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events, it is quite unfitted for a junior student to read. We have gone 
through it carefully, and we are thoroughly satisfied with the manner in 
which the author has discharged his task. No more space is given to one 
group than to another, and in all there is every reason to he satisfied with 
the method of classification. Dr. Ord has given very fairly, it seems to us, 
the anatomy and physiology of the different groups. It will greatly facilitate 
good lectures for students, and will greatly expedite the labours of those 
who are reading for honours. If the author had appended to each chapter 
the titles of the books and journals where the principal points were to be 
found he would have done well. The Protozoa and Cselenterata are espe- 
cially good, and they are generally atrociously badly given in most similar 
works. 
The Discovery of a New World of Being , by George Thomson. London : 
Longmans, 1871. We have failed to discover the new world which Mr. 
Thomson has found out for us, but we suppose it is all right, nevertheless, 
and that Mr. G. Thomson is fully acquainted with it. It has struck us 
through our reading the book which Mr. Thomson has written, that it 
is singularly like the arguments we have heard urged in grave seriousness 
by men who were about the last we should have considered as authorities 
on the subject in question. Listen to his views of Mr. Darwin. 11 We shall 
not enter upon a discussion of his development theory ; it would occupy too 
much time. We may say by the way, however, that there is a great deal of 
truth in his observations of facts, hut nothing new ; his inferences , on the 
other hand , are outrageous. There are such things as a struggle for life, & 
natural selection, and a development. These, however, have been observed 
and repeated in a thousand forms before Mr. Darwin was born. Develop- 
ment, however, is always one-sided and so on to quite another subject. 
We merely give the quotation as a sample of the author’s general knowledge 
of scientific subjects. As to the general tone of the book, we should be 
afraid to give a candid opinion. 
A Manual of Anthropology , based on Modern Research , by Charles Bray. 
London : Longmans, 1871. Mr. Bray gives a most absurd title to his book. 
No one could possibly imagine from it the character of the 350 pages which 
constitute it. It is not at all anthropological. It is a most absurd defence of 
phrenology by a man who has no claim to be considered either an anatomist 
or physiologist. Of phrenology may well be said what one of our ablest 
modern thinkers has said, viz. u that those who have carefully investigated 
the structure and functions of the nervous system should have long ago 
turned their backs on phrenologists is not to be wondered at.” Mr. Bray’s, 
phrenology is not based on modern research, nor on ancient investigation 
it is merely on the author’s reasoning from facts which he is insufficiently 
acquainted with. 
A New View of Causation , by T. S. Barrett. London : Provost & Co., 
1871. This is a small but clever book by one who very fairly appreciates 
the views of Mill, Bain, and Lewes. Whether he succeeds in his argument 
for a new view of causation we shall not say. The book can easily be read 
in the course of a single evening, and we heartily commend it to our sub- 
scribers. It is a well-written and ably thought-out work. 
