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SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.

Earthquakes. By Clarence Edward Dutton. (John Murray_ 6s. net.)—" In the Light of the New Seismology," adds Major- Dutton to his title, and the addition is full of significance. The "new seismology" is a revolution. In the first place, it rejects- the theory of a liquid globe with a solid crust of some forty or fifty miles in thickness ; and it modifies, commonly in a very im- portant way, the various hypotheses which have been put forward. to account for " quakes," whether of land or sea. The book is,. for the most part, of a highly technical character, and we must be content with generally commending it to the attention of our- readers.