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Natural Philosophy Popularly Explained. By The Rev. S....

Petter, and Galpin.)—:The elements of statics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, dynamics, hydrodynamics, acoustics, light, and heat are shortly described in this useful book, and we......

Piebald. By R. F. Boyle. 2 Vols. (chapman And Hall.)—in

spite of its being a ghost story, and of its ending badly, this book is a pleasant one to read, and is worthy of being recommended. We should have liked it better if it had not......

The Shadow On The Hearth. By Mrs. Mackenzie Daniel. 3

vols. (Skeet.)—Parts of this novel are interesting, but the whole is marred by a wildness and extravagance for which we have to thank the chief male characters. Mrs. Daniel's......

Memorials Of A Theological College ; Or, Preparation For The

Church in the Nineteenth Century. (Houlston and Wright.)—This book is so very bad that it is not worth condemning, and the shortest way is to throw it down on the floor without......

Considered Worthy Of Remembrance In The Course Of Their...

reading. We have every reason to congratulate Mr. Rolfe on the extent of his reading and the catholicity of his taste. His book may be dipped into with pleasure and profit, and......