CURRENT LITERATURE.
The Great Stone Book of Nature. By D. T. Ansted, M.A., F.R.S., ac. (Macmillan and Co.)---Under this somewhat fanciful title, Mr. Ansted has given us an excellent elementary introduction to the results of geological research. The "Stone Book" is, of course, the crust of the earth, the agencies by which it has been formed constitute the language in which it is written, and the fossils which it contains are the pictures by which it is illustrated. All these and other incidental branches of the subject are treated by Mr. Ansted in a manner which renders them at once interesting and intelligible to the most ordinary capacity, and it would not be easy to find a more suitable medium for the introduction of the young idea to the leading facts of geology.
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