Show LITERATURE Popular Science Monthly f In the opening article in the Popular Science Monthly for October on The Distribution of Wealth Mr Charles S Ashley discusses the conditions which favor the acquirement of great fortunes and the effect of such accumulations on the public welfare The address of Professor Pro-fessor Newton Presideuc of the American Ameri-can Association on Meteorites Meteors Mete-ors and ShootingStars is published in full Professor Benedicts second article of Some Outlines from the History His-tory of Education is devoted to the educational systems of the middle ages A valuable article on a topic that is of the day and related to the economis interests in-terests of all readers is given in Mr E L Trouessarts Microbes of Animal Diseases It is well illustrated Mr Charles Richet furnishes a curious Psychological Study of Fear Of another ano-ther kind of interest are Mr Holders observations on Some Peculiar Habits of the CrayFish In a paper on Universal Uni-versal Time AstronomerRoyal W I H M Christie presents the arguments in favor of fixing upon single standard for the whole world In the next article Mr Virgil G Eaton sets before us the unhappy prospect of loA Bald and Toothless Future In Life on a Coral Island Professor W K Brooks gives a most entertaining account of his sojourn so-journ on an errand of zoological observation obser-vation on the Bahama island Abaco Mr Harry Austin Doty tries to answer the question Are Black and White Colors 1 A biographical stetch and portrait are given of General John Newton New-ton The subject of Fraud nnd its Victims Vic-tims and The Recent Buffalo Meeting of the American Association are treated in the Editors Table New York D Appleton Company |