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It gives the names of all Towns and Villages and places of interest passed on 

 the road, with their distances from each other, and from the starting point as 

 well as from the destination, the direction and distance of the nearest place on 

 all the branch roads ; a tariff of Hotel Charges, Railway Rates for Cycles, etc. 



Illustrated Guide to Ilfracombe and North Devon. 

 Edited by W. WaUers. With Plans and Maps. Square i6mo, pp. x. — 205. 

 (Ilfracombe : Twiss and Son.) Price is. 



The visitor to Ilfracombe and North Devon will find this a useful hand- 

 book. The topography has, we are told, been brought up to date of publica- 

 tion. A good description is given of all the places of interest in the neigh- 

 bourhood. There are about 30 illustrations. 



The Household Handy Book : A Useful Manual for 

 Everyday Life. Compiled by Mrs. Valentine. Crown 8vo, pp. xi. — 308. 

 (London : Frederick Warne and Co.) Price 2s. 6d. 



Mrs. Valentine's book is addressed to young women, and is intended to 

 give them information that may enable them to add a fresh amount of pleasure 

 and usefulness to their lives- Advice and instruction on a great variety of 

 subjects are given, ranging from Receipts for making Home Pretty ; Fancy 

 Work ; Dress ; Food and How to Cook it ; Domestic Pets ; to Geography, 

 Arithmetic, and Natural Science. 



Choice British Ferns : Their Varieties and Culture. By 

 Charles T. Druery, F.L.S. With Illustrations of about 120 Select Ferns. 

 Crown 8vo, pp. iv. — 167. (London: L. Upcott Gill. 1888.) 



A number of the most beautiful and striking forms of British Ferns are 

 described and illustrated in a very pleasing manner, the plates being printed 

 with a black ground on drab paper. The book is not overcrowded with scien- 

 tific terms, and the common forms are described and figured so as to be easily 

 recognised. The book is divided into two sections :— i. — The Collection and 

 Cultivation of British Ferns ; and 2. — The Fern Families of Britain. 



Modern Engine-Making in Theory and Practice. By J. 

 Pocock. Cr. 8vo, pp. vi. — 178. (London : Swan Sonnenschein and Co. 

 1888.) Price 2s. 6d. 



A series of papers, which will doubtless prove useful to a large body of 

 amateurs. Instructions are given for building model engines of all kinds and 

 patterns. There are 115 engravings. 



A Text-Book of Physiology. By John Gray M'Kendrick, 

 M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., etc. Including Histology, by Philipp Stohr, M.D. 

 8vo, pp. XXV. — 516. (Glasgow : James Maclehose & Sons. 1888.) Price i6s. 



This will be found an exhaustive treatise on the general physiology of the 

 tissues. The introductory section deals with general notions as to living 

 matter, more especially with reference to the doctrines regarding energy which 

 form the basis of modern science. The nature and properties of the chemical 

 substances found in the bodies, and the nature of the chemical reactions with 

 which the phenomena of life are associated, are then discussed. Then follows 

 chapters on the physiology of the tissues, in which their origin is discussed in 

 the light of recent investigations, and finally a section on the contractile 

 tissues. This volume will be shortly followed by another on the special phy- 

 siology of the organs. The work is illustrated with 318 engravings and a 

 coloured plate of the spectra. 



