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that Mr. Malley's book is written. He takes no previous 

 knowledge for granted, bit begins at the beginning l)y 

 describing the optical priucii'les involved in the formation 

 of the image, and the structure of the apparatus employed. 

 The veriest novice may V)econio proticient (of cou r.-o, after 

 practice) if he will study Mr. JIalloy's little work with care 

 and attention. The photogra})hs which illustrate it arc of 

 somewhat unequal merit 



Literari/ Success; beiwj a (luide to Practical Journalism. 

 By Arthuu a. Re.vde. Wyman's Technical Series. 

 (London : Wymau it Sons.) — Every ouo to far afllicted 

 with the cacoel/ies scribenJi as to desire to pursue jour- 

 nalism for a living should obtain 'Mr. Readc's work forth- 

 with. It is crammed full of information, from cover to 

 cover; and, moreover, of just the kind and amount of 

 information needed by the literary aspirant. Repotting, 

 leader- writing, reviewing, interviewing, "special " and war 

 correspondence, art and dramatic criticism, editing, authors 

 and publishers, and many cognate subjects, arc dealt with 

 in a series of amusing chapters. Our autlior earnestly 

 counsels the would-be literary man to eschew the magazines 

 and stick to the newspapers ; advice sound enough, but in 

 many cases resembling that of a physician who should order 

 the wife of a cabman to go to Davos Platz for change of 

 air. As, however, we began bj' saying, the whole book is 

 so thoroughly useful and to the point, tliat the literary 

 aspirant will do himself a real injustice if he omits to 

 obtain it. 



Souls and Cities. By the author of the Cheveley Novels. 

 (London : W. Kent & Co.) — Anything more unlike the 

 merely conventional novel than " Souls and Cities;," it 

 would bo hard to imagine. The picture it gives of the 

 inner life of a Nonconformist .sect in a country jila^e, with 

 its meannesses and petty spites, curio.sity and jealousies, 

 shows a knowledge such as can only have been acquired 

 from long personal observation. We will not destroy the 

 reader's interest in this curious book by any outline of its 

 plot. Suffice it to say that it is hard to decide which is the 

 more noble character of the two, the Clergyman or the 

 Congregational ilinister. 



Glass Painting, by Fbeu. Miller ; Pottery Painlimj, by 

 Feed. Miller. Wyman's Technical Series. (London : 

 Wyman «fe Sons.) — We class these two e.Kcellent books 

 together, treating as they do of cognate branches of art, the 

 first of them of an art for which Medianal England was 

 famous, which then all but died out, but which, after a 

 long period of decay, has comparatively recently been 

 resuscitated. How etfective— nay, how beautiful — gla«s- 

 painting may be made, a visit to almost any one of our 

 Cathedrals will suffice to .show. Not alone, however, is 

 painted glass applicable to ecclesiastical decoration. It 

 may be made equally subservient to the adornment of the 

 dwelling-house or the public building. Nor does the prac- 

 tice of painting on glass present serious difficulties to any 

 one of moderately artistic taste ; in fact, such a one, man 

 or woman, need only study carefully Mr. Miller's most 

 explicit directions to become a proficient in the art. 

 Colours, materials, and processes are most fully described and 

 as fully illustrated in the work before us, as which we have 

 so far seen nothing so complete and exhaustive. 



And the praise which we have given to Mr. Miller's essay 

 on glass painting we may reiterate and extend to his 

 instructions for painting pottery. As an elegant recrea- 

 tion and a valuable aid to the artistic furnishing of our 

 living-rooms, painted china and pottery have for a con.sider- 

 able time held a prominent jilace. The intelligent perusal 

 of Mr. Miller's second profusely illustrated work will enable 

 the reader to prosecute this charming art at once with 

 pleasure and success. 



Convncrcial and School Book kee.pimi. Ry A. F. Notluv. 

 (London : Bemrose 1- Sons. ISSt.)— Young men about to 

 enter on commercial life will lind Mr. Notley a thorougiily 

 trustworthy guide in the mysteries of single and douUlo 

 entry. The principles underlying the art of biok- keeping 

 are explained in language free from technic.ility, and a 

 valuable innovation is made in the shipc of two 

 chapters containing instructionK for taking out prime cost 

 and depreciation, instruction which, so far as we are aware, 

 have not appeared hitherto in any work published on the 

 subject. 



JIclps to J/mllh. By Henry C. Rukdett. (London: 

 Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co. 1885.)— Among the very 

 numerous works on health which have had their origin, 

 proximate or remote, in the South Kensington Exhibition 

 of last year, we do not remember to have come across one 

 so comprehensive as that of IMr. Burdett, now lying 

 before us. It begins with the planning, arrangement, and 

 furnishing of the nursery, and the care and treatment of its 

 occupants ; discusses the school with similar fulness ; treats 

 of bathing and clothing ; of food and drink, and of work, 

 rest, exercise, and recreation. Thtn the choice of a house 

 is discussed, and the most minute details given as to 

 structural details affecting its sanitary condition ; the work 

 concluding with a chapter on health resorts, and another on 

 the sanitary powers and duties of the citizen. A rigid 

 adherence to the rules laid down by Mr. Burdett in any 

 given neighbourhood would render it a singularly un- 

 profitable one for a doctor to commence practice in. 



'The Annual Report and Proceedings of the Belfast 

 Xaluralists' Field Club. (Belfast, 1884.)— This is a 

 singularly readable and creditable account of honest work 

 pei formed by the members of the most flourishing scientific 

 society in the North of Ireland. It is, moreover, well 

 illustrated— firstly with a plate of the Eocene Conifer:e 

 from Ballypalady, and next with an extensive scries of 

 sketches of Irish cromlechs. 



The Dramatic lierieir. No. I. (London, Feb. 1,1885.) 

 — If we may judge from the first number, the Dramatic 

 Review ought to address a large public. Its articles are 

 signed by men eminent in the literature of the drann, and 

 its discussions of plays and players are at once unprejudiced 

 and readable. A very fitting journal for all who find plea- 

 sure and recreation in the theatre. 



The Aschpiad. By Benjamin W. Ricuardsun, M.D. 

 (London : Longmans, Green, & Co.) — Dr. Richard.son's 

 quarterly journal continues to sustain its reputation, and is 

 filled with matter of interest to the medical profession. The 

 layman, too, will find much to interest him in " Further 

 Iiesearches in Euthanasia for the Lower Creation," and in 

 a short essay on " The Overpre.ssure Questien." 



Britons, Aimhe I By A. B. C. (London : Kegan Paul, 

 Trench, & Co. 1885.) — A spirit-stirring appeal to Eng- 

 lishmen to put our naval defences into a satisfactory con- 

 dition, and to equip and man such a fleet as shall render us 

 secure against the machiuations of our loving Continental 

 friends. 



We have also on our table, from the Messrs. Cassell A: 

 Co., the first number of Our Own Country (with descrip- 

 tions, very beautifully illustrated, of Salisbury Plain and 

 Stonehenge, Leeds, and the Cinque Ports), CasseU's Ilouse^ 

 hold Guide, CasseU's Popular Gardeniny, The Countries of 

 the World, The Library of English Literature, Eurojiran 

 Butterflies and Moths, and Tlie Book of Health. Also, The 

 British and Colonial Druyyist, Naluren, Society, Brad- 

 streets, The Season, The American Druggist, The American 

 Naturalist, The Kansas City Review, The Cinque Port, The 

 Lifeboat, Ciel et Terre, The Medical Press and Circular, 

 The Journal of Botany, and The Technical Journal. 



