386 Contents of First Five Volumes
No. 3. NOVEMBER, 1915
FAGE
THE SYSTEM OF THE SCIENCES; PRINCIPLES OF THE
THEORY OF EDUCATION—Two lectures prepared for the in-
auguration of the Rice Institute, by Privy Councilor Professor
Wilhelm Ostwald, late Professor of Chemistry in the University
of Leipsic, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 1909.......ɪoɪ
No. 4. DECEMBER, 1915
THE BREVIARY OF ÆSTHETIC—A lecture prepared for the in-
auguration of the Rice Institute, by Senator Benedetto Croce, Life
Senator of the Italian Kingdom, Member of several Royal Com-
missions, Editor of “La Critica.”
I. “What is Art?’’...............223
II. Prejudices Relating to Art...........251
III. The Place of Art in the Spirit and in Human Society . . . 273
IV. Criticism and the History of Art.........292
Volume III
No. I. JANUARY, 1916
APPROACHES AND REACTIONS IN SIX NINETEENTH-CEN-
TURY FICTIONISTS—Six lectures on the Art and Philosophies
of Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, Hawthorne, Poe, and Steven-
son, delivered at the Rice Institute by Stockton Axson, M.A., Litt.D.,
Professor of English Literature in the Rice Institute.
I. Dickens and Social Reform........... 3
II. Thackeray the Satirist.............23
III. George Eliot and Personal Responsibility.......40
IV. Hawthorne the Puritan Artist..........62
V. The Life and Art of Edgar Allan Poe.......79
VI. The Spirit and Art of Robert Louis Stevenson.....ɪoɪ
No. 2. APRIL, 1916
THE GEOLOGY OF TEXAS-Three lectures delivered at the Rice
Institute, by Edwin Theodore Dumble, B.Sc., Consulting Geologist
of the Southern Pacific Company.
I. The Geology of Texas in the Building of a Continent . . 125
II. The Individuality of Texas Geology........152
III. The Economic Features of the Geology of Texas .... 178
No. 3. JULY, 1916
LIFE BY LOVE—A sermon preached to the first graduating class of
the Rice Institute, by Peter Gray Sears, Rector of Christ Church,
Houston, Texas.................205
IS WAR ETERNAL?—An address delivered at the first commence-
ment convocation of the Rice Institute, by David Starr Jordan,
Chancellor of Stanford University...........218