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    Books Received:— From Messrs. G-. W. Bac...

    Books Received : — From Messrs . G-. W . Bacon & Co . — ' The Life of

    tion Charles / Comp Darwin iled , with by a . British W . Bacon Opinion , F . R . G on . S . Evolu The - timely publication of this little work "will give

    • those who are unacquainted with the history of the some great knowledge philosop of her his an career opportunity and of seeing of gai , from ning

    extracts from the newspaper , articles published after his death , what contemporary writers have to say about him and about his theories . Mr .

    Bacon ' s own estimate of Darwin and of the important bearings of his favourite doctrine is given in the following words in the preface to his

    pamphlet Ther : — e is probably 216 author concerning whose views and the statements popular so mind much Indeed misapprehension although the has name been current of Darwin in

    is and UUVi familiar k value / V / yj UiOl of wherever iUiUVAf his work . JLl civilisation &\ , aA a nd * WVK , * t MlVU he si has \/ m Ug ple U spread . VilQ dig , n 1 MULAV the ity o real ' f <*! . hi A nature / U s life Tf & U , the were great known mass only of the to tbe public cultured was IT C % O only few iJLJ fully 1 : U 1 the A awakened Mf atte * V ( W ^^ n tion W * - *> by of

    VUVj £ ) M . \ sU *\ J JLl-ftC * £ 7 t > 3 V * . " i" * ^/ UMIAV VJ-f fLf mJ hia ^ time death how ^ a * remarkable ; it * then m mm became * a man universally ¦ had been * 4 living known mm unassumingly for A the * * t first ^^ a in our idstand one eagerly desires to glean

    m , every par far ticulars as possible of his , life to supply and labours in this . volume This want , pendin it is g sought the issue , as of % ^« - an fcVJ-4 . authoritative * M \ JL VUV 4 AVUVA » v biography fk ^ JLV' ^ % A ** M ^ J , n and & A ^ t it X V is < FT hoped LA \/ L / VU that ^*^* VV W a VV real 4 % VU I

    advantage age , it is essential is thus offered that we ; should for , if we know would what understand is meant our by more ' Darwi necessary nism . ' as This time knowledge goes on , for will though become the more grave and has

    closed closed over over the the remains remains of of the the discoverer discoverer , the the real real work work of of his which life may he originated be said to have are only now just at begun once , . the The guides thoughts and beacons tions wher If of e men he has of science shown , a who pat / h are to pursuing be mf ssible K th / l ^^ eir and UX explora & vl only V / l * -

    when sketched ViV /^ v the » - »^*^ the . X ^ vast Uv outline & 1 scheme UO O 1 AV ) is *¦* ( of filled M 1 which MyU in , his by ^ j po ^ J \ l master J ong * J * J . l and ; « hand patient has A T study * , will the full scope of his teaching be realised .

    A portrait of Darwin forms a frontispiece to the little book . Prom Messrs . Samuel Bagster & Sons . — The

    Treasury of Scripture Knowledge : consisting of Five Hundred Thousand Scripture References and Parallel Passages from CanneBrowneBlayney

    Scottand otherswith numerous , Illustrative , , Notes , , arranged to ; suit all editions of the Holy Scriptures •*¦ / A marvellous p JLiece of laborious

    compiiation . Ecery verse of every chapter in the Bible is taken seriatim , and the chief words or subjects in it are printed in italics , followed by

    references to other passages in which they occur . Notes explaining any difficult expressions and giving derivations are also added , so that the book

    presents a repertory of Biblical knowledge calculated to be of immense service to teachers and preachers , and to all students of the e acred volume .

    It M , may in fact be said to combine in one book the features of an explanatory commentary and a concordance

    From * Cities Messrs of the . Gassell World , . ' Petter This , Q new -alpin serial , & mi Co g . — ht not inaptly be called ' travel without stirring

    from one ' s chair . ' Nos . 1-7 are before us . In them "the reader visits Paris and sees the glorious vista of the Champs Ely sees and the

    crow also d in ed No pavement . 1 is a view of the of Boulevard Paris which Montmartre ives the ; aeven , bridges , ; the same No . lightly touches g upon

    Athens ' States , ; Moscow ' and it , Benares has several , and views the cities of Constan of the - tinop m \ le . New York and Constantinop — ¦ — l ^^ e ¦ occupy ~^^ ™ - ^^ r »~^ ^ f ^ W a ^^^^^

    great part of Nos . 2 and 3 . Alexandria and the be neig looked hbourhood at with are peculiar dep icted interest - in -- No —» - . just 4 , which now - » is . mt The will tmm ft

    Si canals ghs , , the the promenades shady courts — , and — , the the — — gondolas — palaces — — i ~—^™^ — , Brid of — — v Venice ^ . ge of v ^^ come before us in No . 6 . No . 6 takes the reader

    to Holland , whese s'ill waters double the effects I of cloud and sky . Stepping thence acro . ° a the

    world Yarra . , we No are . 7 in is Melbourn divided e between , and on Paris the Yam and

