7 DECEMBER 1861, page 19

Lives Of The Engineers.*

Is the two volumes of Mr. Smiles's new work now before us, we see a kind of rudimentary contribution to Mr. Carlyle's desiderated epic of " Tools and the Man " Here at least is......

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CELEBRATED FRIENDSHIPS.* Tim press has been rather more than righteously severe on Mrs. Thomson,—a little Pharisaic in its over-righteous severity. The book is, indeed, full of......