... MR. GEORGE DAWSON ON OLD BOOKS. ?? VIN .ULD UN uo Kls THERE is a mine not muich dug now-a-days to which MR. G. DAWSON has just been directing attention. Folios and quartos have passed away from the literary world, and the days of octavos and duodecimos ...

... Mursell a was a great admirer of the late George Dawson, and in glancing at the many striking reminiscences of his life, he alluded to him and to his doings in most (I eulogistic terms. The great aim of George Dawson was to stimulate his fellow countrymen ...

... exception of William Makopeace a Thaokoray-George Dawson -vas the most brilliant S talker who ever visited their shores. It is nearly a c dozen years, so rapid is the flight of timo, since George I :Dawson leaned over the lecturer's desk to buttoe ...

... occupied at present with the large lunette for the upper wall of the South Court of the South Kensington Museum. e Mr. George Dawson Rowley, a well-known orni- e thologist, die at Chichester House, Brighton, on Thurs- f, day, the 21st ult., in the 57th ...

... selection of collects and prayers by Mr. George Dawson, edited by his wife, has just been issued by Messrs. H. S. Ylng and Co. It forms a volume of about 300 pages, and, as will be anticipated by all who knew Mr. Dawson's gift of prayer, it is a deeply interesting ...

... present at the Confer- cence and at the meeting:-ProfessorJohniTyndal, Sir John Lubbock, Bazt., Ur. Winterbotham, M.P., Mr. George Dawson, of Birmingham; Sir Goo. Young, Bert,, Mr. Norman Lookyer, Professor Leone Levi, Mr. C. S. Roundell, fr. Allen (Secretary ...

... at this insstitution, a-lectisre anld on Old Books-their uses, beauties, and peculiarities, Mr. was delivered by Mr. George Dawson, of Birmingham. dose This generation, hie said, was in great danger of reading too coas inusel and thinking too little ...

... majority of his published works. It is difficult to resist the impression that he thought himself an ill-used man, but George Dawson used to say that people of that kind were generally men whose cogs declined to fit into the cogs of that greater wheel ...

... Christopher North, Harriet iartmneau, J. G. Lockbart, Samuel Rogers, Sydney Smith, John Stuart Mill, Principal Shairp, George Dawson, Dean Stanlev, Thackeray, Mr. Froude, to mention but a few repre- sentative names. There are some delightful rerni- niscenees ...

... commrni. cation was follo wed With hising, and other expressions of disapprovalI t wvs commented on with severity by Mr. George DawsOn. who had originated the meeting, and who moved the first resolutiOn, which was in favonr of Univer- *al Suffrage, and in ...

... will not meet with uni. c0 versal acceptance. At the end of the book there are some dr notes on Continental Pilgrimages, George Dawson, inm Cardinal Newman, and William Law. Speaking of the - gain which the Church of Rome bas received from the . Anglicans ...

... ion with which we were met at several meetings. We rather a attribute it to the faculty so happily described by Mr. I George Dawson, the other night, by which certain afthe d Christian workers' (some of them with the handle of C 'rev.' to their names) ...