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and oilstones, whicli we did not know kefore. Further, it has more than 200 
illustrations, many of which are novel to most readers. The plan of the 
work is to describe the different apparatus which are to be found in a 
thoroughly well-furnished workshop, and to show the young student how 
he may best use them, and in what way they get out of repair, and how 
they may be set in the best working order. In treating of these very 
important subjects, we think the author has done his work fully and well. 
We feel, in reading his book, that we are in the hands of a thoroughly 
practical man, who will teach us in a complete and masterly manner. 
AMONG THE DOLOMITES.* 
I T is not often that we find in a book of travels — especially in a lady’s 
book — the subject that is likely to attract the pedestrian coupled 
with the matter of highest interest to the man of science. Yet, most 
assuredly, we have found this in the present instance. In this book of 
travel, which Miss Edwards has given the excursionist world, we find 
matter not alone of general interest, but of a character to excite the atten- 
tion of the geologist also. To be sure the subject-matter — as far as geology 
is concerned — is present to an exceedingly small extent, and is moreover of a 
nature not unknown to those who have studied the works of the French and 
Austrian geologists. But to the great mass of English readers the Dolomite 
mountains are an utterly unknown region, and to many even of our skilled 
local geologists their character and lithological features are more unknown 
even than the Andes or the Himalayas. Miss Edwards’s book will therefore 
prove to all such a most interesting and instructive volume, and the mar- 
vellous sketches which she has given will do more to make its structure 
comprehended than pages of mere writing. For some of these exceedingly 
clever engravings we are indebted to the publishers, who have kindly 
placed them at our disposal, so that we are enabled to place some of Miss 
Edwards’s handiwork before our subscribers. Miss Edwards is, of course, 
no ordinary tourist ; she is evidently a woman who possesses material 
strength, and who is above those petty wants and cares which render an 
average woman such a terrific bore on an alpine excursion. She is able 
to bear the eleven hours on a mule’s back, which is one of the conditions 
of excursionising amid alpine mountains, and she is then enabled to put up 
with a dish of Liebig’s beef-tea brewed with the aid of a pocket-lamp 
which accompanies her. All these are things which to an ordinary woman 
would appear something terrific. But she is used to it; and hence she has 
been enabled to see and examine a district which is at present, and probably 
will be for a time, cut off from female expedition. She states that a know- 
ledge of Italian and German are indispensable for the excursionist, and she 
says that “the Dolomite district is most easily approached from either 
* “ Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys ; a Midsummer Ramble 
in the Dolomites.” By Amelia B. Edwards, author of “ Barbara’s History.” 
London : Longmans, 1873. 
