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IN a prefatory note the publishers of this little book inform the readers that it constitutes the first of a series of volumes devoted to a “Sketch of Universal History.” We must congratulate the publishers on having discovered an author with sufficient knowledge, and at the same time with the necessary courage, for coping with such an undertaking. In 148 small pages we have a description of the “original condition of the globe” when it first assumed its present form, followed by sketches of the Archæan and succeeding periods of the earth's history; the whole concluding with a retrospect, which reads like the moral of a fable. The work, it is believed, will form an appropriate introduction to three similar volumes in which the modern history of the world is sketched. The book before us is a marvel of condensation; but in reading it we feel like the unfortunate individuals who are compelled to support life on lozenges composed of “Liebig's Extract.”
A Sketch of Geological History, being the Natural History of the Earth and of its Pre-Human Inhabitants.
By Edward Hull (London: C. W. Deacon and Co., 1887.)
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 37, 103 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/037103a0
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