Essays Contributed to the 'quarterly Review'; The Naturalist in Sussex and on the Spey

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874. Excerpt: ... 104 ESSAYS AND REVIEWS January, 1861.) The volume entitled ' Essays and Reviews' has met with a circulation, and excited a measure of remark, which appear' to us to be far greater than it would naturally have obtained by its mere literary merits. There is in truth in the volume nothing which is really new, and little which having been said before is said here with any new power, or with any great additions, either by way of amplification, illustration, or research. With the exception of the last Essay, we think the mere literary character of the volume below what we should have been led to expect from the names of the several essayists. Especially does this apply to the contribution of Dr. Temple, with which the volume opens. There is really nothing in it but the working out, with often a pleasant fancifulness, and oftener still something of the prolixity into which the writer of allegory is so apt to be betrayed, of a rather forced similitude between the growth and progress of the race of men and that of the individual man from infancy to age. To what, then, is to be attributed the degree of interest 'Essays and Reviews.' London, 1860. 1. 'The Education of the World.' By F. Temple, D.D., Head Master of Rugby School. 2. 'Bunsen's Biblical Researches.' By Rowland Williams, D.D., Vice-Principal, Lampeter College. 3. 'On the Study of the Evidences of Christianity.' By Baden Powell, M.A., F.R.S., Savilian Professor of Geometry, Oxford. 4. 'The National Church.' By H. B. Wilson, B.D., Vicar of Great Staughton, 5. 'On the Mosaic Cosmogony.' By C. W. Goodwin, M.A. 6. 'Tendencies of Religions Thought in England, 1688--1750.' By Mark Pattison, B.D. 7. 'On the Interpretation of Scripture' By Benjamin Jowett, M.A., Regius Professor of Greek, Oxford. which this vol...