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Fruits and How to Use 1'hem. By Mrs. Hester M. Poole. 

 Crown 8vo, pp. 242. (New York : Fowler Wells and Co. 1890.) 



Those who are specially fond of fruit will find in this little book an 

 immense variety of methods in which fruit of all kinds may be served at table. 

 We find here no less than 77 different dishes, in which the apple forms the 

 chief ingredient. 



Protoplasm and Life. By Charles T. Cox. Crown 8vo, 

 pp. 67. (New York: N. D. C. Hodges. 1890.) 



One of the " Fact and Theory Papers," and consists of two Biological 

 essays : — I. Protoplasm and the Cell Theory ; II. The Spontaneous Generation 

 Theory and its relation to the General Theory of Evolution. 



Fifty Years of Science. By Sir John Lubbock, Bart., 

 M.F., F.R.S., D.C.L., L.L.D. Crown Svo., pp. in. (London: Macmillan 

 and Co. 1890.) 



This is the fifth edition of the address delivered by Sir John Lubbock to 

 the British Association in August, 1881. Those of our readers who have not 

 read it have a treat to look forward to. It is well worth reading. 



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The World-Energy : and its self-conservation. By William 

 M. Bryant. Crow^n 8vo, pp. xv. — 304. (Chicago, U.S.A. : S. C. Griggs 

 and Co. 1890.) 



The author tells us in his preface that this volume owes its origin to studies 

 that began more than 20 years ago ; these studies were prompted by the desire 

 to find a satisfactory solution to the question, " What is man's place in nature ? " 

 The book is divided into 26 chapters, which treat of Matter and its Properties; 

 Measure and the Measureless ; Evolution of Life-form, etc. 



Evolution, Antiquity of Man, Bacteria, Etc. By 

 William Durham, F.R.S.E. Crown Svo, pp. 127. (Edinburgh: A. and C. 

 Black. 1890.) Price 2s. 



This is the first of a series of books under the title of " Science in Plain 

 Language," their object being to impart the general results of Scientific 

 investigation in plain language without too much detail. The volume before 

 us consists of a series of short chapters, grouped under four heads, viz. : — 

 Natural Selection ; Protoplasm ; Colour ; and Movement. Each article is 

 complete in itself, and may be read without reference to any other ; there is 

 nevertheless a connection between the whole of them, and they will well repay 

 careful reading. 



Half-Hours at the Seaside; or, Recreations with Marine 

 Objects. By Dr. J. E. Taylor. F. L.S., F.G.S., etc. Crown 8vo. pp xii. — 226. 

 (London : W. H. Allen and Co. 1890.) Price 2s. 6d. 



Dr. Taylor's books are always read with interest. We have here Half-an- 

 Hour with the Waves, Preparations, Sea- weeds. Sponges, Sea-worms, 

 Corallines, Jelly-fish, Sea-anemones, Sea-mats and Squirts, Sea-urchins and 

 Star-fish, Shellfish, and the Crustacea. There are 148 illustrations. 



History of California. Vol. VL By Hubert H. Bancroft. 

 8vo, pp. xi. — 787. (San Francisco : The History Publishing Co.) 



The period included m this volume is from 1848 to 1859, and comprises 

 an account of the discovery of gold, and all the succeeding events which 

 necessarily followed in its train ; the gradual building of new towns, and 

 arrangements for the Ijclter organisation of government ; formation of 



