Show LITEBATUEE IITlELL5 LIVING AGE The numbers of the Living Age dated June 18th and 25th contain articles on The SwordBlackwood Autobiography of an Agnostic and A Lancashire Poets Corner Fraser A Dialogue on Poetic Morality Contemporary The Silver Streak by Admiral Dun sany and George Eliot Nineteenth Century Statius Fortnightly Spring Wanderings Cornhill The Revised New Testament Spectator Refugees St James Gazette with an instalment of The Freres by Mrs Alexander A French Speculation and Molly a Sketch in Three Tones and the usual amount of poetry Also the title and index to volume CXLIX Littell Co Boston are the publishers pub-lishers POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY A very striking article on The Races of Mankind opens The Popular Pop-ular Science Monthly for July It is an abstract from the new and admirable ad-mirable work of E8 Taylor F R S on popular anthropology The paper is profusely illustrated with finely executed representations of all the leading modifications of the human family and we have nowhere no-where seen so excellent a summary of the distinctions and characteristics character-istics of the races and tribes of men as are exemplified in this comprehensive i compre-hensive article Dr N H Egleston has an instructive account of the European Schools of Forestry which is now most opportune as there is in many localities in this country a deepening interest in the question of the destruction and preservation of the forests There is a second paper by Professor Alexander Alex-ander Graham Bell on the Production tion of Sound by Radiant Energy By far the most valuable paper of this number is however that by Herbert Spencer on Consultative Bodies in his discussion on The Delopment of Political Institutions The politicians of course do not care for such expositions being occupied oc-cupied with those lofty and permanent perma-nent public considerations of which we have recently heard so much from Washington and Albanyand in which the intelligent American people peo-ple have been so deeply absorbed Sir John Lubbocks brilliant essay On Fruits and Seeds with its profusion pro-fusion of curious illustrations is finished ished Henry MacCormac writes on How to Prevent Drowning He says there is no earthly need of anybodys drowning whether he can swim or not if he will only exercise the common intelligence of brutes When one of the inferior animals takes the water falls or is thrown in it instantly begins to walk as it does when out of the water But when a man who can not swim falls into the water he makes a few spasmodic struggles throws up his arms and drowns The brute on the other hand treads water remains re-mains on the surface and is virtually virtu-ally insubmergible In order then to escape drowning it is only necessary neces-sary to do as the brute does and that is to tread or walk the water The brute has no advantage in regard of his relative weight in respect of the water over man and yet the man perishes while the brute lives Nevertheless any man any woman any child who can walk on the land may also walk in the water just as readily as the animal does if only he will and that without any prior instruction Jor drilling whatever Throw a dog into the water and he treads or walks the water instantly and there is no imaginable reason why a human being under like circumstances cir-cumstances should not do as the dogs do The departments are full and varied and the number is one of unusual attractiveness New York D Appleton Company Com-pany |