D. Appleton & Company's Publications. 
LAY SERMONS, 
ADDRESSES, AND REVIEWS, 
By THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY. 
Cloth, 12mo, 390 pages. Price, $1.75 
Tuts is the latest and most popular of the works of this in- 
trepid and accomplished English thinker. The American edition 
of the work is the latest, and contains, in addition to the English 
edition, Professor Huxley’s recent masterly address on ‘“ Spon- 
taneous Generation,” delivered before the British Association for 
the Advancement of Science, of which he was president. 
The following is from an able article in the Independent : 
The “ Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews” is a book to be read 
by every one who would keep up with the advance of truth—as well by 
those who are hostile as those who are friendly to his conclusions. In 
it, scientific and philosophical topics are handled with consummate abil- 
ity. It is remarkable for purity of style and power of expression. No- 
where, in any modern work, is the advancement of the pursuit of that 
natural knowledge, which 1s of vital importance to bodily and mental 
well-being, so ably handled. 
Professor Huxley is undoubtedly the representative scientific man of 
the age. His reverence for the right and devotion to truth have estab- 
lished his leadership of modern scientific thought. He leads the beliefs 
and aspirations of the increasingly powerful body of the younger men of 
seience. His ability for research is marvellous. There is possible no more 
equipoise of judgment than that to which he brings the phenomena of 
Nature. Besides, he is not a mere scientist. His is a popularized phi. 
losophy ; social questions have been treated by his pen in a manner most 
masterly. In his popular addresses, embracing the widest range of top- 
ics, he treads on ground with which he seems thoroughly familiar. 
There are those who hold the name of Professor Huxley as synony- 
mous with irreverence and atheism. Plato’s was so held, and Galileo’s, 
and Descartes’s, and Newton’s, and Faraday’s. There can be no greater 
mistake. No man has greater reverence for the Bible than Huxley. Ne 
one more acquaintance with the text of Scripture. He believes there is 
definite government of the universe ; that pleasures and pains are distrib- 
uted in accordance with law; and that the certain proportion of evil 
woven up in the life even of worms will help the man who thinks to bear 
his own share with courage. 
In the estimate of Professor Huxley’s future influence upon science, 
his youth and health form a Jarge element. He has just passed his forty- 
fifth year. If God spare his life, truth can hardly fall to be the gainer 
from a mind that is stored with knowledge of the laws of the Creator’s 
operations, and that has learned to love all beauty and hate afi vileness of 
Nature and art. 
