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Thence it was brought to Arabia. A Greek first introduced it to England and made himself famous by the act. The weight of the brain bears little or no relation to the ability of its possessor. The brains of two idiots weighed respectively 57.5 and S9-S ounces; while that of Gambetta weighed less than that of the average boy of seven. A weak-minded man had a brain weighing 70.5. while a dwarfed Indian squaw possessed one of 73.6 ounces.
LITERARY NOTES. Scr1bner's for September has a number of articles with an outdoor flavor to them. It opens with an account by Frederic Ireland of what he calls ••the finest canoeing country in the world/' He made a five hundred mile journey from Mattawa to the head waters of the Ottawa and Gatineau rivers, through a region abounding in fish and moose. There is also a short story of life and adventure in the Arctic regions by Albert White Vorse. It is entitled •• The Education of Praed," and tells how a western college professor learned something of value from the Esquimaux. Charles Warren (who was private secretary lo Gov ernor Russell) contributes a short story describing how a governor went back to his old fitting school and spent a day with the boys. Grace Ellery Channing tells a love story of Southern California, en titled ••Francisco and Francisca." W. C. Brownell contributes an appreciation of the paintings of George Butler. Lieut. -Col. J. D. Miley gives some inside history in regard to Aguinaldo's insurrection and the forces back of it. Mr. Bagot's discussion of the question. "Will England Become Catholic?" which The L1v1ng Age of July 29 translates from the Italian review, the '• Nuova Antologia," is noteworthy for the emphasis with which it answers in the negative the question which it puts, and the facts which it presents in sup port of that view. Madame Darmesteter's recent essav on •• The Social Novel in France " will be found in full in The L1v1ng Age for August 5.
The leading article ••Are we in Danger from the Plague?" by Dr. Victor C. Vaughan in Appleton's Popi'I.ar Sc1ence Monthly for September contains a very important discussion of the problem presented to all civilized countries by the prevalence of the plague in the East. ••Tuskegee Institute and its President," is the title of an interesting article by M. B. Thrasher. The conclusion of Appleton Mor gan's study of •. Recent Legislation against the Drink
Evil" seems still more strongly to confirm his view that .the result of legislative interference up to date has rather increased than diminished drunkenness. An attractive little natural history sketch is written by W. E. Cram, under the title ••Hawk Lures." Prof. H. W. Conn, of Wesleyan University, con tributes an important article on "The Milk Supply of Cities." ••The Influence of the Weather upon Crime " is the title of a curious article by Edwin G. Dexter. The September Centcry is a salt-water number. The special feature of the magazine is the first of a series of four papers in which Capt. Joshua Slocum narrates the story of his successful circumnavigation of the globe, alone, in a forty-foot sloop, the •• Spray."' constructed by himself. In •• The Way of a Ship." Frank T. Bullen tells of the peculiarities of certain ships on which he has gone down to the sea; and in •• Salvage," Morgan Robertson turns to a good ac count, as a fiction writer, the intimate knowledge of things nautical acquired in ten years before the mast. •• The Atlantic Speedway," and the possibility of mak ing it safer, engages the attention of H. Phelps Whitmarsh. •• Where a Day is Lost or Gained," is the para doxical title of an article by Benjamin E. Smith on the international date-line in the Pacific. The annals of Chinese piracy have been ransacked to good purpose by John S. Sewell, who writes of" The Scourge of the Eastern Seas; " and New England family papers have been turned to equally good account in Robert S. Rantcul's •• Voyage of the Quero," the true story of how the news of Concord and Lexington was car ried to King George. Winslow Homer, "A Painter of the Sea," is the subject of a critical paper by W. A. Coffin, and not less appropriate to a deep-sea number is Dr. Weir Mitchell's poem " The SeaGull." ••An American Forerunner of Dreyfus" is the story of a gallant American naval officer whose life was made a burden to him. early in the present centurv, because of his Jewish birth and faith. The complete novel in the New L1pp1ncott for September is entitled " The Duchess of Nona," by Maurice Hewlett. This is an Italian story of the picturesque and dramatic days of Caesar Borgia. The short fiction of the month is made timely and brilliant by a story of Mrs. Schuyler Crowninshield. " Marta's Inheritance " is one of this gifted author's most char acteristic Cuban stories. Ruth McEnery Stuart con tributes " Picayune : a Child Study." "Donald Mur ray's Romance," by E. F. Benson, is a study of hope deferred in the heart of a lonely English bachelor. "The Volcano Goddess : a Legend of Hawaii," by Charles M. Skinner, is both exceedingly curious and seasonable.
