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most numerous. We could have wished them done on a much larger 
scale ; but that we must now hope will be the case in the third edition of 
this book, which has so well proceeded to its second. 
MIND AND BODY.* 
W E had expected, as his various writings had justified us in expecting, 
a better book than this one from Mr. Bain. Looking up to him as we 
have been accustomed for some considerable time to do, we had anticipated 
that in a work like the present one, which is especially intended for students 
at home and in America, he would, in this the second edition, have intro- 
duced us to something new. We heartily confess it is quite otherwise, how- 
ever. Mr. Bain has employed a considerable space in words. We confess 
that it seems to us the work might with advantage be compressed into one- 
third of its present dimensions ; and if this were accompanied by a little 
more simplicity of style, we think much might be gained. As it stands, we 
have not much hope of its success, for we fancy the author has not been at 
great pains in working up the more purely scientific portions of his subject. 
To be sure, the aim of the volume is a good one, and the author sets about 
proving many of the important points, which are so essentially the pith of the 
philosophy which has left Sir W. Hamilton ages behind us, with the usual 
force and clearness, with which we were wont to associate Mr. Bain’s name 
as a philosopher. But what we find fault with is the absence of any novelty 
in scientific fact tending to enforce the doctrines. Of course there are one or 
two scientific points of interest introduced, but we think the book on the 
whole is defective in regard to what has been done in the physiology of our 
nervous system, both at home and on the Continent. 
WASTE PBODUCTS AND UNDEVELOPED SUBSTANCES.! 
rjYHE title of this book is not one which would attract a casual reader, yet 
-A- assuredly, if he takes up the volume to glance through its pages, he 
will not readily lay it down again. Its author has been connected with the 
subject on which he now w r rites (for it is really a new book, and not a new 
edition) for many years, and has obtained the Society of Arts Medal for 
some of his papers on the matter of which the book consists. It is, there- 
fore, not a mere compilation ; though even if it were compiled we should 
look with wonder on the man who put it together ; it is, on the contrary, a 
book which contains the fruit of many years’ labour, and is in some measure 
* u Mind and Body : the Theories of their Relation.” By Alexander 
Bain, LL.D., Professor of Logic in the University of Aberdeen. 2nd Edition. 
London : Henry King, 1873. 
t u Waste Products and Undeveloped Substances : a Synopsis of Progress 
made in their Economic Utilisation during the last Quarter of a Century 
at Home and Abroad.” By P. L. Simmonds, Editor of the “Journal of 
Applied Sciences.” London : Hardwicke, 1873. 
