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Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. "Beagle" round the World, by Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S. T. Nelson & Sons. [Price 4s.]

There can be no better book to put into the hand of a boy with a taste for Natural history, than Darwin's Voyage of the "Beagle," and it would be hard to find a better edition than that published by Nelson & Sons. It is a handsome book, well printed, and well illustrated with pictures which are not merely introduced because the publisher happens to have the blocks in hand, but which really assist the reader to understand his author. It is superfluous to praise the book itself. We sincerely hope the Duke of Argyle [sic] is wrong when he says, "Celebrated as was this book once, few probably read it now," but we are in full agreement with his grace when he adds, "If we are ever inclined to rest our opinion upon authority, and to accept without doubt what a remarkable man has taught, I do not know any work better calculated to inspire confidence than Darwin's Journal."