The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-01-04
"A NIMAI.S OF THE PAST -

Animals Of the Past. BY Frederic A.
ative, Anatomy in the United States Ma
YORK: Mcclure, p III ss Co e.: nes. NeW
IN, In this book the various prehistoric amt
which are clear. to the average, reader.
While the use of technical terms is avoid
ed as far as possible, the general princi-
IS easy for the general public to under
stand. The illustrations are numerous
and well chosen. %|., ~ -:sf -s-s
The chief objection made to geological
theories BY unscientiic people has been
Mr.. Lucas answers this objection in his
even after an object has become fos-
ilized,' it is far from certain that it will
remain In good condition until found,
Whe the enance Of its being found at all
Der that it is only here and there that
, nature has made the contents of the rocks
th By turning min the strata edge
them with valleys and canyons, we real
ize what a vast number of pages of the
fossil record must remain not only unread,
know so little of the history of the past,
but that we have learned so much; for, not
only is nature careless in keeping the rec
fragments but, after they have been laid
away and sealed up in the rocks, they are
subject TO many accidents. Some specf-
mems get badly fattened by the weight Of
subsequently deposited strata, others are
cracked and twisted by the movements of
the rocks during periods Of upheaval OF
subsistence, and when, at last, they are
rain. snow and frost. from which they
once escaped, are ready to renew the at
tack and crumble even the hard stone to
of the methods by which fossils may be
formed, such are some of the accidents by
which they may be destroyed; but this
description esa pit must be taken as a mere out
| or back-boned animals. since it is with
them that we shall have to- deal: 1t may,
however, show why it. is that fossils are
hints Of the existence Of many animals,
and why myriads of creatures may have
fourished and passed away without Sc
much as leaving a trace of their presence
behind t, Sr.e.55-- jas. j,
This work will prove both interesting
and Instructive to the adult reader and in.
| dren who are beginning the study Of nat.
ural science. IL s;s f.sE.:
STRAY PAPERS. 6
Thackeray: Edited by Lewis Melville. 81.
~ To the American reading public, with
whom Thackeray has been one of the
fayorite English authors and whose mas
testify to his nco engeb felieity Of ea
I preston and genius, .Stray Papers, y one
Of the years publications, edited Ry his
addition e rhaekeray Ute &C vel
| The author says in his preface: When
was compiling the autobiography append
50 to t9 IN Life Of william
stories, verses. and sketches, not included
IN any edition of the Collected Works; and
it occurred to me that volume of these
erery we aae oe q
siderable interest. y g "a &c 81
Stray Papers make very interesting
political. literary. artistic. and sociological,
treated by Thackeray in his youth, before
the maturity Of genius, and demonstrate
e Il, law Of growth as inevitable in the
To contrast the creator of Lord Steyne'
and aEsmond. with some of the papers
found herein is to cntrast the grand genius
and yet there are found in this compfla-
ton fashes5of wit. brilliancy and eloauence
which gave promise of the later Thack-
an Contain sasfa many se vivid f de
scriptfons of the social life Of the English
people in that evolutionary period of wars.
"A review on the essays of McCaulay and
their effect upon the national intellect. is
especially fine. as being the result Of q
youthful literary enthusiasts observation
Ola contemporary whose great position he
did not envy but applauded: OF Me Caulay, i
he SAYS that he was the only literary char
acter OF his times. who because of his
eminence In the literary world. became the
political and social eunal of the nobility.
and as powerful in influence as others
whose station resulted from wealth or
hereditary privileges: and that his writ
ingss did more for the liberal party than
any liberal poll tician, and s that sat last
had come man who had made literature
respectable.
gss g S.