900 Recent Literature. [November, 



The work commences with chapters upon the structure and 

 varieties of caverns, the mineral, animal and vegetable contents 

 of caves and cave dwellings, sepulchres and temples. In these 

 chapters a large number of valuable facts respecting the caverns 

 of various parts of the world, whether in limestone or other 

 rocks, are brought together. 



The descriptions are accompanied by the most authentic maps 

 and by numerous illustrations, many of them sketched under the 

 author's direction, by J. Barton Smith, of New Haven, Conn. The 

 writer deserves great credit, not only for information so pleasantly 

 imparted, but for his endeavor to give, wherever practicable, pre- 

 cise dimensions. Under rigorous measurement, Howe's cavern, 

 N. Y., shrinks from seven, twelve, or even eighteen miles to three, 

 yet the wonders of its Crystal lake and Winding way undergo no 

 real shrinkage, and underground beauties generally do not need 

 the inflations of fancy more than those of the upper region. 



A few errors in dealing with old world places are the worst 

 blemish of the book; the author makes cavern-temples of Karnac 

 and Luxor, while he omits all mention of Ispambul, and speaks of 

 the Grotto Azzuro of Capri as under "the brilliant skies of 



He also fails to notice Cope's reports of cave expeditions in 

 Southwestern Virginia in 1869, and of the Port Kennedy, the 

 Durham and ^he Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, caves, 

 explored by Wheatley, Cope and Leidy. 



Recent Books and Pamphlets. — Celebrated American Caverns, especially 

 Mammoth, Wyandot and Lur.iy, t.,gethei md descriptive 



r caves and grottoes in other lands. By Horace C. Hovey. Cincinnat- 



Robert Clarke & Co., 1882. From the publishers. 



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Injurious Insects of the farm and garden. By Mary Trea 

 Judd Company, 1882. From the author. 



t. New York, Orange 



Discovery of Tripoli near St. John. Dr. L. C. Allison's 

 orgams, dch pmdu t, id Mr. C. 1 Matth u s remar 

 it is applied, before the Natural History Society of N. Brum 



can, of Bathurst. Before the N 



lecture describing the 

 ks on the uses to which 

 wick, 3d May, 1 881. 

 k. By Dr. G. M. Dun- 



B„ April, 1881. 



A. Rozsagubaes FejUVde-err.l. I'aszlavsky JY.zsef, Realiskc 



Bedeguar ol the Rose. By Joseph I'us/lavskv, professor 11 



1 the Imperial schools.) 



' Geological Map of the United States. Compiled by C. 



II. Hitchcock. New 



Life and Writings of Frank Forester (Henry William Hei 



rbert). Edited by Da- 



American Game Bird Shooting. By John Mortimer Murphy. 



and entirely rewritten under direction of the author, with a di 

 mology, orthography and orthoepy of the scientific names. Bosto 



