# Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 683 January 27, 1877

Author: Various; Chambers, Robert, 1802-1871 [Editor]; Chambers, William, 1800-1883 [Editor]

Genre: Chambers's Edinburgh Journal

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46811

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## Summary

Our old friend, Samuel Smiles, now a veteran in literature, who has been indefatigable in writing of the power of Self-help, has, as one of his late exploits, narrated in a most amusing and instructive manner the _Life of a Scotch Naturalist_, Thomas Edward, who at an advanced age modestly occupies the position of a working shoemaker in Banff. This is a curious and interesting book. Few persons would have taken the trouble that Mr Smiles has done to narrate the efforts in pursuit of a knowledge of Nature of so very obscure and poor a man as is the hero of his remarkable biography. The thing is altogether unique. Nothing but vast kindliness of heart, along with the pleasure of shewing what...

## Chapters

- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chambers-s-journal-of-popular-literature-science-and-art-no-683-b62f304b/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chambers-s-journal-of-popular-literature-science-and-art-no-683-b62f304b/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chambers-s-journal-of-popular-literature-science-and-art-no-683-b62f304b/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chambers-s-journal-of-popular-literature-science-and-art-no-683-b62f304b/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chambers-s-journal-of-popular-literature-science-and-art-no-683-b62f304b/chapters/5/index.md)