cerning the Life and Character of Emanuel Swedenborg. The Chaldean

Account of Genesis, containing the Description of the Creation, &c. Two

Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo. Explorations in

Australia, with an Appendix on the Condition of Western Australia.

Arabistan; or, the Land of the Arabian Nights. Among the Zulus and
Amatongas; with Sketches of the Natives, &c. Three Months in the
Mediterranean. Miscellaneous.

Politics, Science, and Art.-Introduction to the Study of International Law.

Essays on Social Subjects. Jack Afloat and Ashore. Thrift. East and

West London. Money and the Mechanism of Exchange. The Theory and

Practice of Banking. The History of Creation; or, the Development of the

Earth and its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes. Life's Dawn

on Earth: being the History of the Oldest Known Fossil Remains, and

their Relations to Geological Time and to the Development of the Animal

Kingdom. The Recent Origin of Man, as Illustrated by Geology and the

Modern Science of Prehistoric Archæology. Genesis and Science; or, the

First Leaves of the Bible. Lucretius and the Atomic Theory. The Move-

ments and Habits of Climbing Plants. A Course of Practical Instruction

in Elementary Biology. Our Place among Infinities. Science Byways.

Tobacco: its History and Associations, including an Account of the Plant

and its Manufacture; with its Modes of Use in all Ages and Countries.

Diagram, Illustrating the History of the Consumption, Stock, and Price of

Cotton, from the year 1834 to the present Time. Essays and Papers on
some Fallacies of Statistics. The Universe; or, the Infinitely Great and
the Infinitely Little. Disestablishment, from a Church Point of View.
Miscellaneous.

Poetry, Fiction, and Belles Lettres.-The Inn Album. Guido and Lita: a Tale

of the Riviera. Jonas Fisher: a Poem in Brown and White. Nero.

Moses; a Drama in Five Acts. Tennyson's Works. St. George and St.

Michael. My Love she's but a Lassie. John Holdsworth, Chief Mate.

With Harp and Crown. This Indenture Witnesseth. The Evil Eye and

other Stories. Sherborne; or, the House at the Four Ways. Dear Lady

Disdain. Throstlethwaite. The Banns of Marriage. Onwards! But

Whither. Eight Cousins. The Prose Works of William Wordsworth. A

History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne.

Final Reliques of Father Prout (the Rev. Francis Mahony). Victorian

Poets. The Religion of our Literature. Round my House: Notes of Rural
Life in France in Peace and War. Gravenhurst; or, Thoughts on Good
and Evil. Knowing and Telling: a Contribution to Psychology. Lectures
Delivered in America. Shakespeare's Plutarch. Miscellaneous.

Christmas Books.-The Orphan of Pimlico, and other Sketches, Fragments, and

Drawings. Leaves from a Sketch-Book: Pencillings of Travel at Home

and Abroad. The Land of the Pharaohs: Egypt and Sinai. Homes and

Haunts of Luther. Beauty and the Beast: an Old Tale New Told. The

Sylvan Year: Leaves from the Note-Book of Raoul Dubois. Tropical

Nature. Historical and Legendary Ballads and Songs. The National
Portrait Gallery. The Poets and Poetry of Scotland, from the Earliest to
the Present Time. The Mysterious Island; Dropped from the Clouds;
Abandoned; The Secret of the Island. The Survivors of the Chancellor:
Diary of J. R. Kazallon, Passenger. Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates :
a Story of Life in Holland. Hymns for Infant Minds. Mammalia; their
Various Forms and Habits. The History of Bluebeard's Six Wives. Mis.
cellaneous. Messrs. Cassell's Serial Publications. Serial Volumes.

Theology, Philosophy, and Philology.-Life in Christ. A Dictionary of Christian

Antiquities; being a Continuation of the 'Dictionary of the Bible.' St.

John, the Author of the Fourth Gospel. Expositions of the Book of Reve-

lation. The New Testament. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on

the Psalms. Critical and Exegetical Handbook to the Gospel of John.

Critical and Exegetical Handbook to the Epistles to the Philippians and

Colossians. Chips from a German Workshop. The Dialogues of Plato,

translated into English, with Analysis and Introductions.

The Life of Jonathan Swift. By JOHN FORSTER. Vol. I. John

Murray.

II. Ignatius-his Testimony to Primitive Conceptions

of the Christian Religion

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III. The Progress of Reform in Russia

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382

(1.) Our Situation. By A. KоsHELEFF. In Russian. Berlin.

