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ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC

... of regret from the autobiography of a s oonar w hoos learning and great powers oc rcsearch h made him famous ; I mean Charles Darw.in :- MIy mind seems to have becoune a kind of - maclioe for grinding general lavs oct of large to collections of fa:cto ...

NOTES ON THE NEWEST BOOKS

... the late Dr Robert Chambers; and finally the. solution of 1 the great problem of the origin of species was offered by Charles Darwin in his theory of natural selection. The book is enriched by ten portraits and a number of other illustra- tions; anid ...

MAGAZINES

... must be a regular system of evening classes. Mr Archi- bald Geikie, F.R.S., notices the charming Life and Letters of Charles Darwin. The paper is written in a kindly spirit, and should attract attention to the life itself. Lord Balfour of Burleigh is ...

THE GLASGOW ART INSTITUTE

... their speculatiouns were anticipatory 1 s i shadows. None lnave foughlt better, an(L none ,f have been more fortunate than Charles Darwin, I h He' fonad a great truth, trodden under foot, reviled by bigots, and ridiculed by all the - world ; he lived long ...

LITERARY NOTES

... little treatise is to be named The h Boat Sailor's Manual. I1 The following, said to be an authentic anecdote ofe a Charles Darwin, is going the round of the American n' papers. It refers to his old age-the period when n he was bringing out his books ...

NOVELS AND STORIES

... of as crude, trivrial, and purposeiess a pro- dt ductien as we have ever come across. is i of -POETRY ANsD VERSE, ;s Mr Charles Darwin, in his love for novels, 5d just resembled an unspoiled boy or girl, for c Ir Children naturally love tales, and devour ...

LITERATURE

... -s V ilc. To analyse tl.e points - of any one Ta of tlie pietures is in itself a liberai education. Eac--r Won SuHs Charles Darwin. 1y Giant Allen. Longmans, Green, & Co., I L ndon. This is one ..f the latest of the admirable kIet series of biographies ...

Literary Notices

... Jurisprudence,' 8vo. ; ' Frtilisation of British Orchids, through insect Agency, and as to the Good of Intererossing, by Charles Darwin, post 8vo. Smiles' Lives of The Engineers, vols. I and 2, Svo; Gosse's Romance of Natural History, second series; ...

LITERATURE

... Jewish Rabbi of last century a premonition of the great doctrine which has in our century im- mortalised the name of Charles Darwin. An excellentarticle on Nachmanides (1195), one of the greatest teachers of Judaism, is followed by a short account ...

MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS

... is exhibited. The other essays arc on John Ruskin as economist, by Patrick Geddes; Walt Whitman, by John L Robertson; Charles Darwin, byJ. T. Canningham; and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet and painter, Lby P. W. Nicholson. We do not propose to lcriticise ...

THE OCTOBER MAGAZINES

... popuherand instructive literature, published tien by Mr W. T. Tovnih, Anchtrader. he Scot- ih ion, tis Church, with papers ou Charles Darwin, crn- Bishop Wordsrorth on Union, the spanisa Sid and Armada, &c.-L;e- Wook, an admirably con- neses dacted and illusitrated ...