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publication of Sir Henry Maine's 'Ancient Law,' have we seen so many
fruitful thoughts suggested in the course of a couple of hundred
pages.... To do justice to Mr. Bagehot's fertile book, would require a
long article. With the best of intentions, we are conscious of having
given but a sorry account of it in these brief paragraphs. But we hope
we have said enough to commend it to the attention of the thoughtful
reader."--Prof. JOHN FISKE, in the _Atlantic Monthly_.

"Mr. Bagehot's style is clear and vigorous. We refrain from
giving a fuller account of these suggestive essays, only because we
are sure that our readers will find it worth their while to
peruse the book for themselves; and we sincerely hope that the
forthcoming parts of the 'International Scientific Series' will be
as interesting."--_Athenaeum_.

"Mr. Bagehot discusses an immense variety of topics connected with the
progress of societies and nations, and the development of their
distinctive peculiarities; and his book shows an abundance of
ingenious and original thought."--ALFRED RUSSELL WALLACE, in
_Nature_.

III.

Foods.

By Dr. EDWARD SMITH.

1 vol., 12mo. Cloth Illustrated. Price, $1.75.

In making up THE INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC SERIES, Dr Edward Smith was
selected as the ablest man in England to treat the important subject
of Foods. His services were secured for the undertaking, and the
little treatise he has produced shows that the choice of a writer on
this subject was most fortunate, as the book is unquestionably the
clearest and best-digested compend of the Science of Foods that has
appeared in our language.

"The book contains a series of diagrams, displaying the effects
of sleep and meals on pulsation and respiration, and of various
kinds of food on respiration, which, as the results of Dr
Smith's own experiments, possess a very high value. We have
not far to go in this work for occasions of favorable criticism;
they occur throughout, but are perhaps most apparent in those
parts of the subject with which Dr. Smith's name is especially
linked."--_London Examiner._

"The union of scientific and popular treatment in the composition
of this work will afford an attraction to many readers who would
have been indifferent to purely theoretical details.... Still his
work abounds in information, much of which is of great value, and
a part of which could not easily be obtained from other sou