra
. Review of reviews and world's work. , has come. Among those who write mostfascinatingly and authoritatively on the subject of oursolar system is Miss Mary Proctor, author of Storiesfrom Starlandand other books of popularized . latest attempt to make astronomy intelligible isentitled Giant Sun and His Family (Silver, Bur-dett). It is a simple, clear, and told .storyof our own solar system with reference to , with very graphic descriptions of the astro-nomical facts which liave heretofore eluded our mentalgrasp by their vastness. It is illustrated. The first volume of eight of the Proceedings of tlieCongress of Arts and Science at the St. liouis Exposi-tion has come from tlie pressof Houghton, Mifflin & series is edited by Howard J. Rogers ().), di-rector of congresses. There is a history of the congress,by Mr. Rogers, a treatise on the plan, by Prof. HugoMllnsterberg, and a number of papers read at tliesessions. A useful manual of Personal Hygiene, which is. 1)|{. C. W. designed for undergraduates in our American collegeshas been prepared by Dr. Alfred A. Woodhull, Briga-dier-General in the United States Army (retired), andlately Colonel in the Medical Department. The bookis published by John Wiley & Sons. It contains of lectures on hygiene given at Princetonduring the past five or six years. Typographically, itis in excellent form for consultation. A fifth edition, revised and enlarged, of LeanderEdmond Whipples Mental Healing, with a frontis-piece portrait of the author, has just been issued by theMethaphysical Publishing Company, of New first edition was published in April, 1893. MUSIC, ART, AND LITERATURE. One of the really solid works of reference that willprobably never be outgrown is Groves Dictionary ofMusic and Musicians. This work, being issued in fivevolumes by the Macmillans, is edited by J. A. FullerMaitland. The second volume has now appeared, cover-ing th
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