1875.

(2.) Russia in 1870. By HERBERT BARRY. London. 1871.

(3.) Ivan at Home; or, Pictures of Russian Life. By HERBert

BARRY. London. 1872.

(4.) The Englishwoman in Russia. By a Lady Ten Years Resi-

dent in that Country. London, 1855.

The Bible Educator. Edited by the Rev. E. H. PLUMPTRE, M.A.,

Vicar of Bickley, Prebendary of St. Paul's, and Pro-

fessor of Exegesis of the New Testament, King's College,

London. Four Vols. Cassell, Petter, and Galpin. 1875.

V. Disestablishment in New England

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422

VI. Poor-Law Relief in and out of the Workhouse ... 454

(1.) Reports of Poor-Law Inspectors. 1867.

(2.) Provincial Workhouses. Ordered by the House of Commons

to be printed. 1867.

(3.) Circular Letter to Guardians. By ANDREW DOYLE, Esq.,

Poor-Law Inspector. Spottiswoode. 1873.

(4.) The Poor-Law Administration in the Aston Union. By W.

FOWLER, Esq., Chairman. Birmingham. 1873.

The Atonement. The Congregational Lecture for 1875. By R.

W. DALE, Birmingham: Hodder and Stoughton.

VIII. The Present Aspects of the Church Question

509

Disestablishment. Twelve Addresses by Mr. R. W. DALE, M.A.,

of Birmingham, and the Rev. J. GUINNESS ROGERS, B.A.,

of Lor don. Society for the Liberation of Religion, &c.

London.

History, Biography, and Travels.-The Native Races of the Pacific States of

North America. The Constitutional History of England in its Origin and

Development. A History of Eton College, 1440-1875. Memoirs of

Eminent Etonians. History of India from the Earliest Period to the Close

of the East India Company's Government. The History of Lloyds, and of

Marine Insurance in Great Britain. Cities of Italy. The Midland Railway:

its Rise and Progress. The Ecclesiastical History of Ireland from the

Earliest Period to the Present Time. Annals of Tacitus. Life, Work,

and Opinions of Heinrich Heine. Memoir of Norman Macleod, D.D., One

of her Majesty's Chaplains and Dean of the Chapel Royal, &c. William

Godwin his Friends and Contemporaries. Arthur Schopenhauer: his

Life and Philosophy. The Self-Made Man: Autobiography of Karl Fried-

rich von Klöden. Life of William, Earl of Shelburne; afterwards first

Marquess of Lansdowne. Political and Military Episodes in the latter half

of the Eighteenth Century, derived from the Life and Correspondence of

the Right Hon. John Burgoyne, General, Statesman, Dramatist. The Earls

of Middleton, Lords of Clermont and Fettercairn, and the Middleton

Family. The Vicar of Morwenstow. John Todd: the Story of his Life.

Memoirs of Rev. Charles G. Finney, the American Evangelist. The Living

Wesley, as He was in his Youth and in his Prime. William Brock, D.D.,

First Pastor of Bloomsbury Chapel. Pearls of the Pacific. Yachting in

the Arctic Seas; or, Notes of Five Voyages of Sport and Discovery in the

Neighbourhood of Spitzbergen and Novaya Zemlya. Morocco and the

Moors: being an Account of Travels, with a General Description of the

Country and its People. From the Hebrides to the Himalayas. A Sketch

of Eighteen Months' Wanderings in Western Isles and Eastern Highlands.

The Victoria Falls of the Zambesi. My Circular Notes. Bible Lands, their
Modern Customs and Manners, Illustrative of Scripture. Sport in Abyssinia,
on the Mareb and Tackazzee. Mandalay and Momien.

Politics, Science, and Art.-Essays on the External Policy of India. The

Devil's Chain. The Fine Arts and their Uses. The Habitations of Man

in All Ages. Wild Flowers from the Holy Land. Natural History of Sel-

borne. Lessons from Nature, as Manifested in Mind and Matter. Nature

and the Bible. Prehistoric Man. Researches into the Origin of Civilisa-

tion in the Old and the New World. Diseases of Modern Life. First Book

of Zoology. Animal Parasites and Messmates. A Short History of Natural

Science and of the Progress of Discovery from the Time of the Greeks to

the Present Day. Evolution of the Human Race from Apes and of Apes

from Lower Animals a Doctrine Unsanctioned by Science. Miscellaneous.

