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The Vegetable Ivorld : A History Of Plants, With Their

Botanical Descrip- tions and Peculiar Properties. By Louis Figuier. Illustrated with 446 en- gravings, interspersed through the text, and 24 full-page illustrations,. by M.......

Lessons In Physiology. By Thomas H. Huxley, Ll.d., F.r.s....

millan.)—Professor Huxley has condescended to write a very useful little manual, which should be received with acclamation. His object, in his own words, has been to set down in......

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Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott. With a biographical and critical memoir by Francis Turner Palgravo. (Macmillan and Co.).—This is a very good and complete edition of Sir......

Last Words Of Eminent Persons.* Seeing That Mr. Kaines Does

not profess to be more than a com- piler, we might be doing him injustice if we subjected his book to any higher test of criticism. Perhaps his worst fault is that he is so......

11f6noires Dune Enfant. Par Madame Michelet....

wife of the eminent French historian tells, in a charmingly brilliant, though artless style, and with genuine though ingenuous feel- ing, the story of an interesting childhood,......