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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 ...

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 MAGAZIES, &c

... Swindles, while Mr. Frederick Loker has a bit of pieasant moralising on Two Graves at igbgate Cemetery-the graves of Michael Faraday and l'om Syers 1 We should not omit to mention that the number also contains a good instalment of Violet Fane's novel ...

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... green resting-place of Michael Faraday, of whom a distinguished man of science well said, He was too good a man for me to estimate him; and he was too great a philosopher for me to understand hiim thoroughly. Michael Faraday had the true spirit of ...

LITERARY AND ART GOSSIP

... important post in the Royal Institution a young man whlose name and fauie have exceeded his own. This ~youug man was Michael Faraday, then twenty-two years of age. Hss parents were poor, though pious and honour- able people, and he had been, some years ...

LITERATURE

... ed by high thinking. Young Niasnmyth w~as well received by several persons of celebrity in London, as Lord Broogham, Michael Faraday, andl many others. Properly we should have said before we came tbisleugththat the inventor of the steam harn mer 'was ...

Scraps

... scientists of the age. The chair- man, Mr. Crossnman, mentioned that at Hlighgate Cemetery, whilst the place of interment of Michael Faraday was marked but by a small slab of marble, a short distance off a pretentious monument was erected to the memory of Tom ...

Published: Saturday 17 November 1883
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1243 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

BOOKS OF THE SEASON

... Robert Boyle, whose speculations were so Ul- . wisely ridiculed by Swift in his Meditations Fr of it Broomstick, to Michael Faraday and wV Jazues Olerk Maxwell. To these memoirs the vo( author adds some modern developments of sh' science, and altogether ...

NEW BOOKS

... cmergy. The subjects of the sketches are Robert Boyle, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Cavendish, Count Rum~ford, Thomas Young, Michael Faraday, and James Clerk Maxwell. They do not pretend to give any fresh infoizmation about these distin- guished men, but only ...

LITERATURE

... whose researches, im-' h portant though they are, do not compare for a moment with those-of his great 'predecessor, a Michael Faraday. ?? as one-is apt to suspect, aTyndaU is hauled into this nosition because his name is popular and catchiug, and Wheatstone ...

SCIENCE AND ART.†

... to the young people with some very thatty, pleasant articles on subjects of interest to students, such as the life of Michael Faraday, Z'atent Office appointments, the life of Sir Joseph WVhitworth, and the foundation of the famous Whitworth Scholarships ...

NEW BOOKS

... books, and- was thus in great contrast with Thackeray, who, after d he became famous, liked no subject so well, - ii Of Michael Faraday a Very pleasant picture is v' given: ' t Faraday's religious opinions ntood quite apart from his it scientific faculties ...