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LIST OF VOLUMES OF ESSAYS ON LITERATURE, ART, MUSIC, ETC., PUBLISHED BY CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS, 743–745 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.HENRY ADAMS.Historical Essays.(12mo, $2.00.)Contents: Primitive Rights of Women—Captaine John Smith—Harvard College, 1786–1787—Napoleon I. at St. Domingo—The Bank of England Restriction—The Declaration of Paris, 1861—The Legal Tender Act—The New York Gold Conspiracy—The Session, 1869–1870.“Mr. Adams is thorough in research, exact in statement, judicial in tone, broad of view, picturesque and impressive in description, nervous and expressive in style. His characterizations are terse, pointed, clear.”—New York Tribune.SIR EDWIN ARNOLD.Japonica.Illustrated by Robert Blum. (Large 8vo, $3.00.)“Artistic and handsome. In theme, style, illustrations and manufacture, it will appeal to every refined taste, presenting a most thoughtful and graceful study of the fascinating people among whom the author spent a year.”—Cincinnati Enquirer.AUGUSTINE BIRRELL.Obiter Dicta, First Series. (16mo, $1.00.)Contents: Carlyle—On the Alleged Obscurity of Mr. Browning’s Poetry—Truth Hunting—Actors—A Rogue’s Memoirs—The Via Media—Falstaff.“Some admirably written essays, amusing and brilliant. The book is the book of a highly cultivated man, with a real gift of expression, a good deal of humor, a happy fancy.”—Spectator.Obiter Dicta, Second Series. (16mo, $1.00.)Contents: Milton—Pope—Johnson—Burke—The Muse of History—Lamb—Emerson—The Office of Literature—Worn Out Types—Cambridge and the Poets—Book-buying.“Neat, apposite, clever, full of quaint allusions, happy thoughts, and apt, unfamiliar quotations.”—Boston Advertiser.Res Judicatæ: Papers and Essays. (16mo, $1.00.)“Whether Mr. Birrell writes of Richardson or Barrow, Gibbon or Newman, he shows himself equally intelligent and appreciative. His wit and audacity are backed by sterling sense and fine taste.”—Chicago Tribune.Prof. H. H. BOYESEN.Essays on German Literature.(12mo, $1.50.)“Prof. Boyesen is cultivated without being pedantic, and serious without being dull. The literature he analyzes and expounds is the literature that has international value.”—Boston Beacon.W. C. BROWNELL.French Traits.(12mo, $1.50.)Contents: The Social Instinct—Morality—Intelligence—Sense and Sentiment—Manners—Women—The Art Instinct—The Provincial Spirit—Democracy—New York after Paris.“These chapters form a volume of criticism which is sympathetic, intelligent, acute, and contains a great amount of wholesome suggestion.”—Boston Advertiser.French Art.(12mo, $1.25.)“Brought to the judgment in this cool and scientific spirit, the whole course of French painting and sculpture, as shown by the masters pre-eminent in each era, is reviewed by a critic as certain of his criticisms as he is capable in forming them.”—Springfield Republican.THOMAS CARLYLE.Lectures on the History of Literature.(Now printed for the first time. 12mo, $1.00.)Summary of Contents: Literature in General—Language, Tradition—The Greeks—The Heroic Ages—Homer—Æschylus to Socrates—The Romans—Middle Ages—Christianity—The Crusades—Dante—The Spaniards—Chivalry—Cervantes—The Germans—Luther—The Origin, Work and Destiny of the English—Shakespeare—Milton—Swift—Hume—Wertherism—The French Revolution—Goethe and his Works.“Every intelligent American reader will instantly wish to read this book through, and many will say that it is the clearest and wisest and most genuine book that Carlyle ever produced. We could have no work from his hand which embodies more clearly and emphatically his literary opinions than his rapid and graphic survey of the great writers and great literary epochs of the world.”—Boston Herald.ALICE MORSE EARLE.The Sabbath in Puritan New England.(12mo, $1.25.)“She writes with a keen sense of humor, and out of the full stores of adequate knowledge and plentiful explorations among old pamphlets, letters, sermons, and that treasury, not yet run dry in New England, family traditions. The book is as sympathetic as it is bright and humorous.”—The Independent.China Collecting in America.