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period from the Ionian revolt to the thirty years' 

 peace, 500-445 B. c. ; " New Chapters in Greek 

 History " were written by Percy Gardner ; " Rome 

 under the Oligarchs," by A. H. Allcroft, cover- 

 ing 202-133 B. c. : and Rev. A. J. Church drew 

 " Pictures from Roman Life and Story," for 

 which the Caesars furnished the central figures. 

 Several volumes were devoted to England in 

 India. " Bombay, 1885 to 1890," by Sir W. W. 

 Hunter, was a study in Indian administration ; 

 Sir John Strachey, in " Hastings and the Ro- 

 hilla War," reversed the judgment of history, 

 and proved the great oratorical efforts of Burke 

 to have been founded on inaccuracy ; H. Corap- 

 ton gave " A Particular Account of the Euro- 

 pean Military Adventurers of Hindustan from 

 1784 to 1803 " ; and W. Pimblett told " How the 

 British won India," " Arakan : Past and Pres- 

 ent," by J. O. Hay, was a resume of two cam- 

 paigns for its development. " Events in the 

 Taeping Rebellion" was from manuscripts copied 

 by Gen. Gordon in his own handwriting, edited 

 by A. Egmont Hake, the author of " The Story 

 of Chinese Gordon." " Fifty Years in the mak- 

 ing of Australian History" were traced by Sir 

 Henry Parkes, Prime Minister of New South 

 Wales, 1872-'75, 1877, 1878-'79. Edward J. 

 Payne published Vol. I of a " History of the New 

 World called America," which promises to be a 

 valuable contribution ; and W. Kingsford, Vol. 

 V of " The History of Canada." To Church his- 

 tory belong " The Faith and Life of the Early 

 Church," by W. J. Slater ; a " History of the 

 Church in England from the Beginning of the 

 Christian Era to the Ascension of Henry VIII," 

 by Mary H. Allies ; " The Public Worship of 

 Presbyterian Scotland historically treated," by 

 C. G. M'Crie, in the " Fourteenth Series of the 

 Cunningham Lectures"; "Studies in Scottish 

 History, chiefly Ecclesiastical," by A. T. Innes ; 

 "The Church in Spain," by Rev. Frederick Mey- 

 rick ; " The Church of Ireland," by Thomas Old- 

 en ; ' The Somerset Religious Houses," by W. 

 A. J. Archbold ; a " History of the Church in 

 Eastern Canada and Newfoundland," by J. 

 Langtry; and a "History of the Church of St. 

 Mary the Virgin, Oxford, which was the Uni- 

 versity Church from Domesday to the Installa- 

 tion of the late Duke of Wellington, Chancellor 

 of the University," by Rev. E. S. Ffoulkes. " An- 

 nals of Winchester College from its Foundation 

 in the Year 1382 to the Present Time " were the 

 work of T. F. Kirby. 



Physical, Moral, and Intellectual Science. 

 "The Realm of Nature," by Hugh Robert 

 Mill, giving an outline of physiography, will 

 properly open the first division ; it appeared in 

 the series of " University Extension Manuals," 

 and next in order comes "The Great World's 

 Farm," by Selina Gaye, showing that almost all 

 the labor that produces its crops is performed by 

 natural agencies. " The Horse," by William H. 

 Flower, formed No. 2 of the " Modern Science 

 Series," edited by Sir John Lubbock, who made 

 "A Contribution to our Knowledge of Seed- 

 lings" in two volumes. " The Oak " was a popu- 

 lar introduction to forest botany by H. Marshall 

 Ward: J. W. Tutt published Vol. II of "The 

 British Noctuae and the Varieties" and " Melan- 

 ism and Melanochroism in British Lepidop- 

 tera"; Alexander Johnstone, a concise manual 



of "Botany" for students of medicine and sci- 

 ence; G. Schneider, Vol. I of "The Book of 

 Choice Ferns," illustrated with colored plates 

 and wood engravings ; M. C. Cooke, " Vegetable 

 Wasps and Plant Worms " ; and A. C. Seward, 

 " Fossil Plants as Tests of Climate," the Sidg- 

 wick prize essay for 1892. C. Dixon, in " The 

 Migration of Birds," made an attempt to reduce 

 avian season flight to law ; R. B. Sharpe pub- 

 lished Part I of his "Monograph of the Para- 

 diseidae, or Birds of Paradise, and Ptilonorhyn- 

 chida?, or Bower Birds"; W. J. Gordon illus- 

 trated in color his guide to all the birds of Great 

 Britain entitled " Our Country's Birds, and how 

 to know them " ; " The Story of the Hills " was 

 a book about mountains, for general readers, by 

 Rev. H. N. Hutchinson, who wrote also on " Ex- 

 tinct Monsters"; "The Visible University," by 

 J. Ellard Gore, consisted of chapters on the ori- 

 gin and construction of the heavens, with stellar 

 photographs and other illustrations ; Sir Robert 

 Ball published "In Starry Realms" and "An 

 Atlas of Astronomy," a series of 72 plates : and 

 O. Boeddicker, " The Milky Way from the North 

 Pole to Ten Degrees of the South Declination," 

 drawn at the Earl of Rosse's Observatory, at Birr 

 Castle. In the " Contemporary Science Series," 

 edited by Havelock Ellis, " The Grammar of Sci- 

 ence" was, by Karl Pearson; "Volcanoes, An- 

 cient and Modern," by Prof. Edward Hull ; and 

 'The Man of Genius," by Prof. C. Lomborso. 

 John Gray McKendrick delivered six lectures on 

 " Life in Motion ; or, Muscle and Nerve " ; G. 

 Allen wrote on " The Colour Sense " ; and Sir 

 George Gabriel Stokes's Burnett Lectures were 

 " On Light." " Human Origins" were traced by 

 S. Laing; A. W. Buckland made "Anthropo- 

 logical Studies " ; Rev. John Batchelor, a study 

 of the hairy aborigine termed " The Ainu of 

 Japan " ; and Sir Daniel Wilson published ' The 

 Lost Atlantis, and Other Ethnographic Studies." 

 " Darwin and After Darwin." by G. J. Romanes, 

 " Essays upon Some Controverted Questions," by 

 Prof. Thomas H. Huxley, and "New Frag- 

 ments" of Prof. John Tyndall (whose "Frag- 

 ments of Science " went through a revised and 

 enlarged edition), were hailed by the scientific 

 world, and Vol. I of "The Principles of Ethics" 

 appeared, making Vol. IX of Herbert Spencer's 

 "System of Synthetic Philosophy"; it was is- 

 sued in this country, and he also secured an 

 American copyright for an abridged and revised 

 edition of his "Social Statics." first published 

 in 1850. Henry De Varigny handled " Experi- 

 mental Evolution," C. M. Williams made "A 

 Review of the Svstems of Ethics founded on 

 the Theory of Evolution," while " Elements of 

 Ethics," by J. H. Muirhead, were intended as 

 an introduction to moral philosophy. J. A. 

 Stewart published two volumes of "Notes on 

 the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle"; James 

 Sully wrote a text-book of psychology entitled 

 " The Human Mind " ; and E. Belfort Bax of- 

 fered outline suggestions for a philosophical re- 

 construction in "The Problem of Reality." 

 In the " Social Science Series," " Illegitimacy : A 

 Study in Morals and the Influence of Climate on 

 Conduct" was by Albert Leffingwell, M. D. ; 

 " Distributing Co-operative Societies," by Louis 

 Pizzamiglio; "The Destitute Alien in Great 

 Britain," by Arnold White- and others; "The 





