These wonderfully reproduced scenes, and the men and women with whom they are peopled, and finally the beautiful language in which the narrative is set forth, unite to make a delightful, and, what is more, a wholesome, invigorating, inspiring book.—E. S. Hawes.
These wonderfully reproduced scenes, and the men and women with whom they are peopled, and finally the beautiful language in which the narrative is set forth, unite to make a delightful, and, what is more, a wholesome, invigorating, inspiring book.—E. S. Hawes.
Hypatia, or New Foes with an Old Face.ByCharles Kingsley, F.S.A., F.L.S. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.
The plot is well developed, the characters are vigorously drawn, and the scenes and incidents show great dramatic power, while the language and word-painting are exquisite. The book holds throughout, with a firm grasp, our sympathy and interest, Kingsley being one of the very few who have succeeded in throwing a strong human interest into a historical novel.—Robert Thorne.
The plot is well developed, the characters are vigorously drawn, and the scenes and incidents show great dramatic power, while the language and word-painting are exquisite. The book holds throughout, with a firm grasp, our sympathy and interest, Kingsley being one of the very few who have succeeded in throwing a strong human interest into a historical novel.—Robert Thorne.
Romola.ByGeorge Eliot. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.
George Eliot is admitted by thoughtful persons to have been endowed with one of the greatest minds of this century.... Romola, which is one of her earlier works, is also one of the most popular. The movement is so rapid, and the situations are so dramatic, that the interest never flags; ... the book has nowhere the air of tiresome preaching, but it stands the test of a great novel—it may be read again and again with pleasure.—E. S. Hawes.
George Eliot is admitted by thoughtful persons to have been endowed with one of the greatest minds of this century.... Romola, which is one of her earlier works, is also one of the most popular. The movement is so rapid, and the situations are so dramatic, that the interest never flags; ... the book has nowhere the air of tiresome preaching, but it stands the test of a great novel—it may be read again and again with pleasure.—E. S. Hawes.
The Data of Ethics.ByHerbert Spencer. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.
Herbert Spencer is the foremost name in the philosophic literature of the world. He is the Shakespeare of science. He has a grander grasp of knowledge and more perfect conscious correspondence with the external universe than any other human being who ever looked wonderingly out into the starry depths; and his few errors flow from an over-anxiety to exert his splendid power of making beautiful generalizations. Plato and Spencer are brothers. Plato would have done what Spencer has had he lived in the nineteenth century.—From “The World’s Best Books,” by Frank Parsons.
Herbert Spencer is the foremost name in the philosophic literature of the world. He is the Shakespeare of science. He has a grander grasp of knowledge and more perfect conscious correspondence with the external universe than any other human being who ever looked wonderingly out into the starry depths; and his few errors flow from an over-anxiety to exert his splendid power of making beautiful generalizations. Plato and Spencer are brothers. Plato would have done what Spencer has had he lived in the nineteenth century.—From “The World’s Best Books,” by Frank Parsons.
The Origin of Species, by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of a Favored Race in the Struggle for Life.ByCharles Darwin, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.
This book is the grandest achievement of modern scientific thought and research. It has passed through many editions in English, has been translated into almost all the languages of Europe, and has been the subject of more reviews, pamphlets and separate books than any other volume of the age.—Robert Thorne.
This book is the grandest achievement of modern scientific thought and research. It has passed through many editions in English, has been translated into almost all the languages of Europe, and has been the subject of more reviews, pamphlets and separate books than any other volume of the age.—Robert Thorne.
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John Halifax, Gentleman.A Novel. ByMiss Mulock. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.
The book is from the pen of one who combines a careful study of life with a rare genius in depicting its real experiences, and who renders charming even a simple story of actual life, by the glow of a warm and loving heart with which she transfuses it.—Frederick Mynon Cooper.
The book is from the pen of one who combines a careful study of life with a rare genius in depicting its real experiences, and who renders charming even a simple story of actual life, by the glow of a warm and loving heart with which she transfuses it.—Frederick Mynon Cooper.
Undine and Other Tales.ByDe La Motte Fouque. Translated from the German byF. E. Bunnett. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.
