HIATUS: the Void in Modern Education. Its Cause and Antidote. By Outis. 8vo. 8s. 6d.
The main object of this Essay is to point out how the emotional element which underlies the Fine Arts is disregarded and undeveloped at this time so far as (despite a pretence at filling it up) to constitute an Educational Hiatus.
Huxley (Professor).—LAY SERMONS, ADDRESSES, AND REVIEWS. By T. H. Huxley, LL.D., F.R.S. Second and Cheaper Edition, crown 8vo. 7s. 6d.
Fourteen discourses on the following subjects:—On the Advisableness of Improving Natural Knowledge; Emancipation—Black and White; A Liberal Education, and where to find it; Scientific Education; on the Educational Value of the Natural History Sciences; on the Study of Zoology; on the Physical Basis of Life; the Scientific Aspects of Positivism; on a Piece of Chalk; Geological Contemporaneity and Persistent Types of Life; Geological Reform; the Origin of Species; Criticisms on the “Origin of Species;” on Descartes’ “Discourse touching the Method of using one’s Reason rightly and of seeking Scientific Truth.”
ESSAYS SELECTED FROM LAY SERMONS, ADDRESSES, AND REVIEWS. Crown 8vo. Cloth. 2s.
Whilst publishing a second edition of his Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews, Professor Huxley has, at the suggestion of many friends, issued in a cheap and popular form the selection we are now noticing. It includes the following essays:—(1) On the Advisableness of Improving Natural Knowledge. (2) A Liberal Education, and where to find it. (3) Scientific Education, notes of an after-dinner speech. (4) On the Physical Basis of Life. (5) The Scientific Aspects of Positivism. (6) On Descartes’ “Discourse touching the Method of using one’s Reason Rightly and of seeking Scientific Truth.”
Kennedy.—LEGENDARY FICTIONS OF THE IRISH CELTS. Collected and Narrated by Patrick Kennedy. Crown 8vo. With Two Illustrations. 7s. 6d.
“A very admirable popular selection of the Irish fairy stories and legends, in which those who are familiar with Mr. Croker’s, and other selections of the same kind, will find much that is fresh, and full of the peculiar vivacity and humour, and sometimes even of the ideal beauty, of the true Celtic Legend.”—Spectator.
Kingsley (Canon).—See also “Historic Section,” “Works Of Fiction,” and “Philosophy;” also “Juvenile Books,” and “Theology.”
THE SAINTS’ TRAGEDY: or, The True Story of Elizabeth of Hungary. By the Rev. Charles Kingsley. With a Preface by the Rev. F. D. Maurice. Third Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 5s.