256 REVIEWS. 



The object of this book is to place before students and practitioners an 

 elementary treatise on the errors of refraction of the eye, and to explain in 

 simple language their nature and the means whereby they may be satisfactorily 

 corrected. 



How TO Use our Eves and How to Preserve Them from 

 Infancy to Old Age. By John Browning, F.R.A.S., F.R.M.S., etc. (Lon- 

 don : Chatto and Windus. i8S6.) Price is. 



Mr. Browning here gives us his experience in the construction and adapta- 

 tion of spectacles. The present edition (the fourth) has been carefully revised, 

 and is illustrated with 55 engravings. 



Records of an Active Life, with Incidents of Travel and 

 Numerous Anecdotes. By Samuel Taylor. Cr. Svo, pp. 90. (Hanley: 

 Allbut and Daniel. London : Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. 1886.) Price 2/6. 



]Mr. Taylor, the well-known originator and promoter of Penny Readings, 

 gives in the little book before us some interesting records or reminiscences of 

 his early life and of his travels in Russia, Sweden, etc. The book is very 

 pleasantly written. 



Modern Language in Education. By G. F. Comfort. 



(Syracuse, New York : C. \V. Bardeen. 1886.) 



This little pamphlet of 40 pages is a reprint of a paper published in 

 Scribner's Magazine. It discusses the relative merits and claims of the ancient 

 and modern languages in the general system of education. 



Common Objects of the Country. By Rev. J. G. Wood. 

 Common Objects of the Seashore, including Hints for an 



Aquarium. By Rev. J. G. Wood. 



The Spectator (Choice Selections). 



The Professor at the Breakfast-Table (Selections). By 



Oliver Wendell Holmes. 



The Comic Poets of the Nineteenth Century : Poems of 



Wit and Humour. Selected and arranged by W. Davenport Adams. 



Chinese Gordon : A Succinct History of his Life. By 

 Archibald Forbes. 



All i6mo, pp. 160. (London : George Routledge and Sons. 1886.) 

 Price 3d. and 6d. each. 



Six volumes of " Routledge 's World Series," nicely bound in cloth and 

 well printed. Each volume has an introduction by the Rev. Plugh Reginald 

 Haweis, ^LA. The subjects are well selected, and the books deserve a place 

 in the library of every youth. 



A Mechanic's Tour Round the World. By T. Lowe. 



(London : Wyman and Sons. 1886.) Price is. 



The writer visited South Africa, Canada (including British Columbia), the 

 United States, Australia, etc. At Kimberley, South Africa, he worked in the 

 diamond-fields. He gives us some entertaining notes and sketches of his 

 travels and of the various occupations in which he engaged. 



