pular circulation. It is
meeting with some success, but those who feel much interest in
astrology prefer to take in the whole science, which has a much larger
number of votaries than is commonly supposed.

DR. FRANZ HARTMANN, of Germany, has published some interesting volumes
recently, on "Paracelsus," "White and Black Magic," and "Among the
Rosicrucians," which I have had no time to examine. A valuable essay
from Dr. Hartmann is on file for publication in the JOURNAL, in which
he compares the doctrines of the occult philosophy with those
presented in the JOURNAL OF MAN.

PROGRESS OF CHEMISTRY.--FORTY NEW SUBSTANCES.--"During the decade
ending with 1886 over forty discoveries of new elementary substances
were announced, while the entire number previously known was less than
seventy. No less than nine were detected by Crookes last year. The
list is likely to be lengthened quite as materially in the current
twelvemonth, as A. Pringle already claims to have found six new
elements in some silurian rocks in Scotland. Five of these are said to
be metals, and the other is a substance resembling selenium, which the
discoverer calls hesperisium. One metal is like iron, but does not
give some of its reactions; another resembles lead, is quite fusible
and volatile, and forms yellow and green salts; another, named
erebodium, is black; the fourth is a light-gray powder, and the last
is dark in color."

ASTRONOMY.--"The absolute dimensions of a globular star cluster have
been studied by Mr. J. E. Gore of the Liverpool Astronomical Society.
These clusters consist of thousands of minute stars, possibly moving
about a common center of gravity. One of the most remarkable of these
objects is 13 Messier, which Proctor thinks is about equal to a first
magnitude star. Yet Herschel estimated that it is made up of fourteen
thousand stars. The average diameter of each of these components must
be forty-five thousand two hundred and ninety-eight miles, and each
star in this wonderful group may be separated from the next by a
distance of nine thousand million miles."

"According to the computations of M. Hermite, a French astronomer, the
total number of stars visible to the naked eye of an observer of
average visual power does not exceed 6000. The northern hemisphere
contains 2478, and the southern hemisphere contains 3307 stars. In
order to see this number of stars, the night must be moonless, the sky
cloudless, and the atmosphere pure