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-could not have indicated P Dr. Jones has collected together all the letters 
of Faraday (or nearly all) from the time when the little errand-boy had 
become a pupil of the great Sir Humphry Davy, to the letter which, in 
July 1866, he dictated and signed to Dr. Jones, in sending him his second 
•edition of the Works of Shakespear. It would he out of the question to do 
justice to this noble work in our brief space, for it is only by the assistance 
of many quotations from the touching, tender, truth-breathing letters of 
Faraday, that we could give the reader an adequate idea of the, in this age, 
Tarity, thoroughly Christian character of Faraday’s life. Suffice it, then, 
to say, that both the general and scientific public are immensely indebted 
to Dr. Jones for the good work he has done in publishing Faraday’s letters, 
and in thus telling the tale of the good and kind old man, as it were, in the 
very words which were so dear to all who knew him. 
The book which is included in the second part of this notice is also a 
biography of Faraday, but it is a work of quite a different character to the 
other, and one, too, which must be read, as it supplies that part of Faraday’s 
history which his letters but very imperfectly describe. Dr. Jones’s volumes 
-are really a sort of autobiography. Dr. Tyndall’s smaller volume is a picture 
of Faraday as a scientific man. It is the laboratory life of the great dis- 
coverer, and it is a sketch executed with feeling and power. We have 
already noticed its merits in these pages, and we need do no more now than 
mention, that in this new edition, which forms a sort of appendix, as it were, 
to the u Life and Letters,” the author has corrected a statement in reference 
to Faraday’s and Ampere’s experiments, of some importance. Dr. Jones’s 
volumes are full of illustrations, and Dr. Tyndall’s contain two excellent 
•engravings of Faraday, taken from photographs. These two are standard 
works, and no educated person, who can afford to purchase them, should be 
without them. 
E should certainly feel that something had gone wrong with th e 
literary-scientific world, if the quarter came round without bringing 
us some luxuriously u got up ” compilation from the pen or pens of M. Louis 
Figuier. Fortunately or unfortunately, as it may by different sides be re- 
garded, this quarter is not exceptional. There is now before us one of those 
editions de luxe , which have lately become so popular, and behold! M. Figuier 
is its author. u Land and Sea,” however, is a work which, perhaps owing 
to the exertions of a conscientious and enterprising editor, has more claims 
to importance than most of M. Figuier’s treatises. It is a volume covering 
700 pages of the largest 8vo. It bristles with illustrations, there being a 
handsome woodcut on nearly every page, and finally, its type, paper, and 
binding combine to make it a drawing-room book of no ordinary beauty. 
But its scientific merits are really of a high order too, so that we think 
* u Earth and Sea.” From the French of Louis Figuier. Translated 
edited, and enlarged by W. H. Davenport Adams. London : Nelson & 
Sons, 1870. 
EARTH AND SEA.* 
