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gives a good popular history of the progress of discovery on the African 
continent, embracing the labours of Bruce, Park, and his successors Denham, 
Clapperton, and Lander, Du Chaillu and Schweinfurth, and finally Living- 
stone. The book concludes with Livingstone’s last expedition. It is illus- 
trated with a small folding map of Africa and some tolerably good wood- 
cuts. 
Two other little volumes, although not upon what are generally con- 
sidered scientific matters, may nevertheless possess considerable interest for 
the readers of this Review. They are treatises upon the two great ancient 
systems of philosophy, — Stoicism and Epicureanism.* Both these little books 
appear to be exceedingly well executed, and the subjects are handled in a free 
and philosophical spirit. We may remark, especially in connexion with these 
works, where it might have been looked for, the entire absence of any obtru- 
sive Christian pietism. The authors seem throughout to seek to recognize 
what is good in these ancient philosophies, and to lay before their readers a 
candid statement of the historical facts. 
In Dr. Goodwin’s treatise on the Origin of the World according to Reve- 
lation and Science ,f we certainly seem to see some traces here and there of 
the odium theologicum, and we do not think the author has done very 
much towards clearing up the difficulties of the case. He evidently does 
not clearly realize what is meant by origin of species by evolution. The 
key to his idea is that the account of the creation in Genesis is to some 
extent poetical, but especially moral and didactic, the description of the 
creation of animals and plants being merely the framework for the picture 
of the creation of man to which they in a manner lead up. 
The first of a series of shilling Manuals of Elementary Science% is on 
Electricity, and by Prof. Fleeming Jenkin. It is necessarily a very brief 
exposition of the principles of the science ; but it seems to be very clearly 
written, and to touch upon all the more important points. 
We have kept to the last the most pretentious of the volumes that we 
have received from the Society ; not, however, for the ordinary reason that 
it is the best, but from directly opposite considerations. It is called a 
Natural History of British Fishes, by the late Frank Buckland,|| and but for 
the melancholy circumstances under which it has been produced, we should 
have felt bound to handle it pretty severely. As a Natural History of British 
Fishes it is lamentably defective, the author’s well-known want of scientific 
knowledge, and ignorance or disregard of what other people have done, being 
conspicuously shown in nearly every page ; and the book may be defined as 
little more than a pretty lively narrative of Mr. Frank Buckland’s experi- 
ences in the pursuit of ichthyological knowledge by the light of his own 
* Stoicism. By the Rev. W. W. Capes. — Epicureanism. By William 
Wallace. Sm. 8vo. London, 1880. 
+ The Origin of the World according to Revelation and Science. A Lecture 
by Harvey Goodwin, D.D. Sm. 8vo. London, 1880. 
t Electricity, By Fleeming Jenkin. Sm. 8vo. London, 1880. 
|| Natural History of British Fishes ; their Structure , Economic Uses, 
and Capture by Net and Rod. Cultivation of Fish Ponds. Fish suited for 
Acclimatisation. Artificial Breeding of Salmon. By Frank Buckland. Svo. 
London, 1881. 
