Show Popular Science Monthly The Popular Science Monthly i doing splendid service in showing the aspect of the great questions of the day from the scientific standpoint The August number opens with an article ar-ticle entitled The Octroi at lasoire a City made Rich by Taxation by President Jordan of the University of Indiana which gives the imaginary history of a French town that sought prosperity through high tariff There are two illustrated articles in this number The Rome of the Groat Auk by Frederick A Lucas describing describ-ing an expedition to procure bones of this extinct waterfowl and with a correct figure of the bird and Ainu Houses andtheirfurnishing by J If Goodrich who is at present in Japan where beiasboeu studying the Ainu at home Herbert Spencer contributes a paper on The Ethics of Kant in which he shows with irresistible logic that Kants idea of human conscience as a simple unchangeable coercive I faculty is far less attractive or probable prob-able than the iaea that conscience Is being developed which the advance of civilization and is a part of mans I inclinations instead of being generally hostile to them Natural history is represented I rep-resented in this number of Professor Haberlandts article on Mosses and Their WaterSupply and Something about Snakes by C T Buckland Walter B Platts MD calls attention to some Injurious Influences of City Life the chief of which comes from disuse of the arms nose and the jarring jar-ring from treading on hard pavements There is a vigorous and practical article on Teaching Physiology in the Public Schools pointing out current faults and suggesting remedies Rev Thomas Hill expresident of Harvard University Univer-sity describes and recommends what he calls Tho PtirlrrGame Cure The other body articles are The Unity of Science by M J JIoleschott Drift Sands and their formations and The Fortune of the Negro Professor Spencer F Baird JS the scientific man of whom a sketch and portrait are given this month the Editors Table contains con-tains some suggestions in regard to seeking practical understanding rather than mere culture and a trenchant criticism of the abandonment of the education of American children to the publicschool machine New York D Appleton Company |