18 NOVEMBER 1893, Page 11

The Romance of a World's History. By T. Mullett Ellis.

(Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—Mr. Ellis traces back the history of the earth (and the nebula from which it may be supposed to have been developed) down to the doom,—the extinction of all life under the pressure of another glacial epoch. Mr. Ellis would have been more impressive, if ho will only believe it, if he had been loss• exuberantly ornamental in.his style.'