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Principal Economic Products from the Vegetable Kingdom. London : 
Hardwicke, 1872. — Here we have a classification which may he useful to 
either the student of botany or to him who is working at u Materia Medica.” 
In a three-fold table we have first the natural order, then second the econo- 
mic product and name of plant, and thirdly, the parts of the plant used. It 
is a small pamphlet, but it seems, in most cases, well done. 
Danvinian Pamphlets of Wright , Hunter , Cope , and Mivart. — A series of 
these we have collected, and we think it well to name them for our readers, 
but we cannot possibly notice them. They are really clever essays, written 
by men who clearly comprehend the nature of the subject they are writing 
upon, and having in them nothing that is not worthy of being read. We 
at one time thought of noticing them, but we soon found the space at our 
disposal was infinitely too brief, so we are compelled to urge our readers to 
get them for themselves (the expense is a mere nothing), and pass their 
judgment upon them. They are in the order of their publication, as follows : 
u Darwinism : being an Examination of Mr. St. George Mivart’s ‘ Genesis of 
Species/ ” by Chauncey Wright, Esq. London : John Murray. a A Re- 
view of Darwin’s Theory of the Origin and Development of Man,” by James 
Hunter, M.D. New York : Appleton & Co. “ On the Method of Creation 
of Organic Types,” by^Edward D. Cope, A.M. Philadelphia: M'Calla & 
Stavely. “ Evolution and its Consequences,” by St. George Mivart, F.R.S. 
From the u Contemporary Review ” for January, 1872. This, Mr. Mivart’s 
last essay, we regret, as it develops a quarrel between himself and Professor 
Huxley; but it is, as asserted by those who think with Mr. Mivart, a 
justifiable reply to Professor Huxley’s attack. It deals with religious 
questions almost exclusively. 
Hymns of Modern Man, by Thomas H. Noyes, Jun., B.A. London : 
Longmans, 1872. — This is a book quite out of our line. Still it has some 
bearing on science, so we may notice it. The u Philosopher’s Stone ” is 
rather forcible ; the other pieces are not so. We take the following from 
a notice which accompanied the book. “ The opening hymn, entitled ‘ The 
Philosopher’s Stone,’ distinguishes between Theology and Religion, which 
it attempts to define, and shows that sound philosophy, which takes cogni- 
zance of the conditions of human happiness and of the Divine laws of 
creation, sanctions the view that the performance of those loving duties 
towards our fellow-men, by which Christ taught us to prove our love to our 
common Father in heaven, is the only religion which is worth its salt, and 
commends itself to reason.” 
Chemical Notes for the Lecture-room , Chemistry of the Non-Metallic Ele- 
ments, by Thomas Wood, Ph.D., F.C S. 3rd edition. London : Long- 
mans, 1871. — From the . fact of this being the third edition, we are led to 
s uppose that the work must have had a considerable success. Yet it is a 
book essentially adapted for junior students alone. It has been consider- 
ably improved in its present form, and but for the peculiarity of the style 
would doubtless be a very good book for the beginner in chemical science. 
What we object to, is the particularly loose fashion in which it is written ; 
for example, take the description of the blowpipe, which is unaccompanied 
