10 FEBRUARY 1900, page 16

Books.

ONE OF THE KINGSLEYS.* IT is worth noticing that the records of intellectual eminence in this century show a peculiar number of cases where the distinction has not concentrated......

Lord Playfair Of St. Andrews.*

LORD PLAYFAIR did not occupy a place in the front rank of Euglish men of science, nor was he a statesman of the first order. He might have made a name in science, but he early......