to revive the dungeon and the fagot as instruments for crushing dogmatic error or an obnoxious ritual. But the authorities of the Church of Rome do not profess any compunction for the employment of their instruments of compulsion in past ages, nor do they repudiate the principles from which persecution arose, and on which it was justified. So far from this, one of the pestilent errors of the age, which is thought worthy of special denunciation from the chair of St. Peter, is the doctrine of liberty of conscience. The massacre of St. Bartholomew and the fires of Smithfield will cease to be justly chargeable upon the Church of Rome when this church authoritatively disavows and condemns the principles of coercing the conscience, and of inflicting penalties on what are judged to be religious error, which was at the bottom of these and of a long catalogue of like cruelties." hospitality. Such, nevertheless, is the fact, and it must be conceded that the man who could writef such a series of lectures in such a short space o time, and amid the thousandfold distractions of the life he was leading, must be endowed with no common clearness of intellect and with an industry that is something marvellous. The ground covered in the six lectures which compose this volume is very extensive, and almost all the leading phenomena connected with light are discussed at greater or less length. Written, as they are, by the hand of a master, and treating of what has been the study of his life, it would be impertinent to attempt any criticism of these lectures. We will, therefore, only say that they are written in the clear and lucid style for which Tyndall is famous, that they are illustrated by engravings where these are necessary, and that they constitute as a whole an admirable introduction to the study of the phenomena and laws of light. The lectures which form the body of the work are followed by a short appendix, containing a speech made by Prof. Tyndall at a banquet given in his honour at Delmonico's, in returning thanks for the toast of the evening. In this speech we are brought face to face with the lecturer as a man; and, however widely one may differ from him in theoretical opinions, one cannot help feeling that he is a man not only of high and cultivated intellect, but of high soul and noble aims. Those who wish to know Pro fessor Tyndall as he is, and to know how he has come to be what he is, will read his speech with care, and will find in it much of abiding interest and worthy of permanent recollection. Two facts only we may note here. One of these is that Tyndall, There must be very many who would have spent both time and money for the purpose of hear-like so many Englishmen who spend a mere passing ing Professor Tyndall lecture, but who were unable visit in the United States, and who go there with to gratify their wish. Many as were his hearers, strong claims upon public courtesy and hospitality, they constitute but a fraction of those who would has returned to England with a strong belief that gladly have listened to his utterances, had it been underneath the political differences which separate possible to do so. The publishers of this little work America and England is a deep and broad current deserve, therefore, and doubtless will receive, the of genuine brotherly feeling and friendship. This thanks of a very wide and appreciative public, for may be so-it certainly ought to be so-but we doubt having placed within their reach the words of this if any Englishman who has ever lived in the United brilliant investigator and eloquent speaker. One States as more than a bird-of-passage, and who has finds some difficulty in believing it, but we have lived there as a humble and obscure individual, has Prof. Tyndall's own voucher for the assertion that, ever been able to satisfy himself that the Americans, on quitting England, these lectures were wholly un- as a nation, possess this friendly feeling towards written, that they were hegun, continued, and ended England. Few, indeed, but arrive at the melancholy in New York, during his brief visit there, and whilst conviction that this feeling is wanting or even reversed overwhelmed with his own work and with American' in the minds of the majority of the people. LITERARY NOTES. An American edition, authorized and illustrated, of the "Lectures on Light,"delivered recently in the United States by Prof. Tyndall, has been published. The profits above expenses, amounting to $13,000, accruing from the delivery of these lectures, were generously conveyed in trust by the lecturer to aid students who may devote themselves to original research on this side the Atlantic. A reprint has been issued in Boston of Mr. W. R. Greg's "Enigmas of Life," which has run through three editions in England since its recent publication there. Mr. Bayard Taylor has written a new and lengthy Laso a Pastoral of Norway." poem, entitled The story is told with great felicity of narration. A curious and amusing book of Old Tales and Superstitions interpreted by Comparative Mythology,' under the title of " Myths and Myth-makers," is just published. The first volume-from the Roman Invasion to the accession of Henry VII.-of "A History of Crime and of its Relations to Civilized Life in England," is announced. It is announced that Mr. Richard Cobden's Letters are to be published shortly by the Cobden Club. They will be edited by W. Henry Richard, M.P. The collection of articles mainly contributed last year to "The Leisure Hour," by Principal Dawson, of McGill College, Montreal, have been issued in book form, under the title of "The Story of the Earth and Man." The Rev. Prof. Stanley Leathes, the Holsean Lecturer for 1873, has just issued a work on "The Structure of the Old Testament." The author is well known as a writer and as the Professor of Hebrew at King's College. A further batch of recent novels is announced :Pascarel," by Ouida; "London's Heart," by B. L. Farjeon; "A Fair Saxon," by Justin McCarthy; Ready Money Mortboy," by the author of My Little Girl;" "Home, sweet Home!" by Mrs. J. H. Riddell; "Milly Darrell," by Miss Braddon; "Little Kate Kirby," by F. W. Robinson; "In the Days of my Youth," by Miss Edwards; and a new work of fiction, by the jointwriters, MM. Erckmann-Chatrian, entitled "The Brothers Rautzaw: a story of the Vosges." A new book, the "Memoir of a Brother," by the author of "Tom Brown's School Days," has just appeared. A volume of " Essays on Political Economy, Theoretical and Applied," is announced from the pen of Prof. J. E. Cairnes, of University College, London. A second edition of "The Letters and Journals of Lord Elgin" is now ready. Few books are more worthy of being read by Canadian legislators than this. It will be found a mine of political wisdom and true statesmanship. The excellent series of sketches of prominent English statesmen which lately appeared in the Daily | News, are now published in book form, under the title of " Political Portraits." Mr. F. Hill is said to have written them. Messrs. Adam, Stevenson & Co. have just issued an authorized Canadian reprint of Mr. Goldwin Smith's "Lectures on the Study of History," delivered while the author was Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford. As a book of peculiar interest to the religious public, we draw attention to "Our Work in Palestine," being an account of the different expeditions sent out to the Holy Land by the committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund since 1865. A Canadian edition has been issued by Messrs. Adam, Stevenson & Co. Toronto, A new edition, largely re-written, of Mr. Hare's valuable work on Representative Government" is just ready. The work now bears the title of "The Election of Representatives," and is brought up to the recent changes in the English law, on voting by ballot, &c. Messrs. Cassell, Petter & Galpin announce the issue of the initial number of a new work illustrative and explanatory of the various books of the Bible. The publication will be under the editorship of the Rev. Prof. Plumptre, assisted by many eminent scholars and divines. Messrs. Longmans announce the following scientific works among others for the coming season :"The Star Depths; or, Other Suns than Ours: a Treatise on Stars, Star-Systems, and Star-Cloudlets," by Richard A. Proctor, B.A. ; a new edition of the Elementary Treatise on the Wave Theory of Light," by Humphrey Lloyd, D.D., D.C.L., Provost of T. C. D.; and "Principles of Animal Mechanics," by the Rev. Samuel Haughton, F.R.S., Fellow of T. C. D. The observations and calculations contained in this last book have occupied the author's leisure hours during ten years. A literary curiosity, "The Poems of Mary, Queen of Scots," is in preparation. An exhibition of pictures illustrating the siege of Paris will shortly be opened in Versailles. Messrs. Sampson, Low, Marston & Co. announce "The English Catalogue of Books published during 1863 to 1871." 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