Poetry, Fiction, and Belles Lettres.- Erechtheus: a Tragedy. The Epic of

Hades. Original Plays. The Poetical Works of Ray Palmer. Joseph and

his Brethren. Laman Blanchard's Poems. The Wasps of Aristophanes.

Homeric Synchronism: an Inquiry into the Time and Place of Homer.

Dante and Beatrice. The Wise Woman: a Parable. Ben Milner's Wooing.

Ersilia. The Manchester Man. Ruth and Gabriel a Pastoral Story.

The Chronicle of Sir Harry Earlsleigh, Bart. Daniel Deronda. A Very

Woman. Cleveden. Constantia. Conquering and to Conquer. Wych

Hazel. Letters and Social Aims. Erasmus in Praise of Folly.' English

Literature. The Works of Charles Lamb: Poetical and Romantic, Tales,

Essays, and Criticisms. Essays in Criticism. Lectures, Addresses, and

other Literary Remains. The Complete Angler; or, the Contemplative

Man's Recreation. Re-Echoes. The Literature of the Kymry. A Grainmar

of the Latin Language for Middle and Higher Class Schools.

Theology, Philosophy, and Philology.-God and the Bible. Christianity and

Morality; or, the Correspondence of the Gospel with the Moral Nature

Man. The Church of England and Ritualism.

THE BRITISH

QUARTERLY REVIEW.

JANUARY, 1, 1876.

ART. I.-Herbert Spencer's Sociology.

(1.) Social Statics; or, the Conditions Essential to Human
Happiness Specified, and the first of them Developed. By
HERBERT SPENCER. Second Edition. Williams and
Norgate.

(2.) The Study of Sociology. By HERBERT SPENCER. King
and Co.

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(3.) Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative.
HERBERT SPENCER. Williams and Norgate.
(4.) Descriptive Sociology, No. 1. Classified and Arranged
by HERBERT SPENCER. Compiled and Abstracted by J.
COLLIER. Williams and Norgate.

(5.) Descriptive Sociology, No. 2. Classified and Arranged
by HERBERT SPENCER. Compiled and Abstracted by
Williams and Norgate.

RICHARD SCHIPPIG, Ph.D. (6.) Descriptive Sociology, No. 3. Classified and Arranged by HERBERT SPENCER. Compiled and Abstracted by Professor DUNCAN, Madras. Williams and Norgate. SOCIAL Science, in its origin and growth, is the outcome of a combination of scientific efforts of a more special character, each-though not always with a conscious or realising aimcontributing something that directly or indirectly helped towards the ultimate result. Elements were contributed by various writers on the Philosophy of History from Vico (if not earlier) down to Hegel. For the Philosophy of History and the Science of Society, while they are not to be con

founded, are in many points coincident, and contemplate the same facts and phenomena, though in a different relation. The idea of the unity of human society, of the exhibition of law in its movements as a whole and in the interaction of its parts, conceptions of its constitution, progress, and destiny, more or less true and of various degrees of definiteness, were thus arrived at. Much is also to be ascribed to the gradual advance of the general scientific spirit, which seeks to penetrate and bring under its sway every object of knowledge, every department of mental activity. It may be, too, that the development of Social Science has been owing hardly less to political forces, to the stimulus of practical needs and the problems these suggest, than to any purely speculative impulse. Reflections and inquiries prompted by an immediate regard to definite practical issues, or pursued in justification of measures already adopted on the ground of expediency or at the bidding of feeling and common sense, have led the way and prepared the material for more articulate and scientific treatment of the subject as a whole.

It is with Comte that the floating and incoherent thoughts previously evolved on the subject first take distinct and positive form as a science. It was he who apprehended the several departments as mutually connected, and who detached the idea of Sociology as a whole, constituting a province of its own, and who assigned its place and relation to the other divisions of knowledge. Even admitting, on the one hand, the anticipation of some of his most important doctrines by Aristotle, and, on the other, the influence exerted on him by modern German thought, widely removed as he is from its spirit, Comte may still be regarded as virtually the father of Social Science. If his doctrines were not wholly original, he has the credit of first recognising their importance and emphasising their enunciation, as well as indicating their scientific position and systematic development. The very designation of the science as Sociology is due to him; and he it was who introduced into it, as well as defined the significance of, the important distinction observed in other sciences of tatical and Dynamical laws, corresponding to the theory of possible social simultaneities-or the theory of Order, and the theory of possible social successions-or the theory of