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Man. The descriptions of the counties are arranged alphabetically. At the end 

 of the book is an atlas of 13 maps, and an alphabetical index containing the 

 names of every town described in the book, etc. etc. 



Our Earth and Its Story. Five parts of this interesting 

 work have now been received, in which we find much information respecting 

 stratified and unstratified rocks, dykes, and mineral veins, etc., volcanoes and 

 volcanic islands, etc. 



On reading again our April reviews, we notice that we described " Our 

 Earth " as a magazine ; we intended to have said it was a work issued in 

 monthly parts. Each part contains several good engravings and one coloured 

 plate. 



The Signification and Principles of Art: A Critical 

 Essay for General Readers. Being an attempt to determine the essential 

 nature of the tine arts, and to distinguish them from other modes of human 

 activity. By C. H. Waterhouse. Svo, pp. 154. (London : [. S. Virtue and 

 Co. 1S86.) 



The author of the work before us, in discussing the nature of art, describes 

 the essential principles involved in all those art productifins in which the term 

 artistic is applicable, and forcibly shows that there is in the nature of man 

 and in the world in which he dwells, that which may furnish a foundation 

 for that broad and stately monument to human genius which we call art. The 

 author's imagination is vivid and his arguments forcible and good. 



Through Masai Land : A Journey of Exploration among the 

 Snow-clad Volcanic Mountains of Strange Tribes of Eastern Equatorial 

 Africa. New and revised edition. By Joseph Thompson, F.R.G.S. Crown 

 Svo, pp. xii. — 364. (London : Sampson, Low, and Co. 1887.) Price 7s. 6d. 



We have before us the narrative of the Royal Geographical Society's 

 Expedition to Mount Keniaand Lake Victoria Nyanza m 1883 — 4, written in 

 an exceedingly interesting manner. The book is nicely illustrated, and is 

 accompanied by a good map of the route taken by the expedition. 



Fifty Years of National Progress: 1837 — 1887. By 

 Michael G. Mulhall, F.S.S. Post Svo, pp. 126. (London: G. Routledge 

 and Sons. 1887.) 



A comparison of statistics, showing a very satisfactory progress in eleven 

 out of twelve principal points of national welfare, the one point only on which 

 a decline is shown being agriculture. The frontispiece is a diagram in red and 

 blue, comparing the progress in population, wealth, trade, manufacture, agri- 

 culture, and instruction during the same period. 



The Anatomy of the Brain and Spinal Cord. By J. Ryland 



Whitaker. l2mo, pp. xii. — 135. (Edinburgh : E. and S. Livingstone. 18S7.) 

 Price 4s. 6d. 



This little work embodies the series of demonstrations on the brain and 

 spinal cord which the author has been in the habit of giving to the senior stu- 

 dents of the Edinburgh School of Medicine, Minto House. It is nicely 

 illustrated with 22 plates, several of which are differentially coloured. 



The Principles and Practice of School Hygiene. By 

 Alfred Carpenter, M.D.Lond., etc. Post Svo, pp. 368. (London: Joseph 

 Hughes. 1887.) Price 4s. 6d. ^ 



This will be found a most useful work, and should be studied by students 



