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THE

ECLECTIC MAGAZINE

OF

FOREIGN LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART.

OLD SERIES COMPLETE IN LXIII. VOLS.

JANUARY, 1844, TO DECEMBER, 1864.

WP LIBRARY

NEW SERIES, VOL. LXVIII.
JULY TO DECEMBER, 1898.

NEW YORK:

E. R. PELTON, PUBLISHER, 19 EAST 16TH STREET.

1898.

183672

INDEX TO VOLUME LXVIII.

PAGE

A TROLL IN NORWAY. BY P. A. Wright Henderson.......
AERIAL VOYages..

AFRICAN GUANO ISLANDS, The...

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Blackwood's Magazine.....
Temple Bar...
Chambers's Journal...
Gentleman's Magazine....

AFTER CORN HARVEST. By Alfred Wellesley Rees..
AMERICAN "Yellow JournaliSM." By Elizabeth L. Banks. Nineteenth Century.

AN OLD FAMILY PORTRAIT. By H. N. M..

ANGLO-AMERICAN FUTURE, THE. By Frederick Green

wood..

ARE THE AMERICANS ANglo-Saxons?.

ASPECTS OF EMPIRE AND COLONIZATION:
SPECTIVE. By R. D. Melville...

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Nineteenth Century.....
.Spectator.....

PAST AND PRO

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Westminster Review.

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289

296

721

708

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532

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BISMARCK, PRINCE-PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS. By Will

BRAIN-POWER OF PLANTS, THE. By Arthur Smith..

Speaker.....

Contemporary Review..

Sunday Magazine..

BRITISH RECORD IN CHINA, THE. By Alexis Krausse......Fortnightly Review.............
BUSINESS TOUR IN CHINA, A RECENT. By C. A. Moreing. Nineteenth Century...
BY THE RIVER. By F. B. Doveton..

CAPTURE OF HAVANA BY ENGLAND, 1762, THE. By John
Adye...

CALL FROM THE SEA, A. By J. Winder Good.

CHILDREN'S WAYS..

CHINA, THE EMPRESS-REGENT OF....

Gentleman's Magazine..

COAL, TRADE, and the EMPIRE. By Archibald S. Hurd...Nineteenth Century...
COMMERCIAL EDUCATION IN FRANCE AND IN ENGLAND.
By Ernest E. Williams...

COMPRESSED AIR AND ELECTRICITY. By P. Kropotkin..
CONCERNING PEOPLE WHO Disappointed ONE. By A.

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ENGLAND'S DUTIES AS A NEUTRAL. By John Macdonell...Nineteenth Century.
ENGLAND'S DEstiny in ChinA. By F. E. Younghusband.. Contemporary Review..
ENGLISHMEN, THE SELFISHNESS OF....
EPPING FOREST. By P. Anderson Graham..
FASHODA AND THE UPPER NILE. By Demetrius C. Boulger. Contemporary Review..
FENIMORE, MRS. By J. W. Sherer..
FLAMBOROUGH HEAD....

..Longman's Magazine.

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Nineteenth Century..

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408

..Longman's Magazine..

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..Gentleman's Magazine....

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Contemporary Review...
..Cornhill Magazine..
.Spectator..

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Michael Macdonagh.

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IMPRESSIONISM, THE PHILOSOPHY OF. By C. F. Keary..... Blackwood's Magazine..

89

FORTUITOUS DISCOVERY,

FRENCH PEASANT, THE..

FROZEN FOOD. By Leonard W. Lillingston...

FUR TRADE, ROMANCE OF THE: THE COMPANIES.
GLADSTONE, MR. I. By Canon Malcolm MacColl..
GOLF, THE SPECIAL ATTRACTION OF.

GOSSAMER THREADS.

GREAT MEN: THEIR SIMPLICITY

AND

Gentleman's Magazine..

Chambers's Journal..
.Spectator...

..Good Words.......

Blackwood's Magazine..
.Fortnightly Review..
.Blackwood's Magazine..
.Pall Mall Magasine..

IGNORANCE.

By

Cornhill Magazine................

GREAT BRITAin v. France AND RUSSIA. By J. N. Hamp

National Review..

...Cornhill Magazine...

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For nearly eight hundred years the only Bible from which paraphrases or metrical versions could be made was the Latin Vulgate, the knowledge of Greek and Hebrew being during that period practically non-existent. In the In the famous abbey on the cliffs at Whitby, Cadmon had sung the scripture story of man's creation and of his fall, of Israel and of Christ. The dying hours of Bæde, the grand old monk of Jarrow, had been devoted to the completion of a translation into English of he Gospel according to St. John. AldNEW SERIES.-VOL, LXVIII., No. 1.

helm had made a version of the Psalter, King Alfred of the four Evangelists, Elfric of the seven first books of the Old Testament. But for our present purpose we may set on one side the merely fragmentary renderings that have come down to us. Adaptations rather than translations of the more familiar portions of the Vulgate, they are full of interest as witnessing to the continuity of our literature; but what with the costliness of early manuscripts, the tardiness with which copies were multiplied, and the absence of any reading public, their circulation must have been practically confined to circles of private friends or of brother ecclesiastics. It is not until we reach the fourteenth century that we find a really close translation of any one complete book of Scripture. Dating from the first half of that century we have two such translations of the Psalms, the one by William de Schorham, the other by Richard Rolle, the author of The Pricke of Conscience, and better known as the Hermit of Hampole. To the last half of the century belong two works whose widespread and lasting influence it would be difficult to exaggerate, and which, by their rapid dissemination among the common people, contributed in no inconsiderable degree to that great religious revolution in England which we call the Reformation. The one is Langland's Vision

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