Amphioxus And The Ancestry Of The Vertebrates. By Arthur...
With a Preface by H. F. Osborn. (Macmillan and Co.)—This work, issued as No. II. of the "Columbia University Biological Series," forms another of the valuable contributions to......
Round The Red Lamp.* Mil Conan Doyle Admits On The
title-page that these stories contain, not only facts, but " fancies " of medical life. The facts are generally gruesome facts, but the fancies are more gruesome still, and we......
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A Corner of Cathay. By Adele M. Fielde. (Macmillan and Co.) —These "Studies from Life among the Chinese" were made, the author tells us, during a residence of fifteen years in......
Plutarch's Lives Of Greek Heroes. (blackie And Son.) —...
of Messrs. Blackie's "School and Home Library." The "heroes" are Aristides, Themistocles, Cimon, Pericles, Pclopidas, Timoleon, Demosthenes, Phocion, Philopcemen. Some abbrevia-......
The Dawn Of Astronomy. By J. Norman Lockyer. (cassell And
Co.)—This is, as may be supposed, a volume which it is not easy to discuss or even to describe. Mr. Lockyees sub-title is "A Study of the Temple Worship and Mythology of the......
Text - Book Of The Diseases Of Trees. By Professor R....
Translated by William Somerville. Revised and edited, with Preface, by H. Marshall Ward. (Macmillan and Co.)—The present work was written from the point of view of German......
The Revolution Of The Twentieth Century. With An...
Edited by Henry Lazarus. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—These "prospective histories" are commonly somewhat foolish; this, which Mr. Lazarus has written or "edited," is so in a conspicuous......
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