(with 75 illustrations. Sq. 8vo, $3.00.)“Her book is full of entertainment, not only for the china hunter and collector, but for all who are interested in early times and manufactures, in the old houses and country people, in the history of America, and the habits and customs of the past.”—New York Observer.Customs and Fashions in Old New England.(12mo, $1.25.)Mrs. Earle describes the daily life and habits, the festivals, larder, taverns, modes of travel, peculiarities of courtship, marriages, funerals, the utensils and furniture of the Puritan farm and home, with the same wit, sympathetic feeling, and copious information so marked in her former works.HENRY T. FINCK.Chopin, and Other Musical Essays. (12mo, $1.50.)“Written from abundant knowledge: enlivened by anecdote and touches of enthusiasm, suggestive, stimulating.”—Boston Post.JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE.The Spanish Story of the Armada, and Other Essays.(12mo, $1.50.)Contents: The Spanish Story of the Armada—Antonio Perez: An Unsolved Historical Riddle—Saint Teresa—The Templars—The Norway Fjords—Norway Once More.Short Studies on Great Subjects.(Half leather, 12mo, 4 vols., each $1.50.)CONTENTS:Vol. I.The Science of History—Times of Erasmus and Luther—The Influence of the Reformation on the Scottish Character—The Philosophy of Catholicism—A Plea for the Free Discussion of Theological Difficulties—Criticism and theGospel History—The Book of Job—Spinoza—The Dissolution of Monasteries—England’s Forgotten Worthies—Homer—The Lives of the Saints—Representative Man—Reynard the Fox—The Cat’s Pilgrimage—Fables—Parable of the Bread-fruit Tree—Compensation.Vol. II.Calvinism—A Bishop of the Twelfth Century—Father Newman on “The Grammar of Assent”—Conditions and Prospects of Protestantism—England and Her Colonies—A Fortnight in Kerry—Reciprocal Duties in State and Subject—The Merchant and His Wife—On Progress—The Colonies Once More—Education—England’s War—The Eastern Question—Scientific Method Applied to History.Vol. III.Annals of an English Abbey—Revival of Romanism—Sea Studies—Society in Italy in the Last Days of the Roman Republic—Lucian—Divus Caesar—On the Uses of a Landed Gentry—Party Politics—Leaves from a South African Journal.Vol. IV.The Oxford Counter—Reformation—Life and Times of Thomas Becket—Origen and Celsus—A Cagliostro of the Second Century—Cheneys and the House of Russell—A Siding at a Railway Station.“All the papers here collected are marked by the qualities which have made Mr. Froude the most popular of living English historians—by skill in argumentative and rhetorical exposition, by felicities of diction, by contagious earnestness, and by the rare power of fusing the results of research in the imagination so as to produce a picture of the past at once exact and vivid.”—N. Y. Sun.WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE.Gleanings of Past Years, 1843–1879.(7 vols., 16mo, each $1.00.)Contents: Vol. I., The Throne and the Prince Consort. The Cabinet and Constitution—Vol. II., Personal and Literary—Vol. III., Historical and Speculative—Vol. IV., Foreign—Vol. V. and VI., Ecclesiastical—Vol. VII., Miscellaneous.“Not only do these essays cover a long period of time, they also exhibit a very wide range of intellectual effort. Perhaps their most striking feature is the breadth of genuine intellectual sympathy, of which they afford such abundant evidence.”—Nation.ROBERT GRANT.The Reflections of a Married Man.(12mo, cloth, $1.00; paper, 50 cents.)“Nothing is more entertaining than to have one’s familiar experiences take objective form; and few experiences are more familiar than those which Mr. Grant here chronicles for us. Altogether Mr. Grant has given us a capital little book, which should easily strike up literary comradeship with ‘The Reveries of a Bachelor.’”—Boston Transcript.Opinions of a Philosopher.(Illustrated by Reinhart and Smedley. 12mo, cloth, $1.00.)A sequel to the author’s “Reflections,” relating the experiences through middle life of Fred and Josephine, with equal charm and humor.E. J. HARDY.The Business of Life: A Book for Everyone.