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anatomy of man ; though not being written exclusively for a learned class of 
readers, the style is somewhat less technical than is usual in anatomical 
works. The osteology of the limbs is similarly treated, sometimes with 
admirable drawings of the ligaments; but this part of the work might 
without doubt have been improved, had some further attention been given 
to indicating the attachments of the muscles to the bones. The fifth 
chapter describes the cat’s muscles, leading up to a consideration of their 
arrangement by a few pages on muscle structure. Here there seems to be 
some deficiency of illustration ; for though the student trained in the usual 
way would have no difficulty, further aids in dissection might be required 
by the reader for whom the book is designed. The chapter on the cat’s 
alimentary system is followed by a discussion of the circulatory organs. 
Then succeed chapters on respiration and secretion. The ninth chapter 
deals with the nervous system and organs of sense, and this is in some 
respects the most carefully prepared chapter. The tenth chapter treats of 
the development of the cat, and of the subject of development generally. 
This is perhaps the weakest chapter, since there is comparatively little said 
which might not as well have occurred in a treatise on any other mammal. 
The anatomy here ends. It is throughout plain, descriptive exposition ; 
nothing whatever is said, such as might have been anticipated from the 
introductory chapter, of the comparative anatomy of the cat. There are 
no indications of the modifications which the skeleton assumes in other 
carnivora, and no indications of the distinctive elements which define the 
carnivorous skeleton of which the Cat is the type. This same want of grasp 
extends to the study of the muscles and all the other organs; yet the fact 
that the Cat is taken, as the title tells us, as 1 an introduction to the study 
of back-boned animals, especially mammals,’ would have led us to anticipate 
that, after studying the type, we should have been led up to a contemplation 
of the ways in which it is modified. This is a want of symmetry, and we 
cannot but think that such knowledge would have vastly augmented the 
student’s interest in his work, and have paved the way for his contemplation 
of the higher problems of anatomy and physiology which must inevitably 
be forced upon his attention. It is in no way met by the chapter on the 
Cat’s place in nature. 
The author entitles the eleventh chapter the Psychology of the Cat ; but 
here we find a great deal about psychological questions, and less than we 
could wish about the Cat. It is true, as the author remarks, that we can- 
not, without becoming cats, perfectly understand the cat mind, and this 
may account for the difficulty obviously experienced in expounding the 
subject. When he comes to the analysis of mental powers which the Cat 
is stated not to possess, there is sure to be difference of opinion among his 
readers, in proportion to their observation from nature and psychological 
training ; for he denies to cats all the truly rational faculties, and would 
draw a sharp line between the mind of man and mind in brutes. The 
so ul comes in for consideration, perhaps for the first time in a work of this 
character ; but the author uses the term in a sense somewhat different from 
that usually accepted. With him it is ‘ that principle of individuation 
which makes the animal what it is, though it has no actual existence apart 
from the matter it vivifies ; yet it is the animal par excellence , the matter 
