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internecine war now raging between certain leading publishers 

 and the Times shuts out the former from their best means of 

 publicity, and had we not at the last moment made reference 

 to the Times Catalogue, by far the best guide to current litera- 

 ture, we should have known nothing of the work now under 

 review. A postscript at p. 324 explained the circumstance, 

 and supplied our apology for announcing as a want that which 

 had already been supplied. The same desideratum had occurred 

 to Mr. E. I. Carlyle as had done to ourselves, and he had 

 compiled exactly the book which was wanted. We have now 

 read his volume and can recommend it strongly to any of our 

 readers whose curiosity has been excited to know more of a 

 very notable character. They will find the work readable 

 from beginning to end and full of interesting detail. It is 

 also illustrated by a series of reproduced contemporary carica- 

 tures which add much to its value. They are twelve in 

 number, and are by Gilray and John Doyle. One of them, a 

 good specimen of the rest, we have been enabled to reproduce 

 by the courtesy of the publishers, who have lent us the block 

 (see p. 350). Those by Mr. Doyle contain some really excellent 

 portraits and are executed with great delicacy of finish. 



Mr. Carlyle is not a partisan, and indeed for the most part, 

 by liberal quotations, he allows Cobbett to speak for himself. 

 Although Cobbett's great failings are freely exposed, yet the 

 reader is not allowed to lose sight of his high qualities of 

 intellect, his domestic virtues, and his zeal for what seemed 

 to him right. The chapter entitled " His Great Literary 

 Period " strikes us as one of the best, but the whole book is 

 good. 



A Text-Book of Fungi. 1 — A knowledge of the structure 

 and life-history of the fungi is now required of those who seek 



1 " Text-Book of Fungi, including Morphology, Physiology, Pathology, 

 Classification, &c," by George Massee, Principal Assistant (Cryptogams) 

 Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Pp. 427, with 141 illustrations, 

 mostly from drawings by the author. Published by Messrs. Duckworth and 

 Co., Covent Garden. Cloth, 8vo, 6s. 



