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interesting little book, written by 

 one who is at once a convinced 

 evolutionist and a believer in 

 revelation. One cannot but 

 admire the reverent and confi- 

 dent position which he takes up 

 with regard to the ultimate con- 

 cord of religion and science an 

 attitude unusual in a book written 

 by a non-Catholic as we take Dr. 

 Schmucker to be. Another point 

 about it which we greatly like is 

 the wide and intimate knowledge 

 of living nature which it shows. 

 By far the greater number of 

 books of the class to which this 

 belongs are written from the 

 laboratory and positively reek of 

 it : in comparatively few of them 

 is there any real appreciation of 

 the fact that after all the animal, 

 before it became a specimen, was 

 alive. Dr. Schmucker's accounts 

 of wild life-American and so a 

 little difficuTFToToIIow by those 

 who have never seen, still less 

 heard a " katydid," are none the 

 less delightful reading and we 

 have never come across anything 

 more full or more interesting than 

 his account of the introduction of 

 the common house-sparrow into 

 America with the consequent 

 results. 



Dr. Schmucker holds much 

 more closely by the Weismann 

 doctrines than most biologists of 

 the day and he is quite assured 

 of the derivative origin of man's 

 body. Of his soul he speaks but 

 little, but we gather that he 

 would not agree with those 

 persons who suppose that also 

 to have been evolved. But on 

 this point he does not make 

 himself quite clear. May we 

 suggest that in this day of cheap 

 literature six shillings and six- 

 pence is rather an excessive price 

 for a volume of less than three 

 hundred pages and only eight 



