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whistling instruments and their batons, possibly distinctive of rank and 
dignity — have received much attention. . . . Even their owner-marks, 
tally-scores, and probable gambling tools have been recognised and described. 
How they made their many implements of flint, and why that stone was 
good for their purposes, has also been explained.” Indeed, not an insigni- 
ficant feature of the book is the contrast that has been made by some of the 
writers between the implements found in these French caverns and the 
various forms that are employed by several savages even of the present day. 
Two essays, which constitute the bulk of the present “ part,” are those of 
“ Fossil Man from La Madelaine,” and on “The Reindeer of Newfoundland.” 
They are exceedingly well illustrated, and though short are to the point. 
As to the engravings, we have almost always spoken highly of their execu- 
tion. Those in the present part are merely woodcuts, but all of the plates, 
except one or two that were executed in England, are simply admirable in 
all respects. In conclusion, we must not forget that a word is due to the 
executors, who have spared no expense in bringing their brothers’ intended 
design to completion. We think that the public owe them sincere thanks 
for their labours, and in selecting Professor Rupert Jones as editor they 
could not have better supplied a guiding hand. 
RELIGION AND SCIENCE.* 
H ERE we have a book written by a Rector upon the reconciliation of 
Science and Religion, and at the outset we must confess that it is 
written in so fair and honest a spirit that it seems to us more detrimental 
than conservative to religious views. The author has attempted to reconcile 
the present condition of science to his own exalted type of Christianity, 
and in doing so he has not used a syllable that can in the slightest way 
offend the man of science. Indeed, he has gone so far in his admissions 
that it strikes us very forcibly that to a real student of science it is a book 
which would go far to alter his Christianity, if it already existed. Mr. Gibson 
has made himself acquainted with all that men of the t} r pe of Mr. Darwin, 
Professor Huxley, Mr. Mill, Sir W. Thomson, Sir J. Lubbock, Sir W. 
Hamilton, Professor Max Muller, Sir Charles Lyell, — not to speak of Paley 
and many other older authorities, — have written; and he himself comes down 
from the standard that would be alone accepted by most conservative 
churchmen, and in giving up Paley’s doctrine of adaptation to special ends, 
and acknowledging Mr. Darwin’s view of Natural Selection, he endeavours 
to show that he is right in the assumption that if a Deity in the ordinary 
sense of the word does not exist, there is nevertheless such a being as is 
immensely superior to man’s organisation and who will not look on him 
in judgment in a Pharisaic spirit, but will prove to be considerate and kind. 
His argument is, it seems to us, wordy and diffuse, and while it will certainly 
* “Religion and Science, their relation to each other at the present 
day.” Three Essays on the grounds of religious belief, by Stanley T. Gib- 
son, B.D., Rector of Sandon, in Essex. London: Longmans. 1875. 
