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grammar, and will set down any occasional defect in grammatical construction, as 

 another presumption in favour of the Governor's identity wiih Junius.' 



The emphatic italics are the author's own ! Still more are we dis- 

 appointed with the subsequently discovered " evidence of so decisive 

 a character," added in the appendix. Something of a greatly more 

 decisive character must be produced, ere the justness of the title of 

 "Junius Discovered" will be generally conceded to our Canadian 

 knight-errant in this well contested field of literary adventure. But 

 it is much to accomplish, in being able to produce a claimant for the 

 laurels of Junius, concerning whom many arguments tend to sug- 

 gest that he may be the true one. And this much we conceive Mr. 



Griffin to have established. 



D. W. 



A Treatise on Analytical Statics, with numerous examples. By J. 

 Todhuuter, M. A., Fellow and Assistant Tutor of St. John's Col- 

 lege, Cambridge. Cambridge : Macmillan & Co. 1853. 

 Some twenty years ago a bulky octavo volume was published at 

 Cambridge, entitled " The Mathematical Principles of Mechanical 

 Philosophy," by Mr. Pratt, of Caius College. A second edition of 

 that work was published in 1S4<1, and since then it had continued to 

 be an acknowledged text book in the University. It was in fact by 

 far the most perfect book published on the subject of mechanical 

 philosophy taken as a whole, and until the last few years the sepa- 

 rate parts on Statics and Dynamics were about the best treatises 

 which the English student could take up on those subjects respec- 

 tively. And though, since the publication of Mr. Sandeman's admi- 

 rable treatise on Dynamics of a Particle, and Mr. Griffin's valuable 

 Syllabus of Dynamics of a Rigid Body, the dynamical portion of 

 Mr. Pratt's work had become antiquated, it was still felt to be an 

 indispensable to the mathematical student, as containing a vast mass 

 of information much of which was not easily procurable elsewhere. 

 This book has lately become out of print, and Messrs. Macmillan, of 

 Cambridge, appear to have resolved to re-publish the statical and 

 dynamical portions of it separately, and the task of preparing the 

 former for publication was undertaken by Mr. Todhunter. 



"We are sorry to have to say that we are disappointed with the 

 result. The disappointment is increased when Ave compare this book 

 with Mr. Todhunter's other publications, which are so admirably 

 adapted for the purposes of tuition: and especially do we regret the 

 defects of this book because in spite of them we feel no doubt that 



