[1] The Life of John Milton, narrated in connection with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of his time. By David Masson, M. A., Professor of English Literature in University College, London, Cambridge: Macmillan. An Account of the Life, Opinions, and Writings of John Milton. By Thomas Keightley; with an Introduction to "Paradise Lost." London: Chapman & Hall. The Poems of Milton, with Notes by Thomas Keightley. London; Chapman & Hall. [2] Review of Lockhart's Scott. [3] "L'Allegro." [4] "Life of Milton." [5] Sonnet xix. [6] "Though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues." --"Paradise Lost," Book vii. [7] John Henry Newman's "Call of David." [8] "Apology for Smectymnuus." [9] "Reason of Church Government," introduction to Book iii. [10] Philips. [11] Translated by Keightley from "Defensio Secunda." [12] Wordsworth, "Tintern Abbey." [13] "Life of Milton." [14] Philips. [15] "Defense of the People of England," Chap. iv. [16] "Paradise Lost," Book vii. [17] Richardson. [18] Book v., Raphael to Adam. [19] Imitation of Horace's Epistle to Augustus, Book ii., Ep. i. [20] Book iv. [21] "Essay on Satire." SCIENCE AND CULTURE BY THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY _INTRODUCTORY NOTE_ _Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-95) was born at Baling, near London, and having studied medicine went to sea as assistant surgeon in the navy. After leaving the Government service, he became Professor of Natural History at the Royal School of Mines and Fullerian Professor of Physiology at the Royal Institution, and later held many commissions and received many distinctions in the scientific world. His special field was morphology, and in it he produced a large number of monographs and several comprehensive manuals._ _It is not, however, by his original contributions to knowledge that Huxley's name is best known to readers outside of technical science, but rather by his labors in popularisation and in polemics. He was one of the foremost and most effective champions of Darwinism, and no scientist has been more conspicuous in the battle between the doctrine of evolution and the older religious orthodoxy. Outside of this particular issue, he was a vigorous opponent of supernaturalism in all its forms, and a supporter of the agnosticism which demands that nothing shall be believed "with greater assurance than the evidence warrants"--the evidence intended being, of course, of the same kind as that admitted in natural science._ _Huxley's interests thus extended from pure science into many adjoining fields, such as those of theology, philosophy (where he wrote an admirable book on Hume), and education. Of his attitude toward this last, a clear idea may be gained from the following address on "Science and Culture," a singularly forcible plea for the importance of natural science in general education._