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ly of Berkeley," " Man's 

 es, Biological and Gee 



Old Glasgow," by Andrew Aird, reviews its growth 

 of comparatively recent years. " St. Andrew's " was 

 the theme of Andrew Lang ; R. K. Dent told of " The 

 Making of Birmingham" ; Canon Atkinson offered 

 " Memorials of Old Whitby," as Alexander Macpher- 

 son did " Glimpses of Church and Social Life in the 

 Highlands in Olden Times " ; and Dr. Sparrow Simp- 

 son described " St. Paul's and Old City Life " ; 

 " Memorials of St. James's Palace," by Edgar Shep- 

 pard, filled 2 volumes. u English Records," by Henry 

 Elliot Maiden, was intended as a companion hand- 

 book to the history of England, while to quite recent 

 times belongs " The Liberation of Bulgaria." by 

 Went worth Huyshe. 



Physical, Moral, and Intellectual Science. The issue of 

 7 volumes during the year completed the 9 which 

 contain the " Collected Essays of Prof. T. H. Huxley. 

 They covered, respectively, " Education," " Hebrew 

 Tradition," " Science and Christian Tradition," 

 " Hume, with Helps to the Studj 

 Place in Nature," "Discourses, 



logical," and " Evolution and Ethics."" " The Ascent 

 of Man" was the theme of the Lowell Lectures 

 delivered by Henry Drummond, which called forth 

 as much admiration as adverse criticism ; "Darwini- 

 anism: Workmen and Work" were exhaustively 

 treated by James Hutchinson Stirling; and yet an- 

 other important volume was u Materials for the 

 Study of Variation," treated with especial regard to 

 discontinuity in the origin of species, by William 

 Bateson ; while Dr. W. Main contributed an essay on 

 " Expression in Nature." Departing from theory, we 

 have a history of " The Dawn of Astronomy " among 

 the ancient Egyptians, by J. Norman Lockyer ; a 

 series of popular articles on astronomical subjects en- 

 titled "The Worlds of Space," by J. Ellard Gore; 

 " The Starry Skies," by Agnes Giberne, which gave 

 first lessons on the sun, moon, and stars; "The 

 Story of Our Planet," by Canon T. G. Bonney; 

 " Papers on the Glacial Geology of Great Britain and 

 Ireland," by the late Prof. Henry Carvill Lewis, 

 edited from his unpublished manuscripts by Henry 

 W. Crosskey ; " Creatures of Other Days," by Rev. 

 H. N. Hutchinson, which carries on the work begun 

 in his " Extinct Monsters " ; " The Fauna of the Deep 

 Sea," by Sydney J. Hickson, in the " Modern 

 Science Series " ; and Vol. II of " Fauna of British 

 India," by G. F. Hampson, devoted to " Moths." The 

 first two volumes were issued of the " Royal Natural 

 History," edited by Richard Lyddeker, who wrote 

 also u A Handbook 'to the Marsu'pialia and Monotre- 

 mata" in "Allen's Naturalist's Library," another vol- 

 ume of which was " A Handbook to the Birds of Great 

 Britain," by R. Bowdler Sharpe. " A Handbook of 

 Natural History for the Use of Beginners" was edited 

 by Lady Isabel, Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff furnish- 

 ing an introduction ; J. Hampden Porter studied 

 "Wild Beasts"; M. A. Mathew described "The 

 Birds of Pembrokeshire and its Islands"; Charles 

 Dixon devoted a volume to " The Nests and Eggs of 

 British Birds," as Harry F. Witherby did to " Forest 

 Birds": Sydney H. Vines published the first half of 

 "A Student's Text-Book of Botany " ; Rev. Alexander 

 K. Nairne wrote upon " The Flowering Plants of 

 Western India "; John Nisbet delivered lectures at 

 the Botanic Garden entitled " Studies in Forestry " ; 

 C. 0. Sontag prepared "A Pocket Flora of Edinburgh 

 and the Surrounding Districts " ; and Vol. Ill appeared 

 of G. Schneider's ' Book of Choice Ferns for the 

 Garden, Conservatory, and Stove." William Peddie 

 wrote " A Manual of Physics " for high-grade stu- 

 dents ; " A Text-Book of Statics," and another of 

 " Dynamics," by William Briggs and G. H. Bryan, 

 belong to the " University Tuto'fial Series " ; Percy F. 

