This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ...human souls, had not sounded their ' Give! give!' from her lips either in fiction or in song--' Aurora Leigh' being the glorious solitary exception." With all consideration for the poetic sensibility of the author--a sensibility in advance of her artistic power, as is, alas, the way with most of us--we fear we must say ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ...human souls, had not sounded their ' Give! give!' from her lips either in fiction or in song--' Aurora Leigh' being the glorious solitary exception." With all consideration for the poetic sensibility of the author--a sensibility in advance of her artistic power, as is, alas, the way with most of us--we fear we must say that the "idyll of a woman's heart" remains yet unsung, and that the solitude of " Aurora Leigh" is still unshared. From The Wesleyan Conference Office. Memorials of Mrs. Elizabeth Slum, for eigltty-seren years a member of tint Wesleyan Methodist Church. By R C. Barratt. Mrs. Shaw was a devout Cornish Methodist, much loved and honoured by those who witnessed any part of her long and saintly life. She lived to the remarkable age of ninety-nine years, and in extreme age was of a cheerful spirit, full of humility, thankfulness, and love. From Messrs. Trubner And Co. Tlie Recent Origin of Man as Illustrated by Geology ami tlie Modern Science of Pre-Histork Archaeology. By James C. Southall. Illustrated. The vast antiquity claimed for man by the representatives of crude modern science, and wholly opposed to the Scriptural version of man's origin, is one of the most important topics upon which theology and science (so-called) are at issue; and we have, on more than one occasion, as behoves, stood up against the pretensions of those who claim the title of " science " for speculations of an unsafe kind and of an anti-biblical tendency. From across the Atlantic we hail a voluminous and careful treatise framed with the view of checking these very pretensions of speculation to rank as science, which we must ever regard as adverse to the interests of truth; and the author of this work (Mr. James C. Southall) deserves gr...
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