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ultimate consanguinity of all sentient beings, and addresses himself 

 to the task of arousing in man a greater feeling of sympathy for his 

 fellow creatures. The argument falls under three heads: man's 

 physical relation to other animals, his psychical similarity to them 

 in certain tini(lanuMital ways, and hence his ethical kinship. The 

 autlior coiiclndcs tliut the fad "that vertebrate animals, differing in 

 externals as widely as herring and Englishmen, are all built according 

 to the same fundamental plan, with marrow-filled backbones and 

 exactly two pairs of limbs branching in the same way, is an astonishing 

 coincidence"; hence the fancied superiority of the human race is but 

 a figment of man's mind for "man is not a god, nor in any imminent 



While aoreeing with the author that "the art of being kind" is in 

 sore need of cultivation among us, one cannot but be amused at the 

 mixture of fact and error, observation and travelers' tales, seriousness 

 of statement and straining after absurd expressions, that characterizes 

 this not unreadable book. 



G. M. A. 



ZOOLOGY 



Pratt's Vertebrate Zoology.'— In continuation of the plan of 



his I iircrlrhmir Zonlixjii, publislied some three or four years ago, Dr. 

 Pratt now offers a suiiilar <i-uide to the dissection of vertebrates, which 

 would ai)pear to merit the same favorable reception accorded to the 

 earlier volume. As a guide to vertebrate dissection its chief claim 

 to usefulness over the already existing laboratory manuals on the 

 subject lies perhaps in the fact that it includes under one cover those 

 forms most frequ(Mitly <Mnploy(>d in American laboratories, for descrip- 

 tions of which the t. ,.h. , ..I Miiduit hi. toniKiK toun.l It iiM.'xsary 



the dissection of srven t.vj.es, r/:.; .lou-lish, perch, niiid-i.iij)i»y (Xcc- 



