ART. VI. THE GREAT PYRAMID,

Life and Work at the Great Pyramid during the Months

of January, February, March, and April, A.D. 1865;

with a Discussion of Facts ascertained. By C. Piazzi

Smyth, F.R.SS.L. & E., &c., Professor of Practical

Astronomy in the University of Edinburgh, and

Astronomer-Royal for Scotland. In Three Volumes;

with Illustrations in Stone and Wood. Edinburgh,

1867.

ART. VII.

EARLY YEARS OF THE PRINCE CONSORT,

The Early Years of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort.

Compiled under the direction of Her Majesty the

Queen. By Lieut.-General the Hon. C. Grey. Lon-

don, 1867.

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189

ART. VIII. THE ACHIEVEMENTS AND THE MORAL OF 1867, 205

CONTENTS OF No. XCIV.

ART. I.-RELATIONS OF HEATHENISM AND JUDAISM WITH

CHRISTIANITY,

1. The First Age of Christianity and the Church. By John

Ignatius Döllinger, D.D. Translated by Henry Nut-

combe Oxenham, M.A. Second Edition. 8vo. Lon-

don, 1867.

2. The Gentile and the Jew in the Courts of the Temple

of Christ: An Introduction to the History of Chris-

tianity. From the German of John J. I. Döllinger.

By N. Darnell, M.A. 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1862.

3. The Formation of Christendom. Part First. By T. W.

Allies. 8vo. London, 1865.

4. Address on the Place of Ancient Greece in the Provi-

dential Order of the World. Delivered before the

University of Edinburgh, November 3, 1865. By the

Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P. 8vo. London

1865.

ART. II.-MODERN PROVENÇAL POEMS,

1. Las Papillotas de Jacques Jasmin. Paris, 1860.

2. Mireille (Mirèio). Pouèmo Provençau de F. Mistral.

Avignon.

3. Calendau Pouèmo Nouveau. Par F. Mistral. Avignon,

1867.

:

4. Un Liame de Rasin. Countenant Lis Oubreto di Castil-

Blaze, Adoufe Dumas, Jan Reboul, Glaup, e T. Pous-

sel. Reculido e publicado per J. Roumanille e F.

Mistral. Avignon, 1867.

5. Lis Oubreto en Vers de Roumanille.

6. Li Nouvé de Roumanille. Avignon.

Avignon.

7. La Miougrano Entreduberto (la Granade entreouverte)

de Téodor Aubanel. Avignon.

ART. III.-RALPH WALDO EMERSON,

1. The Dial: A Magazine of Literature, Philosophy, and

Religion. Boston: Weeks, Jordan, and Co. 1840-43.

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319

2. The Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson. 7 vols. Bos-

ton: Ticknor and Fields.

1865.

3. May-Day and other Pieces. By R. W. Emerson. Lon-

don: Routledge and Sons. 1867.

ART. IV. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF MORALS,

1. History of Civilisation in England. By Henry Thomas

Buckle. In Three Volumes. New Edition. London:

Longmans, Green, and Co., 1867.

ART. V. THE MILITARY SYSTEMS OF EUROPE,

1. Report of the Commissioners appointed to Inquire into

the Recruiting for the Army, 1867.

2. Notes on the Military Forces of the Kingdom, 1867.

3. On the Expediency of the General Introduction of the

Military Drill and Naval Exercises in the School Stages

of the Elementary Schools; and of Employing Soldiers

on Civil Work in Time of Peace. By Edwin Chad-

wick, C.B., Correspondent of the Institute of France.

1867.

4. Statistical, Sanitary, and Medical Reports, Army Medical

Department, vol. vii., 1867.

5. Memorandum on the Prussian Army in relation to the

Campaign of 1866. By Lieut.-Colonel Reilly, C.B.,

Royal Horse Artillery.

6. Was wollen wir? Armee-Reorganisation oder Armee-

Desorganisation? Vierte Auflage. München, 1867.

7. Organisation Militaire. Exposé de M. Staempfli, Ancien

Membre du Conseil Fédéral et Ancien Chef du Dé-

partement Militaire Suisse. 1866.

8. Das Leben der französischen Officiere und Soldaten.

Darmstadt und Leipzig, 1867.

9. De la Démocratie en Amérique.. Par Alexis de Tocque-

ville. 14me Edition, tome iii., 1865.

10. L'Ouvrier de Huit Ans. Par Jules Simon. Paris, 1867.

11. L'Armée Française en 1867. [General Trochu.] Dou-

zième Edition. Paris, 1867.

12. Revue des Deux Mondes, 1867.

ART. VI.-POPULATION, .

1. Fecundity, Fertility, and Sterility. By Dr. Matthews

Duncan. 8vo. Edinburgh, 1867.

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ART. VII. ITALY IN 1867,

463

ART. VIII. THE SOCIAL SORES OF BRITAIN,

THE

NORTH BRITISH REVIEW.

SEPTEMBER 1867.

ART. I.-1. Jouffroy's Introduction to Ethics.

CHANNING. 2 vols. 12mo.

Translated by

Wild. London, 1840.

2. Bain's Emotions and the Will. 8vo. London, 1859. 3. Mill on Liberty. Post 8vo. London, 1859.

4. Temple's Rugby Sermons (Easter-day). 8vo. London, 1861. 5. Mill on Utilitarianism. 8vo. 1862.

6. Essays on Criticism. By M. ARNOLD. 12mo. London, 1865. 7. Ecce Homo. 8vo. London, 1865.

8. Miss Cobbe's Studies, Ethical and Social. Post 8vo. London, 1865.

9. Martineau's Essays. Post 8vo. London, 1866.

10. Grant's Aristotle's Ethics. 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1866. 11. Ferrier's Lectures and Philosophical Remains. 2 vols. Edin. 1866.

WHY is Ethical Science, as pursued in this country of late. years, even to reflecting men, so little attractive and so little edifying? The cognate study of metaphysics has, after long neglect, recently, in a wonderful way, renewed its youth, but to moral science no such revival has as yet come. And yet human character, the subject it deals with, is one, it would seem, of no inconsiderable interest. Physical science has no doubt drained off the current of men's thoughts, and left many subjects which once engaged them high and dry. But man, his spiritual being, his possibilities here, his destiny hereafter, these still remain, amid all the absorption of external things, the one highest marvel, the paramount centre of interest to men. It cannot be said that modern literature-the great exponent of what men are thinking-circles less than of old round the great human problems. Rather with the circuit of the suns, not only

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