BOOK NO TICKS. 25S^ 
Country, Ancient days in Venice, Ancient and Modern Glass of Murano (part 
of which we copy in this number of the Review), The Gates of Paradise, Klagen- 
furth, A Lesson for Merchant Princes, and New and Old World Manners, are 
fair samples of the titles of the articles presented. 
The work is handsomely gotten up by the pubHshers, as usual, and will have 
a large sale if it meets its deserts. 
Studies in Biography: Edited by Titus Munson Coan. i6mo., pp. 246. G. 
P. Putnams' Sons, N. Y., 1883. For sale by M. H. Dickinson. Cloth, 
60c; Paper, 25c. 
This is the second volume of the " Topics of the Time" series, to which we 
called attention last month, and comprises sketches of the lives of Leon Gambetta, 
Jonathan Swift, Miss Burney, and Samuel Wilberforce; also a Lucianic dialogue 
between Lord Westbury and Bishop Wilberforce ; an account of the life and work 
of George Sand (Madam Dudevant), and a final chapter upon Literary Bohem- 
ians, in which the Bohemian instincts and practices of Dumas, Victor Hugo and 
other well known writers are depicted and discussed. 
This series is skillfully presented by the editor and cannot fail of being pop- 
ular. The next number is entitled "Studies and Literature" and comprises 
American literature in England; Hamlet, a New Reading; The Humorous in 
Literature; The Bolandists; The Unknown Public, and The Isaiah of Jerusalem. 
Man Before Metals: By N. Joly. i2mo. , pp. 365; Illustrated. D. Apple- 
ton & Co., New York, 1883. For sale by M. H. Dickinson. $1.75. 
This is number XLV of the International Scientific Series and corresponds 
very well in character with the other volumes of that valuable series. It is divided 
into two parts, the first of which is devoted to The Antiquity of the Human Race, 
and the second to Primitive Civilization. In both of these the general facts of 
archaeology are presented about as they are by Lyell, Quatrefages, Tylor, Figuier, 
and others, and the conclusions drawn do not differ materially from those of other 
French writers upon the subject. The general course of M. Joly's discussion is 
The Prehistoric Ages; The Work of Boucher de Perthes; The Bone Caves; The 
Peat Mosses and Kitchen Middens; The Lake Dwellings and the Meraghi ; Burial 
Places ; Prehistoric Man in America ; Man of the Tertiary Epoch ; The Great 
Antiquity of Man. In part II he takes up Domestic Life, Industry, Agriculture, 
Navigation and Commerce, The Fine Arts, Language and Writing, Religion, 
The Portrait of the Quaternary Man. 
The chapter upon Language and Writing, including the Origin of Speech, is 
one of the most original and interesting of the whole, while that upon Rehgion 
is a learned compilation of authorities such as can be scarcely be found in any 
other work, which will be appreciated by all students, and from which all readers 
will not necessarily reach the same conclusions as the author. 
