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Vegetable Mould and Earthworms, by Charles Darwin, LL.D., F.R.S. (London: John Murray), is only just out, and it is one of the most readable of the many very readable books of this remarkable man. As far back as 1837 Mr. Darwin read a paper on this subject before the Geological Society, and now we have what is quite a manual upon it, in which are many important zoological, botanical, geological, and archeological side-lights. Clearness of expression is one of Mr. Darwin's literary characteristics, and this is unusually manifested in the volume before us.