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POPULAR SCIENCE REVIEW. 
SCIENCE GOSSIP * 
T he volume for 1867 of this excellent Natural Science periodical has 
just been issued, and we confess that it astonishes us by the multitude 
of its first-class papers on Botany and Zoology. Not only do we find 
in it gossip in the strict sense of the word, but in addition there are essays 
which, while they are intelligible to anyone of ordinary education, would 
do credit to publications of a much more pretentious character. Though 
we may be accused of adopting the Yery threadbare phraseology of tlie 
newspaper reviewer, we are bound to say that it is a work which should be 
on every naturalist’s library shelves. Wherever we dip into its pages we 
see something which fastens our attention and instructs our mind ; some- 
thing which recalls old subjects and familiar observations, and something 
which suggests new fields of interesting and profitable research. To give a 
detailed sketch of its contents we have not sufficient space, but we may 
direct attention to two or three articles which are especially worthy of the 
naturalist’s notice. These are — On Podurae,” a paper full of illustrations, 
and originally read before the Quekett Club, by Mr. S. J. Mclntire ; ‘^How 
to study Natural History,” a lucid expose of Professor Huxley’s celebrated 
lecture on the Morphology of the Annulosae and on the Methods of Studying 
Natural History; ^^Leaf-boring Larvae,” by H. T. Stainton, F.E.S., the 
well-known entomologist, and lastly, On the Disguises of Insects,” by 
A. E. Wallace, a paper which, in importance of subject, clearness of ex- 
pression, force of arg'ument, and exposition of fact, is par excellence the 
Natural-History Essay of the year 1867. Mr. Cooke has given us a volume 
which accurately records the science of the year, and which is eminently 
creditable to his editorial skill. 
HISTOEY OF PHILOSOPHY.f 
D E. STTELING gives iis a very satisfactory translation of Schwegler’s 
condensed and useful History of Philosophy,” a work which, in the 
German, has gone through several editions, and has commanded a circula- 
tion of 20,000 copies. As our readers know, there is another translation 
extant of this treatise. It is published in America, and is the work of Mr. 
Seelye. The editor of the present translation, however, contends that he is 
justified in re-rendering Sehwegler’s book into English from the fifth German 
edition, which contains a variety of matter not to be found in the first 
edition, from which the American translation was prepared. Besides the 
reproduction of Schwegler’s text, the editor has added several pages of his 
own annotations, which are certainly not the best part of the volume. The 
* Hardwicke’s Science Gossip,” an illustrated medium of interchange 
and gossip for students and lovers of nature. Edited by M. C. Cooke. 
London, Ilardwicke, 1867. 
t “ Handbook of the History of Philosophy.” By Dr. Albert Schwegler, 
Translated by James H. Stirling, LL.D. Edinburgh : Edmonston and 
Douglas, 1867. 
