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On the whole, we think that, considering the difficulties of the 

 task before them, both author and artist have produced a very 

 creditable volume, and one which will not fail to arouse a considerable 

 amount of popular interest. Should a new edition be called for, we 

 think the author would do well to be somewhat less free in his use of 

 uncouth and unfamiliar terms {e.g. heteroclite, p. 35) and technical 

 names. Moreover, in many places his literary style and the con- 

 formation of his sentences might be altered for the better. For 

 instance in a half-page paragraph of six sentences (p. 18) we find no 

 less than three of these beginning with the word " But " and two with 

 "In"; while the clumsiness of some of the sentences themselves 

 would be rather hard to beat. 



