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advanced crnithologist of the Eastern States is provided with the 
latest and most complete epitome of the subject which he could 
wish for. Indeed it will now, we should think, be a difficult 
problem for the ornithological book maker to know how to plan 
another book at all original, either in scope or treatment. What 
between keys, check lists, manuals and ornithological biographies, 
the field of avian biology has been pretty well covered, although 
not entirely. We yet need, we think, elaborate, detailed, circum- 
stantial bird lives; we require the results of more prolonged 
field studies. For example, we have been unable to find in a 
number of books at hand, how long the robin is engaged in 
building its nest, just when its eggs are laid, etc.; the book be- 
fore us does not state whether the kingfisher uses the same hole 
year after year. Questions of this sort put to us by an incipient 
ornithologist of eleven years, we cannot answer from the books 
at hand. Moreover many of our ornithologists are boys from 
ten to sixteen years of age; they do not find even in books like 
the present such details of bird life as are suggested above, and 
on the other hand they are repelled here and there by hard 
words, words which we sometimes cannot explain to them. 
Technical expressions and words which save but a few letters or 
syllables should in such books as the present be substituted for 
Late Works on Evotution.—Books and pamphlets on this 
Prolific theme are multiplying, and authors, both amateur and 
expert, treat it from biological, metaphysical and theological 
standpoints. Amid much diversity, there is a general agreement 
in the sentiments of the authors whom we quote below, in their 
dissatisfaction with the bald Darwinism of Tyndall, and the one- 
.,. The Theories of Darwin and their relations to Philosophy, Religion and Moral- 
ty. By RUDOLF SCHMID, president of the Theological Seminary at Schonthal, 
Wurtemburg. Chicago, Jansen, McClurg & Co 
Final Causes. By PAUL JANET. New York, Chas. Scribner’s Sons, 1883. 
Translated from the second edition of the French, by William Affleck, B.D. K 
A Critique of Desiyn-arguments ; a historical review and free examination of 
ÈE of reasoning in Natural Theology. By L. E. Hicks. New York, Chas. 
Scribner’s Sons, 1883. 
Development, what it can do and what it cannot do. By James McCosu, D.D. 
New York, Chas. Scribner’s Sons, 1883. 
Natural Selection and Natural Theology, a discussion between Dr. Romanes and 
Dr. Asa Gray in Nature, Vol. XXVI, 1883. 