—How To Be Happy Though Married: Being a Handbook to Marriage—The Five Talents of Woman: A Book for Girls and Women—Manners Makyth Man—The Sunny Days of Youth: A Book for Boys and Young Men. (12mo, each $1.25.)“The author has a large store of apposite quotations and anecdotes from which he draws with a lavish hand, and he has the art of brightening his pages with a constant play of humor that makes what he says uniformly entertaining.”—Boston Advertiser.W. E. HENLEY.Views and Reviews.Essays in Appreciation: Literature. (12mo, $1.00.)Contents: Dickens—Thackeray—Disraëli—Dumas—Meredith—Byron—Hugo—Heine—Arnold—Rabelais—Shakespeare—Sidney—Walton—Banville—Berlioz—Longfellow—Balzac—Hood—Lever—Congreve—Tolstoï—Fielding, etc., etc.“Interesting, original, keen and felicitous. His criticism will be found suggestive, cultivated, independent.”—N. Y. Tribune.J. G. HOLLAND.Titcomb’s Letters to Young People, Single and Married—Gold-Foil, Hammered from Popular Proverbs—Lessons in Life: A Series of Familiar Essays—Concerning the Jones Family—Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects—Every-Day Topics, First Series, Second Series. (Small 12mo, each, $1.25.)“Dr. Holland will always find a congenial audience in the homes of culture and refinement. He does not affect the play of the darker and fiercer passions, but delights in the sweet images that cluster around the domestic hearth. He cherishes a strong fellow-feeling with the pure and tranquil life in the modest social circles of the American people, and has thus won his way to the companionship of many friendly hearts.”—N. Y. Tribune.WILLIAM RALPH INGE.Society in Rome under the Cæsars.(12mo, $1.25.)“Every page is brimful of interest. The picture of life in Rome under the Cæsars are graphic and thoroughly intelligible.”—Chicago Herald.ANDREW LANG.Essays in Little.(Portrait, 12mo, $1.00.)Contents: Alexandre Dumas—Mr. Stevenson’s Works—Thomas Haynes Bayly—Théodore de Banville—Homer and the Study of Greek—The Last Fashionable Novel—Thackeray—Dickens—Adventures of Buccaneers—The Sagas—Kingsley—Lever—Poems of Sir Walter Scott—Bunyan—Letter to a Young Journalist—Kipling’s Stories.“One of the most entertaining and bracing of books. It ought to win every vote and please every class of readers.”—Spectator(London).Letters to Dead Authors.(16mo, $1.00. Cameo Edition, with etched portrait and four new letters, $1.25.)Letters to Thackeray—Dickens—Herodotus—Pope—Rabelais—Jane Austen—Isaak Walton—Dumas—Theocritus—Pope—Scott—Shelley—Molière—Burns, etc., etc.“The book is one of the luxuries of the literary taste. It is meant for the exquisite palate, and is prepared by one of the ‘knowing’ kind. It is an astonishing little volume.”—N. Y. Evening Post.SIDNEY LANIER.The English Novel and the Principle of its Development.(Crown 8vo, $2.00.)“The critical and analytical portions of his work are always in high key, suggestive, brilliant, rather dogmatic and not free from caprice.... But when all these abatements are made, the lectures remain lofty in tone and full of original inspiration.”—Independent.The Science of English Verse.(Crown 8vo, $2.00.)“It contains much sound practical advice to the makers of verse. 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Times.The Theatres of Paris.(Illustrated. 16mo, $1.25.)“An interesting, gossipy, yet instructive little book.”—Academy(London).DONALD G. MITCHELL.English Lands, Letters and Kings.Vol. I., From Celt to Tudor. Vol. II., From Elizabeth to Anne. (12mo, each $1.50.)“Crisp, sparkling, delicate, these brief talks about authors, great and small, about kings and queens, schoolmasters and people, whet the taste for more. In ‘Ik Marvel’s’ racy, sweet, delightful prose, we see the benefits of English literature assimilated.”—Literary World.Reveries of a Bachelor; or, A Book of the Heart—Dream Life: A Fable of the Seasons. (Cameo Edition, with etching, 16mo, each $1.25.)“Beautiful examples of the art (of book making). 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LIST OF VOLUMES OF ESSAYS ON LITERATURE, ART, MUSIC, ETC., PUBLISHED BY CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS, 743–745 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.

