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to the present day, by C. Welch, was illustrated ; 

 and from Rev. James Raven, I). I)., we had " A 

 History of Suffolk "; while "Bygone Sussex" was 

 revived by W. E. A. Axon. Vol. X was issued of 

 the " Transactions of the Royal Historical Society " 

 (new series), and Vol. VIII of " Cameos from Eng- 

 lish History," by C. M. Yonge, brought us to " The 

 End of the Stewarts, 1662-1748." 



Physical, Moral, and Intellectual Science. 

 The " Address to the British Association for the 

 Advancement of Science," delivered at Liverpool, 

 Sept. 16, 1896, by its president, Sir Joseph Lister, 

 was a remarkable one in that, being the first sur- 

 geon who has held that position in the association 

 in virtue of his professional attainments, he dwelt 

 upon the interdependence of science and the heal- 

 ing art, and with the extreme of modesty reviewed 

 the progress of pathology with which his name is 

 so closely connected. One of the most important 

 scientific books of the year was " The Scenery of 

 Switzerland and Causes to which it is due," by Sir 

 John Lubbock, the result of a study of the physical 

 geography of Switzerland made by the author in 

 company with Profs. Huxley and Tyndall, in 1861. 

 " Ice Work Present and Past," by T. G. Bouncy. t\\>- 



J eared in the " International Scientific Series." 

 ohn W. Judd edited " The Student's Lyell," a 

 manual of elementary geometry, and " The Story 

 of Atlantis " purported to be a geographical, his- 

 torical, and ethnological sketch," by W. Scott Elliot. 

 Alfred W. Bennett devoted two volumes to " The 

 Flora of the Alps," and two also contained " A 

 Vertebrate Fauna of the Moray Basin," by J. A. 

 Harvie-Brown and T. E. Buckley. " Problems of 

 Biology" were submitted by George Sandeman, 

 and Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson, M. I)., wrote 

 on "Biological Experimentation: Its Functions 

 and Limits." E. Bonavia, M. D., made " Studies in 

 the Evolution of Animals," and C. J. Cornish wrote 

 of " Animals at Work and Play : Their Activities 

 and Emotions." Conway Lloyd Morgan published 

 a work upon " Habit and Instinct." " Prehistoric 

 Man and Beast " were the theme of Rev. II. X. 

 Hutchinson, and John Smith treated of " Prehis- 

 toric Man in Ayrshire." " The Gases of the Atmos- 

 phere " had the history of their discovery traced by 

 William Ramsey. "Mechanics: Dynamics, Statics, 

 and Hydrostatics," by R. T. Glazebrook, appeared 

 in the series of " Cambridge Natural Science Man- 

 uals." Vol. II of " The Cambridge Natural His- 

 tory " appeared, edited by S. F. Harmer and A. E. 

 Shipley, and Part I of Vol. V contained, respec- 

 tively/" Peripatus," by Adam Sedgwick, " Myria- 

 pods," by F. S. Sinclair, and " Insects," by David 

 Sharp. Volume VI of " The Royal Natural His- 

 tory," edited by Richard Lydekker, reached "Inver- 

 tebrate Animals." In " Allen's Naturalists' Library " 

 we had two volumes of " A Handbook to the Order 

 Lepidoptera," by W. F. Kirby; Edward Meyrick 

 was the author of " A Handbook of British Lepi- 

 doptera " ; Vol. II of " The Lepidoptera of the 

 British Islands," by Charles E. Barret, covering 

 " Heterocera, Sphinges, Bombyces," appeared ; W. J. 

 Gordon wrote " Our Country's Butterflies and 

 Moths, and how to Know them " ; J. W. Tutt de- 

 voted himself to "British Moths"; L. N. Baden och 

 became interested in " Romance of the Insect 

 World " ; and E. A. Butler in " Our Household In- 

 sects " ; while " The Butterflies and Moths of Ten- 

 eriffe" engrossed A. E. Holt- White, and T. Thorell 

 prepared a " Descriptive Catalogue of the Spiders 

 of Burmah." " Notes on the Birds of Northampton- 

 shire and Neighborhood," by the late Lord Lilford, 

 were illustrated by A. Thorburn and G. E. Lodge ; 

 "The Ornithology of the Straits of Gibraltar," by 

 Lieut.-Col. L. Howard L. Irby, was much enlarged 

 and beautified in a second edition, and Part IV of 



a "Dictionary of Birds," by A. Newton and Hans 

 (Jadow, covered " Sheathbill-Zygodaetyli." J. A. 

