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BRITISH ANIMALS WHICH HAVE BECOME EXTINCT 
WITHIN HISTORIC TIMES: 
With Some Account of British Wild White Catile. 
By J. E. HARTING, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 
With Illustrations by WoLr, WHYMPER, and others. 
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Contents :— 
The Bear—The Beaver—The Reindeer—The Wild Boar—The Wolf, and Wild White Cattle. 
EXTRACT FROM PREFACE. 
“ Few who have studied the literature of British Zoology can have failed to remark 
the gap which exists between Owen's ‘ British Fossil Mammals and Birds,’ and Bell’s 
‘ British Quadrupeds ; the former dealing chiefly with pre-historic remains, the latter with 
species still existing. Between these two admirable works a connecting link, as it were, seems 
wanting in the shape of a history of such animals as have become extinct in Britain within 
historic times, and to supply this is the aim of the present writer. 
Of the materials collected, during many years of vesearch, some portion has been 
already utilized in a Lecture delivered by the author before the ‘ Hertfordshire Natural 
History Society,’ in October 1879, and in several articles in the ‘ Popular Science Review ’ 
and the natural history columns of ‘ The Field, 
The exigencies of time and space, however, necessitated a much briefer treatment 
of the subject in the journals referred to than is here attempted, and to these essays, now 
presented to the reader in a consolidated form, considerable additions have been made. 
That the subject admits of still further amplification the author is well aware ; 
but ‘ ars longa vita brevis est,’ and the materials at present collected have already assumed 
such dimensions, that it has been deemed preferable to offer them to the reader in their 
present form, rather than postpone publication indefinitely, in the hope of some day realising 
an ideal state of perfection. 
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THE SCIENCE OF BEAUTY. 
An Analytical Inquiry into the Laws of Aisthetics. 
By AVARY W. HOLMES-FORBES, M.A., 
Of Lincoln’s Inn, Barrister-at-Law. 
This Essay constitutes an attempt to solve the problem of esthetics. The subject falls 
into four parts :—Beauty, Ugliness, Sublimity, and Meanness. Berkeley’s Idealism, which 
“admits of no answer,” is applied to esthetic phenomena, and a reflex basis claimed for the 
entire science. A code of laws is predicated for beauty, and is made use of to explain the 
mental and material factors in a recognition of the beautiful ; to define poetry and to test 
and analyse its psychology ; to expound the conditions in which alone beauty can exist ; 
to define and analyse wit ; to explain the disparity of beauty in regard to its amount, as 
appearing in different objects ; and to elucidate its relation to utility. Ugliness and disgust 
ave examined and found to be antithetical to beauty and admiration, Sublimity is inves- 
tigated, its essential condition sought after, and the psychology of awe inquired into, 
Meanness and contempt are found to be the antitheses of sublimity and awe. The laws 
predicated of the above phenomena are subjected to the test of facts, and examples are taken 
from natural and artificial objects, from ornaments, works of art, buildings, places, scenes, 
animals, and human beings, &c. The Essay being an effort to reconstruct the science of 
esthetics on a new and rigid basis, distinctive criticism ts all but excluded from its pages ; 
the conclusions of previous authors ave left to stand on their own merits, or, by appli- 
cation of the results arrived at here, to be ipso facto corroborated or exposed. 
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