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FARADAY*

... FARADA Y* IT is no exaggeration to say that the personal history of the late Michael Faraday was of a kind most rare in the records of biography in all ages. A life so complete, both within and without, is a phenomenon almost startling from its singularity ...

Literary Selections

... happiness, nay, the life of a fellow creature might be preserved by a charitable silence. GENIus FOaCINGo ITS WAY -UPwsnDs.- Michael Faraday was the son of a humble blacksmith, u-ho apprenticed him, at the early age of nine, to a bookbinder in a small way of ...

THE JUNE MAGAZINES

... come to an end. In this month's number we would call attention to interesting biographical notices of Richard Cobden and Michael Faraday; to an amusing sketch of a Turkish village; and to the inflammatory speech made by Ontario Moggs, at the Cheshire Cheese ...

LITERATURE

... own mines. Part II. of ' The Dressmakers will be read with as much interest as was the first part; and a memoir of Michael Faraday will be found well deserving attention. The Sylvestere is continued. Messrs. Strahan also publish The Sunday ,tagazine ...

LITERATURE

... o of henge indisputably the best authority on dogs in England, nothing more need be said in its fl praise. :or h he MICHAEL FARADAY. By J. H. Gladstone, Ph.D., a in F.ILS. London: Macmillan & Co. 1372. L .st THIS little sketch is hardly a biography. ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... other stories are not devoid of interest. Serious reading is well supplied in biographical notices of Richard Cobden and Michael Faraday, and an essay on the Employment of Military Men in Civil Life, in which the writer, an ex non-commissioned officer, ...

LITERARY

... lectures on Chemical Philosophy at the Royal Institution, and in the following year went abroad with his new assistant, Michael Faraday. In 1817 Davy's splendid invention, the safety lamnp, was laid before the Royal Society, and in 1829 he died at the age ...

LITERARY

... 112, 2s. 6d.) Murray. Freeman, Edward A.-The Unity of History. (Crown 8vo, pp. 59, 2s.) Macmillan. Gladstone, J. H.-Michael Faraday. (Crown Svo, pp. vii, 176, 4s. 6d.) Macmillan. Heather, J. F.-Practical Plane Geometry; Giving the Simplest Modes of ...