Littell's Living Age/Volume 127

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LITTELL'S

LIVING AGE.

E Pluribus Unum.

"These publications of the day should from time to time be winnowed, the wheat carefully preserved, and
the chaff thrown away."

"Made up of every creature's best."

         "Various, that the mind
Of desultory man, studious of change,
And pleased with novelty, may be indulged."

FIFTH SERIES, VOLUME XII.

FROM THE BEGINNING, VOL. CXXVII.

OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, DECEMBER,

1875

BOSTON:

LITTELL AND GAY.

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No. 1634. — October 2, 1875.

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CONTENTS.
I.	Ocean-Circulation. Researches in the "Challenger" and "Tuscarora." By Dr. W. B. Carpenter,	Contemporary Review,	3
II.	The Dilemma. Part IX.,	Blackwood's Magazine,	17
III.	The Planets put in Leverrier's Balance,	Cornhill Magazine,	27
IV.	Her Dearest Foe. By the author of "The Wooing O't." Part II.,	Temple Bar,	36
V.	Richard Baxter. By Dean Stanley,	Macmillan's Magazine,	46
VI.	The Clockmakers of the Schwarzwald,	Spectator,	56
VII.	Country Towns,	Saturday Review,	58
VIII.	Character Connoisseurs,	Saturday Review,	60
IX.	Amber,	Cope's Tobacco Plant,	63

POETRY.
The Children's Bed-time,	2	A Song of Summer,	2

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No. 1635. — October 9, 1875.

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CONTENTS.
I.	Natural Religion. Part II.,	Macmillan's Magazine,	67
II.	Her Dearest Foe. By the author of "The Wooing O't." Part III.,	Temple Bar,	76
III.	In a Studio. By W. W. Story. Part V.,	Blackwood's Magazine,	88
IV.	The Dilemma. Part X.,	Blackwood's Magazine,	102
V.	Torquato Tasso: His Life and Works,	Macmillan's Magazine,	110
VI.	Some Account of a German Boarding-School,	Fraser's Magazine,	116
VII.	Coleridge,	Gentleman's Magazine,	124
VIII.	Chateaubriand,	Spectator,	126

POETRY.
Rest,	66	My Voice Shalt Thou Hear in the Morning,
Whithersoever,	66		66
Question,	66	Change of Seasons,	66
Miscellany,			128

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No. 1636. — October 16, 1875.

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CONTENTS.
I.	Geikie's Life of Murchison,	Edinburgh Review,	131
II.	Her Dearest Foe. By the author of "The Wooing O't." Part IV.,	Temple Bar,	147
III.	The Convent of San Marco. VI. — The Prophet's End,	Macmillan's Magazine,	157
IV.	Monsieur Bedeau,	Cornhill Magazine,	164
V.	The Zuider Zee,	Chambers' Journal,	172
VI.	In my Study Chair,	Blackwood's Magazine,	177
VII.	Cowper,	Athenæum,	187
VIII.	The Thriftlessness of Professional Men,	Spectator,	188
IX.	The Big Tortoise,	Spectator,	190

POETRY.
Birds of Passage,	130	Death as the King's Courtier,	130
Not To Be,	130

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No. 1637. — October 23, 1875.

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CONTENTS.
I.	The History of a Pavement,	Fortnightly Review,	195
II.	Her Dearest Foe. By the author of "The Wooing O't." Part V.,	Temple Bar,	208
III.	Elegies,	Blackwood's Magazine,	219
IV.	Monsieur Bedeau. Conclusion,	Cornhill Magazine,	235
V.	Strafford,	Temple Bar,	243
VI.	Russian Nihilism,	Saturday Review,	254

POETRY.
Passage Birds,	194	The Little Church by the Sea,	194
Birds of Passage,	194

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No. 1638. — October 30, 1875.

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CONTENTS.
I.	The Physiological Influence of Alcohol,	Edinburgh Review,	259
II.	Her Dearest Foe. By the author of "The Wooing O't." Part VI.,	Temple Bar,	274
III.	Robert Herrick,	Cornhill Magazine,	285
IV.	The Sceptic: a Tale of Married Life,	Cornhill Magazine,	294
V.	The Dilemma. Part XI.,	Blackwood's Magazine,	305
VI.	The American Heroine,	Macmillan's Magazine,	313
VII.	Clever People,	Liberal Review,	319

POETRY.
My Birthday,	258	Literature versus Science,	258
Miscellany,			320

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No. 1639. — November 6, 1875.

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CONTENTS.
I.	Cowper and Rousseau,	Cornhill Magazine,	323
II.	Wrecked off the Riff Coast,	Blackwood's Magazine,	335
III.	Money,	Blackwood's Magazine,	353
IV.	A Dead Man,	Macmillan's Magazine,	365
V.	Torquato Tasso: His Life and Works. Part II.,	Macmillan's Magazine,	367
VI.	Miss Austen's Country,	Spectator,	376
VII.	Old China,	Fraser's Magazine,	379
VIII.	A Quaint Epitaph,	Spectator,	383

POETRY.
When Roses Blow,	322	Snowdrops,	322
Love and Death,	322	The Poet's Last Song,	322
In the Lane,	322
Miscellany,			384

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No. 1640. — November 13, 1875.

