62 REVIEWS. 



Factors of Life. Three Lectures on Health, Food, and 



Education. By H. G. Seeley, F.R.S. Post Svo, pp. 191. (London : Society 

 for Promoting Christian Knowledge.) 



This is a volume of the well-known " People's Library," and treats of the 

 three subjects in a plain and forcible manner, and will well repay thoughtful 

 reading. 



Queer Chums : Being a narrative of a Midshipman's 



Adventures and Escapes in Eighteen Hundred and War-time. By 



Charles H. Eden. Illustrated by VV. H. Overend. Cr. Svo, pp. xii. — 312. 

 (London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.) Price 3s. 



This exceedingly interesting story is founded chiefly on facts that came 

 under the author's notice, and will be read with delight by many of our young 

 friends. It has several illustrations. 



Practical Chemistry : a Course of Laboratory Work. By 

 M. M. Pattison Muir, M.A., and Douglass Carnegie, B.A. Cr. Svo, pp. 

 viii. — 224. Price 3s. 



Elementary Chemistry. By M. M. Pattison Muir, M.A., 

 and Charles Slater, M. A., M.B. Pp. viii, — 36S. Price 4s. 6d. (Cambridge 

 University Press ; London : J. C. Clay and Sons. 1S87.) 



These two books are intended to be used together, the one being comple- 

 mentary to the other, their object being to teach the elements of Chemical 

 Science. The author's aim has been to arrange a progressive course of prac- 

 tical chemistry, in which as the experiments become more difficult, the reason- 

 ing becomes more close and accurate. Appendices are added, giving outlines 

 of experiments on parts I and 2. Tables for easy qualitative analysis and 

 numerical data, including logarithms and antilogs. The authors tell us they 

 entertain views rather different from those which generally prevail regarding 

 the relative importance of the various parts of chemistry. They have 

 endeavoured to make the teaching given in this book sound, so far as it goes ; 

 and have endeavoured to blend together the facts and principles of the science, 

 and at the same time to avoid speculation. 



The Cremation of the Dead considered from an Esthetic, 

 Sanitary, Religious, Historical, Medico-Legal, and Economical Standpoint. 

 By Hugo Erichsen, M.D., with an Introductory Note by Sir T. Spencer 

 Wells, Bart., P'.R.S., late President of the Royal College of Surgeons of 

 England, Surgeon to the Queen's Household. Cr. Svo, pp. xiv. — 264. 

 (Detroit, U.S.A. : D. A. Haynes and Co. 1887.) 



It is unnecessary to state that the writer of this book most unquestionably 

 believes in Cremation as the best mode of disposing of the dead; he tells us in 

 his preface that " for all who like cleanliness, for all who love true sentiment, 

 for all friends of economy, for all who venerate their dead, and for all who are 

 not afraid of reform, the book was written." We have read the book with 

 much interest, and can cordially recommend it to the notice of our many 

 readers. It is well illustrated. 



Dainty Ditties ; or, Old Nursery Rhymes with New Tunes. 

 By Frank J. Allen. (London : Novello. Ewer, and Co.) Price is. 6d., or 

 bound in cloth, 2s. 6d. 



The author of this cliarming little collection of melodies will be remem- 

 bered by many " Postal Microscopists " as a former member of the Society, 

 ftlany of the settings are very quaint and original. 



