Professor Fleeming Jenkin

Abstract

THIS is a work of great interest to many classes of scientific men, as well as to the public at large. Its contents are of an extremely varied character. Readers of NATURE, as such, are not deeply concerned with discussions of Female Dress in ancient Greece, with Rhythm in English verse, or with the characteristics of Mrs. Siddons as an actress. Nor will they, as a body, care much for the merits and demerits of Trade Unions, the relations of Supply and Demand, or other branches of the would-be science called Political Economy. The literary and economic Journals, on the other hand, will probably regard these as among the more valuable contents of these volumes.

Papers, Literary, Scientific, &c., by the late Fleeming Jenkin, F.R.S., LL.D.

Edited by Sidney Colvin J. A. Ewing With a Memoir by Robert Louis Stevenson. 2 vols. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1887.)