A Bit of Bread.' Part IL Translated from the French
of Jean Mace by Mrs. Getty. (Saunders, Otley, and Co.)—This volume relates to animal; as the first did to man, and we can give it no higher praise than at the time of its publication we were compelled to award to that. It is the very best scientific book for children we ever read, and the translator's work is as well done in its way as the author's. Here is the end of the matter, an animal is a digestive tube served by organs, and so far as man is an animal that is hie definition. Does it not follow that dyspepsia is the lowest form of bodily degradation ? Our grandeur and our baseness- are, as Pascal said, inseparable. We are the first of enimols, for we have the most complicated digestive tube, but then bow fearfully we suffer from indigestion. It should teach us all humility.
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