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the head of Life are discussed The Reign of Life in the Vegetable Kingdom ; 

 Reign of Sense in the Animal Kingdom ; the Reign of Reason in humanity. 



It will be seen by this meagre outline of the scope of the work that the exe- 

 cution of the plan necessarily carries the reader to the highest sphere of specula- 

 tive philosophy, yet he will find that " by the use of reason as a distinct organ 

 of transcendental knowledge we may consistently attempt to attain a knowledge 

 of the Creator; following which we may also consistently seek to know the work 

 of Creation in its incipiency, progress and consummation." 



We commend it to all who desire to obtain a view of the subject from a 

 higher standpoint and from a more comprehensive platform than are ordinarily 

 furnished by thinkers of the merely materialistic school. 



Chapters on Evolution: By Andrew Wilson, Ph. D., F. L. S., Etc. With 

 259 illustrations. Octavo, pp. 383. G. P. Putnam's Sons, N, Y. For 

 sale by M". H. Dickinson; $2.50. 



This is not a new work, but it probably presents the facts and arguments of 

 evolution as fully and fairly as any that has been published. Commencing with 

 the almost simultaneous promulgations of the theory, worked out at opposite 

 points on the globe, by Darwin and Wallace in 1858, he states the problem con- 

 cisely and clearly, following the statement with consequent and logically arranged 

 chapters upon the study of biology, the constitution of the animal and plant 

 kingdoms, protoplasm ; the evidence in favor of the theory from rudimentary 

 organs; from the tails, limbs and lungs of animals; the evidence furnished by the 

 science of likenesses ; from missing links, from development in the earlier stages 

 in the life history of animals, in the life histories of star fishes and crustaceans, 

 and from the development of moUusks, anphibians, etc.; the evidence for the 

 life-histories of insects ; from the constitution of colonial or compound animals ; 

 from the fertilization of flowers ; from degeneration ; and finally a chapter on 

 geology and evolution. 



The whole is bountifully illustrated with wood cuts, while the style is attrac- 

 tive and lucid. Any reader who wishes to find the whole subject fully treated in 

 one volume need go no further than this. 



The Approaching End of the Age: By H. Grattan Guiness. Sixth edition. 

 Octavo, pp. 776. A. C. Armstrong & Son, New York, 1884. For sale by 

 M. H. Dickinson, $2.50. 



The full title of this work is " The Approaching End of the Age, Viewed in 

 the Light of History, Prophecy and Science," and its author, who is Director of 

 the East London Institute for Home and Foreign Missions, has devoted many 

 years of patient and laborious research to its preparation. Its object is to prove 

 that the day of Christ is at hand, or, to use the language of the author, " that 

 the time for evangelizing the nations and gathering in the church of the first-born 



