Popular Physiology.—The Nervous System *The Physiology of Common Life: By George Henry Lewes. 2 vols. Blackwood and Sons, 1860. Vol. II., The Nervous System.

physiologist, and one of the most brilliant writers of the day on scientific subjects. He has so happy a gift with the pen that he charms you even when what he advances is directed in the teeth of your most settled convictions. He treads without compunction on your tenderest opinions, and yet compels you to simper and smile the while. In the last of Mr. Levves's fully published works, he, for example, as well in the conception as in the execution of the book, dashes right through old-standing ideas both of the method and manner of popular instruction. Still the book is so delightful to read, so full of admirably told information, that