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Spacial and Atomic Energy, Part I. By Frederick Major. 



Crown 8vo, pp. 62. (London : Eyre and Spottiswoode. 1889.) Price is. 6d. 

 This little book forms the introductory part of a work that, although 

 partly completed, may require many years of labour yet to be devoted to it. 

 It is divided into two chapters — Great Causes (Solar lieat and Cause of Gra- 

 vitation) and Inductive Effects (Electricity, Magnetism, Heat, Light, the 

 Electric Current). It is proposed to publish succeeding parts as soon as ready. 



The Radical Cure of Hernia. By Henry O. Marcy, A.M., 

 M.D., LL.D. pp. vii.— 251, 



The Etiology, Diagnosis, and Therapy of Tuberculosis. 



By Prof. Dr. H. von Zeimssen ; translated by David J. Doherty, A.M., 

 M.D. pp. 119. (Detroit, Mich. : George S. Davis. 1889.) 



Two of the valuable series of works which are published monthly under 

 the title of The Physician's Leisure Hour Library ; the price of each part 

 being, in paper covers 25c., in cloth 50c. 



Lectures on Massage and Electricity in the Treatment of 



Disease. By Thomas Stretch Dowse, M.D. 8vo, pp. xix. — 379. (Bristol : 

 J. Wright and Co. London : Hamilton, Adams, and Co.) 



These lectures treat of Massage and the methods of applying Massage ; 

 Electro-Physics and Electro-Therapeutics. The author tells us that he has 

 endeavoured to deal with the problems involved in a spirit of scientific enquiry 

 and research, and lays no claim to any special merit or originality. He brings 

 forward no zvonderful cases that he has cured, his chief aim being to set forth 

 the results of his experience and labours in a plain statement of facts. The 

 book is well illustrated. 



AriMinius Vambery : His Life and Adventures, written by 

 himself. With an introductory chapter, dedicated to the Boys of England. 

 Square imp. i6mo, pp. xix. — 350. (London: T. Fisher Unwin. 1889.) 

 Price 6s. 



In a most attractive style the author gives a narrative of his Travels and 

 Adventures in Asia and Europe. He tells us that they make no pretence to be 

 a geographical and ethnological description of the actual Central Asia. The 

 work is now in its fifth edition, and is partly an autobiographic sketch of the 

 author, and in a greater measure an account of a courageous and very success- 

 hd attempt to explore a country at that time almost unknown. The work 

 cannot fail to delight the boys' of England. It contains a portrait of the author 

 and 17 full-page plates. 



Holland. By James E. Thorold Rogers. Crown 8vo, pp. 

 xxiii.— 388. (London : T. Fisher Unwin. 1888.) Price 5s. 



This work is one of the " Story of the Nations " series, and will be found 

 to be of deep interest. It recounts some of the principal facts in perhaps the 

 greatest and most important of European wars : that in which the seven pro- 

 vinces of Holland secured their independence against the monarch who was 

 supposed to possess the mightiest powers of the age. It contains nearly 60 

 full-page and other engravings. 



Assyria, from the Rise of the Empire to the Fall of Nineveh. 

 By Zenai'de A. Ragozin. Second edition. Crown 8vo, pp. xix. — 450. 

 (London : T. Fisher Unwin. 1888.) Price 5s. 



