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HARD WICKE'S SCIENCE- G OSSIP. 



Martin. — Glimpses into Nature's Secrets, or Strolls on 

 Beach and Down (same author), second edition 

 (London : Simpkin, Marshall & Co.). These are two 

 charmingly got up little volumes, illustrated by the 

 author, who evidently possesses an observant eye, and 

 is gifted with a picturesque style of description. The 

 essays are unpretentious— " Sketches," in fact — but 

 this method of public literary presentation well suits 



The essays are accurate, cheery, chippy, and breezy. 

 No man could have written them who had not the 

 smell of the sea and the keen Downs breezes 

 lingering in his nostrils. The only fault we have 

 to find with these pretty books, is that the printers 

 did not place the woodcut illustration the right 

 side up ! 



Report of the Smithsonian Institute, 1890. (Wash- 





Fig. 148. — Chalk Cliffs between Rottingdean and Newhaven, Sussex. (From Martin's "Nature's Realms.") 





Fig. 150. — Jaw of Fossil Bird, from the London clay. 

 " Nature's Realms.") 



(From 



Fig. 149.— Fossil Elephant's Tooth, dredged off Lowestoft, Suffolk. 

 (From Martin's "Nature's Secrets.") 



Mr. Martin's style. The author is not unknown to the 

 readers of Scienxe Gossip, and the accompanying 

 illustrations of blocks from each of the above books 

 noticed, may be accepted as a fair test of the author's 

 powers as an artist. As a describer of shore and 

 down (what grander kind of Sussex country) we 

 advise our readers to turn to Mr. Martin's books. 



ington, Government Printing Office.). This bulky 

 and well-illustrated volume runs to upwards of eight 

 hundred pages. Most of the articles are re-copied 

 from various scientific journals, and the editors 

 appear to have shown no favouritism in respect to 

 any country. There is one important original paper 

 by William C. Winlock entitled " The Progress of 



