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lltliograpliic art and artistic beauty. The two finest and 

 largest are drawn by the f\iir hand of Lady Kinnaird, and are of 

 unquestionable excellence. The writer is well known as a distin- 

 guished amateur geologist. His name is associated with some im- 

 portant discoveries in this department of Science. Lately the 

 remarkably well preserved fossils of a district in Fifeshire, Scot- 

 land, called Dura Den, has attracted the attention of geologists 

 and led to an interesting determination of the position of the 

 rocks in which they are embedded. The fossils are now regarded, 

 on almost unquestionable evidence, to belong to the Devonian 

 or old red Sandstone formation. At first, from their contiguity 

 to the coal fields of Fifeshire^ these rocks were supposed to 

 have some relation to the lower members of the Carboniferous 

 system, but the careful examination of their fossils and the relat- 

 ed strata have led the chiefs of geological science to regard the 

 Yellow Sandstone of Dura Den, as a curious and most interesting 

 section of the great Devonian System. We cordially reconi. 

 mend this book to those interested in the progress of Geological 

 Science. 



Nuggets from the oldest Diggings or Researches in the Mosaic Crea- 

 tion. By R. "W. Yandyk. Edinburgh: Thos. Constable & Co. 

 Montreal : B. Dawson & Son. 



This is another book on the great question of the reconciliation of 

 the Mosaic Narrative of Creation, with the facts of physical science. 

 Notwithstanding the uncouth title, the book is written with much 

 vigour and eloquence. There is no pretension to a critical examina- 

 tion of the text with this branch of the subject our author does not 

 intermeddle. Nor does he claim any higher acquaintance with 

 science than that which may be obtained from a careful study of good 

 books. The author persuades himself that he has made a grand 

 discovery which removes all the difficulties which have hitherto 

 perplexed the wisest of men, and sheds a perfect flood of light 

 upon the scripture narrative. He is evidently in a very Lappy frame 

 of mind, and writes in a style of delightful enthusiasm. " Happy 

 is he who knoweth the causes of things." Our authors' idea is 

 that, with the exception of the very first act, which was the creation 

 of the substance of the universe, the whole events narrated in 

 Genesis i. were truly effects of the laws given to the created mass, 

 showing themselves gradually and in succession, and by a process 



