284 REVIEWS. 



Until the publication of this book, it appears that only one work, in two 

 volumes, and now out of print and very scarce, contained all the knowledge 

 to be gained respecting this region. The author has made three trips to Labra- 

 dor : the first in 1875, ^gain in 1 880, and last in 1 882 ; of these visits he gives 

 us an interesting account. 



Boots and Saddles ; or, Life in Dakota, with General Custer. 

 By Elizabeth B. Custer. With portrait and map, pp. 312. (New York: 

 Harper Bros. London: S. Low and Co. 1885.) $1.50. 



Here we have a very charming biography of one of the heroes who fell 

 fighting in the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Mrs. Custer accompanied her 

 husband in all his dangers, and gives in the pages before us a most interesting 

 account of the difficulties and pleasures of cavalry and camp life- 



Studies of Flowers from Nature. By Kate Sadler. With 



instructions for copying. 



Studies of Twelve British Birds from Nature. By Alice 



A. West. (London : Windsor and Newton.) 



We have before us two high-class reproductions in chromo-lithography, 

 each set containing 12 fine pictures, those of flowers being particularly pleas- 

 ing. The price of the set of flowers is i8s., or is. 6d. each ; that of the birds 

 I2s., or IS. each. 



The W^inds : An Essay in Illustration of the New Principles 

 of Natural Philosophy. By William Leighton Jordan, F. R.G.S. Third 

 edition, pp. 47. (London : David Bogue. 1885.) Price 3s. 6d. 



This little book forms with slight modifications the third and fourth chapters 

 of " The New Principles of Natural Philosophy." It treats of the action of 

 Solar Heat, Lunar Gravitation, the Earth's Rotation, the Trade-Winds, etc. 



Spectrum Analysis, in its application to Terrestrial Substan- 

 ces and the Physical Constitution of the Heavenly Bodies. Familiarly 

 explained by the late Dr. H. Schellen. Translated by Jane and Caroline 

 Lassell. Edited, with notes, by Captain W. de W. Abney, R.E., F.R.S. 

 With numerous woodcuts, coloured plates, and Angstrom's and Corme's maps. 

 Second edition, pp. xxiv. — 626. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1885.) 

 Price £1 IIS. 6d. 



This noble work will render much valuable assistance to the physicist and 

 to the astronomer. It is divided into eight parts, and treats of: — i — The Arti- 

 ficial Sources of High Degrees of Light and Heat ; 2 — Spectrum Analysis in 

 its application to Terrestrial Substances ; 3 — Its application to the Sun ; 4 — 

 Stellar Spectroscopes and Investigation of the Moon and Planets by Spectrum 

 Analysis ; 5 — Application of Spectrum Analysis to the Fixed Stars ; 6 — 

 Results of the Spectroscopic Investigation of Nebulae and Clusters ; 7 — And of 

 Comets and Meteors ; 8 — And of the Zodiacal Light, Aurora Borealis, and 

 Lightning ; followed by an Appendix. There are fourteen plates, many being 

 coloured. The frontispiece to the work is the Nebula of Orion, enlarged from 

 a photo taken by Mr. Common, and 291 finely executed wood engravings. 

 The work is one of no common degree of excellence. 



Outlines of Psychology : Dictations from Lectures by 

 Hermann Lottze. Translated, with a Chapter on the Anatomy of the Brain, 



