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view tuman duties as Mr. Harrison would have them, 

 aud recoguise a religion of litimanity (by no means like 

 the Positivists, however, in implying any enthusiastic 

 admiration of humanity as it at present exists) depending 

 on the sense that each one of us has power and will by 

 which to aid, in greater or less degree, the progress of 

 our race towaz-ds better things. 



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It m.ay be worth while, perhaps, to mention that on 

 Feb. 14 I deliver a discourse on " The Past of Religion" 

 at South Place Chapel, Finsbury ; and another on " The 

 Future of Religion," on Feb. 21, at a quarter- jsast 

 eleven, niornins:. 



^rU) ISoofes' to be iUati— anU ZZMjik 



An Introduction to Practical Bacteriologij. By Ei>gae 

 M. Crooesuank, M.B., P.R.C.S. (London : H. K. Lewis. 

 1886.) — Because the germ-theory of disease is now em- 

 phaticallj' on its trial, and the ultimate decision of the 

 pathologist must be based upon the result of exjieriments, 

 the mode of making which is given in the most minute 

 detail in Mr. Crookshank's excellent book. He has reallj' 

 produced a kind of small encyclopedia of the subject, in 

 which the incipient student of bacteriology may learn 

 everything about the apparatus needed for the prosecution 

 of his researches, and the best ajd most eii'ective methods 

 of employing it. He is further taught the use of the 

 microscope for the same purpose, and is instructed how 

 to make preparations for viewing with it. The cultiva- 

 tion of the bacteria is next explained, and the methods 

 of inoculation with them, and the examination of bodies 

 affected by them given. Finally, a classification and 

 description of those species of bacteria recognised as 

 distinct, and an Appendix of varied information conclude 

 the work. It is long since we have seen anything more 

 beautiful or life-like than the majority of the numerous 

 illustrations which adorn the volume before us. 



Marjnetism and Electricity. By E. C. Tarn, M.C.P. 

 (London: W. & R. Chambers. 188G.) — Because, while 

 professedly written to enable students to pass in the first 

 class in the elementary examinations at South Kensing- 

 ton, Mr. Tarn's small volume is commendably free from 

 '■ cram," and places the leading facts of magnetism and 

 electricity in an agreeable and apprehensible light. The 

 constant reference to experiment, and the very numerous 

 ones described aud illustrated, will surely serve to render 

 the work attractive to the beginner. 



The Quichcst Guide to Breal-fast, Dinner, and Supper. 

 By Aunt Gertrude. (London: T. Fisher L'nwin.) — 

 Because it contains menus, and menus alone, and .supjilies 

 just the information needed by the housekeeper but too 

 often driven to her wits' end for some change in a dreary 

 and very circumscribed round of bills of fare. A precis 

 of the way of cooking every one of the hundreds of 

 dishes catalogued by "Aunt Gertrude" is appended 

 to it. 



Beport of the East Anglian Earthquake of ^ipril i'lnd, 

 1884. By Raphael Melhola, F.C.S., &c., and William 

 White, F.E.S. (London: Macmillan k Co. 188.5.)— 

 Because it gives a practically exhaustive account of a 

 convulsion with which we are happily unfamiliar in 

 England ; tracing its phenomena, results, area of dis- 

 turbance, dejiendence upon geological structure, itc, in 

 a form calculated tn render the ordinary reader slightly 

 less confident perhaps than he may have hitherto been, 



that the soil of Great Britian is of absolute necessity 

 terra firma. The astronomer will read with interest on 

 p. 216, et seq., of the alleged shifting of a large equa- 

 toreal, weighing something like a ton, hj the pai-sage of 

 the earthquake wave. 



How We're " Done" ; or, Our Little " Do" 's. By One 

 WHO Knows Them. (London: Wyman & Sons. 1866.) — 

 Because, at all events, it is amusing, and, under the guise 

 of persiflage and " chaff," tells a large number of home 

 truths, which it must be useful for every one to know 

 and to remember. Its author's taste in places, is, 

 however, of a questionable description ; for while the 

 chapters on qiiack medicines, music, picture-dealing, and 

 the British workman are as good as they are true, the 

 sneers at our Roj-al Family and the essay on the Church 

 and clergy seem to us to be leavened with a spite as need- 

 less as it is unjiist. 



The Loolcirig- glass ; a true History of the Early Years 

 of an Artist. By Theophilus Maecliffe. (London : 

 Bemrose ifc Sons. 188.5.) — Because it is a fac- 

 simile rejarint of the Biography of Mulready, the 

 well-known Royal Academician, which was written 

 by the notorious William Godwin under the nom-de- 

 pluine which appears on the title-page. Papei-, 

 jsrint, and illustrations are all admirably reproduced, and 

 give a capital notion of the style and appearance of the 

 literature which delighted our grandfathers in their 

 school-days. 



Chemical Student's Manual. By H. L. Buceeridge, 

 P.C.S., &c. (London : Thomas Murby.) — Because it 

 will be found valuable by the student who is undergoing 

 a systematic course of instruction in chemistry, whether 

 in the form of lectures or of laboratory practice. It takes 

 the form of a series of notes of all points necessary to be 

 thoroughly apprehended and remembered, is well illus- 

 trated, and may be commended. 



The Prospector's Handhooh. By J. W. Anderson, M.A., 

 F.R.G.S. (London : Crosby Lockwood <fc Co. 1886.)— 

 Because its author, having himself travelled through the 

 rich mineral fields of New Zealand, New Caledonia, New 

 Mexico, and Colorado, knows from actual personal expe- 

 rience the difiicultios which beset the miner or prospector 

 in his search for metals and ores in a new country, and is 

 hence in a position to speak ex cathedrd as to the best 

 and most effectual methods of discovering and obtaining 

 them. 



The Dyeing of Te.ctile Fairies. By J. J. Hummel, 

 F.C.S. (London: Cassell & Co. 1885.)— Because it forms 

 a concise little cyclopadia of the art of dyeing, and ex- 

 jjounds in a simple manner the latest processes and 

 methods in it. 



Those who may wish to have their previous ideas 

 subverted, and to be generally set to rights intellectually, 

 may (if they choose) read Hygienic Medicine, by T. R. 

 Allinson, L.R.C.P. (London : Pitman, 1886), who 

 "runs a-muk " at the teachings of that College of which 

 he proclaims himself a Licentiate, and proposes to 

 regenerate mankind by limiting them to vegetable food, 

 like the beasts of the field. Also The Light of Life, 

 edited by Joseph John Kain (London : Wyman & Sons, 

 1885), in which vaccination is denounced, a new theory 

 of development advanced, and so on. We have also 

 before us Kotalilia of GreeJc Synta.e, by Rev. F. W. 

 Aveling, M.A., B.Sc. (London: Relfe Brothers) ; Nos. 1, 

 2, 3, and 4 of The Neio E.eplanatory Beadir (London : 

 Moflatt & Paige). The Jurors' Beport of the Aeronautical 

 Exhibition of 188.5 (Greenwich : H. Richardson), and 

 Vols. IX. and X. of Mr.s. Horace Dobell's Watches of 

 the Night (London : Remington & Co.). 



