"Mr. Martin draws a most exquisite portraiture of the married life of the royal pair, which seems to have been as nearly perfect as any thing human can be. The volume closes shortly after the Revolution of 1848, at Paris, when Louis Philippe and his hapless queen were fleeing to England in search of an asylum from the fearful forebodings which overhung their pathway. It was a trying time for England, but, says Mr. Martin with true dramatic effect in the closing passages of his book: 'When the storm burst, it found him prepared. In rising to meet the difficulties of the hour, the prince found the best support in the cheerful courage of the queen,' who on the 4th of April of that same year wrote to King Leopold: 'I never was calmer and quieter or less nervous. Great events make me calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.' Thus ends the first volume of one of the most important biographies of the present time. The second volume will follow as soon as its preparation can be effected."--_From the Hartford Evening Post._ D. APPLETON & CO., PUBLISHERS, 549 & 551 Broadway, N. Y. Transcriber's Notes A few words are variably hyphenated. They are unchanged from the original. They include uredospores, subglobose, and puffballs. Page 23 footnote K: a genus of parasitic Sph[oe]riaceous fungi. changed to a genus of parasitic Sphæriaceous fungi. Page 29 HYPOG[OE]I.--These are subterranean and The hypog[oe]ous fungi are curiously connected Changed [oe] to æ to match others in text. Page 95 informs us that he has eaten _Boletus lurdius_ changed to informs us that he has eaten _Boletus luridus_ Page 188 separate themselves by a partion from the sterigma changed to separate themselves by a partition from the sterigma Page 205 like relations to other sph[oe]riaceous fungi. changed to like relations to other sphæriaceous fungi. Page 284 including such cosmopolitan forms as _Sphæria hebarum_ changed to including such cosmopolitan forms as _Sphæria herbarum_ Page 284 _Hirneola auricula-judaæ_ changed to _Hirneola auricula-judæ_ End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Fungi: Their Nature and Uses, by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke