THOMAS HUGHES’S WORKS.SCHOOL DAYS AT RUGBY.BY AN OLD BOY.1 vol. 16mo. New Illustrated Edition. $1.25.TOM BROWN AT OXFORD:A SEQUEL TO SCHOOL DAYS AT RUGBY.2 vols. 16mo. $3.00.ALFRED THE GREAT.With Illustrations and Map. 1 vol. 16mo. $1.50.JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO., Boston.ENIGMAS OF LIFE.By W. R. GREG.1 vol. 12mo. $2.00.CONTENTS.—Realizable Ideals.—Malthus Notwithstanding.—Non-Survival of the Fittest.—Limits and Directions of Human Development.—The Significance of Life.—De Profundis.—Elsewhere.—Appendix.“What is to be the future of the human race? What are the great obstacles in the way of progress? What are the best means of surmounting these obstacles? Such, in a rough statement, are some of the problems which are more or less present to Mr. Greg’s mind; and although he does not pretend to discuss them fully, he makes a great many observations about them, always expressed in a graceful style, frequently eloquent, and occasionally putting old subjects in a new light, and recording the results of a large amount of reading and inquiry.”—Saturday Review.“It would be unfair to deny to these essays very great ability. The style is clear and vigorous; the amount of thought and power displayed is considerable. Many of the remarks on our social condition, on the prevention of disease, on the forces which act on population, are exceedingly valuable, and may be read with much advantage.”—The Illustrated Review (London).“The whole set of Essays is at once the profoundest and the kindliest that has for some time tried to set people a-thinking about themselves and their destiny.”—Daily Telegraph (London).“Mr. Greg is fertile, vigorous, and suggestive in his thinking; he is a thoughtful, earnest, independent, and well-informed man, who really faces the problems he discusses.”—Boston Globe.“Full of writing of singular force and singular candor.”—The Spectator (London).For sale by Booksellers. Sent, post-paid, on receipt of price, by the Publishers,JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO., Boston.MYTHS AND MYTH-MAKERS:OLD TALES AND SUPERSTITIONS INTERPRETED BY COMPARATIVE MYTHOLOGY.By JOHN FISKE.1 vol. 12mo. $2.00.“It is both an amusing and instructive book, evincing large research and giving its results in a lucid and attractive style. The author’s purpose is to present old tales and superstitions as interpreted by comparative mythology. The seven chapters of the volume relate respectively to ‘The Origins of Folk Lore,’ ‘The Descent of Fire,’ ‘Werewolves and Swan-Maidens,’ ‘Light and Darkness,’ ‘Myths of the Barbaric World,’ ‘Juventus Mundi,’ and ‘The Primeval Ghost World.’ The volume is so rich in matter that the task of selection is difficult.”—Boston Globe.“With the capacity for profound research and the power of critical consideration, he has a singular grace of style and an art of clear and simple statement which will not let the most indifferent refuse knowledge of the topics treated. In such a field as the discussion of old fables and superstitions affords, we have not only to admire Mr. Fiske for the charm of his manner, but for the justice and honesty of his method.”—The Atlantic Monthly.“Mr. Fiske is a master of perspicuous explanation. He has not laid claim to any originality in the present volume, but his most grudging critics must allow that his presentation of this intricate subject is simple and straightforward and at the same time scholarly.”—New York World.For sale by Booksellers. Sent, post-paid, on receipt of price, by the Publishers,JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO., Boston.“A genial exponent of the best sort of American thought.”—The Examiner(London).BACKLOG STUDIES.BY CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER,AUTHOR OF “MY SUMMER IN A GARDEN,” “SAUNTERINGS,” ETC.With Twenty-one Illustrations by Augustus Hoppin.1 vol. Small quarto. $2.00.This delightful volume has been greeted with remarkable unanimity as one of the wittiest, freshest, most wholesome books in American literature. The humorous genius which irradiated Mr. Warner’s previous volumes, “My Summer in a Garden,” and “Saunterings,” pervades these “Backlog Studies” and lends them an indescribable charm.New York Christian Advocate.One of the finest books of quaint conceit, quiet humor, and delicate sentiment we have read for a long time.... If a richer book in its own sphere has been written by an American