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  OF 
  NEW 
  BOOKS. 
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  arises 
  that, 
  as 
  naturalists, 
  we 
  would 
  fain 
  have 
  bartered 
  " 
  the 
  

   fifty 
  years 
  of 
  Europe 
  " 
  for 
  a 
  life 
  in 
  the 
  cycle 
  of 
  a 
  prehistoric 
  

   fauna, 
  and, 
  even 
  more 
  recently, 
  to 
  have 
  hunted 
  the 
  Wolf 
  and 
  

   Boar 
  rather 
  than 
  have 
  lived 
  within 
  sound 
  of 
  a 
  factory 
  bell. 
  

   Mr. 
  Millais 
  includes 
  those 
  mammals 
  which 
  have 
  become 
  extinct 
  

   with 
  us 
  during 
  historic 
  times; 
  to 
  have 
  done 
  otherwise 
  would 
  be 
  

   equivalent 
  to 
  excluding 
  Beowulf 
  from 
  the 
  annals 
  of 
  British 
  

   literature. 
  

  

  We 
  cannot, 
  however, 
  linger 
  over 
  the 
  text 
  of 
  this 
  book, 
  for 
  the 
  

   illustrations 
  reach 
  a 
  standard 
  seldom 
  found 
  in 
  zoological 
  publi- 
  

   cations, 
  and 
  sometimes 
  arouse 
  those 
  aesthetic 
  appreciations 
  which 
  

   are 
  often 
  denied 
  as 
  belonging 
  to 
  the 
  professors 
  of 
  a 
  gospel 
  of 
  dry 
  

   bones 
  and 
  skins. 
  In 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  photogravures 
  from 
  original 
  

   drawings 
  by 
  the 
  author, 
  especially 
  in 
  that 
  of 
  " 
  Water 
  Shrews 
  at 
  

   play," 
  many 
  will 
  recall 
  the 
  touch 
  "of 
  a 
  vanished 
  hand," 
  while 
  

   the 
  names 
  of 
  Archibald 
  Thorburn 
  and 
  G. 
  E. 
  Lodge 
  are 
  impress 
  

   to 
  the 
  other 
  work. 
  In 
  fact, 
  the 
  illustrations 
  for 
  a 
  portfolio 
  

   alone 
  are 
  more 
  than 
  worth 
  the 
  price 
  of 
  the 
  whole 
  book. 
  

  

  We 
  have 
  endeavoured 
  to 
  give 
  the 
  salient 
  features 
  of 
  this 
  

   volume 
  ; 
  it 
  would 
  be 
  beyond 
  our 
  space 
  and 
  province 
  to 
  seek 
  to 
  

   dissect 
  it 
  ; 
  as 
  a 
  welcome 
  contribution 
  to 
  our 
  faunistic 
  histories, 
  

   written 
  with 
  such 
  thoroughness 
  and 
  adorned 
  with 
  such 
  attractive 
  

   illustrations, 
  we 
  cease 
  to 
  be 
  critics, 
  and 
  feel 
  that, 
  thus 
  disarmed, 
  

   our 
  occupation's 
  gone. 
  Misprints 
  are 
  almost 
  absent, 
  though 
  the 
  

   reader 
  has 
  allowed 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  the 
  author 
  of 
  ' 
  Gleanings 
  in 
  

   Natural 
  Histoiw 
  ' 
  to 
  appear 
  as 
  Mr. 
  " 
  Jess." 
  

  

  Ants 
  and 
  some 
  other 
  Insects 
  ,- 
  an 
  Inquiry 
  into 
  the 
  Psychic 
  Powers 
  

   of 
  these 
  Animals. 
  By 
  Dr. 
  August 
  Foeel. 
  Translated 
  

   from 
  the 
  German 
  by 
  Prof. 
  W. 
  M. 
  Wheelee, 
  of 
  New 
  York. 
  

   Kegan 
  Paul, 
  Trench, 
  Triibner 
  & 
  Co., 
  Ltd. 
  

  

  This 
  is 
  a 
  tractate 
  of 
  some 
  fifty 
  pages 
  written, 
  and 
  published 
  

   on 
  the 
  philosophical 
  question 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  community, 
  or 
  divergence 
  

   between 
  the 
  mental, 
  or 
  psychic 
  capacities 
  of 
  men 
  and 
  other 
  

   animals. 
  For 
  this 
  purpose 
  Dr. 
  Forel 
  has 
  contributed 
  many 
  

   facts 
  relating 
  to 
  Ants, 
  about 
  which 
  he 
  has 
  such 
  a 
  special 
  know- 
  

   ledge, 
  — 
  creatures 
  which 
  differ 
  so 
  immensely 
  from 
  man 
  in 
  size, 
  

  

  