160 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY [May, 



magfizine devoted to Ophthalmology. Price $2.00 — same size 

 as The Microscope (price $1.00), 3'et it may die for lack of sup- 

 port inside two years. We hope not but we think that special- 

 ization is progressing faster than the means of support. 

 Prnclical Methods in Microscopy. By Charles H.Clark. Boston, 



D. C. Heath & Co., 1894. 12° pp. 233. 41 cuts, 17 plates. 



Believing that none of the existing volumes on the micro- 

 scope were sufficiently concise and explicit for the beginner, and 

 for those who have no teacher, the author has undertaken to 

 briefly present all that a beginner needs to know in order to use 

 the microscope succespfull3\ Gage's book is for the student 

 under guidance of a teacher; Clark's, for the solitary student. 

 He certainly has touched upon a great number of things of ele- 

 mentary importance and has made ver\^ plain what others 

 sometimes leave unexplained assuming that their readers 

 " know something." The apparatus of Messrs. Bausch & Lomb 

 is quite fully pictured and described, and this makes the book 

 of more value in America than that of Cross & Cole, who de- 

 scribe English apparatus only. Bacteria, photomicrography, 

 polarization, and other collateral topics are briefly sunjmarized. 



Kindness to Animals. A. S. P. C. A. New York, 1893, 24° 



.53pp. 



This little catechism of 398 questions and answers is, we are 

 astonished to find quite sensible- Nearly everything said and 

 done by societies for prevention of cruelty smacks of crankism, 

 silliness and folly, but this book, though containing a few fool- 

 ish things, is pretty good. The fact that the English sparrow is 

 an intolerable pest is ignored and children are encouraged to 

 throw crumbs to it. Boys are warned that "it is cruel to catch 

 fish not good for food" (i. e. good for oil, guano, etc ) but we 

 ask is not the cruelty the same in all cases ? 



An earnest effort should be made to introduce such a book 

 into Sunday School classes. 



An Introduction to Structural Botany. By Dukinfield Henry 

 Scott. London and New York. Macmillan & Co. 12 mo. pp. 

 288, figures 113. Price $1.00 



To the microscopist the book is of interest as explaining fully 

 what is to be seen in plant life by means of the microscope 

 though the author alludes to the microscope only incidentally. 



