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death, and, conducting it into proper receivers, to apply it to economical pur- 

 poses." 



We must now take leave, for a season, of the natural history of the 

 Eastern Borders, which we hope soon to renew our acquaintance with, in a 

 second volume from the same accomplished pen, as we have rarely taken 

 up a local flora in which we felt greater interest than in the present, 

 which has at each page reminded us of the force of an observation of 

 Goethe, quoted by our author, that — " plants and flowers of the commonest 

 kind may form a charming diary for us, because nothing that calls back the 

 remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant ;" and some of the 

 lowliest of our wild flowerets are associated with treasured memories of the 

 past, the full force of which, perhaps, we did not realize until they were 

 summoned before us as we read page after page of Dr. Johnston's " Botany 

 of the Eastern Borders." 



Popular Physical Geology. By J. Beete Jukes, M.A., F.R.S., M.R.I.A. ; 

 author of " Excursions in Newfoundland," " Narrative of the Voyage of 

 H.M.S. Fly" &c. London: Reeve and Co., Henrietta-street, Covent 

 Garden. 1853. Price, 10s. 6d. 



" Beud ant's Geologi, Lyell's Geology, &c, would lead one to suppose that 

 the tyro geologists' wants were all supplied ; yet, our author has discovered 

 that it is not only not so, but he has given us a work more calculated to 

 attract attention than the very excellent volumes to which we have referred, 

 and while he has done so, he has not supplied their places, but has made them 

 still more valuable ; is not this a paradox ? The fact is, Mr. Director Jukes's 

 work is freely written and easily read — it does not hamper the student with 

 technicological difficulties, nor require of him to enter into palaeontological 

 pursuits at the outset, but it sets forth by showing the active agencies at 

 present at work, goes over in an intelligible way the various formations, and 

 finishes by informing his readers that the time is coming when the profes- 

 sionally educated geologist will be indispensable. The work is beautifully 

 illustrated, and well calculated to afford pleasure to the amateur geologist, 

 who will from it learn to make his eye for observation, and thus open a source 

 of perpetual pleasure, while to the artist it especially commends itself. To us 

 the landscapes of Mr. Dunoyer (who has illustrated the work) have always 

 had a surpassing excellence, as we could see in them nature combined with 

 artistic skill. There was a great painter, who, going into tropical climes, 

 could not forget his native oaks and other familiar trees ; these he introduced 



