Through Magic Glasses. By Arabella B. Buckley. (E. Stanford.) —Miss
Buckley contrives, after her own skilful manner, to give a certain charm and liveliness to her scientific lessons. Her first subject is the moon. Descriptions, explained by excellent illus- trations, are given of its characteristics. (We may note especially a plan of the Peak of Teneriffe, showing a quite curious resemblance to one of the lunar craters.) The microscope, the telescope, and the spectroscope are then successively described, and some of the marvels which are revealed by them are given. Miss Buckley finds especial delight in the wonders of the heavens, and gives us some very interesting chapters on " The San : its Spots, Eclipses, &c.," and " The Stars." Concluding chapters take us back to the early history of the horse, and to pre-historic man.
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