23 APRIL 1881, Page 22

Life and Nei' Children. By Arabella B. Buckley. (Stanford.)— No

one can popularise science better than Miss Buckley. This volume about the lower orders of life—if, indeed, the dwellers in each marvellous communities as bee-hives and ant-hills can be spoken -of as "lower" than anything except man—is excellent. From the =eche to the insect is the range which the author takes. We begin with the myriad tribes such as the thread-slime, the sponge, the jelly-fish, and end with the ants. Miss Buckley has compressed a vast amount of information into tins little volume, but never allow her style to seem other than pleasant and attractive.