"Even if the name of the author of this work were not deservedly eminent, that of the editor, who has long stood at the head of the British fungologists, would be a sufficient voucher for the accuracy of one of the best botanical monographs ever issued from the press.... The structure, germination, and growth of all these widely-diffused organisms, their habitats and influences for good and evil, are systematically described."--_New York World._ "Dr. Cooke's book contains an admirable _résumé_ of what is known on the structure, growth, and reproduction of fungi, together with ample bibliographical references to original sources of information."--_London Athenæum._ "The production of a work like the one now under review represents a large amount of laborious, difficult, and critical work, and one in which a serious slip or fatal error would be one of the easiest matters possible, but, as far as we are able to judge, the new hand-book seems in every way well suited to the requirements of all beginners in the difficult and involved study of fungology."--_The Gardener's Chronicle (London)._ XVI. The Life and Growth of Language: AN OUTLINE OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE. _By WILLIAM DWIGHT WHITNEY_, Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology in Yale College. 1 vol., 12mo. Cloth. Price, $1.50. "Prof. Whitney is to be commended for giving to the public the results of his ripe scholarship and unusually profound researches in simple language. He draws illustrations and examples of the principles which he wishes to impact, from common life and the words in frequent use. "The topics discussed in this volume are, for the most part, those which have been already treated by other writers on philology, and even by the author himself, in his volume on 'Language, and the Study of Language,' published a few years ago, and, though many of the truths here set forth are those with which students in the same line of investigation are generally familiar, all will rejoice to see them restated in such a fresh and simple way. "This work, while valuable to scholars, will be interesting to every one."--_The Churchman._ "This work is an important contribution to a science which has advanced steadily under conditions that appear constantly to throw an increasing light on difficult questions, and at each step clear the way for further discoveries."--_Chicago Inter-Ocean._ "Prof. Whitney is undoubtedly one of the foremost of English-speaking philologists, and occupies an enviable position in the wider circle of European students of language. "His style, clear, simple, picturesque, abounding in striking illustrations, and apt in comparisons, is admirably fitted to be the vehicle of a popular treatise like the work under consideration."-- _Portland Daily Press._ XVII. Money and the Mechanism of Exchange.