Cassell's Natural History. Edited by P. Martin Duncan, M.B. 6
vols. (Cassell and Co.)—This work, the publication of which in monthly parts has been continued through a period of six years, is now complete. We have noticed the annual volumes from time to time, as they have appeared, and now need only repeat the high opinion of their merit which we have before expressed. The names
and reputation of the contributors, among whom may be mentioned Professors Garrod, H. G. Seely, and Boyd Dawkins, Dr. Marie, Messrs. Dallas and H. Woodward, and Miss Agnes Crane, are a sufficient guarantee for the scientific merit of the work. For its literary value, we can ourselves vouch. The art of making science interesting to the unscientific is an accomplishment which all Pro- fessor Duncan's contributors, we think we may say without excep- tion, have acquired. The result is a book which we may recom- mend without reserve. The price of the six volumes is surprisingly small, when we consider the excellence both of the text and of the very numerous illustrations.
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