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that Mr. Davies thinks that a very little of his \yhist will 

 go a long way. In " Home Whist," by " Five of C'hibs," 

 there are 80 pages, of which 72, averaging 230 words, are 

 oocupicil with original matter. It would thns appear that 

 '• Five of Clubs " considers one sliilling a fair price for 

 16,000 words of original matter, while Mr. Davies values 

 at four shillings 7,000 words of original matter j^lus about 

 as many words of matter which Clay, Cavendish, Pole, 

 Drayson, and others, have already thrown into their works 

 almost for nothing. 



Trirfonomp.try for Bi'(jinnc,rs. ByJ. B. Lock. (London: 

 Macmillan cfc Co.) — A capital little book, thoroughly sensible 

 and practical. It extends only to the solution of triangles, 

 a very proper limitation. 



Tlia Definitions of Eiiclid, vntk Explanations and Exam- 

 ples. By R. Webb. (London: George Bell & Sons.) — A 

 simple and suggestive study of the definitions. A student 

 who has thoroughly mastered the subject-matter of this 

 treatise will find the study of the problems much simplified 

 for him. 



Class-Jjookof Geoloyy. By Archibald Geikie. (London : 

 Macmillan & Co.) — This is a book which we hope to 

 review in lull ere long (in company with the book next 

 mentioned). But we must not delay recognition of its great 

 value. We know of no work giving a clearer or more im- 

 pressive idea of the history of the Earth as recorded in her 

 crust. Professor Geikie's descriptive style is simply jier- 

 fect. 



Outlines of Gaoloijij. By James Geikie. (London : 

 Edward Stanford.) — Fuller in details, this work of Professor 

 Geikie's is but little inferior in literary excellence to his 

 brother's admirable work. It serves as a convenient middle 

 step between that book and Professor A. Geikie's larger 

 treatise, already noticed in these columns. 



Mythical Monsters. By Charles Gould. (London : 

 W. H. Allen & Co.) — A capital book, showing that many 

 monsters regarded as mythical are in reality not mythical at 

 all. We propose to give a full review of this most interesting 

 work in an early number. 



Flowers, Friiits, and Leaves. By Sir J. Lubbock. (London : 

 Macmillan and Co.) — A charmingly written and well illus- 

 trated little work, showing the origin by evolution of many 

 of those wonderful " evidences of design " on which the 

 theologians of a century ago were so fond of dilating — • 

 limited knowledge enabling them to imagine but one 

 interpretation. Sir J. Lubbock writing about science is 

 a very different man from Sir J. Lubbock on a hundred 

 books. 



The Springs of Conduct : An Essay on Evolution. By 

 C. Lloyd Morgan. (London : Kegan Paul & Co.) — An 

 excellent and most interesting exposition of the growing 

 doctrine of the evolution of conduct. Reserved for fuller 

 review when space permits, which will be soon. 



Lev'is's Pocket Medical Vocabulary. (London : H. K. 

 Lewis. 1886.) — Mr. Lewis's little book will be found useful, 

 not only by the medical practitioner, but also by all engaged 

 in the administration of those branches of the criminal law 

 into which medico-legal questions enter. In fact, it will 

 even be found handy by that numerous class which revels 

 in the reports of murder-trials and of coroners' inquests in 

 the daily jxapers, by adding to its appreciation of the mean- 

 ing of much of the seeming jargon which appears as evi- 



dence. At once full and concise, we have but one trivial 

 fixult to find with the work before us. It is that its com- 

 piler is here and there somewhat hazy in his " quantities." 

 For example, he speaks of Ab'domen, the correct pro- 

 nunciation being Abdo'men. In the same way we find 

 Ver'tigo for Verti'go— and so on. The classical reader will 

 of course correct all this for himself. 



The Legal Guide for Landlords, Tenants, and Lodgers. 

 By J. T. Akerman, Esq. (London : Griffith, Farran, 

 Okeden, & Welsh.)— This is a pamphlet whose value is 

 out of all proportion to its very small price and unpre- 

 tending aspect. It contains, in a compendious form, every- 

 thing that need be known by a layman on the subject of the 

 relations existing between the landlord and his tenant; and 

 no one should either let or take a house, furnished or 

 unfurnished, or even lodgings, without a careful study of 

 the law as simply laid down in a manual as cheap as it is 

 sound. 



The Tourist's Guide to the Flora of the Alps. By Pho- 

 FEssoK K. W. v. Dalla-Torhe. Translated and Edited by 

 Alfred W. Bennett, M.A., B.Sc. (London: Swan Sou- 

 nenschein, Le Bas and Lowrey. 188G.) — This admirably 

 compact work, in its form of a tuck pocket-book, will be 

 found invaluable by the botanist and plant- collector iu the 

 Alps. Carried easily in one of the smaller pockets of a 

 shooting-coat, and most conveniently arranged for reference, 

 it is the very book for everyone for whom the strange 

 Alpine flora possesses any charm. To all such we com- 

 mend it. 



Latin Prose Cotnpositlon. By the Rev. Herbert W. 

 Sneyd-Kynnersley, LL I). (London : Relfe Brothers.) — 

 This is one of the innumerable successors to the "Ellis's 

 Exercises" of our childhood. Dr. Kynnersley seems to 

 have done his work conscientiously and selected his examples 

 judiciously. 



WaJford's Antiquarian. Edited by Edward Walford, 

 M.A. April 1886. (London : George Medway.) — All who 

 delight to live in the memories of the past should read Mr. 

 Walford's charmingly chatt)^ magazine, which brings plea- 

 santly before us so much that is good, beautiful, amusing, 

 and interesting in times long separated from our own. 



The Vegetable Garden. By MM. Yiljiorin-Andrieux, of 

 Paris. English Edition, published under the direction of 

 W. Robinson, Editor of " The Garden." (London : John 

 Murray. 188-5.) — Assuredly there is no such an encyclo- 

 pfedia of esculent vegetables in existence as the exhau.stive 

 one whose title heads this notice ; containing, as it does, 

 admirably executed drawings and full descrijitions of every 

 garden vegetable used foi' the food of man iu temperate 

 climates, together with explicit directions for its cultivation. 

 To t.he gardener, be he professional or amateur, to the gour- 

 mand, and very notably to the vegetarian, M5I. Vilmorin- 

 Andrieux's book is simply indispensable ; while the general 

 I'eader will learn with some amazement from its pages how 

 numerous and delicious are the plants grown for the table, 

 of whose very names he has previously been in ignorancr. 

 Our authors have conferred a real service upon all who an- 

 anxious for variety in their diet, as well as upon those 1^ 

 whom we have to look for its production. 



77ie Artist's Manual of Pigments, by H. C. Standagi 

 (London: Crosby Lockwood ifc Co. 1886), is a book cal- 

 culated to ba of the greatest possible service to all artists, 

 and more especially to those just beginning their career, 

 and to art students. The deterioration in hue of modern 



