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vin Kngland," ft collection of documents and records 



collected an. I translated for the tir.-t time, edited l>y 

 Joseph .lac-ili-: \N alter Bcsant's ' Histor\ ot London " ; 

 iiiul Canon Kama's " York." William Stephen wrote 

 a "Hi-ton nf tin- Scottish Church." (1. Buehalian 

 .111 i .lohn M. McCaiidlish mi " Scotland's Free 

 CJiuivh," and Dr. Bay no on "Tin- Free Church of 

 Scotland," while I'. \\'. Joyce supplied a " Short His- 

 toi\ of Ireland from the Earliest 'rimes to K,n:;." Sir 

 Cli'arles (lavan Dully edited with un introduction 

 Thomas Davis's account of " The Patriot Parliament 

 nt' li'.v., and Spencer Walpole's " The Land of Home 

 Kule " eontaineil an interest ill),' account of the Isle of 

 Man. 'I'. I'. < > Voniior made "Sketches in the House " 

 tluriiiir the last |iarliamentary session, and the year 

 witnessed the completion of the illustrated editions 

 of (Irecii's " Sliort History of the F.iiL'lish People." 



Physical, Moral, and Intellectual Scienoe. Two of the 

 projected nine volumes of Prof. Huxley's "Collected 

 l '' were issued during the year, the first being 

 upon " Methods and Results," and the second en- 

 titled " Darwiniana," while the Romanes lecture 

 for 1893 upon " Evolution and Ethics "was also de- 

 livered by him. Herbert Spencer criticised Weis- 

 mann's theories in an essay reprinted from the " Con- 

 temporary Review" upon " The Inadequacy of Natu- 

 ral Selection " ; George J. Romanes made " An Ex- 

 amination of Weismannism," and a translation of 

 Weismann's " The Germ-Plasm," it may be added, 

 made one of the volumes of the " Contemporary Sci- 

 ence Series " ; Henry B. Orr offered " A Theory of 

 Development and Heredity " ; and Francis Galtou 

 wrote on "Deciphering of Blurred Finger-Prints." 

 John Gray McKendricK and William Snodgrass col- 

 laborated upon u The Physiology of the Senses," in 

 the " University Extension Manuals," other volumes 

 of which were " Chapters in Modern Botany," by 

 Patrick Geddes, and an introduction to modem geof- 

 ogy entitled "The Earth's History," by R. D. Rob- 

 erts. Henry Walter Bates's "The Naturalist on the 

 River Amazons " was reissued, with a memoir of the 

 author by Edward Clodd. In the " Contemporary 

 Science Series " we had an outline of the growth and 

 present condition of some phases of " Modern Meteor- 

 ology," by Frank Waldo, and " Public Health Prob T 

 lems," by John F. J. Sykes. George Massee pubT 

 lished " British Fungus i lora: A Classified Text-Book 

 of Mycology"; L. N. Badeuoch, "The Romance of 

 the Insect World"; A. Newton and II. Gadow issued 

 Part I of their " Dictionary of Birds " ; Rev. Murray 

 A. Mathew gave his attention to " The Birds of 

 Devon " ; Sir Robert Stawell Ball told of the wonders 

 " In the High Heavens," and also " The Story of the 

 Sun " ; while " Some Salient Points in the Science of 

 the Earth," by Sir J. William Dawson, was pro- 

 nounced by far the most interesting as well as the 

 most forcible of his works. Sir Henry Howorth, 

 M. P., appealed for the second time to common sense 

 against the extravagance of some recent ecology in 

 "A (ilacial Nightmare and Flood," and W. Saville- 

 Kent described "The Great Barrier Reef of Austra- 

 lia." St. George Mivart published a work on " Ameri- 

 can Types of Animal Life," contrasting them with 

 Old World forms, which he oftered as an introduction 

 to the study of the higher animals, especially the 

 mammalia. Rising to man, we have "Three Intro- 

 ductory Lectures on the Science of Thought," by F. 

 Max Muller, with an appendix which contains a cor- 

 respondence on " Thought without Words " ; Prof. 

 Henry Calderwood treated of "Evolution and Man's 



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cence"; and David G. Ritchie, "Darwin and Hegel, 

 with Other Philosophical Studies." William Morris 

 and E. Belford Bax wrote on " Socialism : Its Growth 

 and Outcome," while Bernard Bosanquet gave us 

 "The Civilization of Christendom, and other Stud- 

 ies" in " The Ethical Library." Ramsden Balmforth 

 (Laon Ramsey) contributed " The New Reformation 

 and its Relation to Moral and Social Problems" 



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to the " Social Science s.-r i.-,." * The Ethic of Usury 

 and Interest," by W. Blissurd, purported to be a study 

 in inorganic Hoeiuli-m ; Charles Booth published 

 Vols. Ill and IV of his examination into the ' Life 

 and Labor of the Pcoiile in London," covering re- 

 spectively " Blocks of Buildings, Schools and Immi- 

 gration, "'and " The Trade.- of L : ,.-t London " ; W. J. 

