AIR. T. FISHER UN WIN'S 



Travel and Description continued. 



SECOND EDITION. 



By Moor and Fell. Landscape and Lang-Settle Talk 



in West Yorkshire. By HALLIWELL SUTCLIFFE, Author of 

 " Ricroft of Withens," "Through Sorrow's Gates," etc , etc. With 

 many Illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth. 



" What Blackmore has done for the Exmoor country in ' Lorna Doone,' Baring- 

 Gould for the Essex marshlands in ' Mehalah,' Thomas Hardy for Wessex, Mr. Sutcliffe 

 has done for the country which he loves so well. In ' By Moor and Fell in West York- 

 shire,' we are taken pleasantly along the roads, as it were, by a cultured fellow-traveller 

 saturated with the spirit of his native soil, with a keen eye for all the beauties and a 

 long memory for all the legends of the countryside. He takes us to Haworth, and helps 

 us to realise the influences under which the Brontes lived." Westminster Gazette. 



SCIENCE AND 



NATURAL HISTORY, 



The Nature and Origin of Living Matter. By H. 



CHARLTON BASTIAN. M.A , M.D. (London), F.R.S., F.L.S., Emeritus 

 Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine, and of Clinical 

 Medicine at University College, London. With 76 Illustrations. 

 Medium 8vo, cloth. 



In view of the general interest excited by the experiments of Mr. Burke at Cambridge 

 in connection with Spontaneous Generation, this work is likely to attract considerable 

 attention. It represents conclusions arrived at by the author after many years of 

 research conclusions which may be briefly summarised by saying that Dr. Bastian, so 

 far from regarding Spontaneous Generation as a myth, holds that from the earliest 

 stages of the earth's history up to the present time new beginnings of simplest lorms 

 of life have been constantly taking place all over the earth. Supporting the Physical 

 Doctrine of Life, Dr. Bastian considers the fundamental properties of living matter, its 

 molecular constitution and innate tendency to variation. Dealing with the Factors of 

 Evolution he criticises some of Weismann's doctrines, and especially his view that 

 " acquired characters " are not inherited. He shows that the Law of Continuity, as well as 

 observation, supports the view of the natural origin of living matter (Archebiosis) at 

 the present day. He brings forward much strong evidence showing the widespread 

 occurrence of Heterpgenesis, and indicates generally how many facts concerning the 

 present and past forms of life on our globe, which are otherwise irreconcilable with the 

 general doctrine of Evolution, are explicable in accordance with his views as to the present 

 occurrence of Archebiosis and Heterogenesis. The book is so lucidly written as to be 

 intelligible to readers who have no special scientific knowledge. 



The Age of the Earth, and other Geological 



Studies. By W. J. SOLLAS, LL.D., D.Sc., F.R.S., Professor of 

 Geology in the University of Oxford. Illustrated. Demy 8vo, cloth. 



This volume, while written by one of the foremost of English geologists, will be found 

 interesting and attractive by the reader who has no special knowledge of the science 



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