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LITERATURE

... having studied his works, would like to learn alittle of the an ,will find the story of his life in Mr. C. F. Eolder's Charles Darwin (G. P. Putnam's Sons). The work is the more' interest- Ing that it does not deal with ordinary biographical details or ...

LITERARY NOTES

... master of Clifton College; Clerk Maxwell and Modern Physics, by Mr. R. T. Glazebrook, of Trinity College, Cambridge; Charles Darwin and the Origin of Species, by Professor Edward Poulton; and a monograph on Lyell by Professor Bonney. The History of ...

A LAST LOOK AT THE ACADEMY

... portraits. -Mr. Long's portrait of Sir Stafford Northcote is far too sleek and pink to be like nature. Mr. John Collier's Charles Darwin, which has been painted for the Linnrcan Society, is good, though not extremely good, and possesses a melancholy interest ...

THE READER

... (Walter Scott) has been added to by two volumes; one, on Charlotte Bronte, by Mr. Augustine Birrell, and the other on Charles Darwin, by Mr. G. T. Bettany. Both volumes are decidedly above the general level of the series. Mr. Bettany's book is honest ...

Published: Saturday 23 July 1887
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1530 | Page: 14 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

REVIEWS

... REVIEWS. GERMAN SCIENCE FOR THE PEOPLLE.* A FALSE fact, said Charles Darwin, is much more mischievous than a false theory. A 'false argument is sure to be taken to pieces in the course 'of ubsequent investigation, but a false fact often perplexes speculation ...

DARWINIAN CALVINISM.*

... us, accepts, almost without qualification, the doctrine of evolution as inter- preted by Mr. Herbert Spencer and Mr. Charles Darwin; and connects it with the Bible as but the physical or natural side of its own (the Bibles) doctrines, which it (the ...

LITERATURE

... t's books bhut sather dwells en his daily eoeupations agod hasbit at- school and colleoge,.in the world, and at home. Charles Darwin was born at SShsewsbury in 1899, and stnuied at the Universities of ldinburgh andCasnbritlge. In 1831 he startedin Jtt'LS ...

Magazines

... smile, ye knew not whence the song Came that made me smile and laid me here, and wrought you wrong, Mr. F. W. H. Myers' Charles Darwin and Agnosticism is one of the best and most appreciative papers on the great naturalist's Life and Letters which we ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1888
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1763 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

NOVELS OF THE DAY

... In the one you weary of mental inanition ; in the other, you auff er from a corres- pondiug indigestion. A statue of Charles Darwin, by Mr. Hope Pinker, -which ha.9 brs'(n ?? to Oxaford Univ'nsity by i-Jr. Edwwrd 13. Poulton. Fellow of je.sus Cell ego ...

THE WEDGWOOD FAMILY

... Altogether Shrewsbury had reason to be proud of Robert Darwin, but by posterity he will be chiefly remembered as the father of Charles Darwin. The Wedgwoods had a warehouse in York-street, St. James's-square, an aristocratic but, according to Miss Meteyard, an ...

LITERATURE

... together, and an answer will be made -by way of narrative-to the misrepresentations of the critics of his career. Mr. Charles Darwin has prepared for publication a small work, containing his experience On the Fertilisation of British Orchids by means ...

LITERARY NOTES

... The True Lesson of Protestantism; Evolution and Religion; The Meaning of Infancy; A Universe of Mind-Stuff; In Memoriam; Charles Darwin. The Paris authorities are now very much exercised respecting a proposal to widen the Rue de la Rocuette, a narrow street ...