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those of the American Races. By J. W. Dawson, C.M.G., LL.D., F.R.S., 



F.G.S., etc. Crown 8vo, pp. viii. — 354. (London: Hodder and Stoughton. 

 1888.) 



This work is intended as a popular exposition of some of those important 

 topics in which geologists, archseologists, historians, philologists, and anthro- 

 pologists are not always agreed. These the author treats from the point of 

 view of the geologist and naturalist, and on the principle of referring to 

 modern causes for the explanation of ancient effects. It contains 46 good 

 engravings. 



A Popular Zoology. By J. Dorman Steele, Ph.D., and J. 

 W. p. Jenks, A.M. 8vo, pp. xiii. — 319. (New York and Chicago: A. S. 

 Barnes and Co. 1887.) 



This work will prove a valuable one to the young student. Its principal 

 features are brevity, directness of statement, frequent foot-notes with anecdotes, 

 and a gradual introduction of scientific terms and language, so as to fit the 

 scholar to read zoological literature. It abounds with woodcuts, there being 

 no fewer than 481, each animal being figured. The text is largely occupied 

 with biography, telling us " how animals act, think, and are mutually related." 

 Every class of the animal kingdom is named, with most of its orders and 

 many of the principal genera. We note, too, that every scientific word is 

 czx^inWy pronounced. In the appendix will be found directions for collecting 

 and preserving specimens. At the end of the book a most useful table is given 

 of the systematic arrangement of the representative forms mentioned in the 

 book. It is a book with which we are much pleased. 



Tenants of an Old Farm : Leaves from the Note-Book of a 

 Naturalist. By Henry M. C. McCook, D.D. With an Introduction by Sir 

 John Lubbock, M.P., F.R.S., etc. Crown 8vo, pp. 460. (London : Hodder 

 and Stoughton. 1888.) 



This admirable work has, we believe, already found a very large sale in 

 America. In it the author gives, in a most pleasant, colloquial style, a 

 number of essays on his own peculiar specialities, more particularly ants and 

 spiders, although he tells us that, "like most naturalists, he thinks that the 

 truths of nature are attractive enough in themselves, and need not the season- 

 ing of fiction, even of so mild a flavour as offered by the "Tenants." He 

 assures us that most of the facts came under his own observation. By intro- 

 ducing the " tenants," more especially " Old Dan " and " Sary Ann," he is 

 able to add much folk-lore concerning insects, which perhaps would otherwise 

 either have been left out altogether, or certainly not told in so pleasant a 

 manner as we now have it. 



We strongly advise our friends to get a copy of this book. It is a great 

 favourite with us. The illustrations are remarkably good. 



Insect Ways on Summer Days in Garden, Forest, Field, 

 and Stream. By Jennett Humphreys. Crown 8vo, pp. 192. (London : 

 Blackie and Son. 1888.) Price 2s. 6d. 



A series of instructive facts, very interestingly told, about many tiny 

 things by which we are surrounded. Each insect described is nicely illustrated 

 by an engraving. We cannot, however, help thinking that the fair authoress 

 has made one slight mistake when she says that the Water Boatman {Notonecia 

 glauca) feeds upon the Watermite and the Crab-Louse (! !), both of which are 

 represented in the illustrations. 



A Student's Manual of Psychology, adapted from the 

 Katechisnms der Fsychologie of Friedrich Kirchner. By E. D. Drought. 



