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“ Origin of Life on our Planet.” By Principal Dawson, F.R.S. 
From the Author. 
“ Philosophy without Assumptions.” By the Rev. T. Kirkman, F.R.S. 
From the Author. 
“ Papers on Shakspere.” By E. PI. Pickersgill. 
“ Rector and his Friends.” By Professor Lias. 
Page’s “ Geology.” 
Crofton’s “ Genesis and Geology.” 
Morell’s Tanneman’s “ Philosophy.” 
“ Egypt.” By Dr. Russell. 
Alford’s “ First Principles of the Oracles of God. 
Mahan on Romans ix. 
Letters of Gregory VII. 
Six other smaller Works. 
Abdiel’s Essays. 
Bascombe’s “ Epidemics.” 
“Cottage Construction.” By Strickland. 
Hershon on Genesis. 
“Pentateuch according to the Talmud.” 
Phillips’s “ Pomarium Brittanioum.” 
Taylor’s Hebrew Poetry. 
Ditto. 
Ditto. 
From T. Barber , Esq. 
Ditto. 
Ditto. 
Ditto. 
Ditto. 
Ditto. 
Ditto. 
Ditto. 
From the Rev. Prebendary Brooks. 
Ditto. 
Ditto. 
Ditto. 
Ditto. 
Ditto. 
Ditto. 
“ Communion of Saints.” By the Rev. Prebendary Brooks. 
From the Author. 
“ Infidelity.” Ditto. Ditto. 
“ Prophetical Interpretations.” Ditto. , Ditto. 
“ Solomon’s Proverbs.” Ditto. Ditto. 
Fourteen smaller Works, presented by Sir D. Salomons, Bart., Prof. Duff, 
D.D., W. H. Ince, Esq., Rev. J. McKay, F. Madden, Esq., Rev. R. 
Main, Prof. Morris, Captain F. Petrie, Dr. Sexton. 
The following Paper was then read by the Author : — 
PRESENT-DAY MATERIALISM. By Rev. J. McDougall. 
V ARIOUS, and some of them august, voices tell us that 
man is outliving religion. Mr. John Stuart Mill has 
left this testimony: “the world would be astonished if it knew 
how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments are sceptics 
in religion.'” Dr. Strauss this : that in publishing the nega- 
tions of his last work, he only wrote for a great number. 
Almost all the more important Magazines of the day give ample 
space for the enunciation and exposition of non- and anti- 
religious views. In the “ Contemporary,” Archbishop (now 
Cardinal) Manning and Mr. Fitz- James Stephen held recent 
tournament, in which, amongst other things, they fought over 
