Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, Nigel Blower and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Transcriber's Notes: The first part of this volume (September 1879) was produced as Project Gutenberg Ebook #30048. The relevant part of the table of contents has been extracted from that document, and a brief title page added. _Italic words_ have been enclosed in underscores. A few minor typographical errors have been silently corrected. Some inconsistent hyphenation and accents have been retained.] THE CONTEMPORARY REVIEW VOLUME XXXVI. OCTOBER, 1879 CONTENTS. OCTOBER, 1879. PAGE India and Afghanistan. By Lieut.-Colonel R. D. Osborn 193 Critical Idealism in France. By Paul Janet 212 On the Moral Limits of Beneficial Commerce. By Francis W. Newman 232 The Myths of the Sea and the River of Death. By C. F. Keary 243 Mr. Macvey Napier and the Edinburgh Reviewers. By Matthew Browne 263 The Supreme God in the Indo-European Mythology. By James Darmesteter 274 Lazarus Appeals to Dives. By Henry J. Miller 290 The Forms and Colours of Living Creatures. By Professor St. George Mivart 313 Contemporary Life and Thought in Turkey. By an Eastern Statesman 334 Contemporary Books:-- I. History and Literature of the East, under the Direction of Professor E. H. Palmer 350 II. Classical Literature, under the Direction of Rev. Prebendary J. Davies 359 III. Essays, Novels, Poetry, &c.under the Direction of Matthew Browne 366 INDIA AND AFGHANISTAN.