author, we are not familiar with it, and this we say despite the genial author’s rebuke of criticism by comparison. From its opening page to its close there is not a dry one in it, and some of its hits at popular fallacies and stubborn dogmas are keen and incisive; while at the same time the delightful humor and kindly spirit which accompany the lancet, make it impossible for one to take offence, be his pet notions ever so much ridiculed.Boston Commercial Bulletin.Who shall say that books have no souls, especially books like this, all aglow with healthful humor, bright thought, and talking right out to you what you were about yourself to say,—only you had not quite thought it yet? A few of these ‘Studies’ have appeared in “Scribners,” but the most are new, while all are fresh and sparkling as a frosty winter morning, and delicious as the company we love for a winter evening. The book is more deeply thoughtful than “My Summer in a Garden,” with an equally vivid play of fancy.It never mocks or sneers, and its sarcasm has no sting. Hoppin has done his part, and the publishers theirs, to make the volume a thing of beauty.ALSO, NEW EDITIONS OFMY SUMMER IN A GARDEN.$1.00.Illustrated by Hoppin.$3.00.SAUNTERINGS.$1.50.For sale by Booksellers. Sent, post-paid, on receipt of price, by the Publishers,JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO., Boston.DE QUINCEY’S WORKS.NEW LIBRARY EDITION,Uniform in general size and style with theLibraryHawthorne, Dickens, Waverley, etc. In eleven volumes, 12mo.Volume I.The Confessions of an English Opium Eater, and Autobiographic Sketches. $1.50.II.The Note-Book of an English Opium Eater, and Miscellaneous Essays. $1.50.III.Narrative Papers. $1.50.IV.Literary Reminiscences. $1.50.V.Historical Essays. $1.50.VI.Philosophical Writers. $1.50.VII.Theological Essays. $1.50.VIII.Memorials, and other Papers. $1.50.IX.Biographical Essays, and Essays on the Poets. $1.50.X.The Cæsars and The Avenger. $1.50.XI.Letters to a Young Man, and Logic of Political Economy. $1.50.This is a compact and very desirable Library Edition of De Quincey. It will freshly commend to all intelligent American readers the varied and brilliant writings of this unsurpassed master of English prose.“Since the English language has been written, we know of nothing comparable to his style, splendor, variety, ease, idiomatic richness, and grace.”—London Leader.THE ROMANCE OF THE HAREM.By MRS. A. H. LEONOWENS,AUTHOR OF “THE ENGLISH GOVERNESS AT THE SIAMESE COURT.”Illustrated. 12mo. $3.00.“When we began to feel that the poetry of the East was exhausted, Mrs. Leonowens opened for us the door into a land of romance as novel, as fascinating, and as splendid as any the Orient has ever shown us. In her ‘English Governess at the Siamese Court,’ we had a somewhat confused glimpse of it; but in ‘The Romance of the Harem’ we have our curiosity fully satisfied.”—Hartford Courant.KEEL AND SADDLE:A RETROSPECT OF FORTY YEARS OF MILITARY AND NAVAL SERVICE.By JOSEPH W. REVERE.New Edition. 12mo. $2.00.“Of the flavor and charm of the narrative we can convey no fair idea. There is a freshness and genuineness in the story of his travels that will command general admiration.”—Literary World.For sale by Booksellers. Sent, post-paid, on receipt of price, by the Publishers,JAMES E. OSGOOD & CO., Boston.1873NEW BOOKS IN PRESSFORSPRING PUBLICATION.Messrs. JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO.’SLIST OF WORKS IN PRESS FOR PUBLICATION DURING THE COMING SEASON.Palmetto Leaves.ByMrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Illustrated. 1 vol. Small 4to. $2.00. (Just ready.)Enigmas of Life.Reprinted from English advance sheets. ByW. R. Greg. 1 vol. 12mo. $2.00.The Other Girls.ByMrs. A. D. T. Whitney. Companion volume to “We Girls,” “Real Folks,” &c. Illustrated. 1 vol. 12mo. $2.00. (In April.)A Chance Acquaintance.ByWilliam D. Howells. 1 vol. Small 18mo. $1.50.American Text-Books of Art Education.ByWalter Smith.The Books of Jules Verne, as per the following List:The Adventures of Captain Hatteras.Illustrated.Five Weeks in a Balloon.Illustrated.The Land of the Furs.Illustrated.Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea.Illustrated.Among the Isles of Shoals.ByCelia Thaxter.Lars: A Pastoral of Norway.A new and very striking love-poem. ByBayard Taylor. 1 vol. 16mo. $1.50. (Just out.)Music-Hall Sermons.—A New Volume. ByRev. W. H. H. Murray. 