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The Inductive Philosophy. By A. Ellory Finch....

contain a lecture delivered before the "Sunday Lecture Society," together with illustrative notes. Its chief feature is "a parallel between Bacon and Comte as inductive......

The Yorkshire Penny Bank : A Narrative. With An Introduction

by E. Akroyd, M.P. (Longman.)—Mr. Akroyd gives some .very inter- esting facts about this institution. It was founded in 1859. In 1870 it numbered 248 branches, in which there......

Round The Grange Farm. By Jean L. Watson. (edinburgh :

William P. Nimmo.)—This is a collection of pleasing Scotch stories, all nomin- ally of persons who lived in the neighbourhood of the authoress, and illus- trative, we are told......

The Animal Creation. By Thomas Rymer Jones. (warne.)—pro-...

describes his book as "A Popular Introduction to Zoology." Four hundred and fifty pages, with more than as many illustrations, are, of course, insufficient, as indeed twice the......