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LITERARY NOTICES. 



Harmonious Maxims op Science and Religion. By the Rev. 

 William Baker, M.A., Vicar of Crambe, near York (Longmans). — 

 The author of this work contends that the reconciliation of science 

 with theology must be effected by tracing out in both departments 

 a series of truths, which only became cognizable through accurate 

 study, and which often contradict those interpretations of natural 

 or revealed phenomena that are accepted by the unlearned. We can 

 only mention the scope of this book, without offering any opinion on 

 its merits or defects. 



Philosophy op Religion. By Hugh Dogherty, M.D. (Triibner 

 and Co)— This is a short pamphlet of controversial divinity, a 

 subject with which we do not meddle. Those parts which touch 

 general philosophy appear to us to want precision and distinctness. 

 Dr. Dogherty is too fond of long-tailed words and learned-looking 

 expressions. We certainly do not feel disposed to attack his 

 " epicosmology" with its " sacred numbers in individual organisms ; 

 discrete organisms in the indivisible unity of human nature," 

 its " one primary and three secondary classes in its realm in epi- 

 cosmic nature ;" or its " three degrees — individual, realmic, and 

 epicosmic." A wise man will always distrust thoughts that cannot 

 be expressed in simpler terms. 



Inventive Drawing: A E"ew Practical Development of Elemen- 

 tary Design. By Edward Ball. (Hardwicke.) — This is an ad- 

 mirable work. Mr. Ball's notion of teaching drawing is both 

 practical and philosophical. All objects in nature, and beautiful 

 productions in art, may be analysed into simple elements. The 

 most elementary forms will be combinations of rectilineal angles, 

 or angles formed by straight lines. Mr. Ball shows how, from the 

 simple meeting of two straight lines, the pupil may proceed to 

 pleasing pictures formed by combinations of straight lines ; and 

 he likewise illustrates the approximate mode in which they can be 

 made to represent animal forms grotesquely caricatured. Part II. 

 relates to the combinations of triangles, in which the progress of 

 rectilineal design is carried further than in Part I., and we arrive 

 at patterns of considerable elegance, entirely formed of a multi- 

 plicity of triangles of various sizes, and in which the effect of shading 

 is produced by making nests of triangles, one inside the other, re- 

 peated five or six times. In Part III. four-sided figures assist the 

 triangles in building up fresh devices, and in Part IV. simple curvi- 

 linear figures are introduced, and excellently applied. Part V. is 

 devoted to geometric figures, bounded by right lines ; and the 

 subject is continued in Part VI., in which curves and right lines 

 are combined. Part VII. is devoted to " designs from nature, illus- 

 trating the use of the elementary and compound forms in diapers ;" 

 and Part VIII. shows how simple, but effective patterns for windows 

 may be composed. The merit of this work consists in the execution 

 as well as in the idea. It will lead the student on pleasantly and 



