5 SEPTEMBER 1891, page 23

Elementary Biology. By T. Jeffery Parker. (macmillan And...

and certainly instructive text-book this. Analogies and comparisons are pointed out, and the reader is persuaded to be observant; and this is a step in the right direc- tion,......

The Arab And The African. By S. Tristram Pruen, M.d.

(Seeley and Co.)—So very much has been written about Africa of late, that one is glad to note that Dr. Pruen does not claim for his book that it is a specially ambitious one,......

Current Literature.

be, above all things, a " practical " work, dealing exhaustively with the construction, arrangement, and management of fresh- water and marine aquaria ; and it is most......

The Magazines.

As a rule, the Magazines, light and heavy, are very dull this month. The exception is the Nineteenth Century, which has somehow contrived to avoid the effects of the......