It is anticipated that this work will be one of the most important publications of the autumn season. Besides giving full and extremely interesting details of the great scientist's early life and education, his first inclination and attraction towards science, and an anecdotal narrative of his travels on the Amazon and in the Malay Archipelago, it relates the historic incidents connected with his association with Darwin, gives full accounts of all the people he met, and a very particular history of his investigation of Spiritualism and the various controversies involved by his theories. The book is written in a fascinatingly open and candid style, and is sure to be widely read.

While experimenting at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, to determine the effect of radium on sterilised bouillon, Mr. Burke recently found that he could secure the apparently spontaneous generation of growths, resembling bacteria, but which were neither bacteria nor crystals. They were termed "Radiobes." These bodies have since been examined by many eminent men of science, to whom they appear to be in a critical state between the vegetable and mineral kingdoms.

This discovery has since been the subject of extensive comment in the publications of practically every civilised country. It is believed to be of such importance that by many it is acclaimed to be one of the great scientific achievements of the age, and no doubt will rank as one of the few supremely important discoveries for all time.

Mr. Burke has put the results of his investigations and discovery into a book, and there is little doubt that it will be eagerly looked forward to by the whole of the scientific world, and its importance cannot be easily estimated.

Mr. Mallock's book will appeal to all thinking men and women who are interested in the subject of Religious Belief, and who care for scholarly discussion set out in a distinguished style. In his preface he says: "In two volumes which I have published during the last four years, I have in different ways attempted the same two things—firstly, to show the futility of the methods employed by the religious thinkers of to-day, in their attempt to liberate religion from the negative conclusions of science; and secondly, to point out, or rather suggest the outlines of a method which, for this purpose, is likely to prove more profitable. In Religion as a Credible Doctrine, the treatment was purely argumentative. In The Veil of the Temple the questions dealt with were exhibited in their relation to the life of every day, and the interests and characters of people who are anything but professed thinkers: but in both of the volumes the negative position was dealt with at greater length than the positive. In the present volume these proportions are reversed. It begins, indeed, with a short summary which exhibits the strength of the negative arguments, but the larger part is occupied with the attempted work of construction."

This is a romantic story from real history, dealing with a highly talented woman of the eighteenth century who moved in Continental Courts and founded the fortunes of the town of Baireuth. It is constructed entirely from fresh material gathered from documents hitherto unknown, and gives a bright and spirited picture of Court life on the Continent one hundred years ago.

A splendidly illustrated volume dealing with all phases of Javanese life, history, and character. The author adopts a narrative style, avoiding the stolid, dry-as-dust particulars, and attempts to give a picturesque account of the daily round of life of the people of Java—their domestic life, manners and customs, religious beliefs and marriage rites, their sports and amusements, including their primitive efforts at drama; the book deals fully with the Flora and Fauna of the country, and the wonderful scenery is charmingly described; whilst the agricultural and commercial value of the island are adequately insisted upon. The illustrations are plentiful and attractive, and add immeasurably to the book's value.

This is a handsomely illustrated history of lace from the earliest times. It is divided into five parts, dealing respectively with the Growth of Lace, Italian Lace, French and Spanish Laces, and English and Irish Lace. In the introductory part, the author traces the whole history of lace manufacture in all countries in an exhaustive manner and gives full details of the different styles of lace of the various periods.

The illustrations are an important feature in the book. Besides reproductions of every imaginable style of lace work, there are many illustrations of notable personages of history wearing robes and garments which exhibit some remarkable lace of their period.

This is a revised edition containing an additional chapter bringing the history of the tragic events in Russia up to the present date. The book is a valuable and indispensable one for all who desire to know the position of affairs in Russia, and how and why they have reached the present crisis. "A plain unvarnished tale," says the Standard; "the substantial accuracy of the terrible facts and statistics marshalled in these pages cannot be seriously challenged."

"A work distinguished alike for incisiveness of diction, originality of thought, and cogency of argument. It is difficult to controvert any of the main conclusions, and every medical man should study it carefully."—The Lancet.

"This is a book which no intelligent student of human affairs, whether he be a biologist or no, can possibly afford to ignore. In knowledge, in style, in method, in purpose, in logical power, in every necessary or desirable character, it is a model of what such a treatise should be."—The Outlook.

Those who admired Honoria's Patchwork, published last year, will be glad to be again in her delightful company, surrounded by her friends, to be interested again in her household duties, her cultured conversation and views on books, pictures, and kindred subjects, and to once more sojourn for a time in her charming Homemead. A Coat of Many Colours will be found to be as fresh, as sincere, and as intimately personal as the Patchwork, and will be fully illustrated by reproductions from charming photographs.

It may be justly said that Madame Duclaux's book on rural France has become a classic. Its interest and value was in no way ephemeral, for in it Madame Duclaux gives the sense of that wonderful world of out-of-doors which seems fading from the horizon of the modern town-dweller. "The little book," said the Daily Telegraph, "presents a perfect gallery of pictures, a sort of literary complement to Corot and Millet."

It is a book eminently suited for illustration, and Mr. MacDougall spent a long period in the districts dealt with in the volume in making a series of artistic paintings which are reproduced by the best colour process. Unlike many such books, the paintings were done to illustrate the text and not the text written to the pictures.

In compiling this Dickens Birthday Book, Mr. Ley's aim has been to combine usefulness with ornament. That is to say, every quotation expresses some sentiment on some phase of life, on men or things, and with the aid of the Subject Index appended, the volume forms a useful reference book of Dickens quotations. The source is invariably given, and when the sentiment is given expression to by a character, the name of that character is added. Two quotations are given for every day in the year, and the book is a compendium of Dickens's wit, humour, and pathos.

In this book Mr. Andrew Lang attempts to discover the intention of Dickens as to the "mystery of Edwin Drood," left unsolved by the death of the author. The question is, was Edwin Drood slain by his uncle, John Jasper, as Jasper himself certainly believed; and, if Edwin escaped, how did he escape, and how would Jasper be unaware of his own failure to murder his nephew? There are other subsidiary puzzles of which solutions are offered.

The original cover of Edwin Drood, with two of Luke Fildes's original illustrations, are reproduced for the purpose of identifying the portraits and costumes of the persons in the romance.