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descriptive of the celebrated Gouliot Caverns in Sark, which may well 
be called the El Dorado of the British naturalists : — 
“ The first cavern is of noble proportions, and the floor is roughly 
piled with immense boulders, giving many and varied views of the small 
but picturesque ‘ Havre Gosselin,’ seen through the opening at the 
further extremity. But this cavern, though fine, is, as it were, a mere 
outer court, preparing us for the glories to be revealed within. Its walls 
are partly covered with those singular currant-jelly-like animals one 
sees expanded like living flowers in marine aquaria ; deep blood-red is 
the prevailing colour, but dark olive-green varieties are also common, 
and numerous yellow and brick-red patches are seen at intervals. A 
few mussels and tens of thousands of limpets and barnacles cover the 
boulders. Abundance of life is seen, and some of the specimens are as 
rare as they are beautiful. A branch of the first cavern, in which is a 
deep pool of water, conducts to the sea ; but it is better to wait till low 
water and creep round outside. We then enter a gloomy series of vaults, 
lighted from the sea, and communicating with each other by natural pas- 
sages. Every square inch of the surface is covered with living zoophytes ; 
and in some parts an infinite number of Tubularioe are seen occupying 
the walls.” 
The work from which we have extracted is edited jointly by Messrs. 
Ansted and Latham, the former having contributed the sections embracing 
Natural History and Physical Geography, as well as the Economics and 
Trade of the Islands ; the latter being author of the chapters on Civil 
History and Antiquities. That the whole has been admirably performed 
cannot admit of doubt. The volume is beautifully printed, and contains 
numerous illustrations of scenery by Mr. P. J. Naftel. These are most 
artistically executed, and are faithful as well as pictorial : we know no 
other engravings which so agreeably reproduce the character of the 
Channel Island scenery. 
HE minds of men are so variously constituted that the observation of 
one and the same phenomenon often produces upon different indi- 
viduals totally distinct and opposite impressions. 
As in the tale of the travellers and the chameleon, one person examines 
an object from one position, and declares it to be white ; another views it 
from a different stand-point, and unhesitatingly affirms that it is black ; 
whilst a third, approaching it from the quarter where the two effects 
neutralize one another, pronounces it to be both, or neither, and at length 
discovers that it is grey ; and he at once proceeds to enlighten the 
disputants. 
THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES* 
(llE, DARWIN AND HIS COMMENTATORS.) 
* Professor Huxley’s Lectures to Working Men on “ Our Knowledge 
of the Causes of the Phenomena of Organic Nature.” R. Hardwicke. 