HENRY ADAMS.

Historical Essays.(12mo, $2.00.)

Contents: Primitive Rights of Women—Captaine John Smith—Harvard College, 1786–1787—Napoleon I. at St. Domingo—The Bank of England Restriction—The Declaration of Paris, 1861—The Legal Tender Act—The New York Gold Conspiracy—The Session, 1869–1870.

“Mr. Adams is thorough in research, exact in statement, judicial in tone, broad of view, picturesque and impressive in description, nervous and expressive in style. His characterizations are terse, pointed, clear.”—New York Tribune.

SIR EDWIN ARNOLD.

Japonica.Illustrated by Robert Blum. (Large 8vo, $3.00.)

“Artistic and handsome. In theme, style, illustrations and manufacture, it will appeal to every refined taste, presenting a most thoughtful and graceful study of the fascinating people among whom the author spent a year.”—Cincinnati Enquirer.

AUGUSTINE BIRRELL.

Obiter Dicta, First Series. (16mo, $1.00.)

Contents: Carlyle—On the Alleged Obscurity of Mr. Browning’s Poetry—Truth Hunting—Actors—A Rogue’s Memoirs—The Via Media—Falstaff.

“Some admirably written essays, amusing and brilliant. The book is the book of a highly cultivated man, with a real gift of expression, a good deal of humor, a happy fancy.”—Spectator.

Obiter Dicta, Second Series. (16mo, $1.00.)

Contents: Milton—Pope—Johnson—Burke—The Muse of History—Lamb—Emerson—The Office of Literature—Worn Out Types—Cambridge and the Poets—Book-buying.

“Neat, apposite, clever, full of quaint allusions, happy thoughts, and apt, unfamiliar quotations.”—Boston Advertiser.

Res Judicatæ: Papers and Essays. (16mo, $1.00.)

“Whether Mr. Birrell writes of Richardson or Barrow, Gibbon or Newman, he shows himself equally intelligent and appreciative. His wit and audacity are backed by sterling sense and fine taste.”—Chicago Tribune.

Prof. H. H. BOYESEN.

Essays on German Literature.(12mo, $1.50.)

“Prof. Boyesen is cultivated without being pedantic, and serious without being dull. The literature he analyzes and expounds is the literature that has international value.”—Boston Beacon.

W. C. BROWNELL.

French Traits.(12mo, $1.50.)

Contents: The Social Instinct—Morality—Intelligence—Sense and Sentiment—Manners—Women—The Art Instinct—The Provincial Spirit—Democracy—New York after Paris.

“These chapters form a volume of criticism which is sympathetic, intelligent, acute, and contains a great amount of wholesome suggestion.”—Boston Advertiser.

French Art.(12mo, $1.25.)

“Brought to the judgment in this cool and scientific spirit, the whole course of French painting and sculpture, as shown by the masters pre-eminent in each era, is reviewed by a critic as certain of his criticisms as he is capable in forming them.”—Springfield Republican.

THOMAS CARLYLE.

Lectures on the History of Literature.(Now printed for the first time. 12mo, $1.00.)

Summary of Contents: Literature in General—Language, Tradition—The Greeks—The Heroic Ages—Homer—Æschylus to Socrates—The Romans—Middle Ages—Christianity—The Crusades—Dante—The Spaniards—Chivalry—Cervantes—The Germans—Luther—The Origin, Work and Destiny of the English—Shakespeare—Milton—Swift—Hume—Wertherism—The French Revolution—Goethe and his Works.

“Every intelligent American reader will instantly wish to read this book through, and many will say that it is the clearest and wisest and most genuine book that Carlyle ever produced. We could have no work from his hand which embodies more clearly and emphatically his literary opinions than his rapid and graphic survey of the great writers and great literary epochs of the world.”—Boston Herald.

ALICE MORSE EARLE.

The Sabbath in Puritan New England.(12mo, $1.25.)

“She writes with a keen sense of humor, and out of the full stores of adequate knowledge and plentiful explorations among old pamphlets, letters, sermons, and that treasury, not yet run dry in New England, family traditions. The book is as sympathetic as it is bright and humorous.”—The Independent.

China Collecting in America.(with 75 illustrations. Sq. 8vo, $3.00.)

“Her book is full of entertainment, not only for the china hunter and collector, but for all who are interested in early times and manufactures, in the old houses and country people, in the history of America, and the habits and customs of the past.”—New York Observer.

