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REVIEWS AND BOOK NOTICES. 
Stone Cutting and Polishing, by G. Day. London : Routledge. 51 pp., 
sixpence. This is a handv guide-book to those interested in stone-cutting 
and polishing, and there is evidence that there is a constantly increasing 
number of these, especially in Yorkshire where the beach provides so many 
agates and other suitable stones for the purpose. Mr. Day’s book is well 
illustrated, but the white camelian and moss agate shown in the 
frontispiece would just as well illustrate table tops. The pamphlet is 
apparently a reprint of that issued by Messrs. Dawbarn & Ward, in their 
‘ I’seful Art Series,’ some years ago. 
American Permian Vertebrates. By S. W. Williston. University of 
Chicago Press. Illustrated, pp. 1-145 ; 38 plates, 10s. net. This is a 
collection of monographic studies, with descriptions of new and rare 
reptiles and amphibians from the Permians of Texas and New Mexico. 
Our American friends are more fortunate than English geologists, inasmuch 
as they possess numerous remains of the actual skeletons of the Permian 
vertebrates, and judging from the plates (especially that of Varanosaurus 
brevirostris, which might almost be mistaken for the skeleton of a modern 
salamander), these are frequently in a remarkable state of completeness. 
Professor Williston 's book is an important contribution to a subject 
on which English geologists cannot compete, but they will nevertheless 
welcome it. 
Animal Geography, by Marion I. Newbegin. Oxford : 238 pp., 4s. 6d. 
Dr. Newbegin has written a thoughtful book, on new lines. She has 
attempted to study the relation of the world's fauna to its various environ- 
ments after the manner in which botanists have recently so thoroughly 
brought forward botanical geography. And she has a very pleasant 
style which makes a careful perusal of the book imperative. The chapters 
include the Tundra and its fauna ; the Taiga, or Coniferous forest and 
its fauna, Steppe Faunas, Mountain Faunas, the Fauna of the Tropical 
Forest, Tropical Savanas and Deserts, Special Features of Island Faunas, 
The Distribution of Animal Life in the Sea, Animals of Lakes and Rivers, 
Cave Faunas and Zoogeographical Regions. An ‘ Outline Classification of 
Animals ’ is given as an appendix. There are several illustrations, many 
being from specimens in the Edinburgh Museum. 
East Yorkshire. A Historical Guide for* young and old. By A. N. 
Cooper. Scarborough : E. T. W. Dennis & Sons, 91 pp. is. 4d. net. 
Still another book on East Yorkshire ! The present author informs us 
he has learnt to tell his experiences as simply and truthfully as he can, 
and certainly no one will be able to misunderstand his account of the 
Romans at Filey, the Saxons at Driffield, the Danes at Flamborough, 
the Beverley Trade Gild, Archbishop Lamplugh, the Abolition of Slavery, 
or the other twenty chapters on similar topics, and they are very ‘ read- 
able.’ On the origin of some of the place-names and personal names there 
is room for difference (as Lamplugh, because his ancesters ploughed by 
lamp-light!), and in some other small ways, but they detract but little 
from the interest of the volume. But it is certainly worthy of being 
better printed. Mis-prints abound (kindgom, cheifly, incnr, writling, 
etc.); whereas letters from wrong founts (particularly o’s, of which 
there are manv varieties), letters upside down, wrong stops, etc., occur in 
many instances several times in a single paragraph. Mr. Cooper evidently 
believes in handwriting being an index of character, and he says, ‘ If your 
hand -writing (sic) is slovenly, what is the inference ? ’ Being ourselves 
not the plainest of penmen, we will only ask, ' If your proof-reading is 
slovenly, what is the inference ? ’ By the way, he refers to the British 
(not Viking) boat at Brigg, Lines. If he consults the Transactions of the 
East Riding Antiquarian Society, she will find it is at Hull. 
* ‘ To young and old,’ on the first page. 
Naturalist, 
