1897.] on Romance. 451 



peated, that, resistless as may seem the stream of tendencies, hard as 

 the fetters of fate, tyrannous as the order of society, of nature, or even 

 of the universe, yet there is still in men themselves an exuberant some- 

 thing which lives, and works, and does, and makes. Thus, after all 

 acknowledgment made of its limitations, with the amplest recognition 

 of the value and necessity to literature of other methods and other 

 points of view, it remains a fine expression of the vitality of the 

 human race, of the love of life and the fruitful joy in it, of the 

 excellent vigour of the spirit of man. 



[A. H. H.] 



WEEKLY EVENING MEETING, 



Friday, May 14, 1897. 



William Crookes, Esq. F.R.S. Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Professor Harold Dixon, M.A. F.R.S. 



Explosion-Flames. 



The lecturer gave a brief history of the researches made on the 

 temperatures and pressures produced in explosion-flames, and ex- 

 hibited 'photographs of various explosion- flames taken on a very 

 rai)idly moving film. The photographs showed the movements of 

 the flame from the ignition point, and the effect of sound-waves 

 reflected from the ends of the explosion-tube. 



