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    I lgSl The Publishers' Circular —— 437 »...

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    I I cap «* ti ^ tal is employed employed obtained , , name prouxs profits of on on the a a year y ineer ear , , now & c . I money , eng , IVrom Macmillan & Co . — « The Relations of

    I I Science connected and with Relig the ion Union / The Theol Morse ogical Lecture Seminary 1880 , , CalderwoodThis

    I I New volume York is . we 3 gather y Henry from the preface , LL , one . B . of the

    I fruits of , a bequest of Mr . Samuel F . B . Morse , I left for the purpose of defraying the cost of the of lectures the elation

    I I deliv of the ery Bible of a to course any of the sciences on , as ' geograp r hy , and the vindication

    I I geology of the , insp history iration , and ethnology authenticity ; of the Bible I against attacks made on scientific grounds ;

    I and the relation of the facts and truths I contain ed in the Word of God to the principles , I __ methods | I 1 V WKW ¦ ' and aims of any of the - - sciences — . ' The

    I endowment -- , would thus seem ^ , to be near akin to I that of the Boyle lectures at the Chapel Royal , 1 "Whitehallthe Bampton lectures at Oxfordor

    II the Hulsean , lectures at Cambridge in our own , I country . One practical result of the foundation I has been to secure for students across the

    I Atlantic the advantage of a course of lectures I from some of the moat eminent professors at the I universities of the United Kingdom , and in the

    n present case the lecturer was the Professor of II u burg Moral h . Philosoph Dr . Calderwood y in the in the University preface declares of Edin his

    -I Kj aim harmony to have traceable been between * to indicate recent the advances measure in of — I science ¦ — - — — — ¦ ¦ and — —_ - ¦ ^ the —* «« fundamental ^ b ^ . » ^ ** m * sm » ^* m j ^^^^ characteristics v ***** «» -v * ** * « i ™«^ ** m - ^* m ^ of ^^ ^ ,

    I religious thought , and the extent to which I I have harmony contributed is possible to , a * and better he understanding hopes that he of wilL the

    I relative thereby aiding positions the of formation scientists of and public theolog opinion ians , r antagonism on questions V . The app lecturer AVVUUXVi earing ' s Ot to basis IkSCBfcJAfeJ involve of \ investi 1 serious VUtl & lk

    -I tion is that -w- ^* , « while AUV scientific . methods are reliable ga I testimony within their , and own spheres offer , science criticism can bear <* O no to

    I explanation the supernatural ' * r *~ j uuva of ascertained , VKliU can inasmuch iiuiucu Vi-lV 7 i- facts xai as no JL 1 VJ ijo science by isj ^ J . 1 H recognition ^ J . OH is untvu » onl as y an of \ . \ J

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    address he is thus a clearly defined of the , and conditions in his first of I the 1 * 116 inquiry lflfl 111 Y * "VT gave r \ n which nrlt Z a summary 1 \ he V * « . proposed - ^^ *«^ w-w ^ w r > ^ v ^ to 4 > ^ -v enter yv «^ i ^^ h «« In lw-i

    oi the those second - ~~ who ™ uw lect on have navo ure guilt he summarises ? before uoikjjlv him in ill the and niiu experience then mru . he uc gone , ,

    under Passes on the to heads deal with of inorganic the main elements subject in in hand the universe

    l Or de -mvrse gaaisms velopment ; ; ; organised o resemblances ; rganised the relations existence existence and of contrasts lower , , life life and in and and hi hi gher her its its

    g wine ° Tganisms interposition ; man ' s place for moral in the government world ; and . The the QCl tll 9 i widebut it is

    i ntn rh ¦* e ^ spirit " of cover a cal m and unprej , udiced gone reasoner over

    ttul f |^ * fleeted at in - his Calderwood n > i ^ reading j g ives - and at observation Y every J turn . he proofs has ^ , no evidence which is reallessential

    J ° the truth he seeks to establish . The y lectures u , we see * , been re-delivered at Edinburgh .

    ^ s !? L y * ? ™ aiae 11 ^ - — addition € The Library to the / by ' Art A . Lang at Home . A 11 ! SKP ^ i 1 ^ ** Aho for lts books the «» t book « kto the -huntfeP ar « thus — II . divided The librarv : I . An

    A ^^ - of collector—IV . Illustrated

    facsimiles books- - There of bi _ are nding - p lates in gol % ^ of d — books and — colou which r , g and ive

    engravings which represent initials , a frontisart piece by , Jackson and vari , ous Linton exam , S p . les "Williams of tha , the wood Dalziels cutting ,

    J . B . Cooper , & c , after designs by William Blake , Bewick , Stothard , Rossetti , Cruiksliank , Tenniel , Dn Maurier , Caldecott , & c .

