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Notices of Books. 
[no. 2, NEW SERIES, 
accurate and truly artistical sketches which accompany the work 
before us. 
" We learn from Mr. Smoult's excellent explanatory introduction 
that the late Bishop James, in a letter to the Right Hon'ble S. R. 
Lushington expressed himself perfectly charmed with the hills of 
Ootacamund. " I have been racking my memory," he wrote, "for 
some place to compare them with ; the closest resemblance I can 
find is " Malvern" at the fairest season : but the extent and bold 
variety give these a decided superiority. I have a fuller sense of 
the enjoyment to be derived from air and exercise than I remember 
to have ever experienced at any time of at any place." 
" Mr. Smoult's own share of the work*is carefully and ably exe- 
cuted. He has brought out a very valuable publication. It does 
him great credit in every way. If Mr. Smoult should be a pecuni- 
ary loser by this costly publication he will at all events have the 
pleasant consciousness of having done a real service to his country- 
men in India by calling their attention to the lovely and health- 
inspiring locality of the Blue Mountains. This book may save 
many a valuable life by its suggestions and the interesting informa- 
tion which it will circulate through a community in which indivi- 
duals are so* often reduced to the alternative of an immediate change 
of climate or a preparation for their final home." 
Natural History. 
Decandolle's Prodromijs. Vol. XIV. Part. I. has lately 
reached us. It contains the large order Pohjgonacece, by C. F. 
Meisner, excepting the Sub-order Eriogonece, which are from the 
pen of the laborious Mr. G. Bentham : MyrisHcacecSj by the 
Author. ProfeacecB, by Meisnek, and PencEacece, by Alph : De- 
CANDOLLE. The Volumc is a worthy addition to its invaluable 
predecessors. 
Plant(B Indlce Batavce Orietitalss. 
A work under this title is now in course of publication by the 
