CONTENTS OF VOL. X. PAGE . . THE EARLY LIFE OF THOMAS CARLYLE. By James Anthony Froude 1 NEW MARKETS FOR BRITISH PRODUCE. By George Baden-Powell. 43 Second CHAMBERS. By Sir David Wedderburn, Bart. GOSSIP OF AN OLD BOOKWORM. By William J. Thoms 63, 886 HEALTH AND PHYSIQUE OF OUR CITY POPULATIONS. M. RENAN AND MIRACLES. By Frederic W. H. Myers CONFISCATION AND COMPENSATION. By E. D. J. Wilson 107 UNITY IN THE CHURCH OF CHRIST. By Earl Nelson A DREDGING GROUND. By the Hon. Emily Lawless MAN'S PLACE IN NATURE. By the Bishop of Carlisle ISOLATED FREE TRADE. (1.) By Sir E. Sullivan, Bart. (2.) By 161 “TAE RETOLUTIONARY PARTY. By the Earl of Dunraven THE COMING OF AGE OF THE VOLUNTEERS. By Sir Robert Loyd- HEREDITARY RULERS. By the Marquis of Blandford 217 PRESIDENT GARFIELD. By the Rev. Robert Shindler THE INTELLIGENCE OF Ants (concluded). By George J. Romanes . 245 My RETURN TO ARCADY. By the Rev. Dr. Jessopp. THE ARAB MONUMENTS OF EGYPT. By Frank Dillon PANTHEISM, AND Cosmic EMOTION. By Frederic Harrison . COUNTY CHARACTERISTICS—Kent. By H. G. Hewlett WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH OUR BANKRUPTS ? By Viscount Sher. THE DEADLOCK IN THE HOUSE OF Commons. By Frederic Harrison . 317 HOW TO EAT BREAD. By Louisa S. Bevington SCRUTIN DE LISTE ET SCRUTIN D'ARRONDISSEMENT. By M. Joseph WOMEN AS CIVIL SERVANTS. By Margaret E. Harkness THE PLACE OF REVELATION IN EVOLUTION. By the Rev. T. W. "Four CENTURIES or English LETTERS.' By Sir Henry Taylor . . . THE WORKMAN's View of 'FAIR TRADE.' By George Potter FRANCE AND NORTH AFRICA. By the Earl de la Warr Thomas P. Whittaker Brown Venables Principal Tulloch Lyulph Stanley . , THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. No. LIII.-JULY 1881. THE EARLY LIFE OF THOMAS CARLYLE. the The river Annan, rising above Moffat in Hartfell, in the Deil's Beef Tub, descends from the mountains through a valley gradually widening and spreading out, as the fells are left behind, into the rich and wellcultivated district known as Annandale. Picturesque and broken in upper part of its course, the stream, when it reaches the level country, steals slowly among meadows and undulating wooded hills, till at the end of fifty miles it falls into the Solway at Annan town. Annandale, famous always for its pasturage, suffered especially before the union of the kingdoms from border forays, the effects of which were long to be traced in a certain wildness of disposition in the inhabitants. Dumfriesshire, to which it belongs, was sternly Cameronian. Stories of the persecutions survived in the farmhouses as their most treasured historical traditions. Cameronian congregations lingered till the beginning of the present century, when they merged in other bodies of seceders from the established religion. In its hard fight for spiritual freedom Scotch Protestantism lost respect for kings and nobles, and looked to Christ rather than to earthly rulers. Before the Reformation all Scotland was clannish or feudal; and the Dumfriesshire yeomanry, like the rest, were organised under great noble families, whose pennon they followed, whose name they bore, and the remotest kindred with which, even to a tenth generation, they were proud to claim. Among the families of the western border the Carlyles were not the least disVOL. X.-No. 53. B |
