... The writer of the book Elec- tricians and their Marvels is Walter Jerrold, who is already known as the author of Michael Faraday, the Man of Science, and other popular works. His present volume is a brightly-written account of the inception and progress ...

... longer fears the whip? A Course of Six Lectures ont the Var ious Forces of Matter and their Relation to each other. By Michael Faraday, ?? ?? Fullerian Professor of Chemistry, Royal Institution. Delivered before a Juvenile Audi- tory at the Royal Institution ...

... assigned to the riches that would have been within his grasp. But he chose the better part; he died as he had lived-plain Michael Faraday, and kept himself pure and unspotted from the world. The interesting fragment of the life of Sir Philip Sydney by Southey ...

... interest as the other is full of practical suggestion,-are followed by an admirable sketch of the life and labours of Michael Faraday, one of the truly great men who live and die and leave their mark upon the world, before the generation con- temporary ...

... lectures on Chemical Philosophy at the Royal Institution, and in the following year went abroad with his new assistant, Michael Faraday. In 1817 Davy's splendid invention, the safety lamnp, was laid before the Royal Society, and in 1829 he died at the age ...

... other stories are not devoid of interest. Serious reading is well supplied in biographical notices of Richard Cobden and Michael Faraday, and an essay on the Employment of Military Men in Civil Life, in which the writer, an ex non-commissioned officer, ...

... I'NTW -BOOT-.S 0F THIE K ?? HISTORY. ARCHEOLOGY, AND BIOGRAPHY. Michael) Faraday. his Life and Worlk. TBy Siv-anns P. Thomipson, D.Sc., F.R.S. Tite Century Science Series. (Londaon: Cassedl & right, Life o'krgofh7te La.! Sir Charles Ti/sicon Enginecr ...

... The UC emistry of Fire. By M. M. Pattison Muir, M.A. (Methuen & Co., London.)-The celebrated course of lectures which Michael Faraday delivered at the Royal Institution in 1860, takiun as his subjeot the chemical history of a candle, s instantly recalled ...

... noted the repeal of the Act against conjuration, witcheraft, and dealing with evil and wicked spirits, and we have noted Michael Faraday's demolition of the tricks of the spirit- rappers. Our reporters attended the execution of Lord Lovat and of Lord Ferrers ...

... go through some b extraordinary evolutions by alternately pressing and pushing I the top with your hands, contrary to Michael Faraday's st theory, by voluntary and not involuntary muscular action. ci You then allow the agitated table a little respite while ...

... 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 ...

... Science Gossip.' PAMPHLETS.-' Shooting Niagara: and After ? ' By Thomas Carlyle. (Crown 8vo, pp. 55.) Chapman and Hall.-'Michael Faraday: Philosopbhr and Christian.' A Lecture, by the Rev. Samuel Martin, of Westminster. (Feap. 8vo, pp. 39.) Hotter,. -'The ...