is that entitled Art and the Formation of Taste, by Lucy Crane, with illustrations drawn by Thomas and Walter Crane.  It is one of the most inspiring and practical books on the subject that have been written in our generation.  Charles C. Black’s Michael Angelo contains within 275 pages the principal facts of the great sculptor’s life and labors, faithfully and appreciatively recounted.  It is, so far as it goes, declared to be a very valuable work.  We cannot too highly commend these publications.  Every one of them is an incentive to further reading and reflection.

[Footnote 3:  THE GARNET SERIES;—­Readings from Ruskin—­Readings from Macauley—­Art and the Formation of Taste—­Life and Works of Michel Angelo. 5 vols.  Boston; The Chautauqua Press.]

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Dr. George H. Moore is the superintendent of the Lenox Library and a man who is not afraid to dip into old parchments and musty records.  We wish that there were more of his kind.  Students of our local annals are indebted to him for the preparation and publication of two important and interesting brochures, which have recently appeared.  His Notes on the History of the old State House,[4] formerly known as “The Town House in Boston,” “The Court House in Boston,” “The Province Court House,” “The State House,” and “The City Hall” was first read before the Bostonian Society, last May, and was listened to with the closest attention.  The second brochure, embracing 120 pages, bears the title:  Final notes on Witchcraft in Massachusetts[5] and is a vindication of the laws and liberties concerning attainders with corruptions of Blood, Escheats, forfeitures for crime and pardon of offenders, etc.  This is the fifth pamphlet which Dr. Moore has issued on the subject of Witchcraft in Massachusetts, and it concludes the series.  We hope, at a future time, to be able to refer to them again, for they shed much light on our colonial history, and to our historical literature constitute very valuable additions.

[Footnote 4:  Notes on the History of the Old State House.  By George H. Moore, LL.  D. Boston:  Cupples, Upham & Co.  Paper. 50 cents.]

[Footnote 5:  Final notes on Witchcraft in Massachusetts.  By same author.  New York:  Printed for the author.  Sold in Boston, by Cupples, Upham & Co.  Paper, $1.00.]

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Mr. Smith’s recent work on The Science of Business[6] should be read, and its facts and arguments carefully weighed, by all men of business.  It professes to be a study of the principles controlling the laws of exchange.  Reasoning from analogies existing in the natural world, the author logically deduces his law that civilization moves along lines of least resistance, and contends that this law holds true throughout the phenomena of mind also.  The law of the survival of the fittest is but another expression of the subject under discussion.  “Do