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readied its present condition. This is certainly the truest system of teaching. 
The student by its means is not compelled to base his opinions on authori- 
ties; but absolutely sees for himself the basis on which the principles of his 
science are laid. It is eminently characteristic of the book before us, which 
is just such a companion as the student ought to have. But till our 
method of teaching is assimilated to the American mode, we fear the book 
will not find many English readers, unless among those engaged in lecturing. 
Let us hope that we may soon find the principles of chemistry taught in the 
laboratory by English as well as by American chemists. 
THE AMERICAN INDIANS.* 
M r. CATLIN — the famous Gatlin of our childhood — has issued two little 
popular worlds on the habits and character of the North American 
Indians, which we should like to see in the hands of young folk, instead of 
the terrible tales of dwarfs and giants which now reign supreme in the 
nursery. Mr. Gatlin’s style is occasionally of too peculiarly ornate a nature, 
but on the whole his books are those which may well be placed in the hands 
of boys. They are full of exciting narrative, and are yet devoid of absurd 
fiction and exaggerated exploits and incident ; in addition, they are healthy 
in tone and morals. 
A Year-Book of Facts, by John Timbs, F.S.A., London, Lockwood, 
1868, contains its usual cuttings from the scientific journals of the year. 
Mr. Timbs, however, falls into an error in implying the resignation of the 
Editor of this Review, as he does, in quoting from the Times a letter in 
which a misstatement to that effect was made. 
Wholesome Fare ; or, The Doctor and the Cook. By Edmrmd S. and Ellen 
J. Delamere. London : Lockwood. This is something out of the ordinary 
groove in which cookery books are written. It is practical, and it is some- 
what scientific. It is admirably adapted to small households where the pro- 
verbial two ends meet, but by no means overlap, at the end of the year. 
W e have no great faith in the physiology of the introduction : it is nicely 
done, and is in its way an excellent specimen of the scientific rechauffe ; 
but we should be very sorry to adopt a scale of diet upon the rigidly 
physiological method it involves. However, this is only the upholstery of 
the book. The pages, which are nearly 1000 in number, contain sound 
practical directions, and avoid those Erancatellian impossibilities in which 
cookery books generally abound. On the whole, so far as any recom- 
mendation of ours is of weight, we can conscientiously afford it to ‘^Whole- 
some Fare.” 
* “ Life among the Indians.” By George Gatlin. ‘^Last Rambles among 
the Indians of the Rocky Mountains.” By George Gatlin. London : Samp- 
son Low, 1868. 
