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The History Of A Bit Of Bread. By Jean Mach.

Part L, Man. Translated from the French and edited by Mrs Alfred Getty. (Saunders, Otley, and Co.)—This volume is really a model of an elementary scientific treatise. Intended......

The Sheffield Flood.*

THE flood caused at Sheffield in March last by the bursting of the Bradfield Reservoir was too disastrously important in its re- sults and too obscure the exact nature of its......

Current Literature.

The Gospel of Common Sense. By Robert Brown. (Jackson, Walford, and Hodder.)—Three essays, all of which have appeared before, with an introduction prefixed to them. The author's......