110 Analyses oj Books. [February, 
The Science Monthly, Illustrated. Vol. I., No. 3, January, 1884. 
London : D. Bogue and E. W. Allen. 
It i s easy to see why this Journal has been sent tous. The 
m if 1S n0t gratified at our comments on an utterance in his 
* 6 ” ^ or November anent the Anti-ViviseCtion hubbub, 
and he propounds it as a “ riddle ” to find the occasion for our 
remarks. This riddle may be easily solved by a reference to his 
own words : “ I hope (sic) the Champion may be able to com- 
pass this feat (i.e., to prove that Vivisection is wrong) : but one 
cannot help thinking that the Zoophilist takes the best ground 
aftei all, in contending that the practice is reprehensible because 
it is possibly useless and certainly cruel.” In thus writing our 
contemporary, so to speak, formally hoists the Bestiarian flag. 
Apparently in consequence of his expression of sympathy two 
works have been sent him from the enemy’s camp for review, 
and they are noticed — one of them favourably — in the issue be- 
fore us. We note, further, an article on “ Experimental Physi- 
ology* the spirit of which is certainly not hostile to the agitating 
fanatics. The question is put, among others, “ If Experimental 
Physiology be a legitimate branch of human inquiry, what ground 
is there for limiting its application to the brute creation ? Might 
we not equally well ask, “ If killing animals for food be legiti- 
mate, what ground is there for limiting its application to the 
brute creation ? ” Similar queries might be raised concerning 
compulsatory labour, castration, and other “ cruelties ” which 
man inflicts upon the brute creation. Until the Bestiarians are 
prepared to show that the infliction of pain and death upon ani- 
mals is less legitimate in pursuit of knowledge than in pursuit of 
“ sport,” convenience, gain, luxury, &c., we hold that they have 
no logical right to say another word. But this task they never 
even attempt. 
Woods and Forests, Landscape, Covert, Park, Arboretum, and 
Nursery. A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Forestry, Orna- 
mental Planting, and Estate Management. No. 2. 
We are, both by heredity and by early association, worshippers 
of trees. We honour those who plant and protect them, and we 
loathe those who deface or needlessly destroy them. We need 
scarcely, therefore, say that a paper like the one before us, which 
recommends and enforces tree-planting, and gives practical in- 
structions as to how it may be best effected, has our hearty good 
wishes. 
