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♦ KNOWLEDGE 



[Aug. 28, 1885. 



speaking, as we 

 clemStis, gladi61i 



The Revival of British Industries. By a Candidate. 

 (London : James Bolton. 1S85.) — The object of this 

 •' Candidate's" pamphlet is to show that free trade has 

 broken down ; for the simple but suflicient reason that, 

 like the Irishman's reciprocity, it is m11 oh odo riMo. 

 British manufacturers and farmers niv, . !•■ : i.i . ;■ ,--- 

 tends, shut out of foreign markets 1 j. ; : ■ ' . 

 hibitive protectionist tariffs : while iii;iim i:: i < -I 



from the countries which enact thcM , . ' li.is 



country free. British industries ;ir , . lu 



" A Candidate," to be revived by piittiii- :.i: ' , . ,,; 



duty of 50 per cent, on manufactureil -■ ■' ;, in- I'imiu 



foreign countries. Food and r.:\\ n; ; i !^ n. be ad- 

 mitted free. Out of the rcvciiiii ■! > ! ■! ' is proposed 

 to pay a subsidy of £1 per a.r ' t lie United 



Kingdom which is sown with \,1:. .l ■{' < ,,;. lior further 

 suggests absohitc free trade between England and her 

 own colonies and dominions; in fact, the formation of the 

 ontire Empire into a customs league or Zollverein, all 

 adopting the 50 per cent, duties on foreign manufactured 

 ijoods. Details will be found in the pamphlet itself. 



The Autohio'jraj.hy of a Whitehead Torpedo. By 

 ■'Guns." (London: Offices of .Ewf/meej-m^.) — Everyone 

 who wishes to obtain an intelligent idea of the internal 

 ■economy and mode of action of the so-called "torpedo," 

 which is (as its votaries assert) to revolutionise marine 

 warfare, should buy the pamphlet before us, straightway. 

 Obviously written by a man in the Naval service who 

 has apparently passed through both the Greenwich and 

 the "Vernon " course, it contains by far the best poimlar 

 account of the Whitehead torpedo that we have seen ; 

 and as the details of its construction and use are incor- 

 porated in the well-told narrative of its adventures, the 

 account possesses an interest which would scarcely per- 

 tain to a mere series of diagrams and descriptions. The 

 supposititious breaking of the blockade at Toulon and 

 the descent of the French Fleet on Malta are uncommonly 

 •cleverly told. A very pregnant warning, to which it is 

 earnestly to be hoped that the authorities will give heed, 

 is uttered by " Guns" in connection with the hushing- 

 up of accidents and miscarriages which have occurred in 

 torpedo trials. Nothing can he more absolutely essential 

 to the success of so delicate and ticklish a weapon than 

 an intimate knowledge of its weaknesses and defects, by 

 -.ill those concerned in its use and manipulation. 



Studies in Microscopical Science. Edited by Arthur C. 

 Cole, F.R.M.S. For August, 1885. (London : Bailliire, 

 Tindall, k Cox.)— Mr. Cole this month gives us illustra- 

 tions, with descriptions of the structure of Antheridia in 

 Polytrichum, of the Gill of the Anodon, of Tubercu- 

 losis in the human lung, and of the Mouth of the Tad- 

 pole. When we add that these are all as good as ever, 

 the practical microscopist will know what to expect. 



The Penny Alphaletical Time Tahles, between London 

 and all Parts of the United Kingdom and Ireland. 

 (London: Wyman & Sons. August, 1885.)— This is a 

 capital idea. The names of all tlir r,<il«:iy stations in 

 the United Kingdom are given in ilpli .1 i i i'll ovder, and 

 under each one will be found ;i ((unplii. li>l of trains 

 running both ways between the tu^^ " - r:<. ,\ nn.l tlio 

 metropolis, together with the fares, > 

 To many to whom " Bradshaw " is an 

 .ii,nd a weariness of the flesh, this boo]< \ 

 pens in the advertisement) " as a boon and a ijiessnig. 



Lindcnllumcn, and other Stories. By Rowl-i^nd Grey. 