    From Messrs . Marlborough & Co- —Booksellers ' and Newsvendors' Ordering Books . Of these , the first are specially prepared for booksellers *

    miscellaneous orders . The forms are planned in the expectation that the order wilL be returned priced outserving as an invoice . To this end

    there are cash , columns to the rihtand left on the other side for any remarks g , on spaces the part A . of the wholesale house . The newsvendors '

    ordering book No . 24 , to hand , is for adding to or stopping from newspaper orders , with counterparts on which to register the alterations which

    are made . From Messrs . C . Kegan Paul & Co . — '

    Field-Marshal Count Moltke ' s Letters from . Russia / Translated _ _ _ __ b- y - Kosina — - Nap ier __ - . _ An _ _ interesting _ __ * - _ J

    little volume giving us in the introductory notice a few biographical details of the famous old soldier — gathered __ by a G — erman journalist _ who

    was _ _ — . — bold — , ^^ enoug — h to ' interview him tj / and in the bod his y wife of the then work residing we hare at his Copenhagen letters written when he to

    went to , Russia as the attendant on the , Crown Prince of Germany at the coronation of the late ¦ Emperor ^^¦ ^^^ v ^ — ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^ Alexander ^ ——— — - ^ — ¦ — — II ^^^ .- — . The — — letters - — — , j it appears ^ t ^ t - , j

    found their way into a Copenhagen paper , and then , strange to say , were re-translated from the ^ Banish ^^ . ^ p ^^^ V ^^^^^ " ^ P * . ^^ . ^ Vi ^^ p , ^ . and ^^^^^ ^ MV ^^^^^ p ^ P" ^ ublished ^^^^ " *^^^ ^ " ^^^ " ^^^ ^ . ^^^ ¦ ^^ " ^^ ^ in ~ - ^^—^^¦ ~ the ^ - ^ * Deutsch ^ —~ - ^ r - — ^^ e — Rundschau — — . —'

    letters In order were to gi , b ve y the once Count more ' s permission the original , published text the once more at Berlin as they stood in his

    manutranslation script , and it has is been from the made second . The edition descri that ptions this of ^ Russian ^ fc ^ V ^^^ 9 ^ m ™*^ ^ ^^^* ^^^^ ^ li v ^* "fe ^^ ^^^ ¦ ^ are ^ t ^ r ^^ m H so ^ p ^^ r vivid w ^ b v " ^ ^ ' ^^ that ^^ ¦ ^ ^ ^^ they ^^ ^ ^^ ^ M would , under

    any cation circumstances for the reproduction , have formed of the an little ample book justifi in - this country ; but at a time like the present ,

    when so much interest is felt in the future of whos the emp e coronation ire under the form rule s the of the centrep son iece of the in Cza Von r

    Moltke No one ' s who sketches reads , the it will daintil be y specially printed little welcome book . can fail to get a very fair idea of the manners

    and customs of the various sections of the Russian people . From the same—' Travels with a Donkey in the

    . edition Cavennes of . ' a B very y Robert entertaining Louis Stevenson little . book A , third describing ftAw a ^ variety ^» ^ of isodes in the author — ' s

    ^^^^ a > «»^» am w m ^ r ** V ^* ^ ep ^^ Wz ^^^ ^^ travels Sdney , Colvin which , by The the donk way , he it shoul dedicates d be stated to Mr .

    y . ey , , was of his used own to invention carry the , which traveller provided ' s sack— him a device with . and

    a tent , or tentlet , a waterproof coat , a with « * nth sleep the the ing ass aaa sack . who who . ' at at Mr . nrst first Stevenson too took k advantage advantage ' s adventures ot of his nis

    excess and it ive was tend , onl erne y when ss , are a humorousl peasant gave y described him a , lesson in donkey-drivingbased on the injunction —«— —

    XvO the * you > 3 i / beare I-t must AH yAVJUs r have of his JJ v no »* a luggage w p ity * g , , u on » uv became \ these * v « - » « animals . «^ w a tolerable j , ' that diffi

    travelling a culty due being recognition com overcome panion of , . and his This the proper donkey preliminary functions reduced , the to

    tion traveller travelW of what proceeded nroceedad ho saw apace anace and . , and and encountered nis ms lively lively forma aesenp descrip- & -

    yery agreeable volume . . ^^^^^^^ a ^^ Mg ^ M ^^ Mi ^ Mam .,

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), June 1, 1881, page 437, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01061881/page/13/