1 vol. 16mo. $1.50.PAPER NOVELS. Osgood’s Library of Novels.Not Easily Jealous.An English Reprint. (Ready.)Writings of Emile Gaboriau, as follows:The Lerouge Affair.(Ready.)The Mystery of Orcival.(Ready.)Monsieur Lecoq.The Slaves of Paris.Infernal Life.File No. 113.Zelda’s Fortune.Expiated.By the author of “Behind the Veil.”Not Without Thorns.(Immediately.)Complete Poetical Works of Bret Harte.Diamond Edition. Uniform with Diamond Tennyson, &c. 1 vol. $1.50.Continuation of the Library Editions of Hawthorne and De Quincey.Gothic Forms, applied to Furniture, Decorations, &c.ByB. J. Talbert. A magnificent Architectural and Decorative Work reproduced by the Heliotype process. 1 vol. folio. With thirty full-page plates.A New Volume of Poems.ByOwen Meredith. From advance sheets.THE KABALLAH OF THE EGYPTIANS,ANDCanon of Proportions of the Greeks.By GEO. HENRY FELT.All traditions respecting the “Kaballah” of the Egyptians concur in stating that it was a Perfect System of Proportion, and if rediscovered would furnish us with a Complete Key to all the Works of Art in antiquity, and of Nature itself; that it would elucidate the Origin of Language, written or spoken, hieroglyphic or figurative, thus showing the hidden and true meaning of the Old and New Testaments.The Grecian Canon was this system of proportion brought from Egypt by Grecian sculptors and architects, about B. C. 350, by which they fashioned their unequalled statues of the human figure, and their architectural masterpieces.Mr. Felt claims to have discovered the Kaballah, and that the proof of its correctness is abundant andpositive. The Kaballah is a geometrical figure, the actual measurements of which are established through all Nature and Art. This work is written without technical terms, and plainly, so that a child of twelve years may understand it. The geometrical problems are reduced to the simplest elements, so that they can be understood without a knowledge of geometry.The work has been examined and approved, and enthusiastically endorsed by prominent members of the learned professions and mechanic arts, and is peculiarly interesting to students of Masonry, being a complete key to the Ancient Mysteries.The distinguished sculptor, J. Q. A. Ward, Vice-President of the National Academy of Design, writes as follows:—“There seems not the least doubt that Mr. Felt has discovered the Canon of Proportions of the Greeks, and the Kaballah of the Egyptians, and, as far as we can judge, he establishes the subject-matter of the first tables of stone, in establishing a law of proportion that exists in all the works of nature and their ramifications or parts.“His geometrical problems are new and startling, and are confirmed by nature and art. Altogether it is a work of vital interest to every person, and on a subject that cannot help being appreciated by the general reader.”To this testimony we add the following extract of a letter from Mr. William Page, the distinguished artist, President of the National Academy of Design:—“I am greatly interested in the above-mentioned question of the Kaballah as presented by Mr. Felt, and concur in this agreement with his belief, that is, so far as I have been able in two investigations to understand, and believe that it will prove of the greatest results, and interest the intelligent to a very remarkable extent when once published to the world.”This work will be profusely illustrated in the highest style of the art, and will be invaluable to Students of Mathematics or Language, Clergymen, and all persons wishing to understand the true meaning of the Bible, Architects, Machinists, Engineers, Builders, Sculptors, etc.The work will be issued to subscribers only. It will consist of ten parts, to be issued monthly, the first part to appear immediately. Price, $2.00 each part.JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO.,Publishers.
THOMAS HUGHES’S WORKS.
SCHOOL DAYS AT RUGBY.
BY AN OLD BOY.
1 vol. 16mo. New Illustrated Edition. $1.25.
TOM BROWN AT OXFORD:A SEQUEL TO SCHOOL DAYS AT RUGBY.
2 vols. 16mo. $3.00.
ALFRED THE GREAT.
With Illustrations and Map. 1 vol. 16mo. $1.50.
JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO., Boston.
ENIGMAS OF LIFE.
By W. R. GREG.
1 vol. 12mo. $2.00.
CONTENTS.—Realizable Ideals.—Malthus Notwithstanding.—Non-Survival of the Fittest.—Limits and Directions of Human Development.—The Significance of Life.—De Profundis.—Elsewhere.—Appendix.
