15 JUNE 1867, Page 23

A Handy Book of Meteorology. By Alexander Buchan, MA..

(Blackwood.)—Mr. Buchan regrets that while in the United States and some European countries meteorology is generally taught in schools, it forms no part of an English education. If only his book has the circu- lation it deserves, it will do something to supply the deficiency. His accounts of the barometer and thermometer, of fogs and mists, of winds and storms, and of all the other accidents or ingredients of the weather are brief, but clear and popular, and his little work will prove of service to smatterera, as well as to those who confess their ignorance.