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Prof. Galloway, in our opinion, rightly contends that prizes and 
medals ought to be abolished, and that the teacher should not be 
paid by “ results ” in the cant sense of the term, — that is, by the 
number of his pupils who “ pass ” some particular “ standard.” 
In one sense — though in a very different one — German professors 
are paid by results. The “results” are the number and the 
magnitude of the discoveries and investigations emanating from 
their laboratories, whether physical, chemical, or biological. In 
proportion as such discoveries rise in importance students flock 
to the university, and honours and emoluments fall to the lot of 
the professor. 
We regret that we must here, from want of space, break off 
our examination of Prof. Galloway’s ideas, the more as we have 
not yet touched upon one important phase of the subjedl — his 
method of teaching the physical sciences. To this question we 
hope to return at no distant opportunity. Meantime we can do 
no other than pronounce the work before us an able, a wise, a 
timely, and a patriotic production — in short, a book after our 
own heart. 
The Occult World. By A. P. Sinnett. London : Triibner 
and Co. 
Here is a book which will be in most quarters received with 
contemptuous incredulity, and flung aside after being made the 
subject of a few jokes. Such has not been our feeling. We are 
too bitterly conscious of the imperfeCt and fragmentary character 
of human knowledge, — too deeply convinced how frail are the 
foundations of many of our fashionable creeds, — to rejeCt light 
coming from what quarter soever. We therefore opened this 
book in the hope of finding something definite and tangible. 
Our curiosity was raised by such passages as the following: — 
“ Modern physical science has been groping for centuries blindly 
after knowledge which occult philosophy has enjoyed in full 
measure all the while.” “ Achievements far more admirable 
than any yet standing to the credit of modern science.” “ Se- 
cluded Orientals may understand more about eleCIricity than 
Faraday, more about physics than Tyndall.” “ During a career 
which has carried occultism in the domain of physical science 
far beyond the point we have reached, physical science has 
merely been an objedt of secondary importance,” &c. Physical 
science being for us an objedt of primary importance, — in fadt, 
the objedt, — our interest and curiosity were most strongly excited, 
and we sought eagerly for some proposition, whether the state- 
ment of a fadt or of a law of Nature, which should be capable 
of verification. Can no crumb be vouchsafed us of this alleged 
knowledge so far beyond our own ? 
