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The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879

Volume 36 — Introductory material

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OCTOBER, 1879.

India and Afghanistan. By Lieut.-Colonel R. D. Osborn193

Critical Idealism in France. By Paul Janet212

On the Moral Limits of Beneficial Commerce. By Francis W. Newman232

The Myths of the Sea and the River of Death. By C. F. Keary243

Mr. Macvey Napier and the Edinburgh Reviewers. By Matthew Browne263

The Supreme God in the Indo-European Mythology. By James Darmesteter274

Lazarus Appeals to Dives. By Henry J. Miller290

The Forms and Colours of Living Creatures. By Professor St. George Mivart313

Contemporary Life and Thought in Turkey. By an Eastern Statesman334

Contemporary Books:—

I. History and Literature of the East, under the Direction of Professor E. H. Palmer350

II. Classical Literature, under the Direction of Rev. Prebendary J. Davies359

III. Essays, Novels, Poetry, &c. under the Direction of Matthew Browne366

NOVEMBER, 1879.

On Freedom. By Professor Max Müller369

Mr. Gladstone: Two Studies suggested by his "Gleanings of Past Years." I. By a Liberal.—II. By a Conservative398

The Ancien Régime and the Revolution in France. By Professor von Sybel432

What is the Actual Condition of Ireland? By Edward Stanley Robertson451

The Deluge: Its Traditions in Ancient Nations. By François Lenormant465

Suspended Animation. By Richard A. Proctor501

John Stuart Mill's Philosophy Tested. IV.—Utilitarianism. By Professor W. Stanley Jevons521

DECEMBER, 1879.

The Lord's Prayer and the Church: Letters Addressed to the Clergy. By John Ruskin, D.C.L.539

India under Lord Lytton. By Lieut.-Colonel R. D. Osborn553

On the Utility to Flowers of their Beauty. By the Hon. Justice Fry574

Where are we in Art? By Lady Verney588

Life in Constantinople Fifty Years Ago. By an Eastern Statesman601

Miracles, Prayer, and Law. By J. Boyd Kinnear617

What is Rent? By Professor Bonamy Price630

Buddhism and Jainism. By Professor Monier Williams644

Lord Beaconsfield:—665

I. Why we Follow Him. By a Tory.

II. Why we Disbelieve in Him. By a Whig.

Contemporary Life and Thought in France. By Gabriel Monod697

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