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depressed population. He gives enough of their dark surroundings 

 and deplorable habits to make his picture striking as well as true, 

 and he judiciously avoids details that are not fit for family reading. 

 If the subject were not so intimately connected with human misery, 

 we should call his pages very entertaining : interesting they cer- 

 tainly are, and carry their instruction with them. The chapters, 

 "Amongst the Poor," "Tiger Bay," and "Weasels Asleep," strike 

 us as excellent of their kind ; and the book cannot fail to assist in 

 rousing the intelligent and benevolent part of the community to the 

 necessity of dealing, on a large and bold scale, with evils that minor 

 efforts may expose, but cannot correct. Every large town has 

 whole streets, or districts, which are nothing else than elaborately- 

 arranged factories for the production. of pauperism, disease, and 

 crime. No circumstance of dirt, filth, darkness, bad ventilation, 

 ignorance of what is good, and early acquaintance with what is bad, 

 is wanting in these horrible localities ; and. although they may lie close 

 to respectable or even wealthy neighbourhoods, they seem as far out 

 of the influence of civilization, and as far removed from the eye of 

 the happier portion of society, as if they were situated in a remote 

 quarter of the globe. Mr. Archer's travels in such regions have 

 enabled him to describe them with graphic power. 



The Public Schools Calendar foe 1865. Edited by a Graduate 

 of the University of Oxford. (Bivingtons.) — This work is, we 

 believe, quite new in the extent of its plan. Preference is given, as 

 the preface tells us, to the nine public schools forming the subject 

 of Her Majesty's Commissioners' Report. The school lists of 

 these nine, and the roll of cadets at "Woolwich, are given in full, as 

 well as the honours' lists of all the schools. Various other schools 

 are described, but the list does not pretend to include every school 

 to which the name of " public" properly belongs. In future years, 

 we should recommend an extension of the list ; but we suppose to 

 make it complete would change the size of the work. A great deal 

 of information has been collected together concerning the studies, 

 discipline, and amusements of the various schools, and the work 

 supplies a void in this kind of literature which its editor has well 

 filled up. 



The Anthropological Review, No. 8. (Trubner and Co.) — 

 There is interesting matter in this number, which includes the 

 Journal of the Anthropological Society of London. We cannot 

 say we admire the tone of the reviews. They lack a calm, philo- 

 sophical spirit, and trench on the ludicrous in passages intended for 

 fine writing. The most important paper is a reprint from the 

 Canadian Jownal, in which Dr. Wilson discusses the peculiarities 

 of the ancient and modern Celt of Gaul and Great Britain. The 

 information on the extent of the tendency towards an unsymmetrical 

 development of heads is very curious. 



The Astronomical Register. — The successive numbers of this 

 useful periodical meet the wants of a considerable body of observers. 

 The information supplied is generally very good ; but one of the 



