190 
POPULAR SCIENCE REVIEW. 
Elementary Treatise on Natural Philosophy, by A. Privat Deschanel. 
Translated and edited by J. D. Everett, M.A., D.C.L., F.R.S.E., Professor 
of Natural Philosophy in Queen’s College, Belfast. Part III. Electricity 
and Magnetism. London: Blackie & Son, 1872. — Assuredly this is the 
best of the three volumes which Professor Everett has edited and translated. 
It is so for the simple reason that the editor has taken great pains to make 
it a different work from the French edition. It is certain that our English 
electricians are far before their continental brethren in their knowledge of 
the branch of Natural Philosophy which is included in the present volume. 
Hence, of course, it was essential for the editor to introduce into a work 
intended for English readers all those results which have been so promi- 
nently brought before English men of science by the researches of Faraday, 
and still later of Sir William Thomson. In laying these before the reader, 
the editor has been at considerable trouble, for he has written no less than 
two entirely new chapters, and he has entirely remodelled all those parts of 
the original text which in his opinion required it. The elements of the 
theory of magnetism, which form a part of this volume, have been specially 
prepared from the several papers of Sir W. Thomson in the 11 Philosophical 
Transactions.” Thus we find, on the whole, an excellent volume, embody- 
ing the latest results in science in a clear style, and with no less than 250 
capital illustrations. We must say that we are well pleased with this the 
third volume of an excellent treatise. 
Rudimentary Magnetism , being a Concise Exposition of the General Prin- 
ciples of Magnetical Science, by Sir Snow Harris, F.R.S. 2nd edition, by 
H. M. Noad, Ph.D., F.R.S. London : Lockwood, 1872. — This is a much 
improved edition of an old and well-known manual, we think in Weale’s 
Series. The present edition contains matter relating to Faraday’s researches 
and the inquiries of the Astronomer Boyal. It seems well put together, 
and appears to be a very good book indeed. 
The Higher Ministry of Nature viewed in the Light of Modern Science , &c., 
&c., by John R. Leifchild, A.M. London : Hodder & Stoughton. — This is a 
book which strives to come between the followers of Mr. Darwin and Mr. 
Spencer’s doctrines on the one hand, and the extreme religionists on the 
other. It is, however, much nearer the latter than the former. The author 
does not appear to have a thorough understanding of Darwinian doctrines, 
and hence he cannot argue against them with any force. However, we 
shall take him up more fully in our next number. For the present we 
leave him, with an unfavourable opinion of his ability as a reasoner. 
