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Acute and Chronic Disease. There are several ilkistrations. Ilerr Cohen is 

 well known as a popular lecturer on Phrenology, etc. 



Notable Workers in Humble Ijfe. Crown 8vo, pp. 219. 

 By Rev. E. N. Hoare, M.A. (London: T. Nelson and Sons. 18S7.) 

 Price 2s. 



An interesting account, written for young people, of those remarkal)Ie 

 men, [ohn Pounds, John Duncan, Roliert Dick, Thomas Edward, John Asii- 

 worth, Thomas Cooper, Robert Flockhart, and George Smith. A portrait of 

 Robert Dick forms a frontispiece to this little volume, and a vignette of John 

 Ashworth adorns the title-page. The biographies are pleasingly told. 



The Science of CoxMmon Things. By John A. Bower, F.C.S. 

 Fscap 8vo, pp. V. — 165. (London : Sunday School Union.) 



A series of articles on things met with in every-day life, as, e.«:, Our 

 Weather-Glass, The Kitchen-Pump, How a Thermometer is made, A Lumji f>f 

 Ice, A Magnifying Glass, etc. The information is given plainly and simph-, 

 and is likely to prove of much profit to the reader. 



Lectures delivered before the Sunday Lecture Society, New- 

 castle-on-Tyne. Crown 8vo, pp. 173. (London : Walter Scott. 1S87.) 



A series of seven most interesting lectures, which we have read with much 

 ]ileasure. They embrace the following subjects : — The Natural History of 

 Instinct, by G. J. Romanes, F.R.S. ; Animal Life on the Ocean Surface, by 

 Professor H. N. Moseley, M.A., F.R.S. ; The Eye and its Work, by Litton 

 Forbes, M.D., F.R.C.S.E. ; The Movement of Plants, by Ernest A. Parkyn, 

 M.A. ; The Relations between Natural Science and Literature, by Professor 

 II. Netlleship, M.A. ; Facts and Fictions in Zoology, by Andrew Wdson, 

 F. R.S.E. ; The Animals that make Limestone, by Dr. P. Herbert Carpenter, 

 F.R.S. The names of the authors will sufficiently guarantee the value of the 

 lectures. ■ 



The Prior of Gyseburne (Gisborough) : A Chronicle of 

 Olden Times, in the Days of Richard the Second, Henry the Fourth and 

 Fifth. By the Rev. F. II. Morgan, M.A. Crown Svo, pp. 415. (Saltburn- 

 by-the-Sea : W. Rapp and Sons. London : Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. 

 1S87.) Price 5s. 



This interesting account of Gisborough Priory in the days of Richard II. 

 and Henry lY. and V. is compiled in a great measure from a curious 

 old MS. in the author's possession. A very pretty jihotograph of the ruins of 

 the Priory and Grounds of Gisborough forms a frontispiece to the volume. 



A Boy's Adventures in the Wilds of Australia ; or, 



Herbert's Note-Book. By William Howitt. With illustrations by William 

 Harvey. Post Svo, pp. 376. (London: George Routledge and Sons.) 

 Price 3s. 6d. 



A book which every boy will delight in reading. It was written amid llie 

 scenes and characters which it describes. The adventures are well told ai d 

 the illustrations are good. 



Gleanings from the Book of Ruth ; or, the Book of Ruth 



opened out by comparison with other parts of Scripture. By Robert Brown, 

 Crown 8vo, pp. vi. — 260. (LondiMi : S. W. Partridge ami Co.) 



