Published monthly by J. W. Queen & Co., Philadelphia.

One of the most remarkable experiences in literature is that of scientific magazines. A love of science permeates the whole community, but very few scientific serials do more than pay the printer, and the majority die young. The cause is not difficult to understand by those used to serial work. There is a huge want, but people do not get what they want. The reader desires to keep up with all that is really new in science, but the editors are either too lazy to work to get these news, or so filled with hero-worship, that nothing to them is new unless it comes to them under the shadow of a great name. One can get a better knowledge of what is really new in science from the daily or weekly newspapers, than from some of the most pretentious of scientific magazines.

In microscopy there is a wide field. The microscope introduces us to a world fully as densely populated as the unaided eye can see. It is full of wonders hard to be realized by those who have never had a glimpse thereof. We know of no microscopical magazine that properly places before the community a tithe of what a live magazine could do.

This little affair is little more than an advertising circular, though full of excellent items that render it fully worth the trifling price charged for it. We have made the comments above in the hope of inducing the excellent house it represents to go further into the matter than it can possibly do here, and give us a magazine that would be worthy of the subject, and which they could well do if so disposed.