Life-history Album. Edited By Francis Galton, F.r.s....
prepared by direction of the Collective- Investigation Committee of the British Medical Association, gives a number of tables of various particulars of physical constitution—......
The Magazines.
THERE is nothing in the Nineteenth Century of any special mark. We are tired of Mr. Keay's lugubrious and exaggerated pictures of the taxation of India, where after all, on the......
Heth And Moab. By Claude Reignier Conder, R.e. (bentley And
Son.)—This book, published for the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund, and containing the record of Captain Conder's explorations conducted in Syria in the years 1881......
Current Literature.
SCOTCH MeaezniEs. — There is quite a remarkable outbreak of magazine activity north of the Tweed at the present time, especially in Glasgow and the West generally—a proof, let......
Booiks Received. — The Lesser Parables Of Our Lord, By...
William Arnot, with biographical treatise by Canon Bell (Nelson and Sons).—Memoir of Charles Lowe, by his wife, Martha Perry Lowe (Cupples, Upham, and Co., Boston, U.S.).—Pity......
"mr. Babbage Has Suggested A Machine Which Should Work...
It is not very difficult to understand the principle of this machine. It is a machine which registers numbers 1, 2, 3, Sze., in oven order , for, say, a thousand years. Of......
The Representation Of The .people.—west Riding Of...
M. Milne. (Hamilton, Adams, and Co.)—It would be well if some one would do for every county what Mr. Milne, with much ingenuity, and, as it seems to us, success, has done for......