LIFE AND LETTERS OF JAMES HINTON. Edited by ELLICE HOPKINS. With an Introduction by Sir W. W. GULL, and a Portrait engraved by JEENS. Crown 8vo. Cloth, price 8s. 6d. BY THE LATE JAMES HINTON. The Place of the Physician. To which is added, ESSAYS ON THE LAW OF HUMAN LIFE, AND ON THE RELATION BETWEEN ORGANIC AND INORGANIC WORLDS. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. Cloth, price 3s. 6d. An Atlas of Diseases of the Membrane Tympani. The Questions of Aural Surgery. With Illustra- Life in Nature. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s. BY ELLICE HOPKINS, Editor of the "Life and Letters of James Hinton." Rose Turquand: A Novel. Second and Cheaper Edition. Crown 8vo. Cloth, 6s. it "If Rose Turquand' is a maiden novel, as we may suppose, does its author very great credit. It shows real power, and no little originality. . . . Rose is certainly brought out as a noble character; none the less so that there can be no mistaking that she is made of flesh and blood like ourselves."-Times. Work in Brighton; or, Woman's Mission to Women. Ninth Thousand. 16mo. Sewed, 6d. "From my own experience in long past years, I am quite sure that the way indicated in 'Work in Brighton' is the only true way; and I would entreat the women of England to read the little book, and then judge, each for herself, in what way she can help a cause which, for the sake of home and family, has a claim on every woman. I bid the work God speed' with all my heart, and soul, and strength."-Florence Nightingale. CHAPTERS ON THE ART OF THINKING. AND OTHER ESSAYS. BY THE LATE JAMES HINTON. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SHADWORTH HODGSON. EDITED BY C. H. HINTON. LONDON: C. KEGAN PAUL & Co., I PATERNOSTER SQUARE. 1879. PREFACE. THE present volume is composed partly of papers which were found amongst the manuscripts left by my father in a form ready for publication, partly of essays which have appeared on various occasions in literary or scientific periodicals. No use has been made of the greater mass of the manuscripts which exist, as they were intended to be entirely rewritten and rearranged before publication. Nor have any extracts been given from a series of volumes which contain his work from 1859 to 1863 and again from 1869 to 1870. These volumes would form the most available source to whoever wished to make a study of the course and bearings of my father's inquiries, but are hardly adapted for general perusal, as they are more a record of his thoughts in the process and order of development than an exposition of the results at which he arrived. In order to make their contents accessible, it is necessary to bring together into one parts which are often |