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(Robert Clarke & Co.)—This little manual is especially intended 
as a guide to small farmers and others who wish to make wine 
in small quantities, whether from grapes or other fruits. The 
- author is evidently a person well acquainted with the practice of 
The English of the book would have been improved by a little 
Contra Costa County, a blunder which any gazetteer would have 
corrected. But the climate, vine and soil of alifornia are 80 entirely 
unlike anything in the Eastern United States, and especially in 
their peculiar adaptation to the production of the grape and its 
wine that we can hardly include them in a book intended for those ~ 
tates. 
. Chambers’s Encyclopedia: a Dictionary of. Universal Knowl 
edge for the people. argh Vols. viii-x. Philadelphia: Lip- 
pincott & Co.; Edinburgh: W. & R. 
prising nearly every department of human knowledge, are in its 
alphabetical list. Its natural history articles, and those on the 
i ero 
for Americans. Its biographical articles are numerous and em- 
brace the living as well as the dead. 
In an appendix which fills two-thirds of the final volume, many 
articles are added to keep pace with the rapid progress of science 
in its various departments. The article on chemistry brings for- 
1 in a manner on the whole pretty satisfactorily, the modern 
chemical philosophy i 
: , recognizing fully its importance, and rapl 
strides toward supremacy. Sir Benjamin Brodie’s Calculus of Chem- 
is not forgotten. It is a singular f the slowness with 
which the Anglo-Saxon mind adopts new ideas, that in 1868 1t 1s 
Still deemed essential in a leading exponent of the existing state 
of knowledge, to give in connection with the article chemistry an 
elaborate exposition of the metrical system of weights and meas- 
‘ures, now for a generation in almost exclusive use among all scient- 
Ast Jour. Sc.—Ssconp Serres, VOL. XLVI, No. 138.—Nov., 1868. 
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