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Taitfs Edinburgh Magazine. 
“ Professor Nichol has done much to make astronomy a lightsome science ; Mr. 
Miller of Edinburgh has gone down amongst the substrata of the island, and 
thrown the influence of eloquent and powerful writing around the fishes and 
fossils of the old red sandstone. Neither of these gentlemen has yet, however, 
produced a work equal in the particular above mentioned to the Episodes of 
Insect Life.” 
The Mirror. 
“This is a literary, scientific, and artistic curiosity. "We can recall no instance 
in which the dry lessons of science have been presented to the public in a form 
so captivating, so sterlingly beautiful, as the extraordinary combination of pictorial 
and imaginative materials with which the work before us has been clothed. The 
author has travelled over a new region of literature, and no less extraordinary are 
the elaborately finished illustrations, imparting an allegorical meaning to the 
realities described.” 
One vol. crown 8vo, pp. 320, with 36 illustrations. Real and 
Ideal. Price 16s. elegantly bound in fancy cloth. 
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THE POETRY OE SCIENCE • or, Studies of the Physical Phe- 
nomena of Nature. By Robert Hunt, Esq., Author of 
“ Researches on Light.” 
“ Mr. Hunt’s work stands midway between Humboldt’s ‘ Cosmos ’ and L’Aime 
Martin’s ‘ Lettres a Sophie.’ More suited to the unlearned reader than the 
former, it is more systematic and extended in its views than the latter. All 
the great forces of Nature — gravitation, heat, light, electricity, magnetism 
and affinity — are successively treated by Mr. Hunt, and their unity and dependence 
illustrated. It is this which will make his work popular, as it is not encumbered with 
heavy details or specious pretensions of learning. * * A book well calculated 
to promote a taste for the studies of nature. Much too good to be classed as a 
Christmas book, it would nevertheless form an admirable present at this coming 
season of gifts.” — Athenceum. 
“We know of no work upon science which is so well calculated to lift the 
mind from the admiration of the wondrous works of creation to the belief in, and 
worship of, a First Great Cause. * * One of the most readable epitomes of 
the present state and progress of science we have yet perused.” — Morning Herald. 
“The design of Mr. Hunt’s volume is striking and good. To show that the 
facts of science are at least as full of poetry as the most poetical fancies ever 
founded on an imperfect observation, and a distant suspicion of them; to show 
that if the Dryads no longer haunt the woods, there is in every forest, in every 
tree, in every leaf, a beautiful and wonderful creation, always ..changing, always 
going on ; to show that science, truly expounding Nature, can, like nature herself, 
restore in some new form whatever she destroys : is a purpose worthy of the 
natural philosopher, and salutary to the spirit of the age. This it is the main 
object of Mr. Hunt’s book to elucidate. The subject is very ably dealt with; it 
displays a fund of knowledge, and is the work of an eloquent and earnest man.” — 
The Examiner. 
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