“What is to be the future of the human race? What are the great obstacles in the way of progress? What are the best means of surmounting these obstacles? Such, in a rough statement, are some of the problems which are more or less present to Mr. Greg’s mind; and although he does not pretend to discuss them fully, he makes a great many observations about them, always expressed in a graceful style, frequently eloquent, and occasionally putting old subjects in a new light, and recording the results of a large amount of reading and inquiry.”—Saturday Review.“It would be unfair to deny to these essays very great ability. The style is clear and vigorous; the amount of thought and power displayed is considerable. Many of the remarks on our social condition, on the prevention of disease, on the forces which act on population, are exceedingly valuable, and may be read with much advantage.”—The Illustrated Review (London).“The whole set of Essays is at once the profoundest and the kindliest that has for some time tried to set people a-thinking about themselves and their destiny.”—Daily Telegraph (London).“Mr. Greg is fertile, vigorous, and suggestive in his thinking; he is a thoughtful, earnest, independent, and well-informed man, who really faces the problems he discusses.”—Boston Globe.“Full of writing of singular force and singular candor.”—The Spectator (London).
“What is to be the future of the human race? What are the great obstacles in the way of progress? What are the best means of surmounting these obstacles? Such, in a rough statement, are some of the problems which are more or less present to Mr. Greg’s mind; and although he does not pretend to discuss them fully, he makes a great many observations about them, always expressed in a graceful style, frequently eloquent, and occasionally putting old subjects in a new light, and recording the results of a large amount of reading and inquiry.”—Saturday Review.
“It would be unfair to deny to these essays very great ability. The style is clear and vigorous; the amount of thought and power displayed is considerable. Many of the remarks on our social condition, on the prevention of disease, on the forces which act on population, are exceedingly valuable, and may be read with much advantage.”—The Illustrated Review (London).
“The whole set of Essays is at once the profoundest and the kindliest that has for some time tried to set people a-thinking about themselves and their destiny.”—Daily Telegraph (London).
“Mr. Greg is fertile, vigorous, and suggestive in his thinking; he is a thoughtful, earnest, independent, and well-informed man, who really faces the problems he discusses.”—Boston Globe.
“Full of writing of singular force and singular candor.”—The Spectator (London).
For sale by Booksellers. Sent, post-paid, on receipt of price, by the Publishers,
JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO., Boston.
MYTHS AND MYTH-MAKERS:OLD TALES AND SUPERSTITIONS INTERPRETED BY COMPARATIVE MYTHOLOGY.
By JOHN FISKE.
1 vol. 12mo. $2.00.
“It is both an amusing and instructive book, evincing large research and giving its results in a lucid and attractive style. The author’s purpose is to present old tales and superstitions as interpreted by comparative mythology. The seven chapters of the volume relate respectively to ‘The Origins of Folk Lore,’ ‘The Descent of Fire,’ ‘Werewolves and Swan-Maidens,’ ‘Light and Darkness,’ ‘Myths of the Barbaric World,’ ‘Juventus Mundi,’ and ‘The Primeval Ghost World.’ The volume is so rich in matter that the task of selection is difficult.”—Boston Globe.“With the capacity for profound research and the power of critical consideration, he has a singular grace of style and an art of clear and simple statement which will not let the most indifferent refuse knowledge of the topics treated. In such a field as the discussion of old fables and superstitions affords, we have not only to admire Mr. Fiske for the charm of his manner, but for the justice and honesty of his method.”—The Atlantic Monthly.“Mr. Fiske is a master of perspicuous explanation. He has not laid claim to any originality in the present volume, but his most grudging critics must allow that his presentation of this intricate subject is simple and straightforward and at the same time scholarly.”—New York World.For sale by Booksellers. Sent, post-paid, on receipt of price, by the Publishers,
“It is both an amusing and instructive book, evincing large research and giving its results in a lucid and attractive style. The author’s purpose is to present old tales and superstitions as interpreted by comparative mythology. The seven chapters of the volume relate respectively to ‘The Origins of Folk Lore,’ ‘The Descent of Fire,’ ‘Werewolves and Swan-Maidens,’ ‘Light and Darkness,’ ‘Myths of the Barbaric World,’ ‘Juventus Mundi,’ and ‘The Primeval Ghost World.’ The volume is so rich in matter that the task of selection is difficult.”—Boston Globe.
“With the capacity for profound research and the power of critical consideration, he has a singular grace of style and an art of clear and simple statement which will not let the most indifferent refuse knowledge of the topics treated. In such a field as the discussion of old fables and superstitions affords, we have not only to admire Mr. Fiske for the charm of his manner, but for the justice and honesty of his method.”—The Atlantic Monthly.
