1893. THE RESTORATION OF EXTINCT ANIMALS. 143 
On the whole, we think that, considering the difficulties of the 
task before them, both author and artist have produced a very 
creditable volume, and one which will not fail to arouse a considerable 
amount of popular interest. Should a new edition be called for, we 
think the author would do well to be somewhat less free in his use of 
uncouth and unfamiliar terms (¢.g. heteroclite, p. 35) and technical 
names. Moreover, in many places his literary style and the con- 
formation of his sentences might be altered for the better. For 
instance in a half-page paragraph of six sentences (p. 18) we find no 
less than three of these beginning with the word ‘‘ But” and two with 
‘‘In”; while the clumsiness of some of the sentences themselves 
would be rather hard to beat. 
