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and dealing with a problem which deals with the origin and development 

 of character. ' The Greatest Life is that which most nearly approaches 

 the highest ideal which has been conceived by human intellect, irrespective 

 of the source of that ideal ; and the problem that such a life involves is — 

 How may a man attain to it ? ' In dealing with the present religious prob- 

 lems, Dr. Leighton points out that ' Man will not for ever be content with 

 the child-treatment in his mental sphere, and indeed his discontent is 

 becoming more and more apparent every day. In all religious systems 

 which permit of individuality of thought, this sympton is prominent. 

 From a thousand pulpits comes the cry that modern education is making 

 men less religious. It is not true. Men were never more religiously in- 

 clined than they are to-day, but they are demanding a presentation of 

 religious truth which shall be a living one, and not a fossil. The food sup- 

 plied is indigestible and insufficiently nourishing. They ask for meat and, 

 at the best, are offered milk. Our systems of religious teaching have not 

 kept pace with the march of human intellect.' The author deals with 

 the flaking of a Man ; the Development of the Soul ; Evolution of Phy- 

 sical Immunity ; the Making of a Man's Mind ; Mental Immunity ; 

 Moral Immunity, etc., etc. There is much in the book to think about. 



From the press of Mr. T. Werner Laurie has been issued Gilbert White 

 and Selborne, by H. C. Shelley. It is by no means a novel subject, but 

 one that is always refreshing. In it the author gives a well-thought-out 

 account of the JNIan, the Village, and the ' Natural History,' and is success- 

 ful in making an entertaining narrative, which, though perhaps containing 

 little that is new, is more compact than say Mr. R. Holt-White's ' Life and 

 Letters.' The volume is printed in large type, is well illustrated, and has 

 an artistic cover. 



MUSEUM NEWS. 



We notice from the Sixtieth Annual Report of the Ipswich Museum 

 that many important * Bygones ' have recently been added to the collec- 

 tion. 



The Shells, Minerals and Butterflies in the Stockport Museum have 

 recently been re-arranged, and an Index Catalogue of the Minerals is in 

 preparation. 



Mr. C. Davies Sherborn has presented to the Natural History Museum, 

 South Kensington, a valuable collection of specimens of the hand-writings 

 of naturalists, consisting of about eight thousand letters and other docu- 

 ments. 



We have received part 3 of Vol. I. (pp. 219-355, 10/- net), and Vol. II., 

 part I (139 pp., 7/6 net )^ of the Annals of the Natal Government Museum, 

 edited by the Director, Dr. Ernest Warren, and published by Messrs. Adlard 

 & Son, London. Both are well printed and illustrated by several excellent 

 plates. In the former, Mr. G. A. Boulenge^ describes some Fresh-water 

 fishes, batrachians and reptiles (including new species) from Natal and 

 Zululand, and also writes on Clarias capensis. Mr. C. T. Regan describes 

 some fishes from the coasts of Natal, Zululand and Cape Colony, and the 

 Rev. Father Franz Mayer gives a short study on Zulu Music, the word 

 ' Music ' being applied to the noise made by the wierd primitive ' instru- 

 ments ' which are illustrated. There is also a charming group of Zulu 

 ' musicians.' The Director has a lengthy and scholarly monograph on 

 Natal coast Hydroids. In the second publication the Rev. A. T. Bryant 

 has a remarkable paper on ' Zulu Medicine and Medicine-Men ' ; the 

 Director writes on ' Lajcea dispolians n. sp., a Hydroid parasite,' and on 

 ' Natal, Termites ' ; and Dr. Broom has some interesting observations on 

 ' the Dentition of Chrysochloris,' and on ' the Tritubercular theory,' a sub- 

 ject recently referred to in these columns. 



Naturalist, 



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