 (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co. 1885.)— " Eow- 



Once a Month ; a Magazine £■■'■ \i. ' i; , liditedby 

 Peter Mercer, D.D. (Melboui:. :.), i IhnMlin: W. 



LigHs A- Co.: London: Grifn',. !::,,.:. . ( 'o.)- This 



tnber. 



&c., make up a., f:,irly 

 r table Th,- Lo^t Voicr (a, 



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NaturaLJ, Ci-l <! I\'.'-^ (u ilk a e,4. i.ieii. i:. :a.,^Ll-ce uf 

 Giel), The American Lraq.jist, and The Country Brewer's 

 Gazette. ' 



Rather moiv il m.i- ago the American journal, 



the Critic, aski •' ■ i . I: i.ns of its subscribers as to 



the forty Ani(i' ' the event of the establish- 



ment of an Anioie u Ae: .1 .inj-, after the model of the 

 Academic Fran^aise, would be first entitled to become 

 members of it. After the voting papers had been care- 

 fully sorted, it was fo^md that the following names had 

 received enough .siiffrasTc in r|-;r-''ifv tlu"! fr i- -/in^ii-einn 

 to the ranks of the It: ' ' ' ^ ^ ! ' ' ■ . . ' H . 



Lowell, J. G. Whittiir I . l; :! . ^\ . I. !i- , U, 

 G.W. Curtis, T. B. Al.lritlt. I :■ M •. i . i ..-,,. i;,,;,,,. 

 R. G. White, E. E. Ha.le, (1. W. C.l^. Ilt-nj- .hime.s, 

 Mark Twain, C. D. Warner, 1!. W. li.erl.er, J. F. 

 Clarke, R. H. Stoddard, W. D. Wliiiu-,, Wi.li VHiitman, 

 Asa Gray, Noah Porter, John Fiske, T. A. Wo,.lsey, A. B. 

 Alcott, Julian Hawthorne, J. Bnrrou-l! -, ,M. Hopkins, 

 T. W. HigginsoB, J. G. Snxe, 0. B. Fr. 1 l,in.l,;,n,, C. I'. 

 Fisher, M. C. Tyler, C A. Dana, D. C. .Mlu-lnH. A. 

 Winchell, E. P. A¥hipplo. O. V. l--ln., ;, AW W. S.,.-,, 



and F. Parkman. Tln-f ■' .'.o; - ■ ' • ■ i'.:.:v- 



ford, E. P. Roe, C. T. (•:.■. 1 .1 ^' : : I. , . ; ml 



Joaquin Milhr. all . r . : i .i L. ii.r 



kno^^nl1,:,ll n- i ;,.'':'-- ■ ' : i .. t ol.tain 



suffieii Ml \ . !.. I.. M'.: .III'. ' ! • . '' .... I . '1 .iimmer an 



proce^.-. Tli: f'.ri' I 1'. -. il . iM - :.i (. : I ,■ i' ! T' ii n vson. Pro- 

 fessor Huxlev, W. E. Ghidstone, Frofessov Tvn.'lall, G. A. 

 Sala, Mr. Ruskin, Herbert Spencer, Matthew Arnold, Sir 

 H. Thompson, W. Black. Sir J. Lubbock, Duke of Argyll, 

 Leslie Stephen, GeovQ-e Areverlith. Sir Uiehard Owen, 

 Cardinal Newman. ^Ir I'.i.v.;,.. :; \. TVoetor, Mr. 

 Froude, John Morli- , i : I i i. If, mv Irving. 

 A. C. Sv,-inbnriio, K.''^ i ■ - i.. W In ,• lie.siint, Edwin 

 \-nv^^. C. Al., I,. M ,1 'oi :dK'ai-tl.y, JumesPayn, 

 'I .. :;' W ^' . 1^ lessor Blackie, Archdeacon 



l; ! ! i\\ I . Collins, Lord Lytton, Pro- 



, I !■ ,^:..,ii. .\n'lri.' I,'i;j. Professor Gardiner, and 

 Austin Dobson. Some great names are conspicuous by 

 their absence from this list, but the selection is not, upon 

 the whole, an unrepresentative one. — Daily Neics. 



