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Sampson Low And Co.)—this Is Certainly One Of The Most

sensible books on the subject that we have ever seen ; and, at the same time, it is not a little amusing. Dr. Beard's remarks on the increase of consumption and nervous diseases......

The Judge's Sons. By Mrs. E. D. Kendall. (tegg.)—this Is

a good little story, written with much liveliness and sound sense, which would have been better, in our judgment, if the " total- abstinence " moral which is insinuated had been......

The Fuel Of The Sun. By W. Mattien Williams. (simpkin

and Marshall.)—We do not know that any one has been seriously discom- posed by the theory, not uncommon among astronomers, that the solar beat and light have diminished in time......

Essays By A Birmingham Manufacturer. By William Lucas...

III. (Williams and Norgate.)—Mr. Sargent always has something interesting to say. In his present volume the principal essay is on "The New Academy." "Our aim," he says in the......