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Papers Offered For Discussion At The Meeting Of The British

Association at Dundee, in Reply to the Speculations recently promulgated in Regard to the Antiquity and Nature of Man. By the Rev. James Brodie. (Hamilton and Adams.)--It is......

On The Management And Preservation Of Game And Ornamental...

and the Laws relating thereto. (Bemrose and Lothian.)—This book is short, rather scanty in detail, and by no means elegant or always cor- rect in style. Still, we should think......

Current Literature.

—4— The Contemporary Review. October. (Strahan.)—Two articles in the present number of the Contemporary Review are purely secular, but we do not think this importation of......

Macmillan's Magazine. October. (macmillan.) — This...

for last week, but it deserves a separate notice. Profes- sor Masson's article on "London University, and London Colleges and Schools of Science" is highly suggestive, though......

Civil Service Tests In Arithmetic : Being Specimens Of The

more Difficult Questions in the Civil Service Reports, with full Solutions. By W. A. Browne, LL.D. (Stanford.)—This title-page tells its own story. The book itself seems useful.......

Homespun; Or, Five - And - Twenty Years Ago. By Thomas...

and Marston.)—We had none of that difficulty in detecting the nationality of this volume which seems to have oppressed the Pall' Mall Gazette. But we agree with our contemporary......

The Orchard And Fruit Garden : Their Culture And Produce.

By. Elizabeth Watts. (F. Warne and Co.)—Another of Miss Watts's cheap. and useful manuals, addressed to readers who, like the authoress, have , had through life between a pole......

Words From The Poets. Selected By C. M. Vaughan....

Two editions of this book are on our table, one cheap, and one with illustrations. The selection is made for "the children of our parochial schools and those classes of our......

Railways In Their Medical Aspects. By James Ogden...

(J. E. Cornish.)—There are some valuable facts and inferences com- municated in this book, but we can hardly treat Dr. Fletcher as an im- partial witness. He calls himself on......

Cholera ; Some Remarks Upon Its Nature And Pathology. By

P. C.. Little. (Churchill and Sons.)—Mr. Little's remarks are brief and pro- fessional, but his account of twenty cases of cholera treated by him with almost perfect success in......