Customs and Fashions in Old New England.(12mo, $1.25.)

Mrs. Earle describes the daily life and habits, the festivals, larder, taverns, modes of travel, peculiarities of courtship, marriages, funerals, the utensils and furniture of the Puritan farm and home, with the same wit, sympathetic feeling, and copious information so marked in her former works.

HENRY T. FINCK.

Chopin, and Other Musical Essays. (12mo, $1.50.)

“Written from abundant knowledge: enlivened by anecdote and touches of enthusiasm, suggestive, stimulating.”—Boston Post.

JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE.

The Spanish Story of the Armada, and Other Essays.(12mo, $1.50.)

Contents: The Spanish Story of the Armada—Antonio Perez: An Unsolved Historical Riddle—Saint Teresa—The Templars—The Norway Fjords—Norway Once More.

Short Studies on Great Subjects.(Half leather, 12mo, 4 vols., each $1.50.)

CONTENTS:

Vol. I.The Science of History—Times of Erasmus and Luther—The Influence of the Reformation on the Scottish Character—The Philosophy of Catholicism—A Plea for the Free Discussion of Theological Difficulties—Criticism and theGospel History—The Book of Job—Spinoza—The Dissolution of Monasteries—England’s Forgotten Worthies—Homer—The Lives of the Saints—Representative Man—Reynard the Fox—The Cat’s Pilgrimage—Fables—Parable of the Bread-fruit Tree—Compensation.Vol. II.Calvinism—A Bishop of the Twelfth Century—Father Newman on “The Grammar of Assent”—Conditions and Prospects of Protestantism—England and Her Colonies—A Fortnight in Kerry—Reciprocal Duties in State and Subject—The Merchant and His Wife—On Progress—The Colonies Once More—Education—England’s War—The Eastern Question—Scientific Method Applied to History.Vol. III.Annals of an English Abbey—Revival of Romanism—Sea Studies—Society in Italy in the Last Days of the Roman Republic—Lucian—Divus Caesar—On the Uses of a Landed Gentry—Party Politics—Leaves from a South African Journal.Vol. IV.The Oxford Counter—Reformation—Life and Times of Thomas Becket—Origen and Celsus—A Cagliostro of the Second Century—Cheneys and the House of Russell—A Siding at a Railway Station.

Vol. II.Calvinism—A Bishop of the Twelfth Century—Father Newman on “The Grammar of Assent”—Conditions and Prospects of Protestantism—England and Her Colonies—A Fortnight in Kerry—Reciprocal Duties in State and Subject—The Merchant and His Wife—On Progress—The Colonies Once More—Education—England’s War—The Eastern Question—Scientific Method Applied to History.

Vol. III.Annals of an English Abbey—Revival of Romanism—Sea Studies—Society in Italy in the Last Days of the Roman Republic—Lucian—Divus Caesar—On the Uses of a Landed Gentry—Party Politics—Leaves from a South African Journal.

Vol. IV.The Oxford Counter—Reformation—Life and Times of Thomas Becket—Origen and Celsus—A Cagliostro of the Second Century—Cheneys and the House of Russell—A Siding at a Railway Station.

“All the papers here collected are marked by the qualities which have made Mr. Froude the most popular of living English historians—by skill in argumentative and rhetorical exposition, by felicities of diction, by contagious earnestness, and by the rare power of fusing the results of research in the imagination so as to produce a picture of the past at once exact and vivid.”—N. Y. Sun.

WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE.

Gleanings of Past Years, 1843–1879.(7 vols., 16mo, each $1.00.)

Contents: Vol. I., The Throne and the Prince Consort. The Cabinet and Constitution—Vol. II., Personal and Literary—Vol. III., Historical and Speculative—Vol. IV., Foreign—Vol. V. and VI., Ecclesiastical—Vol. VII., Miscellaneous.

“Not only do these essays cover a long period of time, they also exhibit a very wide range of intellectual effort. Perhaps their most striking feature is the breadth of genuine intellectual sympathy, of which they afford such abundant evidence.”—Nation.

ROBERT GRANT.

The Reflections of a Married Man.(12mo, cloth, $1.00; paper, 50 cents.)

