GIFT-BOOKS
Marvels of the Universe. (Hutchinson and Co. 2 vols. 12s. 6d. net each.)—The publisher or an anonymous editor describes these volumes on the title pages as a "popular" work, and obviously it cannot be very thorough in any particular sphere, since it deals with every conceivable branch of natural science. In the two heavy volumes are chapters upon most forms of knowledge of things in heaven above, in the earth beneath, and in the water under the earth. The extensive zoological portions are not even confined to creatures of to-day, but go back to the discoveries of the earliest known extinct animals. The list of contributors con- tains very many names well known in science and traveL There are about sixteen hundred illustrations, including many fine full- page coloured plates of things in the universe outside our world, of animal life down to magnified parasites, and of living beings at the bottom of the ocean. Any youthful reader who mastered all this matter would indeed be terribly learned.
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