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Glaucus ; or, The Wonders of the Shore. By Charles Kingsley, F.S.A., 

 Author of "Westward Ho!" "Hypatia," &c. Third Edition, Cor- 

 rected and Enlarged. 12mo. Cambridge : Macmullen & Co., 1856. 

 Price 3s. 6d. 



We have already made this little book the subject of a Review (see vol. 

 for 1856, p. 5), but the appearance of a new Edition, corrected and 

 enlarged, will, no doubt, be a sufficient apology with our readers for in- 

 troducing it again to their notice. We know that some people have an 

 objection to new Editions, with Additions, and think that the additional 

 matter ought at any rate to be also published in a separate form ; but it 

 appears to us perfectly natural that an author should employ his additional 

 knowledge in improving, at each successive edition, any work that he has 

 written, and amplifying it with any fresh ideas to which the previous 

 context may lead him on. Yet the publication of this fresh matter, sepa- 

 rately, from that which led to it, would, in most cases, be simply absurd. On 

 a close comparison of this Third Edition with the second we find verbal 

 alterations at pages 23, 48, 74, 97, and 165, and the following additional 

 matter— viz. : pp. 110-117, 118-125, 154-160, 166-168. Some por- 

 tions of the extracts from Mr. Gosse's works, which appeared in the pre- 

 vious Editions, are omitted in this ; thus we get some 24 additional pages, 

 without any increase in the size of the book. 



The first verbal alteration occurs in the sentence which created such a 

 stir in the hive ; we allude, of course, to the passage in which we were 

 told " our home botanists, entomologists, and ornithologists are spending 

 their time now, perforce, in verifying a few obscure species, and bemoan- 

 ing themselves, like Alexander, that there are no more worlds left to con- 

 quer." In the new Edition the word " Entomologists" is here omitted, 

 but we find it transferred to the following sentence : — " For the geologist, 

 indeed, and the entomologist, especially in the remoter districts, much re- 

 mains to be done, but only at a heavy outlay of time, labour, and study ; 

 and the dilettante (and it is for dilettanti, like myself, that I principally 

 write), must be content to tread in the tracks of greater men who have 

 preceded him, and accept at second and third hand their foregone con- 

 clusions." 



This will not do, Mr. Kingsley. You must retouch this sentence for the 

 next Edition, or you will again have the Entomologists down upon you. 

 We boldly affirm that for the Entomologist much remains to be done 

 without any heavy outlay of time, labour, and study. Hear Mr. Douglas, 

 in " The World of Insects," p. 4 : " It is true a popular writer (the Rev. 



