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Library Notes.
Two new pictures have been hung in the English seminary-room. One is a fine steel engraving of Thackeray; the other is a photograph of the celebrated "Canterbury Pilgrims," a painting by Thomas Stothard, which hangs in the National Gallery, London. Prof. Dunlap bought these pictures in London.
The Bookman and The American University Magazine have been placed on the subscription list and will hereafter be found in the periodical cases in the reading-room.
The scientific magazines recently added are: Centralblatt fur Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde und Infektionskrankheiten; Annals of Botany, published in London; Zeitschrift fur Wissenschaftliche Mikroskopie und fur Mikroskopische Technik; vol. 1, No. 1, of The Mathematical Review, a bi-monthly journal of mathematics in all its forms, edited by William Edward Story, professor of mathematics at Clark University, Worcester, Mass.; and Jahrbuch uber die Fortschritte der Mathematik, a complete set of which has been obtained, dating from 1868.
The title-pages of several of our new books bear very familiar names. We have The Story of Human Progress, a Brief History of Civilization, by Prof. Blackmar, and a copy each of the new, revised and enlarged editions of Prof. Bailey's A Laboratory Guide to the Study of Qualitative Analysis, and Prof. Williston's Manual of the Families and Genera of the North American Diptera.
Amoug the new pedagogy books we note the following:
Self-Culture, by John Stuart Blackie.
Record of a School, by A. Bronson Alcott.
Duty, by Julius H. Seelye, late President of Amherst College.
Education and the Higher Life, by Bishop Spaulding.
Fenelon's Education of Girls, translated by Kate Lupton, of Vanderbilt University.
The first number of the "How I Was Educated" papers, which are re-printed from the Forum. This is by Edward Everett Hale.
A College Fetch, an address delivered before the Harvard chapter of the fraternity of Phi Beta Kappa, by Charles Francis Adams, Jr.
The Schoolmaster in Literature, being selections from the works of many of the best authors who have written of the school or the teacher, with an introduction by Edward Eggleston.
English in American Universities, by professors in the English departments of twenty representative institutions, edited with an introduction by William Morton Payne, of the Chicago Dial. This is a collection of articles which appeared last year in The Dial, and they justify republication in book form.
Two books on child-study, a subject which is now receiving so much attention. They are, Studies of Childhood, by James Sully, and The Child and Childhood in Folk-thought, by Alexander F. Chamberlain.
Three new Froebel books, Froeebel's Gifts, by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora A. Smith, Froeebel's Autobiography, and The Songs and Music of Friedrich Froeebel's Mother Play, prepared and arranged by Susan E. Blow. These are valuable acquisitions to our already good collection of books on the founder of the kindergarten system of education.
In a recent letter from one of our "Harvard colonists" we learn that in a few things at least our eastern friends are not as far advanced in civilization as ourselves. Upon the walls of the Harvard library can be read signs to this effect: "Gentlemen will please leave their bags at the check stand before entering the reading room" and still worse: "Gentlemen will please wear coats in the reading room." Think of it!
Prof. Hopkins will be absent from the University next week to attend the sesqui centennial celebration at Princeton and to bring his invalid mother to Lawrence. During his absence, and until the return of Mr. Jones, Miss Lucinda Smith will take charge of the two divisions of the Freshman class in Rhetoric.