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‘BRITISH ANIMALS WHICH HAVE BECOME EXTINCT 
WITHIN HISTORIC TIMES: 
With Some Account of British Wild White Cattle. 
By J._E. HARTING, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 
With Illustrations by WoLr, WHYMPER, and others. 
Contents :-— 
The Bear—The Beaver—The Reindeer—The Wild Boar—The Wolf, and Wild White Cattle. 
EXTRACT FROM PREFACE. 
«“ Few who have studied the literature of British Zoology can have failed to 
remark the gap which exists between Owen's ‘British Fossil Mammals and Birds,’ 
and Bell’s ‘British Quadrupeds ,’ the former dealing chiefly with pre-historic re- 
mains, the latter with species still existing. Between these two admirable works a 
connecting link, as tt were, seems wanting in the shape of a history of such animats 
as have become extinct in Britain within historic times, and to supply this is the aim 
of the present writer. 
Of the materials collected, during many years of research, some portion has 
been already utilised in a Lecture delivered by the author before the ‘ Hertfordshire 
Natural History Society,’ in October, 1879, and in several articles in the ‘ Popular 
Science Review’ and the natural history columns of ‘ The Field’ 
The exigencies of time and space, however, necessitated a much briefer treat- 
ment of the subject in the journals referred to than is here attempted, and to these 
essays, now presented to the reader in a consolidated form, considerable additions 
have been made. 
That the subject admits of still further amplification the author is well aware ; 
but ‘ars longa vita brevis est,’ and the materials at present collected have already 
assumed such dimensions, that it has been deemed preferable to offer them to the 
reader in their present form, rather than postpone publication indefinitely, in the 
hope of some day realizing an tacal state of perfection. 
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THE STORY OF PHILOSOPHY. 
By ASTON LEIGH. 
The object of this work is to give the reader, concisely and in ordinary language— 
philosophical ternis being as far as possible excluded—the History of the Rise and Progress, during 
the seven centuries before the birth of Christ, of that which sounds so unapproachable when the 
word which represents it is heard—" Philosophy.” 
The philosophical student may be compared to a gold-digger. He has to unearth and sift vast 
masses of sand before he finds the grain of gold—the thought. He has to wade through pages upon 
pages of words, all used in the endeavour of the writer to express some vast idea, which like a 
will-o’-the-wisp hovers about him and defies language. It 1s easy to lose the thought in the words, 
the thought being frequently a very needle in the hay of verbiage. 
This work is the result of several years’ reading and research. T. he writer has not compiled ; 
he has endeavoured to hear all sides of the question, and to relate the salient points of each as 
simply as ts possible when dealing with so vast a subject. 
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