... REVIEWS. SLANG.A'' THE coming of the third volume of Slang and its Analogues has been long delayed, but the extensiveness of its range and the thorough- ness with which the work is done takes the edge off any impatience one may have felt. We understand ...

... REVIEWS. SCIENCE AND METAPHYSICS.,* PROFESSOR RIEHL invites us to ask once more, What is metaphysics ? and, like Jesting Pilate, leaves us without an answer. In this book, which is a translation of the last volume of a work in which he sets f6rth the ...

... REVIEWS. THE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTHEH THERrE is much satisfaction to be derived from the growing evidence of the progressive spirit of writers on political economy. The sonewhat hide-bound dogmatism which pervades the more old- las'iioned school of ...

... REVIEWS. SIR ARTHFUR BLACKWOOD.*~ Ty, is at least doubtfUl, to ptit Jmild;y; whether it is wise to publish for rreneral circuflat'in a book constructed onl these peculiar lines. SeeonArthurIBlac1k-wood Was an bl raI a first-rate tiublic servaint, a fine ...

... REVIEWS. FROM THE BOER SIDE.* WRITING on August 1, Mr. Hillegas predicted another year or two for the war, if, as he expected, the Boers continued to fight like patriots; if their patriotism failed they would be exterminated as a nation, and none would ...

... REVIEWS. DTTTITFD ASqVPTnIOT .V* HAVING mastered at any rate the rudiments of the art of de6ipherinlg the cuneiform characters, and having a clear idea of the general trend of the history they reveal to us, Mr. Roberton has, apparently, been seized with ...

... REV'IEWS. N 0 V E L S. MA-. FRANT~ R. S-rocKTon'S Adventures of Caritain H-lrn is as brisk and cenrtarhningai story as wo naive seenl for mionlths. Ile- is fortunate in hiS sub.,cct, for whtpdn ss cafous-hecarted that hie c-an read of inag te witho~ut ...

... REVIEWS. ILEBENSSTUCKE' A\ND GEDICHTFE IN PROSA.* T i, two latc-t volumes of novels and sketches fromt thle pen of Anna Croissant-Ru-st have excited no little attention in Germany. Like their predecessor-, Fceirabend, they have elicited very various ...

... REVIEWS. LIFE IN THE ABYSS.* Cn THAT there was any life at all in the deeper parts of the ocean was I tri still a matter for speculation scarcely more than thirty years ago. or But since that time-thanks, perhaps, more than anything else to the It accident ...

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