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volume should be mentioned an address on 

 the Sabbath, in which a strict and dismal 

 mode of observing the day is deprecated ; 

 and an address delivered at the Birkbeck In- 

 stitution, which tells much of Tyndall's own 

 student-life. Persons who have read the 

 Fragments of Science by Tyndall will find 

 the present volume no less interesting. 



A Treatise on the Ligation of the Great 

 Arteries in Continuity, with Obser- 

 vations on the Nature, Progress, and 

 Treatment of Aneurism. By Charles 

 A. Ballance, F. R. C. S., and Walter 

 Edmunds, F. R. C. S. London and New 

 York : Macmillian & Co. Pp. 568. 

 Price, $10. 



This elegant volume embodies the results 

 of extended researches and of many experi- 

 ments upon the lower animals undertaken 

 with the view of lessening the liability to 

 haemorrhage after the ligation of an artery. 

 After two brief introductory chapters the 

 nature of arteries and the processes of physi- 

 ological occlusion and pathological oblitera- 

 tion are described. Then the conduct and 

 fate of the corpuscles, the clot, the coats, 

 and the ligature are successively discussed. 

 The phenomena of suppuration and haemor- 

 rhage are next examined, and a chapter on 

 the conduct and fate of the aneurism follows. 

 Taking up the surgery of the arteries in de- 

 tail, the authors give the views and practice 

 of the earlier and later surgeons, and discuss 

 the choice of the operation, the ligature, the 

 knot, and the force. A concluding chapter 

 treats of the conduct of the operation and 

 the fate of the patient. The work is printed 

 in large type, with wide margins, and is il- 

 lustrated with ten plates, including a front- 

 ispiece portrait of Scarpa, and 232 figures. 



The Genesis of Genesis. A Study of the 

 Documentary Sources of the First Book 

 of Moses, in Accordance with the Results 

 of Critical Science, illustrating the Pres- 

 ence of Bibles within the Bible. By 

 Benjamin Wisner Bacon. Hartford : 

 The Student Publishing Company. Pp. 

 352. Price, $2.50. 



In preparing this book, the author has 

 assumed that the reading public are entitled 

 to judge for themselves concerning the value 

 of what is called the higher criticism. For 

 this end they require, not controversial argu- 

 ment, but explanation ; and he does not con- 



sider it necessary that the presentation of 

 the case should be made from the point of 

 view of hostility to the new theory, or even 

 from one of indifference. An introduction 

 by Prof. George F. Moore, of Andover The- 

 ological Seminary, gives the history of the 

 higher criticism, or of questions of the au- 

 thorship of Genesis from the time it was 

 started by Aben Ezra, in the twelfth century. 

 The introductory part of the work proper 

 contains chapters on Higher Criticism and 

 the Science of Documentary Analysis, The 

 Science of Biblical Criticism, and The Docu- 

 mentary Theory of To-day. In Part II is 

 shown the text of Genesis according to the 

 Revised Version, in varieties of type to ex- 

 hibit the constituent sources and method of 

 their compilation according to the general 

 consensus of critical analysis, with notes ex- 

 planatory of the phenomena of reduction. 

 Part III presents the separate documents 

 designated as J, E, and P, conjecturally re- 

 stored, with revised translation according to 

 emended text and conjectural readings of 

 good authority. In the appendix are given 

 " the great flood interpolation and connected 

 passages, placed in juxtaposition with a 

 translation of their cuneiform parallels." 



A Text-Book of Bacteriology. By Carl 

 Fraenkel, M. D., Professor of Hygiene, 

 University of Kbnigsberg. Translated 

 and edited from the third German edi- 

 tion by J. H. Linsley, M. D., Professor of 

 Pathology and Bacteriology in the Uni- 

 versity of Vermont. New York : Will- 

 iam Wood & Co. Pp. 380. Price, $3.75. 



Systematic study of the bacteria is in- 

 cluded at present not only in the curriculum 

 of medical schools, but also forms part of a 

 biological course in many of our universities. 

 Its interpretation of the causes of disease 

 has led to a sense of its value, and the meth- 

 ods of German and French investigators are 

 followed with increasing eagerness by stu- 

 dents. A considerable number of volumes 

 consisting of translations and original lect- 

 ures upon the subject is already accessible in 

 English, but no one of these is perhaps an 

 adequate text-book. Dr. Linsley has there- 

 fore translated and adapted to use Fraenkel's 

 Orundriss der Bakterienkunde, a manual 

 whose worth is attested by its rendering into 

 six different languages. 



In this work little space is allowed for 



