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POPULAR SCIENCE REVIEW. 
TRESPASSERS.* 
O NE often wonders at the ingenuity exhibited by the Rev. J. G. Wood 
in giving a series of successful titles to his books on natural history. 
And here is another instance. One would surely have thought that in the 
many works — : some of them extremely interesting — which the author has 
brought before the public, he must have described the habits of the animals 
with which he deals in the present volume. But, be that as it may, we 
have here treated in a new fashion those members of the animal kingdom 
which may be distinctly called the robber class, and which leave their own 
area for a time to search for food in the department of the earth that belongs 
to other creatures. And Mr. Wood is, for the general reader interested in 
natural history, a most charming companion. He has acquired a very 
pleasant style of writing, and he is moreover tolerably accurate in his state- 
ment of facts, while at the same time he explains difficulties without the 
use of technicalities where they can be avoided. His pictures are exceed- 
ingly well executed. Of course, in the illustrations to such a book as the 
present a good deal of latitude is allowed to the engraver, who has to put a 
number of creatures together which are never seen in company unless at the 
Zoological Gardens, and who has to arrange them gracefully for the cut, 
without the least regard to their natural habits. But, if we make allow- 
ances of this kind, the twenty-six page-plates — though some of "them are 
merely woodcuts printed in separate pages — are excellent of their kind, and 
exhibit the habits and character of the animals in the most forcible manner. 
The matter of the book is most instructive to the non-naturalist reader ; and 
although here and there we observe conclusions stated — as, for instance, that 
concerning the function of the Eustachian tube — with which we cannot 
possibly agree, still it must be inferred that Mr. Wood has again in the 
present instance succeeded in producing a most pleasant and profitable 
work. 
URE’S DICTIONARY.t 
T HIS, the seventh edition of a most useful work, is the second of the series 
which has been noticed in these pages. And we note that the work is 
in many respects materially improved. In the first place, as to the plan, now 
pursued, of printing the title of each article in a solid black type. This 
mode was not adopted in previous editions of this work, which we often 
wondered at, the more so as it has been adopted for years in “ Brande’s 
* 11 Trespassers : showing how the inhabitants of the earth, air, and water 
are enabled to trespass on domains not their own.” By the Rev. J. G. Wood, 
B.A., F.L.S. London: Seeley, Jackson & Halliday. 1875. 
t u A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, containing a clear 
Exposition of their Principles and Practice.” By Robert Hunt, F.R.S., 
assisted by F. W. Rudler, F.G.S. ; with 2,163 illustrations. 7th edition, in 
3 vols. London : Longmans. 1875. 
