JACKSON, WALFORD, & HODDER 18, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD AND SIMPKIN, MARSHALL AND CO., STATIONERS' HALL COURT. EDINBURGH: W. OLIPHANT AND CO. GLASGOW: J. MACLEHOSE.-DUBLIN: J. ROBERTSON. ART. CONTENTS OF No. LXXI. PAGE Lectures on the Science of Language. MULLER, M.A., Fellow of All Souls' College, Oxford, Corresponding Member of the Imperial Institute of III. The Bible; the Missal; and the Breviary. 2 Vols.. 58 IV. 1. The Alps; or, Sketches of Life and Nature in the Mountains. By H. BERLEPSCH. Translated by the 2. Sketches of Nature in the Alps. By FRIEDRICH VON 3. Mountaineering in 1861. A Vacation Tour. By JOHN TYNDALL, F.R.S., Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Royal Institution of Great Britain; Author of 4. Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers; being Excursions by Members of the Alpine Club. Second Series. Edited by EDWARD SHIRLEY KENNEDY, M.A., F.R.G.S., President of the Club. In Two Volumes. 2. Urbano Ratazzi concenni Storici Parlamentari. Par 3. Sulla Potenza Temporale del Papa, del Covvarlo The English School of Painting. Catalogues of the Pictures in the International Exhibition, 1862. 124 VII. 1. Kirche und Kirchen, Papstthum und Kirchenstaat. Historisch-politische Betrachtungen von JOH. Jos. IGN. V. DÖLLINGER. Zweiter unveränderter 2. The Church and the Churches; or, the Papacy and The Temporal Power. An Historical and 176057 153 ART. PAGE The Turkish Empire in its Relations with Chris- tianity and Civilization. By RICHARD ROBERT MADDEN, Fel. R.C.S. Eng., M.R.I.A., Author of 'Travels in Turkey,' 'Infirmities of Genius,' &c. . 179 IX. 1. Synopsis of the Contents of the International Ex- hibition of 1862. By ROBERT HUNT, F.R.S., F.S.S. Published with the authority of Her 2. Routledge's Guide to the International Exhibition. 3. Official Catalogue of the Industrial Department. By authority of Her Majesty's Commissioners. THE BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW. JULY 1, 1862. ART. I.-Lectures on the Science of Language. By MAX MÜLLER, M.A., Fellow of All Souls' College, Oxford, Corresponding Member of the Imperial Institute of France. Third Edition. London: Longman & Co. THE above Lectures, which the author informs us are only a short abstract of several courses delivered in Oxford, are a healthy sign of the times. The subject deserves more attention than it has hitherto received in this country. The Science of Language could not, any more than other sciences, become established in popular favour without first passing through the ordeal of adverse criticism. The circle of the sciences regards every new comer as exceedingly presumptuous. It desires to be very select, and gives every fresh aspirant to a share of its honours more trouble to establish his claims than a novus homo had in Rome. The Science of Language, however, has successfully combated many of the prejudices which it at first awakened, and exhibits such credentials as have secured a respectful consideration from a numerous public. Professor Max Müller shows that every physical science has had to pass through three stages. It first applies itself to the common wants of life. It appeals to the lower interests of society, and endears itself by performing menial services. It is simply practical. It then stirs the feeling of curiosity, and gratifies a love of order. It arranges its stores, and points out the resemblances, contrasts, gradations, by which this arrangement is facilitated and distinguished. And finally it assumes a loftier function. It reasons from the known to the unknown. It endeavours to explain what before it only inspected and put in order. NO. LXXI. B |