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sea, tranquil and quiet, sparkling amid the intense glare of a July sun ; 

 for a little while we see nothing but the glittering waters, — then the 

 pleased eye rests on the large safety buoy out on the very horizon — the 

 rescuer from a watery, wintry grave of many a poor fellow — then Caldy 

 Isle grows upon the view, and then the whole deep is alive with the snowy 

 plumaged gannets ; too far off, we hear not their discordant cry, but as 

 they quickly sweep along — now seen, now lost — they rather add to than 

 take from the impressive quietness of the scene. 



St. Catherine's Rock, too, crowned with the ruins of an old chapel, now 

 grown hoary with the gray lichen that mantles its broken-down walls and 

 makes them look so venerable ; it was a pleasant place to resort to. A 

 winding stairs brings you to its summit, where you could lie down and 

 study man as many a variety of this one great species walked along the 

 yellow sands beneath you ; there were happy children digging with their 

 little spades moats and pits in the soft sand, as thoughtless of the next tide 

 which will sweep all their work away as their elders are of the scythe of 

 time. Or let the naturalist go beneath this rocky islet and he will find it 

 full of caves, and in them he will find — but we won't tell him, for the 

 volume before us does, and that in a manner beyond our pretensions. 



The appendix is a great addition to this volume, especially the part that 

 treats of the sub-division of the Actinias, and there is a valuable systematic 

 index of the Invertebrata mentioned in the volume. 



We must now pass on to notice the second part of the British Marine 

 Zoology. It contains the Sub-kingdoms, Mollusca (which takes up the 

 greater portion of the volume) and Vertebrata. 



We think there cannot be a doubt but that Mr. Gosse's Manual, which 

 this part completes, is the most useful work that has been for a long time, 

 if ever, published. To think of bringing Mr. Van Voorst's series of works 

 on British Natural History to the sea -side with one was really quite enough 

 to keep one from the sea-side for ever. Why they would take up the room 

 of an adult passenger, or of a couple of children ; and then, supposing them 

 once there, who could carry " Forbes and Hanly" in their waistcoat or any 

 other pocket ? The thing was almost impossible ; but now, thanks to our 

 author, we have, by binding the two parts in one, a nice little volume quite 

 easily carried, quite easily referred to, and one that in future it will be quite 

 impossible to do without. 



Mr. Gosse says that, by a most singular coincidence, the number of 

 genera in both parts — the first containing the Radiate and Annulose forms 

 — are both alike, namely 339. Now, we really think all this allusion about 



