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Controverted Questions Of Geology. By Joseph Prestwich,...

(Macmillan and Co.)—Dr. Prestwich has collected here six articles, the first of them from the Nineteenth Century, the second from the Journal of the Geological Society, the......

The Children Of Men. By William R. H. Trowbridge, Seri.

(Osgood, McIlvaine, and Co.)—These are sketches of West Indian life and West Indian character, mostly of a disagreeable kind. Very likely Mr. Trowbridge is holding up the mirror......

Selections From Thoreau. Edited, With An Introduction, By...

Salt. (Macmillan and Co.)—Mr. Salt, probably known to many of our readers by his "Life of Thoreau," now gives us extracts from his writings. His five books, "A Week on the......