5 MAY 1883, page 16

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THE WISDOM OF GOETHE.* PROFESSOR BLAME has collected and skilfully translated for us in this little book a very striking and valuable collection of some of Goethe's most weighty......

A New Natural History.*

IN his preface, the editor of these beautifully got-up volumes asserts that more interest is usually taken in natural history early in life than later on, and there are......