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1 Books Received :— From Mr. J* W. Aixo-...
brief prefatory note , for a number of years an aide-de-camp to Major-General Crook , United
States Army , and in that capacity has been peculiarities afforded unexcelled of the opp American ortunity for abori stud gines ying . the He
was selected by Lieut .-G-eneral J . Sheridan to ! make an examination of the manners and customs jm M b V of ^^ the — Indians of — the — South — — — — ^^ -West ^^ ^^^ Territories ^^ ^^ ^ ^^ ^ ^^ ^^ ^ ^ ^^^ ¦ ^ ^^*^^^^ ^ ,
and it is from the mass of ethnological notes which he collected that he has written the pre-\ sent work . The Moqui Indiansof whose strange
customs M _ — - he ^^^ ^^ writes ^^ mm ^ ^ ta ^» A ^ k ^^ k . ^«* inhabit ^ fc M ^ k BPL « k * a ^^ h he ^ , ^^— tells ^ L I 1 . —^ us __„_ seven — ¦ ^« . - different villages , situated , a , few leagues , apart , and they are known to have lived in their present
quarters since the Spaniards first entered this century part of . America Thus about Captain the Bourke middle ' of the k sixteenth has not
I ; only an attract the excitement iveness for of a the travel anti narrative quarian , and but has the Archaeologistthe rites of the people being as
ancient as they , are peculiar . The description of the snake dance , corning as it does from a qualified eye-witness , is graphic and astonishing , and when
it is remembered that no steps had been taken to Tender the reptiles innocuous either by the extraction of their fangs or by drugsand that they
are held between the teeth of the dancers , , who in procession circle round * the sacred rock / it seems almost Bourke
"believe th impossible at such thiogs , as Captain can be happening says * within , to our own boundaries less than seventy miles from
the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad in the year of our Lord 1881 . ' The number of snakes used in the ceremony was more than one hundred , and
the dancers ran backwards and forwards so confusedly that it was not possible to determine certainly how many times the whole division had
j than changed four snakes , and , but probabl it must y as many have as been five not times less . The ceremony included the depositing of the
snakes on the ground , where they were sprinkled with sacred corn meal , after which they were picked up , held by small boys , passed to the chief
buffalo priest , b lod y him ge or prayed sanct over uary , and and deposited then they in were the taken up by a second division of men , who
performed the dance with tHem in their mouths . The picture of this revolting ceremony , taken at the time by the artist who accompanied the author ,
g Whi ives le a ho livel wever y idea the of snake its dance repulsi is ve the character central . feature , of the , bookthe other pages are full of
interesting matter , and , the dresses of the people , t thei heir r curious religious and uses ancient , their pottery modes , of and pun their ishment agri- ,
illustrated cultural imp by lements finely coloured are full lithograp y described hic platen and and diagrams . The book is in fact beautifully
enterpr produced ise , an which d is publishers a notewort exhibit hy specimen nowaday of s the in bringing out books of high scientific value .
From the same . —* Food for the Million : a Plan for Starting Public Kitchens , ' by Captain P . M .
