Spellings are sometimes erratic. A few obviousmisprints and punctuation omissions have been corrected, but in general the original spelling hasbeen retained.
| The Navigation Of The Antipodes | 515 |
| American Copyright. | 534 |
| Evenings At Sea.—no. II. | |
| Henry Meynell | 547 |
| Was Rubens A Colourist? | 564 |
| The American Library. | 574 |
| Units: Tens: Hundreds: Thousands. | 593 |
| Research And Adventure In Australia. | 602 |
| Magus Muir. | 614 |
| A November Morning's Reverie. | 618 |
| Valedictory Visits At Rome. | |
| The Villa Borghese. | 622 |
| The Villa Albani. | 625 |
| Highland Destitution. | 630 |
One of the most striking, and perhaps the most intellectual advancesof the age, is in the progress of geographical discovery. It ishonourable to England, that this new impulse to a knowledge of theglobe began with her spirit of enterprise, and it is still morehonourable to her that that spirit was originally prompted bybenevolence. Cook, with whose voyages this era may be regarded asoriginating, was almost a missionary of the benevolence of England,and of George III.; and the example of both the great discoverer andthe good king has been so powerfully impressed on all the subsequentattempts of English adventurers, that there has been scarcely a voyageto new regions which has not been expressly devised to carry with itsome benefit to their people.
When the spirit of discovery was thus once awakened, a succession ofintelligent and daring men were stimulated to the pursuit; and thememorable James Bruce, who had begun life as a lawyer, grown weary ofthe profession, and turned traveller through the South of Europe at aperiod when the man who ventured across the Pyrenees was a hero;gallantly fixed his eyes on Africa, as a region of wonders, of whichEurope had no other knowledge than as a land of lions, of men moresavage than the lions, and of treasures of ivory and gold teeming andunexhausted since the days of Solomon. The hope of solving the oldclassic problem, the source of the Nile, pointed his steps toAbyssinia, and after a six years' preparation in his consulate ofAlgiers, he set forward on his da