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Familiar Lectures On The Physiology Of Food And Drink. By

R. J. Mann, M.D. (Ward, Lock, and Co.)—This is an interesting book, which, after our first cursory inspection, we felt inclined to praise highly. Indeed, the greater number of......

Current Literature.

Pompey's Peril. Written for the Zoophilist by Mrs. Cashel Hoey. (Published by the Society for the Protection of Animals from Vivi- section.)—This is a story full of liveliness......

The Appearance Of The Revised Version Of The New Testament

has let loose an army of discontented writers. At first they confined themselves to sharp and distant criticism; they are now coming to close quarters with hostile versions of......

Songs And Rhymes, English And French. By Walter Herries...

(Remington.)—There is much grace in some of these verses, but also not as much substance as there ought to be in verses that are to take hold of the mind, except in the rare......

Colin Clout's Calendar. By Grant Allen. (chatto And...

are thirty-nine picturesque studies of hedgerow, moor, and forest, of stream, field, orchard, and garden. Mr. Grant Allen, the 4 ` Evolutionist at Large," discourses pleasantly......

A Flight To Mexico. By J. J. Aubertin. (regan Paul

and Co.)— As the author of this record of a short visit to Mexico was able to converse with the natives in their own language, he, of course, gained many interesting particulars......