New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-02-19
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
MICHAEL FARADAY.

q
ble contribution 70 scientific history. Faraday has
been called the greatest ezpeumenter who ever
lived His labors were pursued with remarkable as
siduitv through 8 long life and were crowned with
The most brilliant results HE manuscript remains,
consisting of familiar and professional letters Jour
mails, scientific diaries, memoranda, and reports
were happily abGndant; and finally, DR. Bence
Jones TO whom the preparation the Life, trontheSe
materials was iutrused was closely associated with
the eminent discovecer in his fovorite pursuits, ana
enjoyed also his personal friendship The volumes
before Us are therefore of necessity important; Dut
that they are also interesting is fact for when the
compiler deserves no credit. There was a beauty
IN Faradays cLaracte- and brightness in his life
which even the most uuskillful biographer could
hardly obscure. Dr. Bence Jones has perhaps. done
AS much to spoil his materials as any man of aver
age acouircmentS could do; but the book Is interest
inc I'M spite Of him. lie has been under no neces-
sity of depending muck upon his own powers Of
narration. The journals the letters, the minutes OF
observations and experiments needed only slender
thread of connection and occasional explanatory
note. In The arrangement Of these aUtobiographc
materials DR.. Bence Jones hIs gone to work with
mothodica sort Of precision almost cOmcal lie has
cat the life mp into lengths which he denomnates
periods AS the period Of Iaradays Earlier
Scientific Education Higher Scientific Ed
ucauou," First Period Of Electrical Research,
Later Period Of Electrical Research and
..p..liue." and hc has sIlIdividcd each period
into single years, aud each year into three
sections. one being devoted 20 an account OF
Taradays scientific aboys iu that year. 10 cat
alOcue of the distinctions conferred upon him, and
one TO his personal history and letters Illustrating
l,charact,r The effect of this excess of system is
10 break up the philosophers career into multitude
oi fragments ont of which il is difficult 70 construct
a clear narrative of any Of lis great achievements.
Fortunately. however, a much ADLER hand had al
ready performed q part Of the task to which Dr.
R,ucc Joue, proves unequal. For survey of Fara-
DAYS laboIs and especially an account of the success
siyc step, Us which he reached his great discoveries
al Instrumentation and the induction of electric
currents. ms experiments ON the relation between
magnetism ana hight aud ms establishment OF Tue
identity OF the natural forces We need 20 no IuItAef
than fToi' lyno"n eloquent ana fascinating "oih
on "Iauday as DISCOVERED in Ihe present nouce
we purpose conhnng ourselves chlehN 10 ihose per-
t"uai traits ana incidents when constitute the inter-
cSi OF Dr. BcnCe Jones BOOK. Ihey must be pchtd
ont of "a great mass OF supeIhuous and uhd!lested
matter but the labor OF searching Tor them is JuSi-
ned 10y The result
We mn" no continuation oi 'Ae current >'oIE 'ha'
J"I'"'H was "' HI'h u'>t'L'. IIs l'"I''l "PI'"'S
10 have been from Yorkshire. Ills lather was
witt no better education than was enjoyed at mat
a'l 10y the average oil ner class. McnacI was ooin
Dbl LONDON sept - 4"l' Inc lanl| were III
Strengthened '''oH.S''n'e'' al" pi' beuce Jones
even says that at one lime they received rchei from
l"' PARISH I'D communication 10 mo i"C"'"
iH""al h'olHti-lu-IaW' MI baihaId' the ARTIST
''"'' lH.> 'l'y Du' "Ath 'Iie Iau was ABOUT ZINE
ItaIs od Dread was very dear aLu all poor people mad
J." DE spaIIng m their use OF IT, 81 have more than
once continues Mr. Barnard " heard my brother
I.-.'" ''I me Story OF their domestic economy at
't.' IMe, IMdDdS SAID that at The beginning of
Iie week DIS mother gave Inn loaf forhmsef, that
20 ihsa' have the management of II entirely. He
immediately marked 1t out carefully into fourteen
l.IIons one OF which he ate each morning and
evening lLus leMlIHs his INST lesson ~ frugal !
economy.
The father. of whom we are told little nothing, !
died IN $50 The mother lived until 1855 checred |
by Ler sons constant and teuderest affection, and
looking mp TO him as the paragon Of men, though She
could not understand his pursuits appreciate has
real eiuincuoe Michael received only the rudnnents |
If education al common day-schOol and when he \
VA, thirteen years old was placed as eITaud boy |
with bookseller. statoner. and bookLiuder. to |
whom after wears tilal be was regularly appIeu-
r,l II ya, li, duty at first to carry around news
rap.r, TO bis masters customers After a while he |
gra. taken into the Jinderv aud here hi, mind was
first directed toward scientific pursuits by reading
e. ,f-,,s "c,,,....+,,rs ~, Cbep,istr, , which
a.. ,rss ,,.,ro,,l I'm LirJ,ro II j. rleasont 10
ace with What gratitude and reverence
~. smoke in after life Of the writer who
had introduced him n the science i'm which he was
=. end l, l,,,;rs aud fame ..Yop may, irnooipe
. l.IioItr la ,,,it.s nj tho oge of &c ",ybcu
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