 Ashley issued two volume- of -An Introduction to 

 English Economic History and Theory"; W. H. 

 Malloek was heard from on " Labor ana the Popu- 

 lar Welfare"; and L. T. Ilobhouse on "The Labor 

 Movement." The puke of Argyll, in "The I'n-een 

 Foundations of Society," made what he termed an 

 examination of the falfaeies and failures of economic 

 science due to neglected elements; Dr. James Bonar 

 broke entirely fresh ground in his survey of " Phi- 

 losophy and Political Economy in some of their His- 

 torical Relations"; Shaw Lefevre's "Agrarian Ten- 

 ures " surveyed the land laws of the United King- 

 dom, while Harold Cox wrote on " Land National- 

 ization." Charles L. Tupper's work on " Our Indian 

 Protectorate " was an introduction to the study of the 

 relations between the Government of the mother 

 country and its Indian feudatories ; Prof. Dicey con- 

 demned the Home-Rule bill as "A Leap in the 

 Dark " ; and W. Charteris Macpherson suggested the 

 reform of the House of Lords in "The Baronage 

 and the Senate." "The Golden Book of India," 

 compiled by Sir Roper Lethbridge, was a genea- 

 logical and biographical dictionary of the ruling 

 princes, nobles, and other important personages of 

 the Indian Empire. Herbert Joyce wrote " The 

 History of the Post Ottiee," and John Edgar 

 a " History of Early Scottish Education." Baron- 

 ess Angelina Georgina Burdett-Coutts edited a 

 series or papers on " Woman's Mission" (of philan- 

 thropic work) by eminent writers, and Henry Frith 

 chronicled " The Romance of Navigation." " The 

 Evolution of Religion " was the theme of the Gilford 

 Lectures of 1890-'91 and 1891-'92, by Edward Caird, 

 and filled two volumes ; other lecturers on the same 

 foundation were James Hutchison Stirling, on "Phi- 

 losophy and Theology," and Sir George G. Stokes, on 

 " Natural Theology." The Hibbert Lectures for 1892 

 were by C. G. Montefiore, upon " The Origin and 

 Growth of Religion, as illustrated by the Religion of 

 the Ancient Hebrews," and the Rev. George Muthe- 

 son set forth " The Distinctive Messages of the Old 

 Religions." Charles Thomas Cruttwell wrote " A 

 Literary History of Early Christianity," in two vol- 

 umes ; Robert F. Horton delivered the Yale Lectures 

 on preaching for 1893 upon the Lyman Beecher 

 Foundation entitled " Verbum Dei," and Bishop 

 William Alexander (of Derry and Rapahoe) visited 

 our country and lectured before the president, facul- 

 ties, and students of Columbia College upon a Pri- 

 mary . Convictions " of the soul. William Knight 

 examined " Aspects of Theism," as J. D. King aid 

 " The Supernatural " ; the Bamptom Lectures for 

 1892, by Canon Alfred Barry, were entitled " Some 

 Lights of Science on the Faith " : Canon Bright 

 treated of "Morality in Doctrine"; William Deanng 

 Harden made " An Inquiry into the Truth of Dog- 

 matic Christianity"; Charles A. Whittuck wrote on 

 u The Church of England and Keeent Theological 

 Thought " ; two books on the early days of Chris- 

 tianity were " The Church in the Roman Empire be- 

 fore A. D. 170," bv W. M. Ramsay, and " Christianity 

 and the Roman Empire," by W. E. Addis; while 

 Arthur Lillie traced "The Influence of Buddhism 

 on Primitive Christianity." in addition to attacking 

 "The Great Enigma" of life. From Leslie Stephen 

 emanated An Agnostic's Apology," and other es- 

 says, A. J. Dadson treated of " Evolution and Re- 

 ligion,'' as F. W. II. Mvers did of "Science and the 

 Future Life." Wilfrid Ward offered " Witnesses to 

 the Unseen, and Other Essays"; A. M. Fairbairn, 

 I). D., defined "The Place of 'Christ in Modern The- 

 ology " in a work of admirable scope and power, and 

 published also a volume of sermons, Christ in the 

 Centuries"; from Dr. Brooke Foss Westcott, now 



