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perceive that his " common sense" differs little from common igno- 

 rance, puffed up by uncommon conceit. 



We could adduce many similar instances of the "way in which 

 the " Graduate" has attempted to fulfil his self-appointed task, but 

 these will suffice, and if it should be our fortune to meet him again 

 in print, we hope we shall find him in possession of a subject more 

 adapted to his powers. Great workers in science, like Mr. Darwin, 

 whether right or wrong in any particular hypothesis, are entitled 

 to respectful treatment, and it is the duty of the press to protect 

 them against unmannerly assault. 



The Cabinet of the Earth Unlocked. By Edward Steane 

 Jackson, M.A., E.G.S., Second Master in the Tattenhall Prepara- 

 tory School. (Jackson, Walford, and Co.) — This is a remarkably 

 elegant little book ; the very thing to coax young readers into a 

 knowledge of elementary geology. The illustrations are unusually 

 good ; the landscape vignettes especially possessing great merit. 

 We recommend this work to those who wish to make a pretty and 

 useful present at a small cost ; but in another edition we should 

 advise Mr. Jackson not to dip his young folks in that sea of troubled 

 waters, the reconcilement of Genesis and geology, and not to call 

 the coral polyp an insect. 



Photographs of Eminent Medical Men op all Countries, with 

 brief Analytical Notices of their Works. Edited by Wm. Tindal 

 Robertson, M.D., M.R.C.P., Physician to the General Hospital, 

 Nottingham. The photographic portraits from life by Ernest 

 Edwards, B.A;, Cantab. No. 6, Vol. II. (Churchill).— The present 

 number of this interesting series contains portraits and notices of 

 the late Dr. Hodgkin, Dr. Cobbold, and Mr. Holmes Coote. This 

 work merits the support of the scientific world. 



Handbook op the History op Philosophy. By Dr. Albert 

 Schwegler. Translated and Annotated by James Hutchinson Stir- 

 ling, LL.D., author of the " Secret of Hegel," etc. (Edmonston and 

 Douglas.) — Schwegler's work has been very popular in Germany. 

 Its plan is to give brief notices of the various schools of philosophy, 

 from the early Greeks down to Hegel. Dr. Stirling is anxious to 

 counteract the positive school — Comte, Mill, Buckle, etc. In this 

 he is not very happy, but his book will be very useful to students, 

 and would have been more so if it had been printed in larger type. 

 It is a mistake to put abstruse matter into very small print. Dr. 

 Stirling coincides with Schwegler in making the history of philo- 

 sophy terminate with Hegel, in which many will not agree. The 

 merit of the book consists in the general clearness of its descrip- 

 tions of various methods of thought. 



Reliqule Aquitanicje. Being Contributions to the Archaeology 

 and Palaeontology of Perigord and the adjoining provinces of Southern 

 Prance. By Edmund Lartet and Henry Christy. Edited by Thomas 

 Rupert Jones, Professor of Geology, etc., Royal Military College, 

 Sandhurst. Part IV. (Bailliere.)— The fourth part of this splendid 

 work contains very interesting matter, both in the text and in the 

 elaborate illustrations. Two specimens of what are supposed, with 

 probability, to have been stone mortars are figured. Objects of this 