 Frankland enumerated " Our Secret Friends and 

 Foes"; M. M. P. Muir entitled "The Alchemical 

 Essence and the Chemical Element " an episode 

 in the quest of the unchanging ; the address to the 

 British Association for the Advancement of Science 

 delivered by its president, the Marquis of Salisbury, 

 at Oxford, Aug. 8, 1894, was published, as also the 



eleventh annual issue of the " Year-book of the Scien- 

 tific and Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ire- 

 land." A " Dictionary of Scientific Illustrations and 

 Symbols " was the work of a barrister of the Honor- 

 able Society of the Inner Temple. Douglas Carnegie 

 wrote on" Law and Theory in Chemistry," and Thomas 

 Preston set forth "The Theory of Heat." In the 

 " Contemporary Science Series" we have "An Intro- 

 duction to Comparative Psychology," by C. Lloyd 

 Morgan ; " Apparitions and Thought Transference," 

 an examination of the evidence of telepathy, by Frank 

 Podmore ; and "Man and Woman," by Havelock El- 

 lis, purporting to be a study of human secondary sex- 

 ual characters. " Man the Primeval Savage " had 

 his haunts and relics from the hilltops of Bedfordshire 

 to Blackwall explored by Worthington G. Smith, and 

 Miss E. J. Simcox filled 2 volumes with her researches 

 into " Primitive Civilizations." G. Oppert wrote " On 

 the Original Inhabitants of Bharatavarsa or India," 

 and J. F. Hewitt on " The Ruling Races of Prehistoric 

 Times in India, Southeastern Asia, and Southern 

 Europe." 



Coming now to social subjects, we have Vol. I of 

 " Principles of Political Economy," by Prof. J. Shield 

 Nicholson, whose address on " Historical Progress 

 and Ideal Socialism " was also opportunely published ; 

 a continuation of R. M. Garnier's " History of the 

 English Landed Interest," covering the " Modern 

 Period " ; " The Evolution of Modern Capitalism," a 

 study of machine production, by John A. Hobson ; 

 " Co-operative Production," by Benjamin Jones 

 "The History of Trade Unionism," by Sidney and 

 Beatrice Webb ; " Social Evolution," by Benja- 

 min Kidd; " Eight Hours for Work," by John Rae ; 

 and " Conciliation and Arbitration in Labor Dis- 

 putes," by J. Stephen Jeans, who also wrote on 

 "Trusts, Pools, and Corners " in the " Social Questions 

 of the Day Series." Two other volumes of the same 

 series were " The Factory System and the Factory 

 Arts," by R. W. Cooke Taylor, and " The State and 

 its Children," by Gertrude M. Tuckwell. "The 

 Labor Question " was an epitome of the evidence and 

 the report of the Royal Commission on Labor, by T. 



carries on the work "begun G. Spyers; Geoffrey Drage, a secretary to the com- 

 " : " The Fauna of the Deec mission, wrote on " The Unemployed " ; and Charles 

 Booth considered the condition of " The Aged Poor 

 in England and Wales." "The Dwellings of the 

 Poor and Weekly Wage Earners in and around 

 Towns" were the subject of T. Locke Worthington, 

 and Thomas Mackay edited "A Policy of Free Ex- 

 change." " British Freewomen," by Charlotte C. 

 Stopes, was set off by " The Revolted Woman," by 

 C. G. Harper, and from Henry S. Salt we had "Ani- 

 mals' Rights considered in Relation to Social Prog- 

 ress." William Thomson furnished " A Prospectus 

 of Socialism, or a Glimpse of the Millennium," show- 

 ing its plan and working arrangements and how it is 

 to be brought about. "Practical Socialism " was also 

 the theme of Samuel and Henrietta Barnett. " The 

 New Party," described by some of its members and 

 edited by Andrew Reid, had a frontispiece by Walter 

 Crane, and the same editor's name appears on the 

 title-page of " Vox Clamantium." " Problems of the 

 Far East," by Hon. George N. Curzon, M. P., relate to 

 Japan, Korea, and China; William Epps examined 

 " Land Systems of Australia" ; and J. Morris treated 

 of " The War in Korea " in progress during the year. 

 " English Democracy " had its promises and perils 

 reviewed by Arnold White; Spenser Wilkinson 

 offered a plea for a national policy in " The Great 

 Alternative"; and "Federal Britain, or the Unity 

 and Federation of the Empire " were also plead for 

 by F. P.de Labilliere. " The Government and Scot- 

 tish Home Rule " was from the pen of C. Waddie. A 

 second edition of " Parliamentary Government in the 

 British Colonies," by Alpheus Todd, was edited by 

 his son; "Some Aspects of Disestablishment" were 

 edited by H. C. Shuttleworth ; and Prof. John R. 

 Commons wrote on " Social Reform and the Church. 

 Goldwin Smith was heard from in " Essays on Ques- 

 tions of the Day " ; " The House of Lords " was both 



