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The Experimental Pl,ilosopher, by W. MULLINGER HIGGINS, is avery excellent

iutroduction to Natural Philosophy ; embracing mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, heat, optics, magnetism, and the various branches of electricity, with an introductory chapter on the errors to which our senses are liable in deciding upon the nature or causes of natural plicenotnena. The author pretends to no originality of materials, but he possesses considerable mas- tery over them ; and he is entitled to great praise for the lucid and interesting manner in which he has presented them to the mind of the tyro.