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its acquisition an era in Ms studies. The work is copiously illustrated 

 with woodcuts from original sources, and forms one of the most 

 striking volumes of the fine series with which it is connected. 



W. H. 



Handbook of Zoology, hy J. Van der Hceven, ^c, ^c, in two volumes. 

 Vol. II. Vertebrate animals. Translated from the second 

 Butch edition : By the Eev. W. Clark, M.D., F.E.S., &c., late 

 Fellow of Trinity College, and Professor of Anatomy in the 

 University of Cambridge. 



We gladly announce the completion of this important work. We 

 wish we could more entirely approve of its systematic arrangement ; 

 but, whatever may be supposed to be its faults, it offers most valuable 

 aid to the student, and the account given of the general structure and 

 physiology of each tribe, prefixed to an analysis of its families and 

 genera, is precisely the sort of thing which is needed by the general 

 student, br. Clark, in faithfully translating, has also, with the aid 

 of the author, carefully improved the work, and it must be accounted 

 a very valuable addition to the stores of scientific information in our 

 vernacular tongue. It is only to be regretted that two such volumes 

 are unavoidably somewhat expensive. 



Rational Philosophy in History and in System ; an Introduction to 

 a Logical and Metaphysical Course. — By Alexander C. Fraser, Pro- 

 fessor of Logic and Metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh. 

 Edinburgh : Thomas Constable & Co. Hamilton, Adams & Co., 

 London. 



This little tract has not received from the leading British Reviews 

 the attention to which, in our judgment, it is entitled. Any notices 

 of it with which we have met have been of a most general and vague 

 character ; leaving on the mind of the reader no distinct impression, 

 except that the reviewers had nothing very particular to say about the 

 work which they were criticising. This, we suspect, is to be explained 

 by the circumstance that the work professes to be merely a provisional 

 substitute for a syllabus or outline of the course which (with special 

 reference to his own students) the author is labouring to mature ; for 

 assuredly it is not owing to the work being either common-place or 



