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Natural History Rambles. By J. E. Taylor, Rev. J. G.

Wood, and C. O. G. Napier. (Christian Knowledge Society.)—These are inter- esting and instructive little books, full of scraps of knowledge, amusing anecdotes (all, let us hope,......

The Philosophy Of Existence. By E. G, K E Ll Ey, M.a....

Hall.)—We thought this was a book on metaphysics, when we first took it up. The additional title, "The Reality and Romance of Histories," perplexed us. It is a queer work, that......

A Manual Of Organic Chemistry. By Hugh Clements. (blackie...

Son.)—This is another chemical manual, newly added to the legion called into existence by the examinations of the Science and Art Department. It is not, in any sense, a......

Science Lectures At South Kensington. Vol. Ii....

are some seventeen lectures, given at South Kensington to science teachers during the exhibition of the loan collection of ap- paratus. Those lectures explained the apparatus......

A Practical Grammar Of The German Language. By Dr. Leonhard

Schmitz, F.R.S.E. (John Murray.)—In this work the Roman letters aro used, and no one will deny that the Pupil's task is thereby ren- dered rather lighter. On the other hand, it......

Periodical Literature.—wo Have Received The October...

:—Tho Gentleman's Magazine, in the "Table Talk" in which " Sylvanns Urban" states that he has frequently seen French children intoxicated. "Strange as such an assertion may......