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in giving an impression of the landscapes of different epochs. Miss 

 Woodward's drawings are among the best we have seen of restorations 

 of long extinct forms, for, while faithful to the evidence of structure 

 aiforded by the remains discovered, she has exercised an admirable 

 restraint which has enabled her to avoid the tendency, so often seen 

 in the rendering of such subjects, to portray the creatures of the 

 past like nothing more than the grotesques of a fantastic nightmare. 

 At the same time she has succeeded in giving spirited representations 

 of various forms of life ranging from the graceful stone lily to 

 Mousterian man. Where so many show such high merit, it may 

 seem invidious to make a selection for special notice ; but among 

 those particularly conveying the feeling of wild life in unrestricted 

 freedom might be cited the plates portraying ITeaperornu and 

 Archceopteri/x among the birds, Mceritherium, Machcerodiis, Hipparion, 

 and the later Sippidium of the mammalia; while particular mention 

 may also be made of the plates showing Devonian sharks and Ganoids, 

 Ichthyosaurs preying on Belemnites, and the Jurassic Biplodocus 

 Carnegiei. 



Considering that so frequent use has to be made of scientific 

 names, the text is singularly free from small clerical errors, though 

 a few may be noticed, such as the two spellings given on opposite 

 pages of the generic name of the ' giraffe-camel ' from the Miocene of 

 Colorado. 



In his preface Mr. Knipe very generously and rightly acknowledges 

 the valuable assistance received from members of the staff of the 

 British Museum (jSTatural History) and other specialists, more 

 particularly with reference to the pictured restorations which form 

 such a valuable adjunct to the letterpress. The volume is furnished 

 with a good index and a very useful list of authorities consulted. 

 When preparing this work for a second edition it might be suggested 

 that a few sketch-maps indicating the extent of the earth's land 

 surfaces during different periods might still further add to its 

 completeness. 



On nearly every page are marginal headings, if one may be 

 permitted the use of such a term, which will be found of great 

 assistance when employing this as a work of reference. 



We sincerely hope that the volume under review will eventually 

 have to be referred to as one of Mr. Knipe' s ' earlier works ', and it 

 is in anticipation of its successors that it may be well to suggest to 

 the author that, while technical language is necessarily to be avoided, 

 a tendency to err in the opposite extreme is to be deprecated on the 

 ground that, while more intelligible, it is perhaps even more 

 aggravating to the reader. As an example taken at random, we may 

 mention his reference to ' Trunky life ' in India in early Pliocene 

 times ; the ' elephants ' in the margin is illuminating ; nevertheless 

 one is left with the impression that this is hardly the expression best 

 suited for the occasion, and that one would be similarly affected if in 

 reading a History of England, for instance, the author were to refer 

 to Alfred the Great as 'Alf '. 



In conclusion, it vnscj be said that this handsome volume is well 

 got up and printed on good paper, which is satisfactory to note when 



