Show l LITERATURE j WOBLDLirEJ OK COMPJLBXTITB Gx OLOST By Professor Alexander Winobell Chicago S 0 Griges I 260Salt Lake James Dwyer Price 5260 The above is the title of a work by Alexander Winohell the celebrated geologist of University of Michigan Michi-gan It is gotten up in fine style by the publishers Although we received re-ceived this some tim ago we have refrained from making any mention of it until now as we desired to take a more than superficial view rf its contents as the work of BO distinguished distin-guished and able an author on so interesting a sublect was worthy of more than ordinary consideration And we can say here tat our anticipations antici-pations of its worth both as an interesting in-teresting and instructive work have been more than realized The first chapter is taken up with the etudy of cosmical dust in which he includes meteors the material supposed to produce the zodiacal lights comets and nebuse He t shows plainly that the regions of space are not entirely destitute of I matter outside of the socalled ether but that there is a great deal of it in the shape of dust which produes I every day those shooting stars which may be observed on any clear night in greater or lees numbers or when the grains of this dust are larger we get meteors and aerolites or if the earth ran into one of these dust streams showers are produced as we may observe In August eptember He shows also that by this constant pelting of the earths surface by these meteoric bodies the atmosphere maybe may-be changed in character slightly and that the surface of the earth is being i covered but at a very slow rate by a thin layer of this dust and thus he leads us to the conclusion that the I earth may have increased by these accretions during past ages to its present size and may continue to increase in-crease in the ages to come In the second chapter the learned author takes up the subject of nebular nebu-lar life explaining how heat may originate in those vast chaotic masges of matter in the universe designated nebuio then how rotation sets in when rings are formed and gradually gradu-ally from these there spring up afterwards after-wards spheres aa in the members of our solar system The second part of the book treats I of planetology beginning very appropriately appro-priately with the origin of the solar system considering each in its proper place the objections based on rela tion of planetary motion on relations rela-tions of planetary positions on relations rela-tions of planetary masses and densities densi-ties on relation to terrestrial duration on relations of comets stars and nebuco giving their due weight and answering them satisfactorily satisfac-torily In connection with this subject he takes occasion to explain i more fully the theory of Le Place or rather that theory as modern science has been obliged to modify it in order to meet the demand of recent discoveries discov-eries Another chapter is devoted to general gen-eral cosmogonic conditions on a cooling I cool-ing planet Thia has more to do with the geology of our earth than its astronomy yet it would be difficult to separate one from the other by well defined boundaries for as Sir Wm Thompson says Geology in framing fram-ing its conclusions is compelled to take into account the teachings of other sciences Then the other members of our system are taken up and their present and past history considered and farther on we are made to look k to their future condition condi-tion at least some of them by comparing com-paring them with the various members mem-bers of our system that are now in the process of uecay Another very interesting in-teresting subject is treated of under the head of Habitability of other worlds Though he does not favor the belief that many of these worlds are inhabited by human beings still he shows that the human standard ie not the only one to judge by but life may exist under widely different conditions as in the bottom of the sea in the hot water of a geyser or or on the shore of the Arctic regions Then some chapters on Fixed Stars and Nebula and The Cosmic I Cycle Part IV treats of the evolution of coamogonio doctrine going back to the early Greek philosophers r viewing view-ing briefly their opinions then those of Kepler Descartes Leibnilz Swe denborg Wright Kaut Lambert Herschel and winding up with La Places System of the World I Tbe work is written in the clear con ois3 and earnest if not eloquent language lan-guage so characteristic of the author It is from the pen of one who has made the subject a specialty and one who knows how to keep up with the times so that the reader is brought down to the year 1884 FRANK LESLIES SUNDAY MAGIZINE The March number is promptly on our table and is filled as usual with delightful reading matteredifying ana entertaining and admirable embellishments em-bellishments The popular editor T De Witt Talmage D D contributes a characteristic article Alarming Things of Today and the Home Pulpit contains one of his sermons II Sensitiveness of Christ Count Zinzendorf the founder of the Moravian > Mo-ravian Church Salem the Old Moravian Town in North Carolina The Boeton Institutions at Deer Island Annals of Little Compton Comp-ton Anthony Vandyke a Court Painter etc are finely illustrated and exceedingly Interesting articles The serial How It All Came Bound and Wrong From the I First are continued and the t esaayp sketches poems etc are by popular writers Marion Harland has a I charming story CIA Praotical Woman Wo-man Toe contents are ao varied and abundant that no one can fail to be gratified Address Mrs Frank Leslie 53V55 and 57 Park Place New York N Y LITTELLS LIVING AGE J The numbers of The Living Age for February 2d and 9th contain Lord Melbourne a sketch and Statues and Monuments of London Nineteenth Century The Soudan and its Future by Samuel Baker and the Outdoor