 Owen edited "The Wild Fowl" and Sea Fowl of 

 Great Britain," by " A Son of the Marshes," and 

 " By the Deep Sea" was an introduction to the wild 

 life of the British shores, by E. Step, who also pub- 

 lished Vol. I of " Favorite Flowers of Garden and 

 Greenhouse." illustrated with :-j!6 plates, and con- 

 taining cultural directions. George Murray wrote 

 " An Introduction to the Study of Seaweed," and 

 " Life in Ponds and Streams," by William S. 

 Furneaux, appeared in the " Outdoor Library." 

 " Round the Year: Short Nature Studies," by Prof. 

 L. C. Miall, were illustrated by A. R. Hammond. 

 Ralph S. Tarr was the author of an "Elementary 

 Physical Geography"; "The Story of the Solar 

 System'' was told for general readers by George F. 

 ( 'hambers, in the " Library of Useful Stories " ; and 

 Francis Darwin prepared " The Elements of Bot- 

 any " for the use of medical students. " The Indian 

 Village Community " was examined by Baden Henry 

 Baden Powell, with reference to the physical, eth- 

 nographic, and historical conditions of the prov- 

 inces, and Major-Gen. Robley was an authority on 

 "Moko: or, Maori Tattooing." Lina Eckenstein 

 published " Women xmder Monasticism," chapters 

 on saintlore and convent life between 500 and 1500; 

 A. K. Cleveland, "Woman under the English Law, 

 from the Landing of the Saxons to the Present 

 Time"; and Georgiana Hill, "Women in English 

 Life from Media 1 val to Modern Times." Roy 

 Devereux traced "The Ascent of Woman." "Ele- 

 ments of Psychology" were edited from notes of 

 lectures delivered by George Croom Robertson, at 

 Tniversity College, London, 1870, 1892, by C. A. 

 Foley Rhys Davids ; G. F. Stout published an 

 "Analytic Psychology" in two volumes; William 

 Caldvvell examined "Schopenhauer's System in its 

 Philosophical Significance"; as W. II. Fairbrother 

 did " The Philosophy of Thomas Hill Green," and 

 Lewis Carroll sent out Part I of " Symbolic Logic." 

 R. P. Halleck advised " The Education of the Cen- 

 tral Nervous System"; James Sully made "Studies 

 of Childhood "'; and " The Child and Childhood in 

 Folk-Thought (The Child in Primitive Culture)" 

 was the subject of Alexander Francis Chamber- 

 lain. 



"The Principles of Sociology" complete the 

 " Synthetic Philosophy" of Herbert Spencer, under- 

 taken thirty-six years ago, of which it forms the 

 eighth volume. Two of its divisions, "Ecclesiasti- 

 cal Institutions " and " Professional Institutions," 

 have been previously printed, but the third, " In- 

 dustrial Institutions," is entirely new. Two vol- 

 umes were published of "'Social Rights and Duties," 

 addresses to ethical societies, by Leslie Stephen ; 

 and two of William E. Hartpole Lecky's opinions on 

 " Democracy and Liberty." Sir Henry Wrixon 

 gave a volume to " Socialism," being notes on a 

 political tour ; Egmont Hake and 0. E. Wesslau 

 described "The Coming Individualism"; and 

 "The State and the Individual," by William Sharp 

 McKechnie, was intended as an introduction to 

 political science, with special reference to socialistic 

 and individualistic theories. Sir J. R. Seeley offered 

 an " Introduction to Political Science " ; Leonard 

 Whibley made a study of the character and organi- 

 zation of " Greek Oligarchies " ; and Vols. I and II 

 of " A Dictionary of Political Economy," edited by 

 R. H. Palgrave. brought the work down from A to 

 M. Geoffrey Drage attacked " The Labor Prob- 

 lem " ; William Cunningham, D. D., considered 

 " Modern Civilization in some of its Economic As- 

 pects " ; and F. W. Galton edited " Workers on 

 their Industries," in the " Social Science Series," 

 and Vol. I of " Select Documents illustrating the 

 History of Trade Unionism," given to " The Tailor- 



