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LITERATURE

... every man of education wtill desire to possess. v A Course of Six Lectures on the Chemical IlistorY i. of a Candle. By MICHAEL FARADAY, ?? X F.R.S. Delivered before a Juvenile Auditoy . at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, during se the Christmas ...

NATIONAL PORTRAIT EXHIBITION

... the Duke of .Newcastle,,, Sir G. . Lewis the 1 Marquis of Dalhousie, ILord Campbell, Lord Pal-' t merston, Lord Lyons, Michael Faraday, the Earl of Rose, Dr. Arnold, A. Welby Pugin (a curious t picture byH:erbert, RA., in the mediteval style),' N Sivage ...

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 ...

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 ...

THE EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH

... England line won lher laurels, in this peaceful strife as P w,ll es sb~d her b-lood at Alma and Inkerman. The d nusmes of Michael Faraday, of Robert Stephienson, of 0e Brunel, of Arnoitt of Lord Rosse,aRmong the greet t hink- el ers arid workors of the day; ...

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 ...

LITERARY ARRIVALS

... question the value of his work in the wide field of astronomical research, and yet, like Pascal, Leibuitz, Isaac Newton, and Michael Faraday, he remained to the last a truly humble-minded believer. His desire, in his own words, was to ''follow Paul as Paul followed ...

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 ...

LITERARY ARRIVALS

... as this book reveals him-and it does so largely by allowing. him to reveal himself-was a man who recalls our own great Michael Faraday, not only in intellectual achievement and combined width of range and delicacy of research, but also in moral nobility ...

LITERATURE

... of the following notabilities, Bph the Right Hon. Lord Cbelmaford. Lord Chancellor; the pati Rev. Hugh Stowell Brown; Michael Faraday, the great Air chemist ; and the Attorney-General, Sir Fitzroy Kelly. W. These are all admirable lilkessesses, and are ...

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 ...

Our Library Table

... Cavendis h-square. In this number we have another paper on Dr t I Hackett's House ; and the Life that speak, is that a Michael Faraday, one of the many Englishmen who t have won for themselves fame and reuown. He was a M poor mann's child,-a blacksmith's ...