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bridge), and. Dr. Lankester's Vegetable PAylioloyy (Cassell and Co.)--- which

we may recommend as a pleasant variety to the dobates,on the In mathematics we have a valuable collection of JIathentatical Problems, Irish Land Bill; of Scenes from the Life of Jesus, by S. Greg (Edmonstaur by Joseph Wolstenholme (Macmillan). Mr. Wolitenbolose is well and Douglas); of the Apostles of Jesus, by Mrs. Clere (Hatehard); of the known as a mathematician of very great excellence to all Cambridge men, Devotional Commentary on the New Testament, by Isaac Williams, B.D.. and to many outside the limits of that University. The volume before (Rivingtons).—Dr. Huxley also republishes under the title of Am us contains more than sixteen hundred original examples constructed Introduction to the Classification of Animals part of his Lectures on ths by the author in the course of a very considerable experience gained Elements of Comparative Anatomy (Churchill).—Dr. C. T. Williams' as an examiner and teacher. An Elementary Course of Theoretical and Climate of the South of France (Longtnans) has been enlarged to. Applied Mathematics, by R. Wormell (Groornbridge), specially adapted take in an account of other wintering stations on the Mediter- for the examination of the University of London ; and one of Mr. ranean, with a notice of some places suited for summer residence. Todhunter's admirable series Mensuratioa for Bvinners (11acmillan). The book is illustrated by a convenient map. Many readers will —.We have also received A Text-Book ill* Geography, by J. Douglas be glad to make acquaintance with Mr. William Cullen Bryant'e (Oliver and Boyd), and A Reference-Book of Modern Geography, by A. graphic Letters from the Eabt (Sampson Low).—The Podical Works of C. E Raid (Longman); An Elementay Geography fur Schools, by Dr. A. Meer Goldsmith (BA1 and Daldy) is an elegant volume belonging to a H. Dick (Murby). Of a more special kind are a Geography of India very welcome re-issue of a very well-known series known as" The Aldine- (W. H. Allen and Co.), a very full and, we should say, valuable work Poets," originally published by 11r. Pickering.—We see another old on a subject about which Englishman for the most part are shamefully favourite in Leigh Hunt's Imagination and Fancy (Smith and Elder). ignorant; and England at Home, by W. E. Littlewood (Cassell and Co) —At the same time we may mention the Every-day Book of Modera —In An Easy Elementary Course of L-,tin (Marby) we notice some Literature, by G. H. Townsend (Warne), though the volume has not doubtful examples. Epistolae scribis will hardly stand for "letters appeared before. It contains a number of selections—ono for every day to the scribes," and inimicus with a genitive is not a construction to in the year—from the best English authors. To these are prefixed brief put before beginners.—Mr. Jossop's Greek Accidence (Williams and notices of the various writers.—We have also to acknowledge a first Norgato) has the merit of setting forth what has to be learnt in a very volume of Dr. I. F. Jencken's Works, containing treatises on light, clear form, no small advantage, where the learner has to encounter so colour, electricity, and magnetism, edited by H. D. Jencken (Triihner); many difficulties as he finds in his Greek grammar, a fifth volume of the Life and Writings of Joseph Afazzini (Smith and