Poetry of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Contemporary History in Little Gentlemans Magazine Earthquake Weather Corn hill Helens Tower Good Words The Eton Days of Sir Stafford Northcote Temple Bar Camp Lifa on the Prairies Macmillan British Guiana Month Traditional History of Hagars Well at Mecca Lancet Old Writers and Modern Readers Saturday Re view i The Secrecy of Modern Despotism I Des-potism Economist The Happiness of Some Women Spectator with the conclusion of Old Lady May ing stalments of The Wizards Son The Babya Grandmother and the usual amount of poetry LUtell Co Boston are the publishers pub-lishers LEGISLATION ON ISSANITT A collEction collEc-tion of all the lunacy laws of the States and Territories of the United States to the year 1883 inclusive Also the laws of England on insanity leg islation in Oansda on private houses and important portions of the lunacy laws of Germany France etc By George CL Harrison L L D late president of the Board of Public Charities Char-ities of Pennsylvania In his preface the distinguished philanthropist correctly states that insanity is the saddest and moat terrible of all diseasesthe most pitiable and helpless of all the states and forms of human helplessness And yet it is a condition to which all men are liable aad into which any man may at any time fall with or without premonition Not only does it provoke the compassion of the philanthropist but it appeals to end it tasks the I highest medical skill it demands and exhausts all the rescurces of legislative wisdom In its relation to crime it presents one of the darkest dark-est and most mysterious problems of medical and criminal jurisprudence jurispru-dence In connection with the poor and frendless it imperatively calls upon the state for care and protection protec-tion But so complex and intricate is the subject in its various relations rela-tions and aspects it is no wonder that in regard to it the legislation of many States is very crude and defective and of all States as yet more or less tentative and Imperfect Imper-fect Dr Harrisons long service upon the Pennsylvania Board of Charities gave him rare opportunities for observing ob-serving the condition of the insane and other defective classes and the natural interest that he felt in the subject induced him to visit Europe and compare the various methods of caring for the unfortunate Perhaps Per-haps no one has a better knowledge of the subject both in its details and generally than he and no one can manifest a deeper solicitude or wish to do more for the poor people whose minds have been unsettled His work will prove useful to specialists spe-cialists physicians humanitarians and legislators WIDE AWAKE The table of contents of the February Feb-ruary number of Wide Amake presents pre-sents a rare feast for its thousands of young readers Among the contributors con-tributors are such favorite and familiar fam-iliar names as Sarah Orne Tewett Ernest Ingeraoll Celia Thaxter Elizabeth Stuart Pheps ROEe Hawthorne Haw-thorne Lftthrop and a dozen others of the popular writers of literature for the youth The illustrations are superb all beng works cf art and some of them the most beautiful beauti-ful thai have yet appeared in this periodical Wide Awake has steadily stead-ily and rapidly improved in all its feature until it today baa no superiors supe-riors in the field of per odical literature litera-ture for young people Address D Lothrop Co Breton I ton Mass i iI I ENGLISH ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE Contents of the February number The Loving Cup engraved by J D Cooper from the painting by D G Roisetti in the possession of A S Stevenson Esq An Unsentimental Journey through Cornwall by the author of John Halifax Gentleman illustrations by T Napier Hemy The Postoffice illustrations by Harry Farniss The Character of Doge Robert Louis Stevenson illustrations illu-strations by Randolph Caldecoti The Humming Blyda Relatives Grant Allen illustrations by Charles Whymper Julia I II III IV Walter Besant The Campagna Augusta Webster The Armourers Prentices Chapters X VI YII Charlotte M Yonge ornaments initial letters etc New York MacMIllan t Co 112 Fourth Avenue OUB LITTLE ONES This charming little periodical for the current month is brimful of the choicest stories and the prettiest and rarest of pictures for the instruction in-struction and delectation of its many young readers Our Little Ones holds its place among the many competitors being always welcome and never failing to please Boston The Russell Publishing Company 30 Bromfield street j TICKS ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE Contents of the February number num-ber The Great Fall of Snow Antirrhinum An-tirrhinum Mountain Garden Wind Screens Correspondence Foreign NotesPleasant Gossip Our Young People The frontii piece is a beautiful colored plate of Antirrhinum Rochester NY James Vick QSxLAWN STUDiO PXRCHERON HORSES imported and bred by MWDunbam Wayne Du Page county 111 Catalogue Cata-logue for 1883 This is a book of 132 pages and consists of a catalogue of the Perch eron horses imported And fee at the stud farm of Mr Dunham together to-gether with much information in regard to horses generally DES RT SUI DAY SCUOOL TJsiox Music BOOK containing a large l collection col-lection of choice pieces for the use of of Sunday schools Published by the Deseret Sunday School Union at the Juvenile Insruct office Salt Lake City This volume contains 83 peces mostly the productions of local authors au-thors and composers and all admirably admir-ably adapted to the use of the Sunday Sun-day schools SEEDS The catalogue for 1884 of Storrs Harrison Co of Painesville Ohio is handsome and more complete than ever The firm is reliable and those desiring to purchase flower and vegetable seeds or plants would do well to address as above for price list |