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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
BALLANTYNE AND HANSON, EDINBURGH
CHANDOS STREET, LONDON
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
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