Undine has become a household book for old and young in Germany, and has been translated into almost every European language. There is in it a simplicity of style unsurpassed, and plenty of sweet pathos which wets the eye but never wrings the heart.—Henry Prentice.
Undine has become a household book for old and young in Germany, and has been translated into almost every European language. There is in it a simplicity of style unsurpassed, and plenty of sweet pathos which wets the eye but never wrings the heart.—Henry Prentice.
Uarda, A Romance of Ancient Egypt.ByGeorge Ebers. Translated from the German byClara Bell. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.
Amid all the tempest of passion and expectation incidental to such a tale the novelist evolves a charming story of love and constancy rising superior to class prejudices, and of the sweet amenities of social ties and family affection.—Frederick Mynon Cooper.
Amid all the tempest of passion and expectation incidental to such a tale the novelist evolves a charming story of love and constancy rising superior to class prejudices, and of the sweet amenities of social ties and family affection.—Frederick Mynon Cooper.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Selected Essays.ByThomas De Quincey. Edited with notes byDavid Masson, Professor of English Literature in the University of Edinburgh. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.
De Quincey’s skill in narration, his rare pathos, his wide sympathies, the pomp of his dream-descriptions, his abounding though subtle humor, commend him to a large class of readers.—Encyclopedia Britannica.
De Quincey’s skill in narration, his rare pathos, his wide sympathies, the pomp of his dream-descriptions, his abounding though subtle humor, commend him to a large class of readers.—Encyclopedia Britannica.
On the Heights.ByBerthold Auerbach. Translated from the German byF. E. Bunnett. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.
Auerbach has been called the Charles Dickens of Germany. He is not only a brilliant writer of fiction, but is at the same time a profound thinker and elevated moralist. In “On the Heights,” his most powerful work, education, labor, wealth, poverty, and the relations of rich and poor; aristocracy, religion and philosophy, the rights of the individual, and their various applications to our daily life, are illumed and illustrated by its progress and development. It is a beautiful story, sad in its ending, but free from any tinge of coarseness or sensationalism; pure, sweet, warm with human love and tenderness.—Frederick Mynon Cooper.
Auerbach has been called the Charles Dickens of Germany. He is not only a brilliant writer of fiction, but is at the same time a profound thinker and elevated moralist. In “On the Heights,” his most powerful work, education, labor, wealth, poverty, and the relations of rich and poor; aristocracy, religion and philosophy, the rights of the individual, and their various applications to our daily life, are illumed and illustrated by its progress and development. It is a beautiful story, sad in its ending, but free from any tinge of coarseness or sensationalism; pure, sweet, warm with human love and tenderness.—Frederick Mynon Cooper.
The Last Days of Pompeii.BySir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Bart. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.
The fate of the rich Campanian city, the most awful catastrophe which history records, supplies a superb climax to the story. This is dramatic and powerful throughout, and of absorbing interest. The characters arise naturally from the scene of the story, and they move and speak in perfect accord with their surroundings; with a human sympathy which easily bridges the eighteen centuries which have rolled over the buried city, we follow with eager interest this tale of the men and women of ancient Pompeii.—Robert Thorne.
The fate of the rich Campanian city, the most awful catastrophe which history records, supplies a superb climax to the story. This is dramatic and powerful throughout, and of absorbing interest. The characters arise naturally from the scene of the story, and they move and speak in perfect accord with their surroundings; with a human sympathy which easily bridges the eighteen centuries which have rolled over the buried city, we follow with eager interest this tale of the men and women of ancient Pompeii.—Robert Thorne.
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Westward Ho! or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight.ByCharles Kingsley. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.
“Westward Ho!” is one of the most vigorous, powerful, and fascinating of novels. It is strong and graphic in its portraiture, intense and dramatic in its diversified coloring. The nervous and effective style, the skillful blending of the manifold portraits into one comprehensive picture, are among the merits which have made this Kingsley’s greatest work.—Frederic Mynon Cooper.
