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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1678, 27 April 1904, Page 21

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Messrs Archibald Constable aud Co., 2 Whitehall Gardens, Westminster forward us a copy of a “Table of Multiplication, Division and Proportion,” which is designed to facilitate the calculation of quantities and cost®, estimates interests, discounts, weights, strengths, wages and wage premiums. The author. Mir Robert H. Smith, M.1.M.E., has evidently devoted a large amount of painstaking labour' to the production of this table, which should prove of great utility to those requiring to make calculation® of. the kind stated. Many readers will be pleased to learn that a popular sixpenny edition of tlie Rev. R. E. Welsh’s very successful volume, “In Relief of Doubt.” has been published by Mr H. R. Allenson, ’of Paternoster Row. London. In life new preface, the author alludes to the recent outpouring of an'ti-thelologioal literature, and emphasises what many thoughtful people know already, but whatever, more, perhaps, have failed to realise, viz., that “pure Christianity as Christ gave it absorb® modern ideas, is hospitable to evolution and sane criticism, and lias nothing to fear.” The Bishop of London’s introductory commendation, that “it has hit off exactly what is wanted,” will be widely endorsed. Mesters Whitcombe and Tombs will shortly publish “The Animals of Ne>v Zealand,” by Captain Hutton, of Christchurch, and Mr James Drummondof the editorial staff of the “Lyttelton Times.” One of the principal features of the book is the combination of popular information with purely scientific facts. An attempt ha® been made to produce a work that will be ini teres ting to the

ordinary reader and useful to the naturalist. That is really the object of the collaboration. The authors have also endeavoured to supply complete info’r mation so far as it is available. Ail important work® dealing with the ccrl, ony fauna have been consulted, and information has been obtained from tho records of observations made when bird life in the colony was very different from what it is now. The book, it i® said, has a larger scope than any other work of the kind published in regard to the 00.- . ony.- It embraces the whole of, the colony’s mammals, birds and reptiles. New Zealand, however, is remarkable for the small number of mammals aiyi reptiles it contain®, the land mammals being represented by two solitary bat®, and the reptiles by about sixteen lizards. 'There are, however, about 200 birds. The list of these has practically been completed lately, so that it i® an opportune time to publish a book dealing with the avi-faiuna. The volume is to bo copiously illustrated.