itum_, of one genus without plurality,
_Deus_: order II., _Finita_, angels good and evil. The rest is all about a
triune system, with a diagram. The author is not aware that [Greek: zoon]
is not _animal_, but _living being_. Aristotle had classed gods under
[Greek: zoa], and has been called to account for it by moderns who have
taken the word to mean _animal_.

A CHANCE FOR INVENTORS.

Explication du Zodiaque de Denderah, des Pyramides, et de Genese. Par
le Capitaine au longcours Justin Roblin.[241] Caen, 1861. 8vo.

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Capt. Roblin, having discovered the sites of gold and diamond mines by help
of the zodiac of Denderah, offered half to the shareholders of a company
which he proposed to form. One of our journals, by help of the zodiac of
Esne, offered, at five francs a head, to tell the shareholders the exact
amount of gold and diamonds which each would get, and to make up the amount
predicted to those who got less. There are moods of the market in England
in which this company could have been formed: so we must not laugh at our
neighbors.

JOHANNES VON GUMPACH.

A million's worth of property, and five hundred lives annually lost at
sea by the Theory of Gravitation. A letter on the true figure of the
earth, addressed to the Astronomer Royal, by Johannes von Gumpach.[242]
London, 1861, 8vo. (pp. 54).

The true figure and dimensions of the earth, in a letter addressed to
the Astronomer Royal. By Joh. von Gumpach. 2nd ed. entirely recast.
London, 1862, 8vo. (pp. 266).

Two issues of a letter published with two different title-pages, one
addressed to the Secretary of the Royal Society, the other to the
Secretary of the Royal Astronomical Society. It would seem that the
same letter is also issued with two other titles, addressed to the
British Association and the Royal Geographical Society. By Joh. von
Gumpach. London, 1862, 8vo.

Baby-Worlds. An essay on the nascent members of our solar household. By
Joh. von Gumpach. London, 1863, 8vo.

The earth, it appears, instead of being flattened, is elongated at the
poles: by ignorance of which the loss above mentioned occurs yearly. There
is, or is to be, a substitute for attraction and an "application hitherto
neglected, of a {138} recognized law of optics to the astronomical theory,
showing the true orbits of the heavenly bodies to be perfectly circular,
and their orbital motions to be per