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Title: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.

Author: Various

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BLACKWOOD'S
EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

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No. CCCXXXVI. OCTOBER, 1843. VOL. LIV.

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CONTENTS.

MILL'S LOGIC.
MY COUNTRY NEIGHBOURS.
TRAVELS OF KERIM KHAN.
THE THIRTEENTH; A TALE OF DOOM.
REMINISCENCES OF SYRIA.
THE FATE OF POLYCRATES.
MODERN PAINTERS.
A ROYAL SALUTE.
PHYSICAL SCIENCE IN ENGLAND.
CHRONICLES OF PARIS. THE RUE ST DENIS.
THE LAST SESSION OF PARLIAMENT.

MILL'S LOGIC.[1]

[1] A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive;
being a connected view of the Principles of Evidence,
and the Methods of Scientific Investigation. By John
Stuart Mill. In two volumes. London: Parker.

These are _not_ degenerate days. We have still strong thinkers amongst
us; men of untiring perseverance, who flinch before no difficulties,
who never hide the knot which their readers are only too willing that
they should let alone; men who dare write what the ninety-nine out of
every hundred will pronounce a _dry_ book; who pledge themselves, not
to the public, but to their subject, and will not desert it till their
task is completed. One of this order is Mr John Stuart Mill. The work
he has now presented to the public, we deem to be, after its kind, of
the very highest character, every where displaying powers of clear,
patient, indefatigable thinking. Abstract enough it must be allowed to
be, calling for an unremitted attention, and yielding but little, even
in