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vocabulary is the abundance of words which have been influenced in their 

 sense-development by their apparently imitative or expressive sound, as Jizz. 

 fizzle, fiabhergast, flack, etc. etc. The etymological notes on most of these 

 words will be found to contain facts not given in other English dictionaries. 



The editors are to be congratulated on the very efficient manner in which 

 they are performing their very arduous work. 



The Pocket Atlas of the World. By J. G. Bartholomew, 

 F.R.C.S. , F.R.S.E., etc. Tenth edition. Size, i\ by 4f by i in. (London: 

 John Walker and Co. 1897.) Price 2/6 in cloth ; 3/6 leather binding. 



The tenth edition of this useful little atlas has been greatly amplified and 

 extended. Without increasing the bulk, 72 new plates have been added, the 

 text has been re-written, and the maps thoroughly revised to date. The Index 

 to the maps occupy 72 double-column pages. 



Knowledge in a Nutshell. Size, 2\ by 3^ by t| in. Glas- 

 gow : David Bryce and Son.) Price 2/3. 



Undoubtedly the book before us is all that its name implies. First, we 

 have Bryce's Pearl English Dictionary, comprising, besides the ordinary 

 and newest words in the language, short explanations of a large number of 

 Scientific, Philosophical, Literary, and Technical Terms, occupying 384 pages. 

 Bryce's Pearl Atlas of the World, containing 72 maps. Bryce's 

 Pearl Gazetteer of the World, comprising the most recent statistical 

 information and notices of the most important historical events associated with 

 the places named, also the last census, occupying 43S pages ; and lastly. The 

 Desk Promoter, affording information in daily requisition, and an Index, 

 covering 120 pages. This is altogether a very useful book. 



Economic Entomology for the Farmer and Fruit-grower and 

 for use as a Text-book in Agricultural Schools and Colleges. By John B. 

 Smith, vSc.D. 8vo, pp. 481. (Philadelphia, U.S.A.: J. B. Lippincott Co. 

 1896.) Price $2.50 (10/6). 



Insect injury to agricultural products amounts each year to a very consider- 

 able sum, and as a whole shows a tendency to increase rather than otherwise. 

 Progressive farmers have long been aware of this, and the science of economic 

 entomolog)' has grown up in response to their demands for information con- 

 cerning insect depredation and for means of protection against it. In this book 

 an attempt is made to present these matters so completely as to give a founda- 

 tion upon which further information may be added. 



The book — which, we trust, will be the means of saving a large amount of 

 agricultural produce, not only in the United States, for which it is written, 

 but in this country also — is divided into three parts. The first is devoted to the 

 Structure and Classification of Insects ; the second treats of the Insect World ; 

 and the third of Insecticides, Preventives, and Machmery. There are 483 

 very good illustrations. 



Ages Ago : The Ancestry of Animals. By Edith Carrington. 

 Post 8vo, pp. 179. (London : G. Pell and Sons. 1896.) Price i/- 



This is one of the very interesting series of Animal Life Readers, its object 

 being to give to young people a first idea of the great antiquity of animal life 

 on the earth, and to show the essential part tljctt animals have played in the 

 history of the world in its various stages of development. It is nicely illus- 

 trated by Harrison Weir and others. 



