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The Influence of English Quakerdom upon German Culture , and 
upon the Anglo -Russian Project of a Universal Church A 
By Bruno Bauer. Berlin : Grosser. 
We have here a work published, it would seem, in the year 1878, 
and certainly deserving profound attention. To discuss a poli- 
tico-ecclesiastic treatise in the peaceful pages of the “ Quarterly 
Journal of Science ” is of course out of the question ; but we 
recommend Herr Bauer’s views to the careful consideration of 
our political, religious, and social contemporaries. We were 
about to say that some of them might possibly have their eyes 
opened, but we remember that the infatuated are always able to 
interpret both faffis and arguments in favour of their own pre- 
possessions. To the author we would merely say that he has 
seen much, but not all, and that England has before now reco- 
vered from hallucinations not less threatening. 
United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part III. 
Report of the Commissioner for 1873-4 and 1874-5. Wash- 
ington : Government Printing-Office. 
This Report comprises an inquiry into the decrease of the food- 
fishes, and an account of experiments on the propagation of 
food-fishes in the waters of the United States. Among the in- 
teresting appendices we find a treatise on the condition of the 
fisheries among the ancient Greeks and Romans, and on their 
mode of salting and pickling fish. The share which the seas 
and rivers may be made to take in contributing to human sub- 
sistence was thoroughly understood in the days of classic anti- 
quity. No fewer than four hundred kinds of fishes are mentioned 
by Greek authors — a proof of the great attention paid to the 
population of the waters. Artificial pisciculture, an art which is 
now only beginning to revive, was extensively practised. 
Further sections give the statistics and other fadls connected 
with the most important fisheries of the North Atlantic and of 
the Ardtic Ocean, such as those of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, 
Britain, and Russia. The amount of valuable products thus 
obtained and the magnitude of the interests involved will be 
surprising to the general public. Thus in the year 1872 
1.210.000. 000 lbs. of herrings were taken in the Bay of Malan- 
ger, on the Norwegian coast. At Sondmore the yield of the 
spring cod-fisheries was nineteen and a half millions of fish, — 
110.000. 000 lbs. of liver, or at least 55,000,000 lbs. of oil, and 
39, 600, 000 lbs. of roe. An especial notice is given to M. Sar’s 
* Einfluss des englischen Qulikerthums auf die deutsche Cultur, und auf das 
englisch-russische Projedt einen Welt-kirc. 
