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Thomas Henry Huxley. By P. Chalmers Mitchell. (G. P. Putnam's

Sons. 5s.)—Mr. Mitchell does not claim to have had any special facilities for writing this memoir. It is, he frankly says, "in no sense an intimate or authorised biography of Huxley." It is the account, given by an intelligent and well- informed student, of Huxley's life-work in the provinces of scientific and metaphysical thought. This is not the time to discuss either Huxley's views on religion and ethics and theories of the Cosmos generally, or Mr. Mitchell's interpretation of them.

It is enough to say that this volume will be found to give a care- ful treatment to the work of one of the greatest and most honest thinkers of the day.