LITERATURE-(Continued)

half-tone pictures and line-drawings showing how to apply bandages, reduce fractures, check hemorrhages, distinguish poisonous plants, etc.

Not in the Curriculum. A Book of Friendly Counsel to Students. By Two Recent College Graduates. With an Introduction by Rev. Dr. Henry van Dyke. Pages 100. Board covers, cloth back. New York, Chicago, Toronto: Fleming H. Revell Company, Publishers. Price, net, 50 cents.

BOOK LEARNING is not all of college life. The world in which the student lives and moves is not circumscribed by the walls of his alma mater. Nor is the sum of his attainments amenable to any standard of prescribed courses. Struggles, temptations, besetting sins, adaptation to environment, pitfalls to be shunned, and other things that make for all-round development of the man-these things "not in the curriculum"-just as truly as the work of the class-room and the studvare part and parcel of the subject-matter of every college course, and the basis of many of the most precious lessons and most enduring fruits of every college career. It is the purpose of the present volume to give "friendly counsel, based on actual experience, regarding all such matters. The motive of the book, as well as the quality of its letter-press and typography, commends it to everyone who has an interest at stake in any college community.

CATALOGUES

Goodsell Packing Company, Chicago, Illinois. The Goodsell Packings. Pages 16. Paper, 5 1-2 by 7 inches. LATEST ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE describing in detail the various kinds of packing, such as rubber-back flax piston-rod packing, sleeve packing, etc.

The Trumbull Electric Manufacturing Company, Plainville, Connecticut. Pages 48. Paper, 4 1-2 by 6 1-2 inches. ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE of electrical specialties, setting forth their advantages. The particular advantage of the panel cut-out manufactured by this company is the fact that it can be used for either the two-wire or the three-wire system, and for any number of circuits.

LITERATURE-(Concluded)

Julius Andrae & Sons' Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Pages 24. Paper, 5 by 8 inches. CATALOGUE setting forth the advantages of the telephone to the farmer. It thoroughly explains the telephone and its parts, its approximate cost, and its troubles and how to remedy them.

Bignall & Keeler Manufacturing Company, Edwardsville, Illinois. Pages 62. Buckram, 6 by 9 inches.

CATALOGUE with illustrations, descriptions, dimensions, and price lists of improved pipe-threading and cutting-off machinery, hand emery surfaces, and roller cutters. The above firm also manufactures pipe-threading machines for continuous service and rapid operation, which are designed for use in car shops and supply houses where large quantities of pipe of one size are threaded.

The Grasselli Chemical Company, Cleveland, Ohio. Pages 32. Paper, 5 by 8 inches.

CATALOGUE giving a brief history of the business of the Grasselli Chemical Company; a list of chemicals produced by them; and articles treating of certain chemicals, describing the method of manufacture, the materials employed, and purposes for which the finished product is used.

The Charles A. Strelinger Company, Detroit, Michigan.

FOLDER describing heavy drop-forged dogs. In design, these dogs are adequate to the requirements of high speeds and heavy cuts. The special steel is toughened in course of manufacture.

Fairbanks, Morse & Company, Chicago, Ill. Gas Engines. Pages 32. Paper, 7 by 9 inches.

ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE describing the gas engine. After twenty years of constant work spent in research, experiment. and development, the above company has been able to put on the market an engine that is economical, safe, durable, and simple. The adoption of gas engines is rapidly increasing, and the demand will still further increase, as fast as the public becomes better acquainted with the many advantages that they possess.

The Sum of It All

With Apologies to Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Though years revolve

As we try to solve

The question problematic,

In the end we learn,

Where'er we turn,

This lesson quite dogmatic:-
That, though one may climb
In the course of time

To a meed of joy ecstatic,
Time's rapid lapse

May bring mishaps;

While Life's demand

And Fate's stern hand,
With which we cope,
May bankrupt Hope.

So, the man of power
Boasts not of the hour,
But strives to be,

To some degree,

Of a temperament phlegmatic.
As a part of the whole,
He composes his soul,
Finds recompense
In common sense,
And seeks content,

On which all are bent,
Not in lands or pelf,
But within himself.

For, his clearest vision
Sees that fields elysian

Lie beyond this sphere erratic,
And heights unattained,
Ever still to be gained,

Level all with a force emphatic; While with perfect art

Each fulfils his part

In the cosmos enigmatic,

And without e'en the fool

In Nature's school

Life would not be dramatic.

-J. S. A.