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1876.] Recent Literature. 229 
This book is’ quite unique for a text-book on biology ; it has not a 
single figure. The student is called upon from the instructions to see 
first for himself what there is to be observed, then to make his own draw- 
ings, a process which will surely and clearly show him, or his teacher, 
what he has omitted. The student has no possible chance, in giving an 
account of what he has done, to repeat anything by rote, for should he 
follow the usual practice of reciting the very words of the description, he 
ean hardly hope to give an intelligent reply to the questions of his 
teacher, if the latter is properly fitted to guide him in his laboratory 
work. The amount of solid information to be obtained by faithfully fol- 
lowing the instructions given for the study of the frog shows the masterly 
hand which has prepared the questions. 
e total absence of discussion of any sort is as remarkable a feature 
in this volume as the omission of all figures. 
Wnitr’s NATURAL History or SELBORNE.’ — Reading again this 
delightful record of quiet, shrewd observations of the habits of birds and 
crickets, trees and plants, sticklebacks and hedgehogs, — in fact, the com- 
mon things of the wayside and hedgerow, — by an English country curate, 
we have renewed the delights of our boyhood, when White’s Selborne, 
Sandford and Merton, and the Swiss Family Robinson were the stand- 
ard books. But what a contrast this gorgeous edition to the little buff 
Paper-covered reprint in Harper’s Family Library! 
To the letters of White to Thomas Pennant, Esq., whose name is so 
indelibly connected with American zodlogy, and to the “ Honourable 
Daines Barrington,” are added some hitherto unpublished, a memoir 
of the author, and over a hundred pages filled with a strange medley of 
notes by Frank Buckland, the editor of the volume, illustrated by cuts 
of man-traps, a baby hedgehog, a mummied monkey, and other objects, 
as a rule more grotesque than useful, while Lord Selborne contributes 
Some notes to the Antiquities. 
The illustrations by Delamotte are exquisite and abundant, and the 
Work is published in a style of elegance and luxury that will, we feel 
sure, lead many a country gentleman in America as well as England to 
Sve it a conspicuous place on his drawing-room table. 
Anperson’s Norse MytnHoiocy.2 — So much has been said in praise 
— book by scholars that we can add nothing by way of commenda- 
^ OF criticism that will be of any importance. But aside from its lit- 
erary merits, and the interest that so fresh, enthusiastic, and apparently 
1 ; i 
by pera History and Antiquities of Selborne. By GiıLeert Warre. With Notes 
= ~ BANK BUCKLAND. a Chapter on Antiquities by Lorp SELBORNE, and new Let- 
S Ilustrated by P. H. Detamorre. London: Macmillan & Co. 1875. 8vo, 
591. $12.00 
ee Mythology ; or, The Religion of our Forefathers, Containing all the Myths 
Index Eddas, SyStematized and interpreted. With an Introduction, Vocabulary, and 
a, By R. B. ANDERSON, Chicago: S. C. Griggs & Co.; London: Triibner & 
» 1875, 12mo, pp. 473. $2.50. 
