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land, Nova Scotia, and extended as far south as Cape Cod, as its 
bones are found in Indian shell-heaps at Ipswich, Mass., as well as 
the coast of Maine, and it was noticed by Josslyn, who called it . 
the “ wobble” (Amer. NAT., Vol. 1, p. 578 
The chapters on the fisheries, on Labrador, those on the agri- 
cultural and mineral resources, etc., are all to the urpose. The 
est game animal is the caribou, which still in vast kére traverses 
the island in periodical migrations ftom north to south: the moose 
is still common, and there is good salmon fishing. The accom- 
panying plate is a fair sample of the illustrations. 
When the railroad to Notre Dame bay shall have been com- 
pleted, a new era in the prosperity of Newfoundland will be opened, 
and when the railroad to Cape Ray, connecting the short sea 
route, is built, it will doubtless be very popular, and confer great 
local benefits by bringing the island into daily communication 
with Europe and America. 
WRIGHT’S ANIMAL Lire..—In preparing this work the author 
has kept in view the wants of a large class of persons who like to 
see good pictures of animals and to read anecdotes about them. 
The popular idea of an “ animal” is a beast or quadruped, or a 
bird, or reptile, or fish. There are those still existing to whom 
an insect is an insect, but perhaps not an “animal ;” coral polyps 
and the multitudes of species of worms and other invertebrates 
are as unknown to them as the inhabitants of the planet Mars. 
Such persons were “ brought up” on Goldsmith’s Animal King- 
dom, and when they buy for themselves or their children an Ani- 
mal Kingdom, they want a modern Goldsmith. In other words 
they desire and expect to buy a bibliothecal Noah’s ark with all 
its animals, which is well known were confined to such terrestrial 
forms as the celebrated voyager and his limited family could con- 
veniently gather when their time was not otherwise engaged in 
preparing for their momentous voyage. The innumerable creatures 
of the seas through which the Noachian craft leisurely ploughed, 
were regarded with as little interest by the early voyagers (who 
soon became sick of the sea and all that belonged to it) as the gen- 
eral reader of to day looks upon Porifera, Ccelenterates, Echino- 
derms, Vermes, Brachiopods, Polyzoa or Tunicates. They are to 
him little more than names of illy-understood groups which he 
supposes to be of but little importance, whereas if it had not been 
for the worms we should have had no vertebrates at all, much 
less readers of an “ Animal Kingdom.” 
Professor Wright has shrewdly adapted his book to this class 
of readers. He begins with mammals, then takes up the birds, 
and devotes two-thirds of the volume to these two classes, Con- 
siderable space is given to the reptiles, amphibians and fishes ; 
Animal Li ; 7 2 nimals. By E. PERCIVAL 
WRIGHT. win ern feed peit aT ipia & Co., inde Paris and 
New York. 8vo, pp. 618. 
