The Year-Book of Facts in Science and the Arts for
1878. By James Mason. (Ward and Lock.)—We welcome again the annual issue of this excellent work. Among its subjects are "The Haman Race," "The Animal World," "Geographical Notes, Sm.," "Elec- tricity and Magnetism," "Sound," "Manufactures," Sm. Mr. Spottiswoode's address at the meeting of the British Association appropriately concludes the volume.
Mr. Arthur Arnold has republished, in a volume to which he gives the title of Social Politics (C. Kegan Paul and Co.), a number of essays and articles which he has from time to time contributed to the Nineteenth Century, the Fortnightly Review, the Contemporary Review, and Fraser's Magazine. Many of these have been noticed from time to time as they appeared, nor is it necessary to do more than chronicle their collective publication, with the remark that taken together they have a somewhat overpowering effect upon the mind. It would be an interesting though possibly a costly experiment to make Mr. Arnold Premier for a year, with a majority behind him drilled to Conservative order.—Mr. W. H. Mallock has also republished, from the Con temporary Review, the unpleasant article called The New Paul and Virginia ; or, Positivism on an Island (Chatto and Windus),—a work which he should never have written, or allowed to die as soon as possible when he had committed that error.
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