TEXT-BOOKS ON GEOLOGY AND PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. By DAVID PAGE, F.G.S. Fifth Edition, price 1s. 9d. INTRODUCTORY TEXT-BOOK OF GEOLOGY. With Illus trations and Glossarial Index. "Of late it has not often been our good fortune to examine a text-book on science of which we could express an opinion so entirely favourable as we are enabled to do of Mr Page's little work."-Athenaeum. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged, price 6. ADVANCED TEXT-BOOK OF GEOLOGY, Descriptive and Industrial. With numerous Illustrations and Glossary of Terms, "An admirable book on Geology. It is from no invidious desire to under ex works-it is the simple expression of justice-which causes us to assign to Mr Pape Advanced Text-Book' the very first place among geological works atrev dents, at least among those which have come before us. We have read every word f it with care and with delight, never hesitating as to its meaning, never omission of anything needful in a popular and succinct exposition of a rich warsh subject. The ordonnance of its material is clear, masterly, and phow. T exposition is often eloquent, without ever striving after rhetorical efter. The storma tion is lucidly yet briefly given. The three passages (quoted) cate the quality of the book; its merits as a text-book can only be exer by the student himself. If it does not drive many a student, hammer in hand, to and railway cuttings for immediate experience of geological phenomena, -Leader. 2 TEXT-BOOKS ON GEOLOGY AND PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. In Crown Octavo, price 6s. HANDBOOK OF GEOLOGICAL TERMS AND GEOLOGY. "Every science, like every manual art, must have its own technicalities and modes of expression: new objects require new names, and new facts new phrases to express their relations. There is no avoiding this necessity in any progressive branch of human knowledge; and the only thing that can be done to lessen the difficulty-next to the rigid exclusion of whatever seems superfluous-is to explain these terms in brief and simple language. This I have endeavoured to do, chiefly with a view to the requirements of the general reader, at the same time appending such details as might render the volume an acceptable Handbook of Reference to the student and professed Geologist. Thus the ordinary reader will generally find the information he requires in the first and second sentences of a definition; what follows is addressed more especially to the professional inquirer-to the student, miner, engineer, architect, agriculturist, and others, who may have occasion to deal with geological facts, and yet who might not be inclined to turn up half-a-dozen volumes, or go through a course of geological readings, for an explanation of the term in question."-Author's Preface. In Crown Octavo, price 6s. THE PAST AND PRESENT LIFE OF THE GLOBE. "Mr Page, whose admirable text-books of geology have already secured him a position of importance in the scientific world, will add considerably to his reputation by the present sketch, as he modestly terms it, of the Life-System, or gradual evolution of the vitality, of our globe. In no manual that we are aware of have the facts and phenomena of biology been presented in at once so systematic and succinct a form, the successive manifestations of life on the earth set forth in so clear an order, or traced so vividly from the earliest organisms deep-buried in its stratified crust, to the familiar forms that now adorn and people its surface. Without wearying the reader with an endless profusion of technical details and scientific nomenclature, such as might be proper to a dry handbook of paleontology, or diving at length into specific distinctions or physiological riddles, it has been the writer's aim to submit, in clear readable form, a trustworthy résumé of the science, brought down to the latest point of discovery, and treated from a higher and more comprehensive point of view than that of either mere geology or natural history taken by itself."-Literary Gazette. "Mr Page is favourably known as the author of three or four useful elementary geological books, each of which we have noticed in due order of appearance. Together with the one now published, they form a serviceable series for primary instruction. The present volume, however, has somewhat higher pretensions than its predecessors, and is more readable continuously than any one of them. On the Development Hypotheses Mr Page has condensed some sound and unanswerable argumentative information."-Athenæum. "The object of this excellent and unpretending little work is clearly set forth in the title. It contains a pictorial and historical sketch of the life-scenes of our earth, from the earliest times until now, as inferred from the geological records. It is perspicuous in style, prettily illustrated, furnishing a very complete compendium of the subject. The spirit of the book is good. Mr Page is evidently a philosopher who thinks it no disgrace to be a Christian-a man of science who believes in an Author of science. He is no 'developmentist;' and his arguments concerning successions of life are singularly acute and conclusive. Some of his positions are strikingly original; as, for instance, his views on recurrent cycles of temperature. He holds creation to be still in progress, presiding over the constant introduction of new species. And as each advance in creation has been, on the whole, upward, so our author anticipates a still higher order of animated creatures on our earth, perhaps also a higher destiny for man. We strongly recommend this little book to our readers, and its calm and temperate spirit to many of our modern writers."-British Quarterly Review. In the Press, by the same Author. I. INTRODUCTORY TEXT-BOOK OF PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. With Illustrations and Glossarial Index. Price 1s. 9d. II. ADVANCED TEXT-BOOK OF PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. With Illustrations and Glossary of Terms. W. BLACKWOOD & SONS, EDINBURGH & LONDON. |