and personal liberty with man." Nicholson dedicated the book to Arthur Helps and John Lawrence. It contains a reprint of Lawrence's chapter "The Rights of Beasts". The book was criticized in the Nature journal, in 1879. The reviewer commented that "animals, as sentient creatures, have some rights—i.e., that man may not kill or torture them needlessly without incurring some moral blame—no one nowadays would undertake to dispute. It therefore seems useless to fill, a number of pages with a number of truisms on the theme that animals have some rights in common with man." Publications Nicholson published on various topics, such as classical literature and Celtic antiquities. His writings included: The Christ-Child, and other poems, 1877. The Rights of an Animal, 1879. The Bodleian Library in 1882–1887, 1888. Golspie, contributions to its folklore, collected and edited by Edward WB Nicholson London, 1897. The Gospel according to the Hebrews, 1879. Keltic Researches: Studies in the History and Distribution of the Ancient Goidelic Language and People. London, 1904. "The Vandals in Wessex", 1906. Can We Not Save Architecture in Oxford?, 1910. References External links 1849 births 1912 deaths 19th-century British male writers 20th-century British male writers Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford Bodley's Librarians British animal rights scholars British librarians People educated at Liverpool College People educated at Tonbridge School People from Saint Helier