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GEOLOGICAL SKETCHES. BY LOUIS Agassi1.
Boston: Iioknor & Fields For sale by
Ni.der.

GEOLOGICAL SKETCHES. BY LOUIS Agassi1.
Boston: Tioknor & Fields For sale by
Wilder.
The authors naule Il suthclent recommend
alton Of this publication to all who have any de-
sire TO know something of the world we inhabit.
Professor Agassiz mas been always devoted
student OF nature, and, whether right or wrong
IN his conclusions, has brought keen and dis
eliminating mind, a aborious research pa
tient analysis, and ardent enthusiasm to the
study OF the history OF the earth written on
It's surface and in It's depths. The articles COL
iected in this volume were originally prepared
for the Atlantle from notes Of eXtemporaneous
lectures bv the author and are familiar talks on
scientific subjects, rather than scientific papers.
| Yet the authors language sometimes warns
! into eloquence, and is always pure and vigorous
! English. The volume is divided into ten chap
ters. /. America the Old World 2, the ST.
| lurian Beach 3, the Fern Forests OF the Car
boniferous Period 4, Mountains and their Or
! igin 5 Growth of Continents . the Geolog' cal
Middle Age I, the Tertiary Age and its Char
acteristic Animals; 5, Formation of Glaciers !;
8, Internal Structure and Progression of Gla-
ciers; 10, External Appearance OF Glaciers.
| 10 this book the author starts with the dec
! laration that, d" tirst-born among the continents,
| though SO much later in culture and civilization
| than some OF more recent birth, America, so
far as her physical history is concerned, has
been falsely denominated the -Veto World. Hers
was the first dry land lifted out OF the waters ;
hers the first shore washed by the ocean that
enveoped all the earth beside; and while Eu-
rope was represented only by islands rising here
and there above the sea- America already
tretched an unbroken line of land from Nova
Scotia to the Far West" From this starting
point he traces the history OF the earth, as the
titles of the chapters indicate, through various
| transformations down To the glacial period ;
| and he promises in Il future volume to show
the former extension OF glaciers on this cont
nent and the history ot their retreat. Geology
has been studied hitherto chiefly or to large
| extent, from the appearances of the earth-su-
| perficially and where excavated-on the Euro
pean continent These publications of Professor
| Agassiz we'll present the question studied on
the American continent, and will, therefore,
| have peculiar value to the American reader
| The book is written in fam liar and simple
style, and will prove very interesting, as well as
instructive, to the unseienti6c reader, we'll as
| to the student, and it should be in the posses
sion OF every one who cares TO know anything
about the processes through which the globe
we nhabi, has reached its present state and con
dition.
| ST MARTINS SUMNER. by Anne H. III
| Brewster. Bost Oh Iicknor y Fle Ids. Fol
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The New York Evening Post has the follow
ing notice OF this book:
Miss Brewster is known t. 4, Class OF readers
} by clever book hers, published five 81,
years since, called 4" "Compensation," and mucl
| occupied with discussions and anecdotes relat
, ing TO the art of music. q st. Martins Sum
mer " is made up of chapters which have littl
lconnecton with each other, except that th
t scene of them all is laid IN Naples. and most c
them relate to visits which the author, in com
lpany with ber friends, made to remarkabl