“Nothing is more entertaining than to have one’s familiar experiences take objective form; and few experiences are more familiar than those which Mr. Grant here chronicles for us. Altogether Mr. Grant has given us a capital little book, which should easily strike up literary comradeship with ‘The Reveries of a Bachelor.’”—Boston Transcript.

Opinions of a Philosopher.(Illustrated by Reinhart and Smedley. 12mo, cloth, $1.00.)

A sequel to the author’s “Reflections,” relating the experiences through middle life of Fred and Josephine, with equal charm and humor.

E. J. HARDY.

The Business of Life: A Book for Everyone.—How To Be Happy Though Married: Being a Handbook to Marriage—The Five Talents of Woman: A Book for Girls and Women—Manners Makyth Man—The Sunny Days of Youth: A Book for Boys and Young Men. (12mo, each $1.25.)

“The author has a large store of apposite quotations and anecdotes from which he draws with a lavish hand, and he has the art of brightening his pages with a constant play of humor that makes what he says uniformly entertaining.”—Boston Advertiser.

W. E. HENLEY.

Views and Reviews.Essays in Appreciation: Literature. (12mo, $1.00.)

Contents: Dickens—Thackeray—Disraëli—Dumas—Meredith—Byron—Hugo—Heine—Arnold—Rabelais—Shakespeare—Sidney—Walton—Banville—Berlioz—Longfellow—Balzac—Hood—Lever—Congreve—Tolstoï—Fielding, etc., etc.

“Interesting, original, keen and felicitous. His criticism will be found suggestive, cultivated, independent.”—N. Y. Tribune.

J. G. HOLLAND.

Titcomb’s Letters to Young People, Single and Married—Gold-Foil, Hammered from Popular Proverbs—Lessons in Life: A Series of Familiar Essays—Concerning the Jones Family—Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects—Every-Day Topics, First Series, Second Series. (Small 12mo, each, $1.25.)

“Dr. Holland will always find a congenial audience in the homes of culture and refinement. He does not affect the play of the darker and fiercer passions, but delights in the sweet images that cluster around the domestic hearth. He cherishes a strong fellow-feeling with the pure and tranquil life in the modest social circles of the American people, and has thus won his way to the companionship of many friendly hearts.”—N. Y. Tribune.

WILLIAM RALPH INGE.

Society in Rome under the Cæsars.(12mo, $1.25.)

“Every page is brimful of interest. The picture of life in Rome under the Cæsars are graphic and thoroughly intelligible.”—Chicago Herald.

ANDREW LANG.

Essays in Little.(Portrait, 12mo, $1.00.)

Contents: Alexandre Dumas—Mr. Stevenson’s Works—Thomas Haynes Bayly—Théodore de Banville—Homer and the Study of Greek—The Last Fashionable Novel—Thackeray—Dickens—Adventures of Buccaneers—The Sagas—Kingsley—Lever—Poems of Sir Walter Scott—Bunyan—Letter to a Young Journalist—Kipling’s Stories.

“One of the most entertaining and bracing of books. It ought to win every vote and please every class of readers.”—Spectator(London).

Letters to Dead Authors.(16mo, $1.00. Cameo Edition, with etched portrait and four new letters, $1.25.)

Letters to Thackeray—Dickens—Herodotus—Pope—Rabelais—Jane Austen—Isaak Walton—Dumas—Theocritus—Pope—Scott—Shelley—Molière—Burns, etc., etc.

“The book is one of the luxuries of the literary taste. It is meant for the exquisite palate, and is prepared by one of the ‘knowing’ kind. It is an astonishing little volume.”—N. Y. Evening Post.

SIDNEY LANIER.

The English Novel and the Principle of its Development.(Crown 8vo, $2.00.)

“The critical and analytical portions of his work are always in high key, suggestive, brilliant, rather dogmatic and not free from caprice.... But when all these abatements are made, the lectures remain lofty in tone and full of original inspiration.”—Independent.

The Science of English Verse.(Crown 8vo, $2.00.)

“It contains much sound practical advice to the makers of verse. The work shows extensive reading and a refined taste both in poetry and in music.”—Nation.

EDWARD SANDFORD MARTIN.

Windfalls of Observation.Gathered for the Edification of the Young and the Solace of Others. (12mo, $1.25.)

A collection of brief essays on topics of perennial interest, personal in quality, literary in treatment, shrewd, and dryly humorous, having a decided “Roundabout,” though thoroughly American, flavor.

