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principles of light by diagrams, and by reference to objects of common use. 

 It is illustrated with 22 diagrams, and a great deal of information is given in 

 an easy and pleasant manner. 



A Class-Book of Elementary Chemistry. By W. W. Fisher, 

 M.A., F.C.S. Crown 8vo, pp. xv. — 272. (Oxford and London : The 

 Clarendon Press. 1888.) 



The author gives the student an account of the most important chemical 

 phenomena, actions, and changes, with the laws of chemical combination, and 

 the theoretical explanations of these laws. In the earlier chapters Water and 

 Air are treated in detail ; these are followed by chapters on the Elements, 

 Carbon, Sulphur, Chlorine, Nitrogen, Phosphorus, etc. The metals are 

 treated in outline, and only their important and characteristic compounds 

 touched upon. The work is illustrated with 60 engravings on wood. 



Primary Methods in Zoology Teaching : For Teachers in 

 Common Schools. By W. P. Manton, M.D., F.R.M.S., F.Z.S., etc. i6mo, 

 pp. 61. (Boston [U.S.A.] : Lee and Shepard. 1888.) Price 50c. 



This little book — which is one of the series of Dr. Manton's " Practical 

 Helps in Natural History" — supplies a few practical points and methods which 

 the author has found of service, and outlines showing how these methods may 

 be utilised in instructing the youngest pupils. The sketches, which are pur- 

 posely roughly executed, are intended to be reproduced on the black-board by 

 the teacher. It treats of the General Characteristics of an Animal ; Bones ; 

 Muscles ; Blood and Circulation ; Respiration and Respiratory Organs ; 

 Digestion and Digestive Organs ; and the Brain and Nerves. 



The Breakfast-Table Series. By Oliver Wendell Holmes. 

 Crown 8vo, pp. iv. — 183 -f 191 + 223. (London : George Roulledge and 

 Sons. 1888.) 



The publishers have given us, in a compact form, the three great works of 

 Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. They are : — The Autocrat at the Breakfast- 

 Table ; The Professor at the Breakfast-Table ; and The Poet at the Breakfast- 

 Table. The introduction is written by George Augustus Sala. An excellently 

 engraved portrait of the author forms the frontispiece to the book. The work 

 is one of the series of Routledge's Library of Standard Authors. 



The Pied Piper of Hamelin. By Robert Browning. Illus- 

 trated by Kate Greenway. Demy 4to, pp. 64. 



This is a handsomely illustrated edition of this well-known ballad. The 

 illustrations, which are very effectively coloured, are well executed, every 

 attention having been paid to each incident in the tale. 



The World of Adventure. Illustrated; pp. 64. (Cassell 

 and Co.) Monthly, price yd. 



No. I of this new serial is to hand. It promises to give true stories of all 

 ages and widely diftering character, but all possessing the romantic element. 

 These stories will be of the most vivid character. "Soldiers, sailors (and, 

 indeed, ' tinkers and tailors ' ), travellers, firemen, detectives, pirates, buc- 

 caneers, privateers, smugglers, bandits, knights of the road, wearers of the 

 Victoria Cross, chevaliers cf Industrie — all shall walk in its pages." We cor- 

 dially wish it every success. 



Illustrations: A Pictorial Review of Knowledge. Con- 

 ducted by Francis George Heath. Crown 4to, pp. 380. (London : W. Kent 

 and Co. 1888.) 



