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    clearwith negs , numbers and the division and subject of his -head work s , will into materiall sections y , assist the student .

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    prttty little book is ' dedicated by Mr . Harrison Weir F . £ . S i . 9 to Orn b his ithol brother ist , E John ntomo Jenner l h istan Weir d Botanist , F . L . S ., ogog

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    te was lls encouraged us , with such to publish a favourable the present reception companion that he volume . Written ¦ from ijfciv ¦ personal ¦ ¦ iff ¦ acquaintance »¦ — 'm - ^** ¦¦ ¦ --

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    present section of winter the Guid month e dealing s , are at with their the height town . . itself The is followed by thirty or forty pages devoted to

    and the excursions an appendix which gives maybe a guide made in to the the vicinity local , churchesand other useful notes .

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    his husband former and marriage wife and is the tragic pretty in the daughter extreme of . Mr . Clark Russell continues his pleasant ' sailor ' s

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    Ghost . Bret Harte ' s ' Left out on Lone Star Mountain / a story of Christmas Eve 1863 , is

    another genial contribution , and Mr . Grant Allen ' s facts essay , traces on * The back Ancestry our winged of Birds friends / full to of the curious days when they were reptiles 1 19 with IT ¦ VU feathers WUtW / This is

    w UV ** . W »*^/_ T TV - ' * . V # ^ 'KJ UVJ > V & l / fr * « . i ^» ^ Uig Jjg Mr . Allen ' s summary of the whole matter : feathers Birds , . then Professor , may be Huxley roughly was described the first as to reptiles gee the with real

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    the possession of feathers ; and if , like uncompromising , K because arl "Vogt of , its -we anatomical insist upon peculiarities calling archaedpteryx , everj this a solitary reptile , distinction must vanish utterlyleavirg as no point ot

    difference at all bet ween the two classes . It must be re-Tve membered always , have of course in our , that mind all as the t other of the ch abstract aracters idea which of a

    "bird are either not constant , or par not peculiar to birds alone . 2 but but or instance tben then , , on on , we the the usually othfr tith . fr think hatid haiidl of many manv a bird birds birds as a ** n , \> such snc in * h animal as as the the ;

    ostriches fly at all , ; kiwis and , , on penguins . the other , and hand , dodos , many , do other not , , or creatures did not , , e dragon uch as -lizards the bat , and flyin butterflies g squirrel , do flying or did lemurs once , pterodactyls fly as mucti ,

    as the birds . So , with their other peculiarities , , ; tbeir habit their of laying nest- eggs building descends propensities to them which from fish are and wan reptiles ting in ;

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    which much of we a reptile know anything as a bird , . archseopteryx , was , at least , as We are lad to note again the continued success

    of the editor g ' s appeal tor funds to btart and maintain trucks for the supply of cheap , -wholesome

    food bourhood to the of unemp Tower loyed Hill . labourers H © has received in the a neigh large - number of subscriptions , and the money is being

    carefully expended . A new list is now opened to r ^ carr ^ i » ver v ^ ^ y , Jf on and «^ V ^ m ^ . v a we similar * v ^^ cordiall ^^^^ ¦ mat «^^ a work ^ i ™ ^ ¦ * y wish ^ on T «* . ^^ ^^^» the , its im » ^^ v Surrey ^^ promot v ^^ ^ ^^ n ^ ^ ^^ side % ers ^^ jt P ^ of G ^^^ 1 the -o ^^ d ^^^

    Co speed . ) has . '— a The marvellous Cornhill Magazin narrative e of ( Smith adventure , Elder in , & a ' Dark Spot on the Dark Continent / so marvellous

    that the writer tells us that the little information oh whi the ch has subject previ has ously benn been discredited put before . the It tells public of

    Doctor the sufferings of Medicine of of Josep the h University . Habakuk of Harvard Jephson , , ^ and B ^ m *^ m ^ . ^ V ex Vff . V . *^ H -consuitiog ^ mw ^ . ^ IV ^ V ^ I . P ^ . ^^ V ^ ^ IT VV ^ H ^ f ^ Hi ^ H Ph W ^ . B ^ b mv ysician h . « i ^ « V ^ i ^ 4 . * ^ V ^* P ^*^ H of ^ H ^ W ^ the ^ V ^^^ . H ^^ F V Samarita ^ t ^ F W atr ^^^ V ^ ^ « i ^ *> ^ V * ~^ n ^

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    Gibraltar in 1873 . He embarked on board the capta ill-fated in , was ship , soon in October shot in in his that cabin year ; and ; Tibbs then , the the interest of i the fvflB story turns on - one p ~^~ Goring pi i who - had

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    follow-passeagera arpiVA boarded is i « murdered tnurv by blacks ertad . , and And / Goring at At last lrifit confesses . , wh when en the thft to rpfisel vessel Jephson 18 10 ¦ that f ^« HP ^ J *» " , although WpfVMi If p > ^^ ^^ af * V ho ¦ ^ mr is mm mm * permi K « r w « — — f «» tted > jr- -v » f ¦ pk *!* to h ^^ escape ^»» M > l ^« p « Bar ^» T with ^ W . * »^*^ r- ^ f his "

    party Ufa , ho to is his not release to imagine , which that he he owes ( Jephson to bis ) is pos any - HA £ Himi nf a . enrfA . ifi black mAt £ nrir >^ toneJ bblieved

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 31, 1883, page 1440, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_31121883/page/13/