The World of Life: a Manifestation of Creative Power, Directive Mind, and Ultimate Purpose

THE appearance of a new book written by the veteran naturalist in his eighty-eighth year cannot fail to arouse the interest of a wide circle of readers. The work may indeed be regarded as a recapitulation of the opinions on a great variety of topics which, during a long and active literary career, extending over more than fifty years, Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace has put forth in a number of memoirs, books, and magazine articles. But to regard the work as a mere summarv of the results of former labours would be to do a great injustice to its author; for there is scarcely a subject referred to in it, in which fresh facts, novel lines of reasoning, or suggestive conclusions are not presented for our consideration.The World of Life: a Manifestation of Creative Power, Directive Mind, and Ultimate Purpose.By Dr. A. R. Wallace Pp. xvi + 408. (London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1910.) Price 12s. 6d. net.