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The Acclimatisation Of The Salmonichr At The Antipodes....

Nichols. (Sampson Low.)—The di.Lculties which have been at last successfully met in the introduction of our salmon into Australasia are faithfully described in this volume.......

Light : A Course Of Experimental Optics. By Lewis Wright.

(Macmillan and Co.)—The main characteristic of this well-written and amply illustrated handbook is its practicalness. Science teachers who are determined to teach optics as they......

Mises Postry.—the Legend Of St. Olaf's Kirk. By George...

ton. (Houghton and Co., Boston ; Triibner and Co., London.)—In this booklet we have a narrative in verse, founded on a Scandinavian legend. The author names "Prior's Ancient......

New Novels. — Royal Angus. By Lord James Douglas....

—If Lord James Douglas's picture of the life, the aspirations, the conduct, and the conversation of young men of the class to which he himself belongs, is to be accepted by......