“Mr. Fiske is a master of perspicuous explanation. He has not laid claim to any originality in the present volume, but his most grudging critics must allow that his presentation of this intricate subject is simple and straightforward and at the same time scholarly.”—New York World.
For sale by Booksellers. Sent, post-paid, on receipt of price, by the Publishers,
JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO., Boston.
“A genial exponent of the best sort of American thought.”—The Examiner(London).
BACKLOG STUDIES.
BY CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER,
AUTHOR OF “MY SUMMER IN A GARDEN,” “SAUNTERINGS,” ETC.
With Twenty-one Illustrations by Augustus Hoppin.
1 vol. Small quarto. $2.00.
This delightful volume has been greeted with remarkable unanimity as one of the wittiest, freshest, most wholesome books in American literature. The humorous genius which irradiated Mr. Warner’s previous volumes, “My Summer in a Garden,” and “Saunterings,” pervades these “Backlog Studies” and lends them an indescribable charm.
New York Christian Advocate.One of the finest books of quaint conceit, quiet humor, and delicate sentiment we have read for a long time.... If a richer book in its own sphere has been written by an American author, we are not familiar with it, and this we say despite the genial author’s rebuke of criticism by comparison. From its opening page to its close there is not a dry one in it, and some of its hits at popular fallacies and stubborn dogmas are keen and incisive; while at the same time the delightful humor and kindly spirit which accompany the lancet, make it impossible for one to take offence, be his pet notions ever so much ridiculed.Boston Commercial Bulletin.Who shall say that books have no souls, especially books like this, all aglow with healthful humor, bright thought, and talking right out to you what you were about yourself to say,—only you had not quite thought it yet? A few of these ‘Studies’ have appeared in “Scribners,” but the most are new, while all are fresh and sparkling as a frosty winter morning, and delicious as the company we love for a winter evening. The book is more deeply thoughtful than “My Summer in a Garden,” with an equally vivid play of fancy.It never mocks or sneers, and its sarcasm has no sting. Hoppin has done his part, and the publishers theirs, to make the volume a thing of beauty.
New York Christian Advocate.
One of the finest books of quaint conceit, quiet humor, and delicate sentiment we have read for a long time.... If a richer book in its own sphere has been written by an American author, we are not familiar with it, and this we say despite the genial author’s rebuke of criticism by comparison. From its opening page to its close there is not a dry one in it, and some of its hits at popular fallacies and stubborn dogmas are keen and incisive; while at the same time the delightful humor and kindly spirit which accompany the lancet, make it impossible for one to take offence, be his pet notions ever so much ridiculed.
Boston Commercial Bulletin.
Who shall say that books have no souls, especially books like this, all aglow with healthful humor, bright thought, and talking right out to you what you were about yourself to say,—only you had not quite thought it yet? A few of these ‘Studies’ have appeared in “Scribners,” but the most are new, while all are fresh and sparkling as a frosty winter morning, and delicious as the company we love for a winter evening. The book is more deeply thoughtful than “My Summer in a Garden,” with an equally vivid play of fancy.
It never mocks or sneers, and its sarcasm has no sting. Hoppin has done his part, and the publishers theirs, to make the volume a thing of beauty.
ALSO, NEW EDITIONS OF
MY SUMMER IN A GARDEN.
$1.00.
Illustrated by Hoppin.$3.00.
SAUNTERINGS.
$1.50.
For sale by Booksellers. Sent, post-paid, on receipt of price, by the Publishers,
JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO., Boston.
DE QUINCEY’S WORKS.
NEW LIBRARY EDITION,
Uniform in general size and style with theLibraryHawthorne, Dickens, Waverley, etc. In eleven volumes, 12mo.
This is a compact and very desirable Library Edition of De Quincey. It will freshly commend to all intelligent American readers the varied and brilliant writings of this unsurpassed master of English prose.
“Since the English language has been written, we know of nothing comparable to his style, splendor, variety, ease, idiomatic richness, and grace.”—London Leader.
“Since the English language has been written, we know of nothing comparable to his style, splendor, variety, ease, idiomatic richness, and grace.”—London Leader.
THE ROMANCE OF THE HAREM.
By MRS. A. H. LEONOWENS,AUTHOR OF “THE ENGLISH GOVERNESS AT THE SIAMESE COURT.”
Illustrated. 12mo. $3.00.
