. Review of reviews and world's work. ance. In 1846 he went to Eng-land, in 1849 brought out the first volume of the Rig Veda, and in 1850 settled at Oxford, where he became Tay-lorian professor of modern languages in He was made curator of the Bodleian Library in 1856. In 1868he became professor of comparative philology at Oxford. His chief works are : A History of Ancient SanskritLiterature (1859), Lectures on the Science of Language (1861-64), Handbooks for the Study of Sanskrit(1865-70), Chips from a German Workshop (1868-75), Lectures on the Science of Religion (1870), On the Origi
. Review of reviews and world's work. ance. In 1846 he went to Eng-land, in 1849 brought out the first volume of the Rig Veda, and in 1850 settled at Oxford, where he became Tay-lorian professor of modern languages in He was made curator of the Bodleian Library in 1856. In 1868he became professor of comparative philology at Oxford. His chief works are : A History of Ancient SanskritLiterature (1859), Lectures on the Science of Language (1861-64), Handbooks for the Study of Sanskrit(1865-70), Chips from a German Workshop (1868-75), Lectures on the Science of Religion (1870), On the Originand Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Religions of India (1878), and Auld Lang Syne (1898-99). He editedthe Rig Veda, in 6 volumes, and the Sacred Books of the East, in 50 volumes. The degree of was con-ferred on him by the Universities of Edinburgh, Cambridge, Bologna, Dublin, and Budapest. He was a memberof the Institute of France and of many distinguished orders. Prof. Max Miiller died at Oxford, on October 28,1900.]. THE LATE PROF. MAX MOlLER. MAX MULLER always asserted that he wasan evolutionist before Darwin, and that thegrowth, maturity, and decay of languages showedmuch more perfectly tlie laws of development thandoes the fragmentary record of the geologist. Athousand links between tliese two great pioneersare evident. Not less closely is Max Miillerswork ])ound up with Gladstones. There is themost intimate relation between the ideal of unitedItaly or the Panslavism which brought the resur-rection of the Balkan States—both causes dear to Gladstones heart—and the teaching of kinshipthrough kindred speech, the evangel of the greatphilologist. But Max Miillers direct influenceon politics by no means stopped with the Italiansand Slavs ;—he used the Crimean War as thetext of an eloquent sermon on the brotherhoodof races ; and, most of all, he worked for thegood of the Indian empire, by infusing into theminds of her future administrators a respect forher a
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