1856 Edinburgh Review Arago, Palestine & Mecca, Mountaineering, New Poets, ETC

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Hard to find complete 158 year-old, 152-page, October , 1856 issue of the Edinburgh Review (American Edition.) A very good copy. Just a few brown spots to the opening page, otherwise a very good copy. See photos. For complete contents , see photo #4. Highlights include : English clergyman, mathematician, Darwinian, and reformer, Baden Powell's essay on the life and works of the French scientist and astronomer, Francois Arago . A longer essay on what were at the time " New Poets " by poet and critic Coventry Patmore , the most competent of mid-Victorian reviewers, and an early and notable prosody theorist. He here lists for treatment works by George and Owen Meredith , Philip James Bailey , Sydney Dobell , Alexander Smith , William Allingham , Matthew Arnold and others. C.W. Russell's essay on travels to and history in " Sinai , Palestine , and Mecca ." This in review of new books by Richard F. Burton and Arthur Penrhyn " Dean " Stanley . Herman Merivale reviews four new works related to mountaineering, " Alpine Travellers ." G.S. Venables on " Beaumarchais and His Times." Moncton Milnes (later Lord Houghton) on John Coneybeare's new novel, " Perversion ." W.R. Greg on Alexis de Tocqueville's "France before the Revolution." The young (age 29) American journalist and later editor William Henry Hurlbert's essay on political turmoil read more

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