Show THE tue photograph ota of a tailed boy from froth saigon was lately shown to the london anthro anthropological po logical t society hia his age is about eight years and 1 the appe n r rep re p or oi 8 enche jn inches che longy long EARin EL QUAKE observations are to bo be instituted on tho the summit of the ben nevis where is i 9 lo located abed ath est r va tary in the british isles the isolated position of this station renders it particularly suited to observations of slight tremor PROF HUXLEY has remarked that while birds now constitute a gi group 0 ia no nobody bady ims taking the forms included therein we find the case to be different when we auw turn to the geological X record ard fossil forms are found t I 1 that present definitions jo do not embrace indicating a wider range of structure and the existence of types intermediate between birds and reptiles 3 THE TREELESS condition of parta of the south american pampas odthe of the la plata region at least is attributed by mr arthur nicols to ki the MP work I 1 ekof of an omnipresent present ant which feeds upon leaves and qu quickly ick destroys tree seedlings and other tender plants as soon as the leave appear above ground indian corn on these lese plains pia its growth being BO so rapid that the in insects do not succeed in completely devouring the young plants THE NUMBERS living age forthe for the weeks ending F february and contain prince bismarck sydney smith english character and manners as portrayed porca forca by anthony ope cos ca ida lohn johnson son delia delfa and anna estilda Ea lilda tilda an episode in english literature the summer palace pe king whitby the religion of hamlet outside london I 1 coptic monasteries in the eighteenth century snow bucking in in the rocky mountains silence is gold with installments of A houses I 1 divided against fi itself within ai is danger a tale tafe from the chinese and A hard days work I 1 1 I and poetry F for or fifty two numbers of sixty four large pages each or more than pages a jearther je apa arthe subscription price 8 is is low while for r 10 50 the publishers offer to send any one of the ama ameria eriv can 84 monthlies or weeklies with the living A age ae for a year both postpaid lintell aco boston are the publishers u blish I 1 1 FRANK dij UT monthly for march is an unusually inter wing atin 9 nu number aber combining as it does articles of present interest with those of permanent value it opens with a careful study by lisie les with tk A portrait and several illustrations in in character professor charles A joy contributes an article on a jersey Cattle farm and furnishes an extremely interests inte interesting resti ng epperon paper ppe ron on the armenians Armen ians tabe the alory 1 6 of Que matilda tilda of denmark mari and count is a valuable historical contribution by about childrens books with its ad aln f fa facsimile i cs ii i le illustrations shown us the juvenile literature loved by our grandparents grand grandpa reuta when boys ali and dittis 4 1 at 6 ie foie gras by bw y nugent robin robinson will appeal to the gourmet and Stat cn island its past and its present by J barnitz bronto Bc onto 0 ifie he local antiquarian qu arian while lellie be natura naturalist fist will be equally interested inthe origin of our domesticated animals An imala by th eRey M G watkins the traveler and author david ker is represented by two articles the one A meeting with afghan robbers Bob bers and the other from Seba sevastopol to kief both thrilling and interesting all these th ese articles are fully jlius illustrated r aad the aerial serial altory stor y the death mark re reaches aches ita its twenty fifth chapter and there are afo several short stories and some beautiful poems this his miscellany mis C an is well selected and entertaining published by MM mra 1 frank leslie 53 55 56 and 57 park place new york |