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A GLANCE A T BOOK'S. 



The Pleasures of Life, by Sir John Lubbock. Price fifteen 

 cents, post-free. J. Fitzgerald, publisher, 24 East Fourth Street, 

 New York. 



The 'consolation of philosophy' has been a frequent theme for 

 students and thinkers. Sir John Lubbock mioht well have 

 named this deli,s^htful series of essays, 'The Consolation of Science 

 and Learning.' Tlie author is no pedant, no bookworm, but a 

 frank sympathizer with his fellows in the work-a-day world, dis- 

 coursing of the duty of happiness, as well as the happiness of 

 of duty. Of books also he treats, and of friendship; of the 

 'pleasures of travel' he writes most entertainingly, but the chap- 

 ter entitled 'the pleasures of home' is in style and in substance 

 the gem of the collection. 



A Half-century of Science, by Prof. Thomas H. Huxley 

 and Grant Allen. J. Fitzgerald, publisher, 24 East Fourth Street, 

 New York. Price fifteen cents, post-free. 



The progress made by science within the last fifty years is the 

 most noteworthy phenomenon of recent history. In the work 

 before us that momentous episode finds adequate record and ex- 

 position, one of the authors, Professor Huxley, being the fore- 

 most biologist of our time as well as a recognized leader of scien- 

 tific thought; and the other, Mr. Grant Allen, one of the most 

 successful popularizers of the results of scientific research. It 

 forms No. 96 of the 'Humboldt Library of Popular Science' — 

 a series containing many of the scientific works which have in 

 our day revolutionized the intellectual and moral world. Such 

 works must command the attention of every intelligent man who 

 would understand the mind of the age in which we live. 



AMONG THE MAGAZINES. 



The March Century W\\\ contain the story of 'Colonel Rose's 

 Tunnel at Libby Prison,' told by one of the one hundred and 

 nine Union officers who escaped on the night of February 9, 

 1864. The successful construction of this tuiinel, dug from a 

 dark corner of the cellar of the prison, through fifty feet of solid 

 earth, — the only tools being two broken chisels and a wooden 

 spittoon in which to carry out the dirt, — was one of the most re- 

 markable incidents of the war. Colonel Rose, to whose indom- 

 itable will and perseverance the success of the scheme was due, 

 is now a captain in the i6th United States Infantry, and of the 

 fourteen men who assisted him in digging the tunnel, eleven are 

 sdll living. The narrative in the March Century, which is illus- 

 trated, forms one of the untechnical papers supplementing the 

 War Series, and it is said to be one of the most romantic records 

 that The Centufy has ever printed. 



