REVIEWS. 
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A NEW VIEW OF CAUSATION.* 
H ERE is a little book by a London author, which may be read with 
advantage by those who are interested in philosophic treatises on the 
origin of things generally. It is, we think, tolerably clearly written, but it 
would have been better had the author given us a little more of himself and 
a little less of other authors. As it is, he occupies but a very small portion 
of a very small book, of about 150 exceedingly small pages, in excessively 
large type. His views are in most instances correct, and he aims at a proper 
mode of forming opinions. 
DARWINISM REFUTED.! 
W E call attention to this very little book because it is one of the briefest, 
shallowest, and most' ignorant treatises we have ever seen upon the 
subject. The author does not clearly understand the hypotheses of Mr. Darwin j 
and his ignorance of contemporary work is something very lamentable in one 
who proposes to write upon so important a subject as that which he has 
taken up. The mere statement that Sir Charles Lyell is opposed to Dar- 
winism, is sufficient to show how conversant the author is with recent 
scientific labours. This book is a mo3t ignorant and worthless production. 
THE SMITHSONIAN REPORT. f 
T HIS Report for 18C9 has just been published, and has the year 1871 upon 
its title-page. It contains, besides the monetary and other reports 
which are only of local interest, a number of very valuable papers, transla- 
tions, &c. Among them may be specially mentioned Sir John Lubbock’s 
Liverpool address on the “ Lower Races of Man,” Professor Huxley’s 
splendid essay on the u Principles and Methods of Palaeontology,” which 
.appeared in 1865 in a Catalogue of .the Museum of Practical Geology, and 
M. Marey’s splendid monograph, with over thirty engravings, and occupying 
nearly fifty pages of this work. , There are several other important papers, 
which render this volume one of the best contributions to science which are 
issued during the year in America. 
* “A New View of Causation.” By T. S. Barrett. London: Provost 
& Co., 1871. 
t “ Darwinism Refuted : an Essay on Mr. Darwin’s Theory of the 
Descent of Man.” By S. H. Laing. London : Elliot Stock, 1871. 
X “ Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institu- 
tion,” for the year 1869. Washington : Government Printing Office, 1871. 
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