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Library.
Traill's Social England, the fourth volume of which has just been received, is a very interesting work. It tells of the progress of the English people "in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners from the earliest times to the present day." The plan of the whole is that of the editor, Mr. H. D. Traill, but the material is furnished by various writers, each a specialist in the subject assigned to him. The result has been described as "an encyclopaedical social history." Some eminent names appear in the list of contributors. The work has been criticised as lacking in continuity and smoothness, but it contains much valuable matter and will be of great service as a book of reference. Two more volumes are yet to come.
The Library has been fortunate in securing a complete set of Education, a monthly magazine published in Boston, "devoted to the science art, philosophy, and literature of education." The set contains fifteen volumes. As this magazine is now on our subscription list, the set will hereafter be kept complete.
Another important acquisition is a set of the Bulletin of the Nutall Ornithological Club, eight volumes. This magazine was published from 1876 to 1883, when its name was changed to The Auk.
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We have received the first three volumes, those for '92,'93,and'94,of The Mineral In. dustry, its Statistics, Technology, and Trade in the United States and Other Countries. This is a statistical supplement to The Engineering and Mining Journal, and is edited by Mr. Richard P. Rothwell, editor of that magazine. Other volumes will be added annually.
A useful set of reference books has recently come into the possession of the Library, The Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States Army, in 16 large quarto volumes. These were sent to Mr. Wagner of the Department of Pharmacy, who kindly turned them over to the Library. The Catalogue, the work of Dr. John Shaw Billings, is a fine piece of bibliography and a very complete index to medical subjects.
Dr. Billings is just now prominent in the public eye, having been appointed chief librarian of the consolidated New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden foundations.
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(From the German )
Benefits, quietly, purely given.
Are like the dead, in the grave still living.
Flowerets, which withstand the storm.
Little sun', shining ever warm.
About a University Man.
Mr. H. F. Taylor who was in the Engineering Department of the University last year and is now working on the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf Railroad with headquarters at Shreveport, La., recently met with an interesting experience. Not long since he was placed in charge of a bridge construction company. Upon taking charge he ordered longer piles to be driven, as he thought that the piles which they were then driving were too short for safety. This the foreman refused to do, and sent for the contractor who had charge of that division. The two of them joined in refusing to drive longer piles, and Taylor was firm in insisting that they should do so. The contractor came to Kansas City to see the civil engineer and have Taylor discharged, but the engineer went down in person to investigate the matter, and the outcome of it was that the foreman was discharged and the contractor ordered to obey any instructions Taylor might see fit to give.
The "Trademark" is a Havana cigar that Woodward sells for a nickel. It is a great bargain.