2 MAY 1868, Page 23

The Treasures of the Earth; or, Mines, Minerals, and Metals.

By William Jones. (F. Warne and Co.)—A. simple and popular account of the various minerals and the process of extracting them from the earth, -written for the author's children. Mr. Jones is rather too much given to gossip and anecdote, and his quotations of poetic pieces are more fro- -quent than appropriate. But his book is pleasant enough for what it professes to be, and some of its contents are interesting enough to carry -off all the rest of the volume. The accounts of coal mines, of the casu- alties which have taken place underground, and of the constant risks to which miners are exposed, contain much carious and useful matter.