... the 'Dic- tionary of Science,' which Mr Rodwell has edited for 'The Haydn Series.' Of its precise merits we are unable to speak from cursory inspection; but the names of its ?? Guthrie, Messrs Bot- tomley, Crookes, Proctor, Tomlinson, and Wormell- are ...

... has at least a knowledge of the practical details of his art which is not possessed by the literary critic. If the painter speaks, it is because he has something to say, but with the critic the reason is too often only that he has to say something. Some ...

... the sounds of winds and wings, From light, and from the solemn sleep of shade, From the full fountains of all living things, Speak, that this plague be stayed. Bear witness all the ways of death and life If thou be with us in the world's old strife, If thou ...

... farther and farther to the south and west-from the East-end the cry of distress is ever arising; and we are told, by those who speak from personal experience, that the poverty and sorrow, the suffering and the want, which have prevailed there for some years ...

... are not likely to be temipted from their present coarse by any inducement of that kind. We have left ourselves no space to speak of the essays on L Liberal Education in Universities, Milton's Poli- tical Opinions and Poetry, and Elementary Prin- ...

... some pathetic, and some wildly farcical. A comedy it certainly is not. With- out connection or coherence, composed, so to speak, in different keys, from one to another of which the author passes in disregard of laws of modulation, this piece, although ...

... seriously affected by Darwinianism, is Mr Herbert Spencer. The opinion of most Utilitarians is that conscience requires so to speak, to be grown in every child; that no one brings into the world with hirm more than the elementary affections and passions out ...

... the con- clusion of the first and second volumes, and before the last chapter of the third, these unhappy beings meet and speak the thoughts that are in them. The virtuous governess, obliged during the whole volume to resist, much against her will, the ...

... supposed to make novel-reading very nice. Janet Faed, however, is far from being a sainte n'y touchke; she even goes so far, in speaking of one of her charac- ters, as to talk of that funny snuffling voice he always thought it right to assume when discussing ...

... already opened to know and to love the truth. When views like those are generally advanced in the pulpit, eve may, indeed, speak cheerfully of the religious revolution of our times. That they are every day coming to be more widely held by earnest thinkers ...

... He is led to describe them indeed as organisms of some peculiar and amazing kind ; and though it would be too daring to speak of such organisation as partaking of the nature of life, yet we do know that vital action is competent to develope at once ...

... are constrained to believe that he is nearer the truth than he thinks, when he makes the young lion, in referring to him, speak of this poor soul's feeble and rambling per- formances. A feeble and rambling performance this pretentious little volume ...