The Creation and Physical Structure of the Earth. By J.
T. Harrison. (Longmans.)—Mr. Harrison's essay on the physical structure of the earth is most readable and, we may say, instructive, for he has distinctly added to the progress of thought on the subject. To the shifting of the earth's crust owing to the circumstances of the formation of the globe, he attributes the "breaks," and also, we may add, the deviation of the earth's axis from its original position ; also demonstrating a " menstruum " as the cause of many rocks. In his introduction, he quotes and dis- cusses the various utterances of geologists, as they bear on his contention. Afterwards he takes us through the geological succession, applying to all the changes his touchstone of "shift- ing." He finds agreement between the Book of Genesis and geology as it is understood. The volume is distinctly and suc- cinctly written, and is above all readable.
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