4 FEBRUARY 1882, page 18

Miss Ferrier's First Novel.*

Miss FEaarra's work in fiction is already in some external re- spects so thoroughly "old-fashioned," and has been so generally though so nndeservedly neglected by novel-readers......

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THE DIFFUSION OF ORGANISMS IN THE AIR.* SURPRISE was expressed in many quarters, when it became' known, a few years ago, that Professor Tyndall, neglecting for a - while the......