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.