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with lessons sufficiently learned, will experience a maximum of 
suffering, and may have foundation for a private stock of pessim- 
ism of their own. But a tolerance of suffering is of various dura- 
tion, and sooner or later intelligence will have its beneficent way. 
And as “knowledge is power,” it results that the evolution of the 
living world and of men, has been and will be very much as they 
have it, and enlightened intelligence, well lived up to, has always 
resulted in a minimum of pain—C. 
e numbers of the AMERICAN NATURALIST for 1883 
were issued at the following dates: January, Jan. 5 ; February, 
Jan. 31st; March, Feb. 21st; April, March 15th; May, April 
18th ; June, May 17th; July, June 20th; August, July 16th; 
September, Aug. 15th; November, Oct. 19th; December, Nov. 
28th. 
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RECENT LITERATURE. 
HATTON anD Harvey’s NewFounpLAnp.—This is a successful 
account from historical, physiographic, ethnographic and eco- 
nomic points of view of the first English colony, and the last to 
be developed. It is the joint production of a resident on the 
island, Rev. Mr. Harvey, who with general culture and an inti- 
mate knowledge of the land and its inhabitants, unites a hearty 
appreciation of science, and is well known for the interest he has 
taken in the natural history of the Newfoundland seas; and of 
Mr. Hatton, who has rewritten and edited the whole work. For 
Our part we do not see but that Mr. Harvey was quite competent 
for this task both as a writer, observer and collector of the facts. 
However that may be, the result is an authoritative, accurate, 
pleasantly written and timely manual of Newfoundland, with ex- 
cellent full-page illustrations and others in the text. The map 
Should have been a much better one; otherwise we have little 
fault to find with the volume. 
The history of Newfoundland has been a peculiar one. The 
authors say it presents the British government at its worst and 
its best. How the “ worst” could have been much worse, and 
how bad the “best” has been, is clearly brought out, and is an 
interesting study in sociology. The dominance of selfish greed 
on the part of a few British merchants, and the absence and en- 
tire lack for years of even rational and humanitarian feelings on 
ae part of the mother-country, shows how many savage traits 
Survived in the Anglo-Saxon race, of the best specimens, a century 
: Newfoundland. Its History, its Present Condition, and its Prospects in the Future. 
By JosEPH HATTON and the Rev. M. Harvey. Reprinted from the English edi- 
tion ; revised, corrected and enlarged. Illustrated. Boston, Doyle & Whittle, 1883. _ 
8vo. PP- 431. 
