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ature of the Restoration. V. Dean Swift. VI. Chatterton: A Story of the Year 1770. VII. Wordsworth. VIII. Scottish Influence on British Literature. IX. Theories of Poetry. X. Prose and Verse: De Quincey. 'Mr. Masson has succeeded in producing a series of criticisms in relation to creative literature which are satisfactory as well as subtile--which are not only ingenious, but which possess the rarer recommendation of being usually just.' --THE TIMES. * * * * * * * * * RELIGIO CHEMICI. By GEORGE WILSON, M.D. late Regius Professor of Technology in the University of Edinburgh. Crown 8vo. cloth. With a Vignette Title Page by NOEL PATON, engraved by C. JEENS. Price 8s. 6d. COUNSELS OF AN INVALID: Letters on Religious Subjects. By GEORGE WILSON. M.D. With Vignette Portrait. Fcp. 8vo. cloth, 4s. 6d. THE FIVE GATEWAYS OF KNOWLEDGE. A popular work on the Five Senses. By GEORGE WILSON, M.D. Eighth Thousand. In fcp. 8vo. cloth, with gilt leaves, 2s. 6d. People's Edition in ornamental stiff cover, 1s. THE PROGRESS OF THE TELEGRAPH. By GEORGE WILSON, M.D. Fcp. 8vo. 1s. MEMOIR OF GEORGE WILSON, M.D. F.R.S.E. Regius Professor of Technology in the University of Edinburgh. By his Sister, JESSIE AITKEN WILSON. With Portrait. 8vo. cloth, price 10s. 6d. 'His life was so pregnant in meaning, so rich in noble deeds, so full of that spiritual vitality which serves to quicken life in others; it bore witness to so many principles which we can only fully understand when we see them in action: it presented so many real pictures of dauntless courage and of Christian heroism, that we welcome gratefully the attempt to reproduce it which has resulted in the volume before us. Miss Wilson has entered lovingly upon her task, and has accomplished it well.' --PRESS. MEMOIR OF EDWARD FORBES, F.R.S. Late Regius Professor of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh. By GEORGE WILSON, M.D. F.R.S.E. and ARCHIBALD GEIKIE, F.R.S.E. F.G.S. of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. 8vo. cloth, with Portrait, 14s. 'We welcome this volume as a graceful tribute to the memory of as gifted, tender, generous a soul as Science has ever reared, and prematurely lost.' --LITERARY GAZETTE. * * * * * * * * * MEMOIR OF THE LIFE OF THE REV. ROBER
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