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Clodd. — THE CHILDHOOD OF THE WORLD: a Simple

Account of Man in Early Times. By Edward Clodd, F.R.A.S.

Second Edition. Globe 8vo. 3s.

Professor Max Muller, in a letter to the Author, says: “I read your book with great pleasure. I have no doubt it will do good, and I hope you will continue your work. Nothing spoils our temper so much as having to unlearn in youth, manhood, and even old age, so many things which we were taught as children. A book like yours will prepare a far better soil in the child's mind, and I was delighted to have it to read to my children.”

Cooke (Josiah P., Jun.) — FIRST PRINCIPLES OF

CHEMICAL PHILOSOPHY. By Josiah P. Cooke, Jun., Ervine Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy in Harvard College.

Crown 8vo. 12s.

The object of the author in this book is to present the philosophy of Chemistry in such a form that it can be made with profit the subject of College recitations, and furnish the teacher with the means of testing the students faithfulness and ability. With this view the subject has been developed in a logical order, and the principles of the science are taught independently of the experimental evidence on which they rest.

Guillemin. — THE FORCES OF NATURE: a Popular Intro­duction

to the study of Physical Phenomena. By Amedee Guille­min. Translated from the French by Mrs. Norman Lockyer, and Edited, with Additions and Notes, by J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S. With 11 Coloured Plates and 455 Woodcuts. Second

Edition. Royal 8vo. cloth, gilt. 31s. 6d.

“Translator and Editor have done justice to their trust. The text has all the force and flow of original writing, combining faithfulness to the author's meaning with purity and independence in regard to idiom; while the historical precision and accuracy pervading the work throughout, speak of the watchful editorial supervision which has been given to every scientific detail. . . . Altogether, the work may be said to have no parallel, either in point of fulness or attraction, as a popular manual of physical science.”Saturday Review.