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SCIENTIFIC CLASS BOOKS.

LESSONS IN ELEMENTARY BOTANY.

With nearly Two Hundred Illustrations. By DANIEL OLIVER, F.R.S. Sixth Thousand. 18mo. cloth, 4s. 6d.

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"To this system we now wish to direct the attention of teachers, feeling satisfied that by some such course alone can any substantial knowledge of plants be conveyed with certainty to young men educated as the mass of our medical students have been. We know of no work so well suited to direct the botanical pupil's efforts as that of Professor Oliver's, who, with views so practical, and with great knowledge too, can write so accurately and clearly."-Natural History Review.

LESSONS IN ELEMENTARY PHYSIOLOGY.

With numerous Illustrations. By T. H. HUXLEY, F.R.S. Professor of Natural
History in the Royal School of Mines. Eighth Thousand. 18mo. cloth, 4s. 6d.

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"The very best descriptions and explanations of the principles of human physiology which have yet been written by an Englishman."-Saturday Review.

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LESSONS IN ELEMENTARY CHEMISTRY,

Inorganic and Organic. By HENRY ROSCOE, F. R. S. Professor of Chemistry in Owens College, Manchester. With numerous Illustrations and Chromo-Litho. of the Solar Spectra. Fifteenth Thousand. 18mo. cloth, 4s. 6d.

It has been the endeavour of the author to arrange the most important facts and principles of Modern Chemistry in a plain but concise and scientific form, suited to the present requirements of elementary instruction. For the purpose of facilitating the attainment of exactitude in the knowledge of the subject, a series of exercises and questions upon the lessons have been added. The metric systems of weights and measures, and the centigrade thermometric scale, are used throughout the work.

"A small, compact, carefully elaborated, and well-arranged manual."-Spectator. "It has no rival in its field, and it can scarcely fail to take its place as the textbook at all schools where chemistry is now studied."-Chemical News.

ELEMENTARY LESSONS IN ASTRONOMY.

By J. NORMAN LOCKYER, F.R.S. With Coloured Diagram of the Spectra of the Sun, Stars, and Nebulæ, and numerous Woodcuts. 18mo. 5s. 6d.

"The book is full, clear, sound, and worthy of attention not only as a popular exposition, but as a scientific index."-Athenæum.

"An admirable text-book-those who do not know much of the science could not find a better and more accurate guide."-Museum.

POPULAR ASTRONOMY.

By G. B. AIRY, Astronomer Royal. With Illustrations.
Edition. 18mo. cloth, 4s. 6d.

Sixth and Cheaper

"Popular Astronomy in general has many manuals; but none of them supersede the Six Lectures of the Astronomer Royal under that title. Its speciality is the direct way in which every step is referred to the observatory, and in which the methods and instruments by which every observation is made are fully described. This gives a sense of solidity and substance to astronomical statements which is obtainable in no other way."-Guardian.

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SEPTEMBER, 1869.

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CLASSICAL.

ÆSCHYLI EUMENIDES. The Greek Text, with English Notes and English Verse, Translation, and an Introduction. By BERNARD DRAKE, M.A., late Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. 8vo. 3s. 6d.

The Greek text adopted in this Edition is based upon that of Wellauer, which may be said, in general terms, to represent that of the best manuscripts. But in correcting the Text, and in the Notes, advantage has been taken of the suggestions of Hermann, Paley, Linwood, and other commentators. In the Translation, the simple character of the Eschylean dialogues has generally enabled the author to render them without any material deviation from the construction and idioms of the original Greek. 20,000.9.69.

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EDUCATIONAL BOOKS.

ARISTOTLE ON FALLACIES;

OR, THE SOPHISTICI ELENCHI. With a Translation and Notes by EDWARD POSTE, M.A., Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. 8vo. 8s. 6d.

Besides the doctrine of Fallacies, Aristotle offers, either in this treatise or in other passages quoted in the commentary, various glances over the world of science and opinion, various suggestions or problems which are still agitated, and a vivid picture of the ancient system of dialectics, which it is hoped may be found both interesting and instructive.

Aristotle.

AN INTRODUCTION

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ARISTOTLE'S

RHETORIC. With Analysis, Notes, and Appendices. By E. M. COPE, Senior Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, Cambridge. 8vo. 145.

This work is introductory to an edition of the Greek Text of Aristotle's Rhetoric, which is in course of preparation. Its object is to render that treatise thoroughly intelligible. The author has aimed to illustrate, as preparatory to the detailed explanation of the work, the general bearings and relations of the Art of Rhetoric in itself, as well as the special mode of treating it adopted by Aristotle in his peculiar system. The evidence upon obscure or doubtful questions connected with the subject is examined; and the relations which Rhetoric bears, in Aristotle's view, to the kindred art of Logic are fully considered. A connected Analysis of the work is given, sometimes in the form of paraphrase; and a few important matters are separately discussed in Appendices. There is added, as a general Appendix, by way of specimen of the antagonistic system of Isocrates and others, a complete analysis of the treatise called Ῥητοριχὴ πρὸς ̓Αλέξανδρον, with a discussion of its authorship and of the probable results of its teaching.

CATULLI VERONENSIS LIBER. Edited by R. ELLIS, Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. 18mo. 35. 6d.

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An elaborate Preface deals with the arrangement of the verse, and discusses various readings. Rarely," says the Saturday Review, "have we read a classic author with so reliable, acute, and safe a guide."

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