Opinions of the Press on the ‘International Scientific Series.” 
XV. 
Fung1; 
THEIR NATURE, INFLUENCE, AND USES. 
By M. C. COOKE, M.A., LL.D. 
Edited by Rev. M. J. BERKELEY, M.A., F.L.5. 
With 109 Illustrations. Price, $1.50. 
“Even if the name of the author of this work were not deservedly eminent, that of 
the editor, who has long stood at the head of the British fungologists, would be a suf- 
ficient voucher for the accuracy of one of the best botanical monographs ever issued 
from the press. . . . The structure, germination, and growth of all these widely-dif- 
fused organisms, their habitats and influences for good and evil, are systematically 
described.” —New York World. 
“Dr. Cooke’s book contains an admirable 7ésw7é of what_is known on the struct- 
ure,- growth, and reproduction of fungi, together with ample bibliographical references 
to original sources of information.” —Lozdon Atheneum. 
“The production of a work like the one now under review represents a large 
amount of laborious, difficult, and critical work, and one in which a serious slip or fatal 
error would be one of the easiest matters possible, but, as far as we are able to judge, 
the new hand-book seems in every way well suited to the requirements of all beginners 
in the difficult and involved study-of fungology.”—The Gardener's Chronicle (Lon- 
don), 
XVI 
The Life and Growth of Language: 
AN OUTLINE OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE. 
By WILLIAM DIVIGHT WHITNEY, 
Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology in Yale College. 
1vol., 12mo. Cloth. Price, $1.50. 
“Prof, Whitney is to be commended for giving to the public the results of his ripe 
scholarship and unusually profound researches in simple language. He draws illus- 
trations and examples of the principles which he wishes to impast, from common life 
and the words in frequent use. 
“‘The topics ciscussed in this volume are, for the most part, those which have 
been already treated by other writers on philology, and even by the author himself, in 
his volume on ‘Language, and the Study of Language,’ published a few years ago, 
and, though many of the truths here set forth are those with which students in the 
same line of investigation are generally familiar, all will rejoice to see them restated in 
such a fresh and simple way. 
“ This work, while valuable to scholars, will be interesting to every one.”—The 
Churchman. 
“ This work is an important contribution to a science which has advanced steadily 
under conditions that appear constantly to throw an increasing light on difficult ques- 
tions, and at each step clear the way for further discoveries.” — Chicago Inter-Occan. 
“Prof. Whitney is undoubtedly one of the foremost of English-speaking philologists, 
and occupies an enviable position in the wider circle of European students of language. 
“His style, clear, simple, picturesque, abounding in striking illustrations, and apt 
in comparisons, is admirably fitted to be the vehicle of a popular treatise like the work 
under consideration.”’—ertland Daily Press. 
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