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“THIS book is intended to supply the widely-felt want of a work at once easy enough for a class reading-book and precise enough for a text-book.” “The woodcuts with which the work is profusely illustrated are not thrown in for mere ornament, but have been carefully designed and selected for the elucidation of the text, and are fully explained.” Had it not been for the single word which we have put in italics in the second of these extracts from the Preface, we should have at once concluded, from its general tenor, that this work was written to explain a long series of plates (most of them unmistakably French) which have already done duty in various elementary books. We were reminded of Warrington's exhortation, when he brought the proof-plate to Pendennis:—“Now, boy, here's a chance for you. Turn me off a copy of verses to this.”

Outlines of Natural Philosophy.

By J. D. Everett. (London: Blackie and Sons, 1885.)