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The Story of Primitive Man. By Edward Clodd. Fscap. 



8vo, pp. 206. (London: George Newnes. 1895.) Price i/- 



In this little book we have told in pleasant language — I. — The place of 

 Man in the Earth's Life-History ; IL — The place of Man in ihe Earth's Time- 

 history ; III. — The Ancient Stone Age ; IV. — The Newer Stone Age ; and 

 V. — The Age of Metals. There are a number of illustrations, principally 

 relating to the Stone Age. 



Short Studies in Nature Knowledge : An Introduction to 

 the Science of Physiography. By William Gee. Cr. Svo. pp. xiv. — 313. 

 (London: Macmillan and Co. 1895.) Price 3/6. 



A thoroughly interesting little book, which, whilst making the reader 

 acquainted with some phases of the natural world, may also serve as a reader, 

 and companion to the text-books used in the upper forms at schools, etc. 

 There are 117 illustrations. 



A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles. 

 Edited by Dr. James A. H. Murray. Vol. IV., Fanged — Fee. By Henry 

 Bradley, Hon. M.A. Oxon. (Oxford: The Clarendon Press. London: H. 

 Frowde. April, 1895.) Price 2/6. 



We have received the April part of this great work. This section, which 

 covers the words between Fanged and Fee, contains 897 main words, 179 

 combinations explained under these, and 187 subordinate words, making a 

 total of 1263. 



The Standard Dictionary of the English Language. By 



Isaac K. Funk, D.D., Editor-in-Chief; Francis A. March, LL.D., L. H.D.. 

 Consulting Editor ; Daniel S. Gregory, Managing Editor ; J. D. Champlin, 

 M.A., A. E. Bostwick, Ph.D., and R. Johnson, Ph.D., LL.D., Associate 

 Editors. 4to, pp. xx. — 2318. (London and New York : Funk and Wagnalls 

 Co. 1895.) 



We have the greatest pleasure in introducing this grand work to the notice 

 of our readers. It embodies many new principles in I^exicography and contains 

 5,000 illustrations made expressly for the work, besides a number of full-sized 

 coloured and plain plates; 301,865 Vocabulary Terms. Two hundred and forty- 

 seven editors and specialists and 500 readers for quotations were engaged on it, 

 and we are told nearly five years were required to complete this work in. Where 

 the whole work is excellent, it appears useless to mention any special portion. 



We wish, however, to point to a few of the special features of this work. 

 Whilst all the trades and arts have been searched for new terms, in Electricity 

 alone something like 4,000 new terms have been entered and described. As a 

 proof of the thoroughness in which the work has been carried out, we will 

 quote the explanatory note at Mythology : — 



" Mythology among the Greeks took the form of idealisation of the beauti- 

 ful and esthetic (see list of gods at Olympian) ; as developed by the Romans, 

 it deified virility, war, and the principles of law and order (see list of gods at 

 Pantheon); in India, it deified the forces of tropical nature (see Aditi, Agni, 

 AsuRi, Brahma, Deva, Dyans, Indra, Kama, Krishna, Nirvana, 

 PuRANA, Siva, Tripitaka, Veda, Vishnu); in Eg}'pt, it centred about the 

 Nile and its denizens (see Anuris, Apis, Isis, Osiris, Ptah, Ra, Seb, 

 Serapis, Set, Typhon) ; in Scandinavia, it idealised the struggle with the 

 Arctic forces of nature (see ^Esir, Asgard, Muspel, Ragnarok, Valhalla, 

 Vax). See also Anthropology. We think the editors have attained as near 

 as possible to perfection. The price of the Dictionary is — 



Single Vol. Edition, Half Russia, £2 8s. Two-Vol. Edition, £1 os. 



Full Russia (with Patent Index), £2. i6s. ,, ,, £1 8s. 



Full Morocco ,^ ,, ;^3 12s. ,, ,, ;^4 Ss. 



