ms
while better ones were vacant; but to compensate for this, in the wilder
parts of the country they were greeted with the hospitality which their
mere condition as strangers was still sufficient to call forth. The
descriptions given of the people have at least an equal interest with
those of the scenery. We have a succession of pictures in which, as
Principal Shairp remarks, "man is seen against a great background of
Nature and solitude." The book is one not to be read and laid away, but
to be kept near at hand, and made a frequent companion and familiar
friend.

_Books Received_.

Sophisms of Protection.
By the late M. Frederic Bastiat.
Translated from the Paris edition of 1863,
with Preface by Horace White.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons.

Select Notes on the International Sabbath School Lessons for 1875.
By a New England Pastor.
Boston: Henry Hoyt.

Notes in England and Italy.
By Mrs. Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Illustrated Edition.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons.

William Prince of Orange; or, The King and his Hostage.
By Rev. T.M. Merriman, A.M.
Boston: Henry Hoyt.

Report of the Commissioner of Education for the year 1873.
Washington: Government Printing Office.

Among the Trees.
By William Cullen Bryant.
Illustrated.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons.

Early English History.
By John P. Yeatman.
London: Longmans, Green & Co.

Poems.
By Stuart Sterne.
(Published for the Author.)
New York: F.B. Patterson.

The Frozen Deep.
By Wilkie Collins.
Boston: William F. Gill & Co.

A Lecture on the Protestant Faith.
By Dwight H. Olmstead.
New York.

FOOTNOTES.

[1] _Travel and Art-Study in Italy_, by C.E. NORTON.

[2] December, 1874, art. "Physical Effects of Emotion on the Heart."

[3] I have several times performed this experiment, and by a method,
the explanation of which would require a separate article, have proved
that the vaso-motor centre, as well as the respiratory centre, is
situated in the medulla oblongata, and that paralysis of neither
respiration nor of the vaso-motor nerves follows the operation.

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