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What Mr. Darwin Saw in his Voyage Round the World in the Ship Beagle. (New York: Harper & Brothers; Portland: Loring, Short & Harmon.

This is a most delightful and instructive book for young people. It consists of a great number of extracts from Mr. Darwin's narrative of his tour around the world; and except some verbal changes for sake of easier understanding is in the great naturalist's own words. Every child is sure to be interested in animals, birds, and stories of strafe countries and people. Mr. Darwin's observations are, of course, scientific and reliable; and persons who would object to his doctrines of evolution as tending to lessen the religious faith of young readers, will not find any expressions of this theory in the volume. It concerns itself simply with facts, and puts them in a pleasant and graphic manner. Some of the stories—and all the pictures—will please the little ones, though the general tone of the book suits it for boys and girls from twelve or fourteen to seventy-five or eighty. The elegance of type, binding and illustrations, the clear, large type and thick, creamy paper, are specimens of Messrs. Harpers' book-making.