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Fresh - Water Algw. By M. C. Cooke. "the International...

(Began Paul and Co.)—Beginning with an introduction which includes some useful chapters on "Reproduc- tion," "Alternation of Generations," "Spontaneous Movements," and "Notable......

Annals Of Bird - We. By Charles Dixon. (chapman And...

have a pleasant remembrance of Mr. Dixon's "Our Rarer Birds," and find an equal pleasure in Annals of Bird - We. There always seems, it is true, a sense of incompleteness about......

The Romanoffs. By H. Sutherland Edwards. (w. H. Allen And

Co.)—There is, indeed, more about the current of political life in Russia than the personalities of the Romanoffs, in Mr. Sutherland Edwards's sketch of that dynasty. We have......

Electric Potential. By Dr. Turnlirz Translated By D....

Tumlirz, in view of the wants of those who wished to see the theory of "Potential" treated from the physical as well as the mathematical standpoint, has "popularly" treated......

Scenes In The Life Of A Sailor. By Laurence Cave.

(Digby and Long.) —This is the biography of a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy who, after serving fourteen years and seeing plenty of action, took orders and settled down as a......

Wooing. By R E. Francillon. (hutchinson And Co.) — Out

of the fifteen stories that make up this collection, the first -only, the one that gives its title to the book, is by R. E. Fran- onion ; the rest are by various writers. The......