348 REVIEW. 
the right way the perverse renderings of the first “ translation," he seems 
to have generally gone to the French or riginal; but there are not 
wanting examples of a misplaced confidence in the former version,—as 
when little pieces of the o riginal, which it was beyond the ingenuity of 
the first tre aidor to travesty into English, are omitted. On the whole, 
however, the book is a fair reproduction i in our language of M. Figuier's, 
with some additions and improvements. 
The first 200 pages are devoted to the organs and functions x large 
vives us a short account of 
and the third consists of a sort of abstract of Dr. Lindley’s ‘ Vegetable 
original good deal of information on the economic uses of plants is 
ere incorporated. The modern researches of Coh ingshein, and De 
Bary on the modes of reproduction in Thallogens are well illustrated by 
the original figures. In the concluding pa mmary 
Botany, to which a favourable allusion has been alreadyf 
made. careful glossary occupying thirty closely printed columns has 
been sid to this edition. 
