11 MAY 1878, page 24

Darwinisnz Tested By Language. By F. Bateman, M.d....

was said long ago by Aristotle "that animals merely emit sounds (0.'0, but have no articulate speech (S■fixizros), which is the peculiar characteristic of man." There is no such......

The Magazines.

THE best article in the Contemporary, and indeed, we may say in the Magazines for this month, is, to our minds, Mr. Goldwin Smith's, on "The Greatness of the Romans." It is a......

Current Literature.

Friends of Sir W. Holmes have called our attention to an attack upon him in our notice, published a fortnight since, of Mr. Evans's Illyria which they consider unwarranted. It......