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CONTENTS.
I.	The Atomic Theory of Lucretius Contrasted with Modern Theories of Atoms, the Constitution of Matter, and the Origination of Life,	British Quarterly Review,	387
II.	The Dilemma. Part XII.	Blackwood's Magazine,	407
III.	A Schoolmaster of the Renaissance. Vittorino da Feltre,	Macmillan's Magazine,	416
IV.	The Curate in Charge. By Mrs. Oliphant,	Macmillan's Magazine,	425
V.	Two Danes,	Temple Bar,	431
VI.	Lauzun,	Temple Bar,	438
VII.	Naturalness of Character,	Saturday Review,	442
VIII.	Philip Stanhope,	Athenæum,	445

POETRY.
Between the Lights,	386	Song,	386
A Buried Love,	386	The Prayer of the Swine to Circe,	447
Forget-me-not,	386
Miscellany,			448

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No. 1641. — November 20, 1875.

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CONTENTS.
I.	Michael Angelo,	Blackwood's Magazine,	451
II.	The Curate in Charge. By Mrs. Oliphant. Part II.,	Macmillan's Magazine,	466
III.	Natural Religion. Part III.,	Macmillan's Magazine,	475
IV.	Her Dearest Foe. By the author of "The Wooing O't." Part VII.,	Temple Bar,	482
V.	Sacrificial Medicine,	Cornhill Magazine,	490
VI.	Recent Discoveries in Photography. By J. Traill Taylor,	Popular Science Review,	498
VII.	The Astronomy of the Babylonians,	Nature,	502
VIII.	M. Thiers' Last Speech,	Spectator,	505
IX.	Commodore Goodenough,	Saturday Review,	507
X.	Pitcher-Plants,	Spectator,	510

POETRY.
Autumn Hedges,	450	Singing,	450
Love's Whisper,	450	Dusk,	512
Miscellany,			512

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No. 1642. — November 27, 1875.

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CONTENTS.
I.	Memoirs of Saint-Simon,	Quarterly Review,	515
II.	Her Dearest Foe. By the author of "The Wooing O't." Part VIII.,	Temple Bar,	538
III.	The Place of Geography in Physical Science,	Fortnightly Review,	552
IV.	The Dilemma. Part XIII.,	Blackwood's Magazine,	561
V.	Natural Religion. Part IV.,	Macmillan's Magazine,	567
VI.	Geographical Expeditions,	Spectator,	573

POETRY.
The Golden Ladder,	514	Happy and Whole,	514
Silence and the Voices of Men,	514
Miscellany,			576

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No. 1643. — December 4, 1875.

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CONTENTS.
I.	William Borlase, St. Aubyn, and Pope,	Quarterly Review,	579
II.	The Curate in Charge. By Mrs. Oliphant. Part III.,	Macmillan's Magazine,	595
III.	The Dutch and their Dead Cities,	Blackwood's Magazine,	610
IV.	The Dilemma. Part XIV.,	Blackwood's Magazine,	622
V.	German Home Life. By a Lady. Part VII.,	Fraser's Magazine,	630
VI.	Ostrich-Farming in Africa,	Chambers' Journal,	638

POETRY.
The Deaf Musician,	578	The Joy of Incompleteness,	578
The Dying Year,	578
Miscellany,			640

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No. 1644. — December 11, 1875.

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CONTENTS.
I.	Bosnia in 1875,	Victoria Magazine,	643
II.	The Curate in Charge. By Mrs. Oliphant. Part IV.,	Macmillan's Magazine,	651
III.	Richelieu. By the author of "Mirabeau," etc.,	Temple Bar,	661
IV.	Her Dearest Foe. By the author of "The Wooing O't." Part IX.,	Temple Bar,	672
V.	John Knox and his Relations to Women,	Macmillan's Magazine,	682
VI.	Vintaging in Tuscany,	Macmillan's Magazine,	691
VII.	The History of Twins, as a Criterion of the Relative Powers of Nature and Nurture. By Francis Galton, F.R.S.,	Fraser's Magazine,	695
VIII.	The Sea and the Sahara,	Pall Mall Gazette,	702

POETRY.
Notes on the Firth.		A Roman "Round-Robin",	642
I. — From a Fourth-pair Window,	642
II. — At Queensferry,	642
III. — Rain,	642
Miscellany,			704

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No. 1645. — December 18, 1875.

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CONTENTS.
I.	The Reresby Memoirs,	Edinburgh Review,	707
II.	The Curate in Charge. By Mrs. Oliphant. Part V.,	Macmillan's Magazine,	727
III.	A Wanderer's Letter,	Blackwood's Magazine,	738
IV.	The Dilemma. Part XV.,	Blackwood's Magazine,	749
V.	Virgil and Tennyson,	Macmillan's Magazine,	756
VI.	The Autobiography of Anne Lady Halkett,	Academy,	762
VII.	Recent History of the Pitcairn Islanders.	Chambers' Journal,	764
VIII.	Mr. Ruskin on Women and War,	Peace Society's Papers,	767
IX.	The Mock Pearls of History,	Russell's Library Notes,	767

POETRY.
Notes on the Firth.,		A Song for Galatea,	706
IV. — Twilight,	706	An Unspoken Question,	706
Miscellany,			768

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No. 1646. — December 25, 1875.

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CONTENTS.
I.	Weather,	Blackwood's Magazine,	771
II.	The Curate in Charge. By Mrs. Oliphant. Part VI.,	Macmillan's Magazine,	783
III.	John Knox and his Relations to Women. Part II.,	Macmillan's Magazine,	794
IV.	The Musician's Marriage,	Temple Bar,	804
V.	The Military Future of Germany. By Col. Chas. C. Chesney,	Macmillan's Magazine,	811
VI.	The Life and Journals of John Wesley,	Spectator,	819
VII.	Football. By an Observant Foreigner,	Chambers' Journal,	822
	⁂ Title and Index to Volume CXXVII.

POETRY.
The Stranger's Grave,	770	The Answer of Q. Horatius Flaccus to a Roman "Round-Robin",
Similitudes,	770		770
Miscellany,			824