    . Australia artistic . ' bits Here ' : seven and there pictures we , perhaps have a group in the of

    space of one . , From itessrs . Chatfco & Windus . —Dr . Brewer ' * Beader * r » _ J 1 Handbook T"T 11 . ^ . 1 ^ / third j _ "L * 3 edition _ J 1-i * A !• .. s

    of ( ' according allusions ' s to the , references title-page ) , , of p which lots . , and A it dictionary is difficult stories

    to exaggerate the usefulness and the interest . For example : most of us have probably heard the it as expression mere slang * to withou work t the thinking oracle / that and regarded it had a

    , histo T « . ry . At A . page 706 ** w y-k s \ of /» the il . _ * Beader T" » T ' s Hand -w- » . - book ' we find that : The * Oracle' was a factory established at Heading , by

    John John convicts Kendrick Kendrick , and an . , ii yone n n 1624 1624 out . . It It of was was employment designed designed . for for So , returned retnmwi when a and work TV \ JM . IVU work man 4 CHU the had 4 i ( V \ 4 Oracle * ± no -M . \* work WW Vl . u > to vW do mvj , ' he a « . v ^ would * i ^* v « . * % ^ say MM )^ y , ' I JL must f \ 14 QU jL eo \ J

    . ' The present edition of Dr . Brewer ' s Handbook is distinguished K W by an ¦ appendix H containing a / list fhj ¦ I

    ~^^^» ^^^^ T ^ ^—^^ M ^^ h ^^^ — ^^ ^^^^ - - ^ r ~^ - ^ " ^* " W ^— - ^ — — — — ^ — — — ^— ^»^— H ^ K ^^ J pen undertaking of the , pencil works , . and of The chisel the writer . most 1 This s * painters famous is a very , authors and ambitious scul b p y - i ,

    tors enumerated are characterised , in a word or two at the head of their works , and very neatly , ! too , thus :

    JLlison Breweb ( , Rev Lli . . Arch D . ( ibald Rev . ) , E theologian . Cobham and ) educationist cesthetitt . and \ literary Longfellow ui virtuoso , ( \ 1810 . i- Wadswortb wr \ jj ) 2 >

    uvyj Whitm ^ : JUAJLjX an -ivy ( Walt T * xxcu Henry ) America j n ** t- » n poet . vuy . j , j ~ rj * - , vy w «* . The information following . Under is a samp the le nam of the e Hare bibliograp ( A . J . hical C ) ,

    after a list of that gentleman ' s acknowledged works Berkshire , aTe , Bucking mentioned hamshire Murray , Durham ' s Handbooks , Uorthum for

    have berland seen , and another Oxford catalogue . We do where not remember such parti to - culars are given .

    From Concise Mr . Etymologica Henry Frowde l Dictionary , Paternoster of the Row Eng . — lish c A

    Language Professor / of B Ang y the lo- Rev Saxon . Walter in the W . University Skeat , M . A of ., j ; Cambri told dge that . From it 1 L 'is 1 O the not \ J preface 3 t to abridgment this work we of i

    aiO are lUi . ll ^ AJ- CLU M . 1 \ J a < mere UlC ^ XO uuiiujj— the compilers larger . * Etymological Dictionary , but venient that handbook his object for has the been use to of that produce increasing a

    connumber V V , LXI * JJLAU M of . Ltl * i students kKA -KSKSKSX * . AVX who wish *~* . % to J \ J \ SM learn . % /** v * v the - — history of Ul the VILKJ Eng XULJgllOU lish language itXllgUClgO , , cVlH and -i who VVll ^ naturally u » tui < forms »» v desire - "

    oeii sented to have teu . to i > u Ang them tuoiu lo-Saxon rightl ii ^ nnjr y and spelt o ^ oiij Icelandic and aim < accentuated *« - ^^ " — - pre . -

    Mr languag . Skeat and has long in this been dictionary \ J reputed l he an / authority ives all the on

    laUgUaCC ey , CtUVA . J U « j 11 A-T > \ JLm , \^ . VJl \ fti * . J A . J . V g * ' in in pri our our mary literature Htaraturo words which . with with definitions definitions are of frequent facts lacts occurrence indicating muic » u ..

    the their time orig of in its , a introduct brief , history ion into of the the , , word language , showing , vitn quotations nmr » fn . firvn « i and nnrl refere rflfflPAn nces ^ Pfl . an fin account aCCOlint 01 01

    etymology The plan , is an succinct d a statement and , very of cognate comprehensive iornis . , and is carried out with the utmost fulness o

    knowled U 11 U . IB C ge tllllOU , great thoroug » WltXl hness UIIU , an ucu d v in ^^ ^ a scholar il Iff j spirit . The publications of the Clarendon tasteful style vw

    have hitherto boen noted for the which they have regards from topograp time to thy time and * bmai ??*?!! £ b , ' ij '

    especiall especially also from y having a as » J : ogiiru supp lied uu ^^ Eng gx «* lish » "j reading » - —; poop je with wim som some e of 01 me the most inuai ; scholarly bui * uic ** . * j « and — va « w i ^

    . worka this admirabl in the e language dictionary . . Among As a book tl ' of . rrfe f ^ r " ce

    ful for ly the to ordi justif nary y the reader statements the volume of the will P l > e-v > hicb it ifi aiso ^

    etudon in their Ls prefatory of English note will , and find of the hig Y hest " at v valae ^ jj . fl

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), July 1, 1882, page 574, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01071882/page/10/