BRANDER MATTHEWS.

French Dramatists of the 19th Century.(New Edition, 8vo, $1.50.)

Contents: Chronology—The Romantic Movement—Hugo—Dumas—Scribe—Augier—Dumasfils—Sardou—Feuillet—Labiche—Meilhac and Halévy—Zola and the Tendencies of French Drama—A Ten Years’ Retrospect: 1881–1891.

“Mr. Matthews writes with authority of the French Stage. Probably no other writer of English has a larger acquaintance with the subject than he. His style is easy and graceful, and the book is delightful reading.”—N. Y. Times.

The Theatres of Paris.(Illustrated. 16mo, $1.25.)

“An interesting, gossipy, yet instructive little book.”—Academy(London).

DONALD G. MITCHELL.

English Lands, Letters and Kings.Vol. I., From Celt to Tudor. Vol. II., From Elizabeth to Anne. (12mo, each $1.50.)

“Crisp, sparkling, delicate, these brief talks about authors, great and small, about kings and queens, schoolmasters and people, whet the taste for more. In ‘Ik Marvel’s’ racy, sweet, delightful prose, we see the benefits of English literature assimilated.”—Literary World.

Reveries of a Bachelor; or, A Book of the Heart—Dream Life: A Fable of the Seasons. (Cameo Edition, with etching, 16mo, each $1.25.)

“Beautiful examples of the art (of book making). The vein of sentiment in the text is one of which youth never tires.”—The Nation.

Seven Stories with Basement and Attic—Wet Days at Edgewood, with Old Farmers, Old Gardeners and Old Pastorals—Bound Together, A Sheaf of Papers—Out-of-Town Palaces, with Hints for their Improvement—My Farm of Edgewood, A Country Book. (12mo, each $1.25.)

“No American writer since the days of Washington Irving uses the English language as does ‘Ik Marvel.’ His books are as natural as spring flowers, and as refreshing as summer rains.”—Boston Transcript.

GEORGE MOORE.

Impressions and Opinions.(12mo, $1.25.)

“Both instructive and entertaining ... still more interesting is the problem of an EnglishThéâtre Libre, of which Mr. Moore is an ingenious advocate. The four concluding essays, which treat of art and artists, are all excellent.”—Saturday Review(London.)

Modern Painting.(12mo, $2.00.)

The courage, independence, originality, and raciness with which Mr. Moore expressed his opinions on matters relating to the stage and to literature in his “Impressions and Opinions” are equally characteristic of these essays on art topics.

E. MAX MÜLLER.

Chips from a German Workshop.Vol. I., Essays on the Science of Religion—Vol. II., Essays on Mythology, Tradition and Customs—Vol. III., Essays on Literature, Biographies and Antiquities—Vol. IV., Comparative Philology, Mythology, etc.—Vol. V., On Freedom, etc. (5 vols., Crown 8vo, each $2.00.)

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Biographical Essays.(Crown 8vo, $2.00.)

“Max Müller is the leading authority of the world in Hindoo literature, and his volume on Oriental reformers will be acceptable to scholars and literary people of all classes.”—Chicago Tribune.

THOMAS NELSON PAGE.

The Old South, Essays Social and Political.(12mo, $1.25.)

“They afford delightful glimpses of aspects and conditions of Southern life which few at the North have ever appreciated fully.”—Congregationalist.

AUSTIN PHELPS, D.D.

My Note-Book: Fragmentary Studies in Theology and Subjects Adjacent thereto (12mo, $1.50)—Men and Books; or, Studies in Homiletics (8vo, $2.00)—My Portfolio(12mo, $1.50)—My Study, and Other Essays(12mo, $1.50).

“His great and varied learning, his wide outlook, his profound sympathy with concrete men and women, the lucidity and beauty of his style, and the fertility of his thought, will secure for him a place among the great men of American Congregationalism.”—N. Y. Tribune.

NOAH PORTER, LL.D.

Books and Reading.(Crown 8vo, $2.00.)

“It is distinguished by all the rare acumen, discriminating taste and extensive literary knowledge of the author. The chief departments of literature are reviewed in detail.”—N. Y. Times.

PHILIP SCHAFF, D.D.

Literature and Poetry.(With portrait. 8vo, $3.00.)

