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,A Digest of English and Americav Literature. By Alfred H. 

 Welsh. Chicago, S. C. Griggs & Co. 13°. $1.50. 

 The object of this work is to give an epitome of English litera- 

 sture from the earliest AugloSaxon period to the present day. 

 The matter is ari'anged in four columns: the first containing a 

 fcrief mention of the most important historic events ; the second, 

 ^ review of the characteristics of each age, so far as they affected 

 literature; wMle the remaining two are devoted to the various 

 ;authors and their principal works. The space given to each 

 .author is necessarily smali, rarely extending to a page ; but the 

 •style is concise and sententious, and usually clear, so that a good 

 deal of information is conveyed in a compact and intelligible form. 

 The work is divided into periods; and on the whole the division 

 is well made, though it seems to us that some of the writers cred- 

 ited to the Puritan period belong, both by style and by subject, to 

 ithe earlier, or Temaissance period. As reg;>rds the authors who 

 ■ought to be noticed in such a work as this, opinions will differ 

 isomewhat aceording to the standpoint and the taste of each reader. 

 .Some of those to \vhora Mr. Welsh has accorded considerable 

 :space seem to us unworthy of a place in such a book; while others 

 of greater weight and influence, such as Charles Darwin, John 

 Henry Newman, and E. A. Freeman, are not noticed in the body 

 of the work, and receive but a bare mention in the appendix. 

 Such emissions, however, are mostly confined to the concluding 

 portion of the book, and are perhaps accounted for bv the author's 

 ■unfortunate death, which prevented his giving the final touches 

 to his work. On the whole, this digest is excellent, and will be 

 useful not only to students, for whom it is more particularly de- 

 :signed, but also as a reference-book for general readers. 



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CONTENTS OF OCTOBER NUMBER. 



Life in Death, as Manifest in Falling Leaves. 

 Curious want of Ingenuity in the Harvesting 



Ants of France. 

 Frog Farming. 

 Some Thoughts on Light. 

 Cysticercooids Parasitic in Cypres cinerea. 

 Some remarks on the Puccinise attacking 



Galium. 

 The Influenza Bacillus. 



Mounting Medium for Vegetable Structures. 

 The Study of Entomology. 

 A Homely Zoophyte Trough. 

 Beetles. 



Dips into my Aquarium. 

 Artificial Sea- Water. 

 Among the Sea- Urchins. 

 Food from Wood. 

 The Elements of Microscopy. 

 The Aspect of the Heavens. 

 In Darkest Africa. 



Selected Notes from the Society's Note Books. 

 (80 pages in this part.) 



Coccus cataphractus. 



Goraphonema Germinatum. 



Fronds of Ferns. 



Cuticle Staugeria paradoxa. 



Stangeria paradoxa. 



Tracheseof Insects. 



Unopened Eye-lids of Kitten. 



Section of Piper. 



Law of Mole. 

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