142 THE MICROSCOPE. 



The Dawn of History. Edited by C. F. Keary, of the British Museum. 

 Complete in two parts, 15 cents each. J. Fitzgerald, Publisher, 20 

 Lafayette Place, New York. 



This is the first book in the English language in which an at- 

 tempt has been made to present in popular form the sum of the 

 information which scientific men have been able to gather with 

 respect to the conditions of human life in the dim period before 

 history. The work is intensely interesting, and treats of such sub- 

 jects as: Earliest Traces of Man, Growth of Language, Early 

 Social Life, The Village Community, Mythologies and Folk-Tales, 

 etc. 



The Century. 



The July number of this magazine contains some very interest- 

 ing reading. There is a fine engraving of John Brown, together 

 with recollections of his famous raid. "Washington on the Eve of 

 the War " gives us a fresh glimpse of the exciting times of '60 and 

 '61. The early letters of Emerson, Anthony Trollope, The Native 

 Element in American Fiction, with the "Topics of the Time" and 

 "Open Letters" make this number fully equal to those of the past, 

 and even a trifle better, for each number seems to excel its prede- 

 cessor. 



Wild Flowers and Where They Grow. By Amanda B. Harris. Sixty 

 illustrations by Miss L. B. Humphrey. D. Lothrop & Co., 32 Franklin 

 street, Boston. Extra cloth; gilt edge; large 8 vo.; pp. 160; $3.00. 



This is just the time of year to review such a book. It is not 

 only most elegantly bound and beautifully illustrated, but it is also 

 unusually well written. Who does not love the wild flowers, and 

 who will ever forget where they grew in the olden times when we 

 hunted for the trailing arbutus and trilliums ? If any of our readers 

 have some " little ones," then get " Wild Flowers " for them. The 

 book will look elegant on the parlor table, and is just the thing to 

 read under the apple trees. 



Manual of Taxidermy. By C. J. Maynard. Illustrated; 12 mo.; cloth; pp. 

 iog. S. E. Cassino, Boston. 1883. 



This constitutes No. 5 of the American Natural History series. 

 It is a well known fact that to mount a bird neatly requires the 

 utmost care, and patience and perseverance must be fully exercised. 

 However, this manual goes over the whole subject of collecting, 



