28 MARCH 1868, Page 22

The Cabinet of the Earth Unlocked. By Edward Steane Jackson.

(Jackson, Walford, and Hodder.)—An easy sketch of geological marvels for young children. Mr. Jackson refuses to tax young minds with the " hard long words taken out of those dreadful Greek andLatin languages, which were evidently only created and preserved for the persecution of young people," and therefore he talks of the old beast instead of the palteotherium, the unarmed beast instead of the anoplotherinm, the big beast instead of the megatberium, and the gigantic dreadful beast instead of the deinotherium giganteum. This change of nomenclature is signi- ficant of the style of his book, and shows what is the class of readers for whom he popularizes geology.