142 The Microscope. 



Tenants of an Old Farm. By Henry C. McCook, D. D. Small 

 4to., pp.460. Illustrated. Price, in decorated cloth binding, $2.50. 

 Fords, Howard and Hulbert, New York. Second edition. 1885. 



The first edition of this charming book was exhausted 

 in three weeks, and in response to a decided call the second 

 edition has just been placed on the market. The work is pro- 

 fusely illustrated, including many comical characterizations of 

 insect life, by Dan 0. Beard. It gives us a delightful series of 

 excursions and investigations into the habits of bees, ants, 

 spiders, and all sorts of insects. The author gives us the latest 

 scientific researches, with the curious and interesting, in the 

 most enthusiastic and pleasing manner. All the sorts and con- 

 ditions which can be found on an old farm are set forth with 

 clearness and simplicity. In an easy, and many times amusing 

 conversational style, he tells of odd superstitions about insects, 

 and the part these little creatures play in the economy of the 

 animal and vegetable world. It combines pleasure and instruc- 

 tion to an unusual degree. 



Life and Travels in India. Being recollections of a journey be- 

 fore the days of railroads. By Anna H. Leonowens. Small 4to., 

 pp. 325. Price, in decorated cloth binding, $2.00. Porter and 

 Coates, Philadelphia. 1885. 



The author gives us a very faithful account of her life and 

 travels in India before the country was in any way modified by 

 the introduction of the railroad. Still we are told that even 

 the railroad has in no sense affected the life of the people, and 

 that India remains to-day, what it was in the Yedic period, a 

 land of peasant classes. 



Some most amusing glimpses are given of the author's 

 housekeeping experiences, together with pictures of the inner 

 life and social condition of the various races now found in Hin- 

 doostan. 



All the sketches are written on the spot, from actual ob- 

 servation, and thus they give a new and fresh interest in India 

 and her people. 



The author has great descriptive powers, and one sees 

 readily all of the out-of-the-way places she visits. 



Great hopes are entertained for the future of India, under 

 the liberal policy of England, " as glorious a future as her bril- 