“There is a great amount of erudition in the collection, but the style is so simple and direct that the reader does not realize that he is following the travels of a close scholar through many learned volumes in many different languages.”—Chautauquan.

EDMOND SCHERER.

Essays on English Literature.(With portrait. 12mo, $1.50.)

“M. Scherer had a number of great qualities, mental and moral, which rendered him a critic of English literature, in particular, whose views and opinions have not only novelty and freshness, but illumination and instruction for English readers, accustomed to conventional estimates from the English standpoint.”—Literary World.

WILLIAM G. T. SHEDD, D.D.

Literary Essays.(8vo, $2.50.)

“They bear the marks of the author’s scholarship, dignity and polish of style, and profound and severe convictions of truth and righteousness as the basis of culture as well as character.”—Chicago Interior.

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.

Across the Plains, with Other Essays and Memories.(12mo, $1.25.)

Contents: Across the Plains: Leaves from the Notebook of an Emigrant between New York and San Francisco—The Old Pacific Capital—Fontainebleau: Village Communities of Painters—Epilogue to an Inland Voyage—Contribution to the History of Life—Education of an Engineer—The Lantern Bearers—Dreams—Beggars—Letter to a Young Man Proposing to Embrace a Literary Life—A Christmas Sermon.

Memories and Portraits.(12mo, $1.00.)

Contents: Some College Memories—A College Magazine—An Old Scotch Gardener—Memoirs of an Islet—Thomas Stevenson—Talk and Talkers—The Character of Dogs—A Gossip on a Novel of Dumas—A Gossip on Romance—A Humble Remonstrance.

Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers. (12mo, $1.00; Cameo Edition, with etched portrait, $1.25.)

Familiar Studies of Men and Books.(12mo, $1.25.)

“If there are among our readers any lovers of good books to whom Mr. Stevenson is still a stranger, we may advise them to make his acquaintance through either of these collections of essays. The papers are full of the rare individual charm which gives a distinction to the lightest products of his art and fancy. He is a notable writer of good English, who combines in a manner altogether his own the flexibility, freedom, quickness and suggestiveness of contemporary fashions with a grace, dignity, and high-breeding that belong rather to the past.”—N. Y. Tribune.

CHARLES W. STODDARD.

South Sea Idyls.(12mo, $1.50.)

“Neither Loti nor Stevenson has expressed from tropical life the luscious, fruity delicacy, or the rich, wine-like bouquet of these sketches.”—The Independent.

RICHARD HENRY STODDARD.

Under the Evening Lamp.(12mo, $1.25.)

“A very charming volume of gossipy criticism on such poets as Burns, Motherwell and Hartley Coleridge.”—Public Opinion.

HENRY VAN DYKE, D.D.

The Poetry of Tennyson.(New and enlarged Edition, with portrait. 12mo, $2.00.)

Contents: Tennyson’s First Flight—The Palace of Art: Milton and Tennyson—Two Splendid Failures—The Idylls of the King—The Historic Triology—The Bible in Tennyson—Fruitfrom an Old Tree—On the Study of Tennyson—Chronology—List of Biblical Quotations.

“The two new chapters and the additional chronological matter have greatly enriched the work.”—T. B. Aldrich.

JOHN C. VAN DYKE.

Art for Art’s Sake.(With 24 illustrations. 12mo, $1.50.)

“The clear setting forth of the facts and theories of painting has its advantages in these days when there is so much art analysis that nobody can understand. This essayist deals with the subtleties, but in so doing he illuminates them. Moreover he is very interesting. His book ‘reads itself,’ as the phrase is.”—New York Sun.

BARRETT WENDELL.

Stelligeri, and Other Essays Concerning America.(12mo, $1.25.)

A series of interesting and suggestive papers on historical and literary themes, thoroughly American in spirit.

WOODROW WILSON.

An Old Master, and Other Political Essays.(12mo, $1.00.)

These essays, revealing a fine literary taste, deal in a very human and popular way with some important political problems.

THE FOREGOING VOLUMES OF ESSAYS ARE FOR SALE BY ALL BOOKSELLERS, OR WILL BE SENT POSTPAID, ON RECEIPT OF PRICE, BY THE PUBLISHERS, CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS, 743–745 BROADWAY, NEW YORK

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