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Title: The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879

Author: Various

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THE
CONTEMPORARY
REVIEW

VOLUME XXXVI. SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER, 1879

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STRAHAN AND COMPANY LIMITED
34 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON
1879

Ballantyne Press
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXXVI.

SEPTEMBER, 1879.
PAGE
The Future of China. By Sir Walter H. Medhurst 1

Animals and Plants. By Professor St. George Mivart 13

The Artistic Dualism of the Renaissance. By Vernon Lee 44

The Social Philosophy and Religion of Comte. By Professor Edward
Caird. IV. 66

The Problem of the Great Pyramid. By Richard A. Proctor 93

Conspiracies in Russia under the Reigning Czar. By Karl Blind 120

The First Sin, as Recorded in the Bible and in Ancient Oriental
Tradition. By Francois Lenormant 148

Political and Intellectual Life in Greece. By N. Kasasis 164

Contemporary Books:--

I. Biblical Literature, under the Direction of the Hon.
and Rev. W. H. Fremantle 182

II. Essays, Novels, Poetry, &c. under the Direction of
Matthew Browne 187

OCTOBER, 1879.

India and Afghanistan. By Lieut.-Colonel R. D. Osborn 193

Critical Idealism in France. By Paul Janet 212

On the Moral Limits of Beneficial Commerce. By Francis W. Newman 232

The Myths of the Sea and the River of Death. By C. F. K