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dently not a translation from the German memoir, but rather an analy- 
sis and condensation, thrown into a connected and attractive form. 
12. Wiley § Putnam’s Catalogue of Scientific Books. Part I, 
Medical Science.—These enterprising publishers have made it com- 
paratively easy to us, in this country, to become acquainted with the 
standard works of European authors, in all departments, by the facili- 
ties which their establishment affords to obtain those which fall in the 
way of each reader. This service is peculiarly useful to those whose iso- 
lated position in small towns in the interior of the country cuts them off, 
from other sources of information. 
The medical practitioner will find the first part of this well-digested 
catalogue, of great service, in enabling him to keep; up with the rapid 
advances of his profession. We will, also, in this connection, notice 
13. Library of Choice Reading, in course of publication by the 
same publishers. This series is designed to supply a better material for 
the taste which the public have acquired for ‘cheap literature” and 
science, than the vapid trash which has, during the last few years, fallen 
stillborn from the press in such quantities as to have become a nuisance 
and seriously to impede the progress of better books. We have seen 
already ten parts of this series, comprising a number of well known 
works of established reputation—* books which are books,” viz. Hothen ; 
Mary Schweidler, the Amber-witch ; Undine; Imagination and Fancy, 
by Leigh Hunt; The Diary of Lady Willoughby; Hazlitt’s Table 
Talk, parts 1 and 2; Headlong Hall and Nightmare Abbey; The 
French in Algiers, by Lady Duff Gordon; Ancient Moral Tales, from 
the Gesta Romanerum. 
14. Handwérterbuch der Topographischen Mineralogie von Gustay 
Leonard, Doctor der Philosophie, &c. 1 vol. 12mo,596 pp. Heidel- 
berg, Akademische Verlags-Handlung von J.C. B. Monn. 1843.— 
While the science of mineralogy appears to be rather on the wane in 
England and France, Germany continues to prosecute it with unabated 
zeal, and every year witnesses the announcement of new works and 
new discoveries. For three-fourths of the new species added to the 
science within a few years past, we are indebted to Germany and 
Northern Europe. To the same countries, also, do we look for the 
greater part of the late improvements in analytical chemistry. 
The work, whose title is above given, is one of the number, relating 
to mineralogy, that have appeared in Germany within the last two years. 
As the title indicates, it is occupied solely with topographical mineralogy, 
or in other words it is a book of mineral localities, containing the min- 
