[AL] The Continuity of Christian Thought. By Alexander V. G. Allen. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 1884. Price $2.00. SPECIAL NOTES. We have been asked the meaning of the term the “geography of the heavens.” Professor Hiram Matteson, in his excellent little treatise entitled “The geography of the heavens,” makes in his preface the following explanatory remarks: “I have endeavored to teach the geography of the heavens in nearly the same manner as we teach the geography of the earth. What that does in regard to the history, situation, extent, population, and principal cities of the several kingdoms of the earth, I have done in regard to the constellations; and I am persuaded that a knowledge of the one may be as easily obtained as of the other. The systems are similar. It is only necessary to change the terms in one to render them applicable to the other. For this reason I have yielded to the preference of the publisher in calling this work ‘Geography of the Heavens,’ instead of _Uranography_, or some other name more etymologically apposite.” * * * * * It will be noticed from Chancellor Vincent’s article on “The Chautauqua School of Liberal Arts,” found in this impression of THE CHAUTAUQUAN, that the Sunday-school Normal department of Chautauqua will hereafter be known as “The American Church Sunday-school Normal Course.” * * * * * Messrs. L. Prang & Co. have begun to send out valentines of as much beauty and artistic merit as their Christmas and Easter cards. Those of the present season have been of rare beauty—the coloring of many of them is exquisite. * * * * * The following, clipped from the text-book of the Chautauqua Musical Reading Union noticed in THE CHAUTAUQUAN for February, will be of interest to many of our music-loving readers: