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D. Appleton & Company's Publications.

LAY SERMONS,

ADDRESSES, AND REVIEWS,

Cloth, 12mo. 390 pages. Price, $1.75

This is the latest and most popular of the works of this intrepid and accomplished English thinker. The American edition of the work is the latest, and contains, in addition to the English edition. Professor Huxley's recent masterly address on "Spontaneous Generation," delivered before the British Association for the Advancement of Science, of which he was president.

The following is from an able article in the Independent:

The "Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews" is a book to be read by every one who would keep up with the advance of truth—as well by those who are hostile as those who are friendly to his conclusions. In it, scientific and philosophical topics are handled with consummate ability. It is remarkable for purity of style and power of expression. Nowhere, in any modern work, is the advancement of the pursuit of that natural knowledge, which is of vital importance to bodily and mental well-being, so ably handled.

Professor Huxley is undoubtedly the representative scientific man of the age. His reverence for the right and devotion to truth have established his leadership of modern scientific thought. He leads the beliefs and aspirations of the increasingly powerful body of the younger men of science. His ability for research is marvellous. There is possible no more equipoise of judgment than that to which he brings the phenomena of Nature. Besides, he is not a mere scientist. His is a popularized philosophy; social questions have been treated by his pen in a manner most masterly. In his popular addresses, embracing the widest range of topics, he treads on ground with which he seems thoroughly familiar.

There are those who hold the name of Professor Huxley as synonymous with irreverence and atheism. Plato's was so held, and Galileo's, and Descartes's, and Newton's, and Faraday's. There can be no greater mistake. No man has greater reverence for the Bible than Huxley. No one more acquaintance with the text of Scripture. He believes there is definite government of the universe; that pleasures and pains are distributed in accordance with law; and that the certain proportion of evil woven up in the life even of worms will help the man who thinks to bear his own share with courage.

In the estimate of Professor Huxley's future influence upon science, his youth and health form a large element. Be has just passed his forty-fifth year. If God spare his life, truth can hardly fail to be the gainer from a mind that is stored with knowledge of the laws of the Creator's operations, and that has learned to love all beauty and hate all vileness of Nature and art.