“Westward Ho!” is one of the most vigorous, powerful, and fascinating of novels. It is strong and graphic in its portraiture, intense and dramatic in its diversified coloring. The nervous and effective style, the skillful blending of the manifold portraits into one comprehensive picture, are among the merits which have made this Kingsley’s greatest work.—Frederic Mynon Cooper.
The Pilgrim’s Progress.ByJohn Bunyan, with a life of Bunyan by James Anthony Froude. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.
No other book except the Bible has gone through so many editions and attained to so wide a popularity in all languages as “The Pilgrim’s Progress.” ... It narrates the struggles, the experiences, and the trials of a Christian in his passage from a life of sin to everlasting felicity: and it abounds with those little inimitable touches of natural feeling and description which have placed its author among the most picturesque of writers.... Bunyan may truly be called the prince of allegorists, and he is also the most perfect representative of the plain, vigorous, idiomatic, and sometimes picturesque and poetical language of the common people.—Taken from “A Manual of English Literature,” by T. B. Shaw.
No other book except the Bible has gone through so many editions and attained to so wide a popularity in all languages as “The Pilgrim’s Progress.” ... It narrates the struggles, the experiences, and the trials of a Christian in his passage from a life of sin to everlasting felicity: and it abounds with those little inimitable touches of natural feeling and description which have placed its author among the most picturesque of writers.... Bunyan may truly be called the prince of allegorists, and he is also the most perfect representative of the plain, vigorous, idiomatic, and sometimes picturesque and poetical language of the common people.—Taken from “A Manual of English Literature,” by T. B. Shaw.
Self-Help, with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance.BySamuel Smiles. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.
“Self-Help” is a book which helps and stimulates men to elevate and improve themselves. It teaches them that the humblest person who sets before his fellows an example of industry, sobriety, and upright honesty of purpose in life, has a present as well as a future influence upon the well-being of his country.... Hundreds of its terse and happy phrases have become the common property of mankind, and it has been already translated into four or five of the European languages.—Frederic Mynon Cooper.
“Self-Help” is a book which helps and stimulates men to elevate and improve themselves. It teaches them that the humblest person who sets before his fellows an example of industry, sobriety, and upright honesty of purpose in life, has a present as well as a future influence upon the well-being of his country.... Hundreds of its terse and happy phrases have become the common property of mankind, and it has been already translated into four or five of the European languages.—Frederic Mynon Cooper.
Jane Eyre.ByCharlotte Bronté. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.
Few novels have gained such immediate popularity as was accorded to “Jane Eyre.” This was doubtless due in part to the freshness and vigor of mind it evinced; but it was obtained not so much by these qualities as by the frequent dealings in moral paradox, and by the hardihood of its assaults upon the prejudices of proper people. Throughout the tale the author exhibits a perception of character and the power of delineating it, which is, considering her youth, remarkable.—Frederic Mynon Cooper.
Few novels have gained such immediate popularity as was accorded to “Jane Eyre.” This was doubtless due in part to the freshness and vigor of mind it evinced; but it was obtained not so much by these qualities as by the frequent dealings in moral paradox, and by the hardihood of its assaults upon the prejudices of proper people. Throughout the tale the author exhibits a perception of character and the power of delineating it, which is, considering her youth, remarkable.—Frederic Mynon Cooper.
The Moonstone.A Novel. ByWilkie Collins. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.
Like the generality of his romances, the interest of “The Moonstone” depends chiefly upon the development of a plot whose systematic intricacies pique the curiosity until the last moment, and upon the concealment of a mystery which baffles and defies solution until it shall have contributed to no end of cross purposes and caused a prodigious amount of incertitude and wretchedness.—Frederic Mynon Cooper.
Like the generality of his romances, the interest of “The Moonstone” depends chiefly upon the development of a plot whose systematic intricacies pique the curiosity until the last moment, and upon the concealment of a mystery which baffles and defies solution until it shall have contributed to no end of cross purposes and caused a prodigious amount of incertitude and wretchedness.—Frederic Mynon Cooper.
For sale by all Booksellers, or will be sent post-paid on receipt of juice, by the publisher,A. L. BURT, 66 Reade Street, New York.