THE

CONTEMPORARY

REVIEW

VOLUME XXXI. DECEMBER, 1877-MARCH, 1878.

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CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXXI.

DECEMBER, 1877.

Russian Aggression, as specially affecting Austria-Hungary and Turkey. By Louis
Kossuth, Ex-Governor of Hungary

Mr. Herbert Spencer and Mr. G. H. Lewes: Their Application of the Doctrine of Evolu-

tion to Thought. By Professor Green. I. Mr. Spencer on the Relation of Subject

and Object

Are the Clergy Priests or Ministers? By the Rev. Canon Perowne, D.D.

On the Hygienic Value of Plants in Rooms and the Open Air. By Professor Max von

Pettenkofer

William Law, the English Mystic. By Julia Wedgwood

The Ninety Years' Agony of France. By Goldwin Smith

Ethical Aspects of the Development Theory. By Professor Calderwood

Hereditary Pauperism and Pauper Education. By Francis Peek

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The Greek Mind in Presence of Death, interpreted from Reliefs and Inscriptions on

Athenian Tombs. By Percy Gardner

John Stuart Mill's Philosophy Tested. By Professor W. Stanley Jevons. I.

Contemporary Life and Thought in France. By Gabriel Monod

Essays and Notices :-The Indian Civil Service Examinations, 202-Pictures for Children,

205-Black and White, 206-Charlotte Williams Wynn, 209-Lutchmee and Dilloo,

212-The Art of Beauty, 212-Augustin Cochin, 214-Virginia: A Novelette, 216.

JANUARY, 1878.

"Disestablishment." By the Duke of Argyll

John Stuart Mill's Philosophy Tested. By Professor W. Stanley Jevons. II.
The Little Health of Ladies. By Frances Power Cobbe

On the Teaching of Natural Philosophy. By Professor P. G. Tait

China, England, and Opium: The Cheefoo Convention. By the Hon. Mr. Justice Fry

Government Education: Thirty Years Past and Thirty Years to Come. By James

H. Rigg, D.D.

The Discoveries at Mycena and Cyprus. By R. Stuart Poole, Corr. Inst. France

The County Franchise. By Edward A. Freeman, D.C.L., LL.D.

Dog-Poison in Man. By Dr. Acland, F.R.S.

Contemporary Life and Thought :-

In France. By Gabriel Monod

In Italy. By Professor De Gubernatis

Contemporary Essays and Comments:-The Cultur-Kampf in General Literature, 422-

The Immortality of the Soul, 428-The Uses of Imagination, 430-Lady Nurses,

431-Dr. Parker and Dissent, 433.

Contemporary Literature:-Cox's Epochs of Ancient History, 435-Creighton's English

Historical Epochs, 438-Arthur's Pope, Kings, and People, 440-Klunzinger's Upper

Egypt, 442-Mrs. Comyns Carr's North Italian Folk, 442-Matthew Arnold's Poems,

443-Firdousi's Le Livre des Rois, 444-Miss Misanthrope, 447-Mirage, 448—

The World Well Lost, 449-Wedmore's French Pastorals, 450-Cox's Salvator Mundi,

451-Giles's Hebrew and Christian Records, 453-Non-Christian Religious Systems,

454-Moncreiff's Vindication of the Claim of Right, 457—Allen's Physiological

Esthetics, 459-Giffen's Stock Exchange Securities, 460-Monkhouse's Précis

Writing, 462-Dawson's Origin of the World, 463-Huxley's Physiography, 464.

FEBRUARY, 1878.

On the Origin of Reason. By Professor Max Müller

The Stability of our Indian Empire. By Sidney James Owen

Forest and Field Myths. By W. R. S. Ralston

France before the Outbreak of the Revolution. By Henri Taine. I. State of the

Provinces

What is in Store for Europe. By Louis Kossuth, Ex-Governor of Hungary
The New Star which faded into Star-Mist. By Richard A. Proctor, B.A.

The Three Conflicting Theories of Church and State. By the Rev. Canon Curteis
Madonna Dunya. By Emily Pfeiffer

England's Abandonment of the Protectorate of Turkey. By Goldwin Smith

Contemporary Life and Thought :-

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In Russia. By T. S., St. Petersburg
In France. By Gabriel Monod

Contemporary Essays and Comments:-On Patriotism, 650—On Toilet Artifices, 657–

On Government Officials and Literature, 660.

