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Tim Natural-historysciences Havefor Some Years Past Been...

themselves'an increasing amount of public attention, and w.; observe that they have, as branches either of instruction or am asement, established themselves recently within......

Course. It Aims At Giving A Popular Yet Accurate View

of the main principles of the science with which it deals, and preparing the way for the technical or mathematical study. It is intended, like its prede- cessors, mainly for the......

Lyrical Thoughts. By The Author Of The Polestar Of Faith.

(Edinburgh : Whittaker.)—Our author brings the assistance of a con- siderable command of language and much confusion of metaphor to the C41130 of orthodoxy. The volume is small......

Word Paintings. In Series. (chapman And Hall.)—it Is...

extract any definite moaning out of this mysterious volume. It seems intended as a warning against seduction, and opium-eating, and sen- suous worship, and the Jesuits. At least......

Interesting Places In Scotland, Arranged In Alphabetical...

size of the volume and its cheapness constitute, it appears to us, its principal recommendation. It is no doubt accurate enough, as it is edited by a gentleman who has had yeti......

Vol. Iv. (longmans.)—it Would Be Beyond Our Functions To Do

more than announce the appearance of the fourth and concluding volume of this elaborate work. We believe that the preceding volumes have been favourably received by the......

Curren R Literature.

Moods. Railway Library. (Routledge.)—The author of the "Orpheus C. Kerr" papers informs us that the favourite hero nowadays with the American lady novelists is a stern and......