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against its use. For example,'* lie says, ‘‘it slioiild be classed witli such 
nervous stimulants as tea and coflee, which supply little or no nutriment, 
yet modify assimilation and nutrition. Used alone for beef-tea it is a delu- 
sion.” We are sorry the author’s prejudice should have carried liim so far 
as this. To compare Liebig’s extract simply with tea or coffee is manifestly 
tind painfully absurd. Fortunately the English people have got sufficient 
experience of this form of food to enable them to set aside the opinion thus 
expressed. We ourselves know, from a considerable experience of invalids, 
that the Liebig beef-tea is an invaluable restorative, and we have seen 
cases in which strength and weight have been recovered almost exclusively by 
its use. And we are equally certain that either tea or coffee would in such 
cases have been almost equivalent to rank poison. In some other parts of 
his work, too, we find points on which we differ from the author ; still we 
cannot but thank him for the book, for it is a most valuable one, and one 
which we doubt not will, as it merits, command a very large circulation. 
^ STONE IMPLEMENTS.* 
O WING to some mistake on the part of the publishers, this splendid work 
only reached us a few days ago, although it seems to have been pub- 
lished nearly a twelvemonth since. This must be an excuse for so short a 
notice of a work which otherwise should have had a long review. It is 
without a doubt the most complete book of its kind which any language 
possesses, and its illustrations are most numerous. Further, it must be said 
that these are excellently done, the blocks having been most carefully cut by 
Mr. Swain, of Bouverie Street, and in number they almost reach to five 
hundred. The book, too, is a large 8vo, of over 600 pp., and it is printed 
in two distinct tj^pes, the more generally readable matter being set up in 
the larger print. In this way ample provision is made for both the profes- 
sional and the general student of the volume. Mr. Evans is regarded — and 
very fairly so — as the first authority in the world on the subject of flint 
weapons. It is well, therefore, that we have an opportunity of deciding by 
his expressed opinions the many questions which arise as to flint weapons. 
For we know that of many collections, unquestionably a certain portion are 
merely accidental fractures of flint, and were never used by man. But this 
splendid work will put all these difficulties to an end. It is, without the 
least doubt, the first and most important treatise on this subject. 
A COMPANION TO THE COMMON TELESCOPE.f 
T his Companion of Mr. Webb is now so well-known that it is only 
necessary to say that a third edition has appeared to make the student 
* “ The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons, and Ornaments of Great 
Britain.” By John Evans, F.B.S. London : Longmans. 1872. 
t “ Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes.” By the Rev. T. W. Webb, 
M.A., F.R.A.S., Vicar of Hardwick, Hereford. Third edition, revised and 
enlarged. London: Longmans. 1873. 
