THE CONTEMPORARY REVIEW VOLUME XXXVI. SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER, 1879 [Illustration] STRAHAN AND COMPANY LIMITED 34 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON 1879 Ballantyne Press BALLANTYNE AND HANSON, EDINBURGH CHANDOS STREET, LONDON CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXXVI. SEPTEMBER, 1879. PAGE The Future of China. By Sir Walter H. Medhurst 1 Animals and Plants. By Professor St. George Mivart 13 The Artistic Dualism of the Renaissance. By Vernon Lee 44 The Social Philosophy and Religion of Comte. By Professor Edward Caird. IV. 66 The Problem of the Great Pyramid. By Richard A. Proctor 93 Conspiracies in Russia under the Reigning Czar. By Karl Blind 120 The First Sin, as Recorded in the Bible and in Ancient Oriental Tradition. By François Lenormant 148 Political and Intellectual Life in Greece. By N. Kasasis 164 Contemporary Books:-- I. Biblical Literature, under the Direction of the Hon. and Rev. W. H. Fremantle 182 II. Essays, Novels, Poetry, &c. under the Direction of Matthew Browne 187 OCTOBER, 1879. 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 NOVEMBER, 1879. On Freedom. By Professor Max Müller 369 Mr. Gladstone: Two Studies suggested by his "Gleanings of Past Years." I. By a Liberal.--II. By a Conservative 398 The Ancien Régime and the Revolution in France. By Professor von Sybel 432