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master liand, one which is personally familiar with all the details of 
which it treats, and the consequence is a fulness of knowledge, and an 
all-pervading clearness which are the more enchanting, the more 
bewildering the chaos which they have put to flight. The typographical 
arrangement leaves little to be desired. I have several times taken 
occasion to urge the importance of this consideration ; a little more 
space devoted to the summaries of genera and species, a little more 
recourse to the various kinds of type, make an enormous difference in 
the comfort and convenience of those who use the book. Works 
published on the Continent are often sadly wanting in this respect; 
even when the subdivisions have been made, the headings are so care¬ 
fully hidden away in the mass of type, that it takes almost as long to 
discover them as it would to make the subdivisions oneself. One thing is, 
perhaps, to be regretted : the lists of localities given are in some cases 
so meagre as to be misleading, since they convey the impression that 
some of the species are much less widely distributed than they really 
are. But no lists of localities, however complete, could of course 
remain so beyond the moment of publication. The recent dis¬ 
covery of the almost unique Boudiera areolata by Mr. J. W. Oliver, in 
the immediate neighbourhood of this town, is but a specimen of what 
is always going on. It now remains but to add that the seventy-nine 
figures given at the end are marvels of minute and accurate detail, to 
show that this is a book of which Mr. Phillips and his publishers may 
well be proud. W. B. G. 
The Geology of England and Wales; with Notes on the Physical Features 
of the Country. By Horace B. Woodward, F.G.S., of the Geological 
Survey. Second edition, 8vo f , 670 pp., 101 woodcuts, and coloured 
map. London: G. Philip and Son, 32, Fleet Street; price 18s. 
This work can only be described as an encyclopaedia of English geology. 
And yet it is far more than an encyclopaedia, for the enormous 
collection of facts is marshalled in so orderly and well-arranged a 
manner that it reveals the geological history of our country in a far 
more truthful way than any “ history of kings and peoples ” that has 
ever been written. 
The frontispiece is a capital autotype reproduction of a photograph 
of the well-known red-chalk cliff of Hunstanton ; and at the other end 
of the book there is an admirable index, extending over no fewer than 
45 pages. Another feature of the book is the excellent “ Synopsis of 
the Animal Kingdom, with especial reference to the Fossil Forms,” 
drawn up by Mr. E. T. Newton, the well-known palaeontologist. 
In the body of the book, by the use of two sizes of type, an 
enormous number of facts are included. Each geological formation 
is discussed separately, its range across the country minutely pointed 
out, its fossils, rocks, and ores described ; while in foot-notes references 
are given to the original authorities cited. 
The first edition of Mr. Woodward’s book—published ten years 
ago—obtained a wide and well-merited circulation; but this second 