Wolff , with a Preface by the Kev . H . R . Haweis , J fruit ^ . A . of This a paper useful read and practical by Captaiin handbook Wolff before is the the National Health Societyin which he <
subniitted kitchens plans where for the the establishment were , to save of fro public m 30 to , poor
capita t-o 60 60 l per ner in cent c « the nt .., . kitchens while -while those those were who who to realise invested invested 17 their their cent , for their money . The gallant officer has per ,
according into districts to Mr in . Ha which we is , he mapped out es to London start i . kitchens at a cost of about ^ 5 propos , 000 a-piece , and
in this book he gives not merely arguments , but data — — — — as — ^^^ to — - » - the — ™ ™ - ~~ ¦ edibles ¦ - ' ^ —» ¦ ^^ ^ " to ^ " ~ ^^ ¦ be ¦ ^ ^^^ ¦ supp ^^ hv ^ mr ^ BW ^ lied ^ ^ " ^^^ ^^^ i . , H the ^^ ^^^^ ^^^ cost ^^^ i ^ p * ~^^ ~^ r of ^^ r ^^
need cooking ful , particulars the character . Certain of the it menu is that , and , except all other on rare occasions , the English poor are utter
public strangers kitchens to a could well-cooked be established meal , and on the if plan local here advocatedthey would a boon to
thousands . , prove From the same- — An American Four-in-Hand
after dn Britain being , ' printed by Andre for private w Carneg circulation ie . This and book in , a h at andsome shape , for the library , has now , reached
""wwhhat , , in in many manv respects respects , , is is the tha best hash form fnrm a a book hnnir genial g can J take— fashion - _ - a shilling . . , its __ __ edi author — ~ —» tion » ¦ ¦ ^ B-- ^^ ' ; s wmm and experiences ~^ r 9 ^ mtr it ^^^ m describes ^ ^^ *^ ^^ ^^ v *^ of ^^ ^ hb , in a h ^
coaching tour from the south to the north of voyage Britain , across or , rather the — Atlantic for the — stoTy ¦ of a journey begins with bboat the
and — ^ m j coach j — from — — — New — — —— — — —~ York — — ^» ^ h to ^ . ^ p - the *^ ^ p ^ ^ v ^^^ - ** North w ^ m ^ y m w ^& ^^ r of *^ W ^^ 4 Scotland there is . everything Mr . Carneg in the ie way aptl one y observes takes things that /
and shows the that reader he can of this take p things leasant in sketch right certainl pleasant y style . He gossips of all he seesand of the
people whom he meets ; and he shows , , as in his liament summing — -up that of * the the interesting merits of the debates English are Par few
p and lainl far y . between Beginning '— at that Brighton he does , not the party fear to started speak for the northand an exhilarating trithey found
it to be . All , , or nearly all , of their p experiences the are book jotted fro down m the for first the reader to ' s the delectation lastis bri , and ht page g
and attractive , . , From Mr . John Murray . —' Men of Invention
popular aud Industry series of / books by Samuel titled ' Smiles Lives , of LL Eng . D . ineers The / * Industrial Biography / and * Self Help / here I
receives receives all readers an an addition addition who have wh whiich ch a will will taste be be for welcomed welcomed the most by bv instructive - form —— - — of _^ _ - biograp - ^ , — ^^^ — — m . hy —the — — lives — ^^ of the
great creators of industries . The men chosen for the Smith — — purpose h , ^ -m the — — — introducer ^— are ' —w ~ ¦ H ¦ P ett —^ * , of ™ tlie ^^ " ¦ the ^^ i ¦ shi ^ - ^ screw p ^^^ builder —^ ^^ — propeller H ^ T ^^^ m ; ^^^ H ^^ Pettit ^^ p ^^ B ^^^ H ^^ ^^^ ; ^ B
John Harrison , the inventor of the marine chronometer ; Thomas Lonabe , the introducer of the silk industry into England ; William Murdock
of gas-light fame ; Kcenig , the inventor of the , steam printing machine ; Walter , the inventor of the Walter pressand the practical creator of the
Times newspaper , ; William Clowes , the inventor of book-printing by steam , and several Irish ' self-helpers . ' The day of the first piece of
newspaper steam press working was Nov . 29 , 1814 , and we are reminded of what now reads JK like * M ± . \ S a C-V strange UUA IftllfikV incident AI 1 VI \ A >\ JAM V of \ S A . the IIIV birthday UIJ . ISIAV * T : « At * ¦ »¦ 1 /
six o ' clock io the morning Mr . Walter , who had been watching the working of the machine all through tho nightsuddenly appeared among the
pressmen , and announced , that ' the Times is pressmen alread mfr y pri had nted vo by wed steam vengeance . ' Knowing against that - - the the ¦¦
inA ^^ " ~^ ^ ^^^ ^ entor ^ " W ^ ^^^ and ^^^ bi - ^ rw his ^^ invention » ^ *^ - " ^^^^ r- ^ " - , ^^^« an ^ " ^ — - d —~ - — that J — — th ey — _~ had ~^ — —^^ r threatened lie informed * them destruction that if to they him attempted and his violence traps /
that there if was they a were force peaceable ready to , their supp wages ress it should ; but be continued to every cue of them until they
satis could factory obtain so similar far , and emp he loyment proceeded . This to distribute proved several copies of the newspaper amongst them— ,
Another the first ' silent newspaper revolu printed tion' was by worked steam ! in Thus the greatest and most world-moving industry of the I
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1 Nov . ts ,-iS 84 l The Publishers' Circular I 2 OI :
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Nov. 15, 1884, page 1201, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15111884/page/13/
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