The Scientific Evidences of Organic Evolution. By G. J. Romanes,
M.A., LL,D., F.R.S. (Macmillan and Co.)—This very small book contains a popular and much condensed account of the main arguments which have been used to support the theory of natural -selection. The author has expanded and amended a lecture which was first published in the Fortnightly Review, and which may claim the merit of possessing temperance of diction, as well as clearness of argument. That these eighty-eight widely-spaced and amply-mar- gined pages contain only a most sketchy representation of the suestions at issue between the evolutionists and the teleologists, is obvious, but they will suffice to show cultured, yet nonscientific per- sons what "natural selection" really means. And they will further prove that the acceptance of the secondary causes which are assumed in the evolution hypothesis by no means excludes a First Cause.
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