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INSECTIVOROUS PLANTS.─ This is the title of a new work by Charles Darwin, just published by D. Appleton and Company, New York, a copy of which we have received through A. Waldteufel. Of all the wonders of the vegetable world there is nothing more wonderful than that strange class of plants of which the author treats in the work before us. Here we have a vegetable creation possessing seemingly animal instincts, and certainly capacity to capture and digest animal food. The subject is handled in the great philosopher's most attractive manner, and the work will prove a valuable acquisition to every thinker's library.