and was soon sold to a publishing firm.  The eclectic theory was abandoned, and the Review became an agnostic and radical organ under the management of its second editor, John Morley.  Lewes edited six volumes, when, in 1867, he was obliged, on account of his health, to resign his position.  He made the Review an independent and able exponent of current thought, and he kept it up to a very high standard of literary excellence.  His own contributions were among the best things it contained, and give a good indication of the wide range of his talent.  In the first volume he published papers on “The Heart and the Brain,” and on the poetry of Robert Buchanan, as well as a series of four very able and valuable papers on “The Principles of Success in Literature.”  In the second volume he wrote about “Mr. Grote’s Plato.”  In the third he dealt with “Victor Hugo’s Latest Poems,” “Criticism in relation to Novels,” and “Auguste Comte.”  In this volume he began a series of essays entitled “Causeries,” in which he treated, in a light vein, of the passing topics of the day.  He wrote of Spinoza in the fourth volume, and of “Comte and Mill” in the sixth, contributing nothing to the fifth.  After Morley became the editor, in the ninth and tenth volumes, he published three papers on Darwin’s hypothesis, and in 1878 there was a paper of his on the “Dread and Dislike of Science.”  He also had a criticism of Dickens in the July number of 1872, full of his subtle power of analysis and literary insight.

Lewes in early life had a strong inclination to become an actor, and he did go on the stage for a short time.  He wrote and translated several plays, one of his adaptations becoming very popular.  He wrote dramatic criticisms for the Pall Mall Gazette and other journals, during many years.  In 1875, a volume of these papers was published with the title, On Actors and the Art of Acting.  It treated in a pleasant way, and with keen insight, of Edmund Kean, Charles Kean, Rachel, Macready, Fan-en, Charles Matthews, Frederic Lemaitre, the two Keeleys, Shakspere as actor and critic, natural acting, foreign actors on our stage, the drama of Paris in 1865, Germany in 1867, and Spain in 1867, and of his first impressions of Salvini.  Another piece of work done by him was the furnishing, in 1867, of an explanatory text to accompany Kaulbach’s Female Characters of Goethe.

The last years of Lewes’s life were devoted to the preparation of a systematic exposition of his physiological philosophy.  As early as the year 1858, he was at work on the nervous system, and, soon after, his studies took a systematic shape.  In his series of volumes on the Problems of Life and Mind he gave to the world a new theory of the mind and of knowledge.  In the first two volumes, published in 1874, and entitled The Foundations of a Creed, he developed his views on the methods of philosophic research.  These were followed in 1877 by a third volume, on The Physical Basis of Life.  After his death his wife edited two small volumes on Psychology, which included all the writing he left in a form ready for publication.  His work was left incomplete, but its publication had gone far enough to show the methods to be followed and the main conclusions to be reached.