The Ocean World. By Louis Fig,uior. New edition, revised by
E. Percival Wright, M.D. (Cassell and Co.)—Dr. Wright speaks of his author as among "men eloquent after the fashion of their countrymen, but much more wanting in that exact knowledge of the sciences about which they write, and which would have enabled them to avoid falling into many and grievous errors." But why. "an'? which "? He means, we presume, that the knowledge "would have enabled them," ..te.; ho says that the sciences would have done so, which they certainly did not. In the very next sentence we read, " with tile faint hope that I would have no difficulty," ,te. On this side of St. George's Channel we should say "should have." Dr. Wright, in fact, is not qualified to im- prove on 3L Figuier's style, whatever he may be able to do for his science. This, it seems, has been thoroughly revised and corrected throughout. The book, too, has assumed more modest dimensions, better suited than its more splendid predecessor to the "too common shallowness of the human purse."
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