Contemporary Literature:-Life of the Prince Consort, 662-May's Democracy, 665–

Freeman's Ottoman Power in Europe, 668-Manuals of English History, 670-Lives

of Simon de Montfort, 672-The Dictionary of Christian Biography, &c., 673-Lind-

say's De Ecclesiâ et Cathedrâ, 677—Manning's Independence of the Holy See, 678—

Recent Chemical Text-Books, 679-Forster's Physiology, 681-Mivart on the Com-

mon Frog, 681-Mivart's Elementary Anatomy, 682-Veitch's History and Poetry

of the Scottish Border, 683-Black's Green Pastures and Piccadilly, 685--Saunders'

Jasper Deane, 687-Blackie's Wise Men of Greece, 688.

MARCH, 1878.

The English Language as Spoken and Written. By Professor F. W. Newman

The Future of Faith. By W. H. Mallock

Modern Greece. By J. P. Mahaffy

Mr. Herbert Spencer and Mr. G. H. Lewes: Their Application of the Doctrine of

Evolution to Thought. By Professor Green. II. Mr. Spencer on the Independence

of Matter

The Abuse of Charity in London: The Case of the Five Royal Hospitals. By William

Gilbert

Cardinal Manning's True Story of the Vatican Council. By Professor Friedrich
"Philochristus." By the Rev. J. Llewelyn Davies

Mr. Froude's Life and Times of Thomas Becket. By Edward A. Freeman, D.C.L.,

In France. By Gabriel Monod

Contemporary Essays and Comments:-The Theory of Belief: Dr. Newman and

Mr. Leslie Stephen, 869-Obiter Dicta in Public Discussion, 874-Toilet Artifices,

876-"Reform " Associations, 878.

Contemporary Literature:-Epochs of Modern History, 880-Historical Handbooks,

884-Latham on Examinations, 885-Wordsworth's Schola Academicæ, 887-

Bishop Thirlwall's Remains, 887-Theological Translation Fund Books, 888-

Matheson's Growth of the Spirit of Christianity, 892-Zoeckler's Cross of Christ,

893-Adler's Creed and Deed, 894-Tait's Sermons, 895-Wood's Nathan the Wise,

896-Thomas Cooper's Poems, 897-Prometheus the Fire-giver, 898-Bennoch's

Poems, 899-The Love-Letters of John Keats, 899-Gilbert's "Them Boots," 901-

Lady Verney's Sketches from Nature, 902-Keightley's Mythology, 902-Zeller's

Socrates and the Socratic Schools, 903-Arber's Reprints, 903.

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RUSSIAN AGGRESSION,

AS SPECIALLY AFFECTING AUSTRIA-HUNGARY AND TURKEY.

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T will not be amiss to ventilate a little the Eastern question. Not as if I could say anything new, but because purified notions may consolidate instinctive aspirations into convictions, and longings into purposes.

The Eastern question is a European question. There is no power in Europe that would not feel that the phases of that question are connected more or less, mediately or immediately, with its own

interests.

Whence comes the importance of this question?

How and when did the Eastern question become a European ques

tion?

By the increase of the Russian power and since the time when Russia—by the diminution of the Turkish Empire, and the dismemberment of Poland-increased to formidable proportions, and thus became dangerous to the freedom of Europe.

I feel thankfully indebted to the Porte. And I do not, like many people, consider gratitude to be a burden, but to be a dear obligation. I learned to esteem highly the noble qualities of the Turkish national character. And I learned it the more from the admirable phenomenon, that this people of tenacious morals could not be corrupted in their rich social virtues even by the pestiferous air which has floated over them from Constantinople through a period of several centuries, during which this capital has been converted into a witchkettle of European intrigues, fighting for the maintenance of the equilibrium. This corrupt influence has found among the higher circles around that kettle individuals accessible to bribery; but the country people remain attached to the moral feelings and to the holy relics of Social virtues, in the same way as in Hungary the eternal holy flame

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