By Rev. G. P. Powell. New York, Messrs. Appleton & Co. This deserves notice in this place, because the author is a well-known lover of horticulture, and because a large amount of material he has gathered together will be of great interest to the horticulturists. The title is unfortunate. The author draws together all the leading facts that have been placed on record by scientific men, showing that plants and animals have progressed from lower to higher forms. The book is in fact a sort of encyclopaedia on this subject. He then shows that the mental and whole moral nature of man has been similarly evolved, - and that this view in no way controverts the fact of immortality, or of man's direct heredity from the great Author of all.

The number of facts in natural history touched on by the author is so large that the reader finds his thoughts wandering continually as he reads; but we take it the great end of the author is as we have above expressed it.