CONTENTS OF No. XCIII. ART. I.-MORAL THEORIES AND CHRISTIAN ETHICS, 1. Jouffroy's Introduction to Ethics. Translated by Chan- 5. Mill on Utilitarianism. 8vo. 1862. 6. Essays on Criticism. By M. Arnold. 12mo. London, 8. Miss Cobbe's Studies, Ethical and Social. Post 8vo. 9. Martineau's Essays. Post 8vo. London, 1866. 10. Grant's Aristotle's Ethics. 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1866. ART. II.-ENGLISH VERS DE SOCIÉTÉ, 2 vols. Lyra Elegantiarum. A Collection of some of the best PAGE 1 47 ART. III. CONCILIA SCOTIÆ, 63 Concilia Scotia: Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ Statuta tam Pro- ART. IV. CARSTEN HAUCH AND HIS LATEST POEM, 94 Julian den Frafaldne. Af Carsten Hauch. Kiöbenhavn, 1866. ART. V.-M. GUSTAVE DORÉ, 127 ART. VI. THE GREAT PYRAMID, Life and Work at the Great Pyramid during the Months ART. VII. EARLY YEARS OF THE PRINCE CONSORT, PAGE 149 189 ART. VIII. THE ACHIEVEMENTS AND THE MORAL OF 1867, 205 CONTENTS OF No. XCIV. ART. I.-RELATIONS OF HEATHENISM AND JUDAISM WITH 1. The First Age of Christianity and the Church. By John 2. The Gentile and the Jew in the Courts of the Temple 4. Address on the Place of Ancient Greece in the Provi- ART. II-MODERN PROVENÇAL POEMS, 1. Las Papillotas de Jacques Jasmin. Paris, 1860. 2. Mireille (Mirèio). Pouèmo Provençau de F. Mistral. Avignon. 3. Calendau: Pouèmo Nouveau. Par F. Mistral. Avignon, 1867. 4. Un Liame de Rasin. Countenant Lis Oubreto di Castil- 5. Lis Oubreto en Vers de Roumanille. Avignon. 6. Li Nouvé de Roumanille. Avignon. 7. La Miougrano Entreduberto (la Granade entreouverte) ART. III. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, 1. The Dial: A Magazine of Literature, Philosophy, and PAGE 257 302 319 1865. 2. The Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson. 7 vols. Bos- By R. W. Emerson. Lon- ART. IV. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF MORALS, 1. History of Civilisation in England. By Henry Thomas PAGE 359 ART. V. THE MILITARY SYSTEMS OF EUROPE, 1. Report of the Commissioners appointed to Inquire into 2. Notes on the Military Forces of the Kingdom, 1867. 4. Statistical, Sanitary, and Medical Reports, Army Medical 5. Memorandum on the Prussian Army in relation to the 6. Was wollen wir? Armee-Reorganisation oder Armee- 8. Das Leben der französischen Officiere und Soldaten. 9. De la Démocratie en Amérique.. Par Alexis de Tocque- 10. L'Ouvrier de Huit Ans. Par Jules Simon. Paris, 1867. 12. Revue des Deux Mondes, 1867. ART. VI.-POPULATION, . 1. Fecundity, Fertility, and Sterility. By Dr. Matthews 404 441 ART. VII. ITALY IN 1867, 463 ART. VIII.—THE SOCIAL SORES OF BRITAIN, 497 THE NORTH BRITISH REVIEW. SEPTEMBER 1867. ART. I.-1. Jouffroy's Introduction to Ethics. CHANNING. 2 vols. 12mo. Translated by Wild. London, 1840. 2. Bain's Emotions and the Will. 8vo. London, 1859. 3. Mill on Liberty. Post 8vo. London, 1859. 4. Temple's Rugby Sermons (Easter-day). 8vo. London, 1861. 5. Mill on Utilitarianism. 8vo. 1862. 6. Essays on Criticism. By M. ARNOLD. 12mo. London, 1865. 7. Ecce Homo. 8vo. London, 1865. 8. Miss Cobbe's Studies, Ethical and Social. Post 8vo. London, 1865. 9. Martineau's Essays. Post 8vo. London, 1866. 10. Grant's Aristotle's Ethics. 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1866. 11. Ferrier's Lectures and Philosophical Remains. 2 vols. Edin. 1866. WHY is Ethical Science, as pursued in this country of late years, even to reflecting men, so little attractive and so little edifying? The cognate study of metaphysics has, after long neglect, recently, in a wonderful way, renewed its youth, but to moral science no such revival has as yet come. And yet human character, the subject it deals with, is one, it would seem, of no inconsiderable interest. Physical science has no doubt drained off the current of men's thoughts, and left many subjects which once engaged them high and dry. But man, his spiritual being, his possibilities here, his destiny hereafter, these still remain, amid all the absorption of external things, the one highest marvel, the paramount centre of interest to men. It cannot be said that modern literature-the great exponent of what men are thinking-circles less than of old round the great human problems. Rather with the circuit of the suns, not only VOL. XLVII. NO. XCIII. A |