“When we began to feel that the poetry of the East was exhausted, Mrs. Leonowens opened for us the door into a land of romance as novel, as fascinating, and as splendid as any the Orient has ever shown us. In her ‘English Governess at the Siamese Court,’ we had a somewhat confused glimpse of it; but in ‘The Romance of the Harem’ we have our curiosity fully satisfied.”—Hartford Courant.
“When we began to feel that the poetry of the East was exhausted, Mrs. Leonowens opened for us the door into a land of romance as novel, as fascinating, and as splendid as any the Orient has ever shown us. In her ‘English Governess at the Siamese Court,’ we had a somewhat confused glimpse of it; but in ‘The Romance of the Harem’ we have our curiosity fully satisfied.”—Hartford Courant.
KEEL AND SADDLE:A RETROSPECT OF FORTY YEARS OF MILITARY AND NAVAL SERVICE.
By JOSEPH W. REVERE.
New Edition. 12mo. $2.00.
“Of the flavor and charm of the narrative we can convey no fair idea. There is a freshness and genuineness in the story of his travels that will command general admiration.”—Literary World.
“Of the flavor and charm of the narrative we can convey no fair idea. There is a freshness and genuineness in the story of his travels that will command general admiration.”—Literary World.
For sale by Booksellers. Sent, post-paid, on receipt of price, by the Publishers,
JAMES E. OSGOOD & CO., Boston.
1873
NEW BOOKS IN PRESSFORSPRING PUBLICATION.
Messrs. JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO.’S
LIST OF WORKS IN PRESS FOR PUBLICATION DURING THE COMING SEASON.
Palmetto Leaves.ByMrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Illustrated. 1 vol. Small 4to. $2.00. (Just ready.)
Enigmas of Life.Reprinted from English advance sheets. ByW. R. Greg. 1 vol. 12mo. $2.00.
The Other Girls.ByMrs. A. D. T. Whitney. Companion volume to “We Girls,” “Real Folks,” &c. Illustrated. 1 vol. 12mo. $2.00. (In April.)
A Chance Acquaintance.ByWilliam D. Howells. 1 vol. Small 18mo. $1.50.
American Text-Books of Art Education.ByWalter Smith.
The Books of Jules Verne, as per the following List:
The Adventures of Captain Hatteras.Illustrated.
Five Weeks in a Balloon.Illustrated.
The Land of the Furs.Illustrated.
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea.Illustrated.
Among the Isles of Shoals.ByCelia Thaxter.
Lars: A Pastoral of Norway.A new and very striking love-poem. ByBayard Taylor. 1 vol. 16mo. $1.50. (Just out.)
Music-Hall Sermons.—A New Volume. ByRev. W. H. H. Murray. 1 vol. 16mo. $1.50.
PAPER NOVELS. Osgood’s Library of Novels.
Not Easily Jealous.An English Reprint. (Ready.)Writings of Emile Gaboriau, as follows:The Lerouge Affair.(Ready.)The Mystery of Orcival.(Ready.)Monsieur Lecoq.The Slaves of Paris.Infernal Life.File No. 113.Zelda’s Fortune.Expiated.By the author of “Behind the Veil.”Not Without Thorns.(Immediately.)
Not Easily Jealous.An English Reprint. (Ready.)
Writings of Emile Gaboriau, as follows:
Zelda’s Fortune.
Expiated.By the author of “Behind the Veil.”
Not Without Thorns.(Immediately.)
Complete Poetical Works of Bret Harte.Diamond Edition. Uniform with Diamond Tennyson, &c. 1 vol. $1.50.
Continuation of the Library Editions of Hawthorne and De Quincey.
Gothic Forms, applied to Furniture, Decorations, &c.ByB. J. Talbert. A magnificent Architectural and Decorative Work reproduced by the Heliotype process. 1 vol. folio. With thirty full-page plates.
A New Volume of Poems.ByOwen Meredith. From advance sheets.
THE KABALLAH OF THE EGYPTIANS,ANDCanon of Proportions of the Greeks.
By GEO. HENRY FELT.
All traditions respecting the “Kaballah” of the Egyptians concur in stating that it was a Perfect System of Proportion, and if rediscovered would furnish us with a Complete Key to all the Works of Art in antiquity, and of Nature itself; that it would elucidate the Origin of Language, written or spoken, hieroglyphic or figurative, thus showing the hidden and true meaning of the Old and New Testaments.
The Grecian Canon was this system of proportion brought from Egypt by Grecian sculptors and architects, about B. C. 350, by which they fashioned their unequalled statues of the human figure, and their architectural masterpieces.
Mr. Felt claims to have discovered the Kaballah, and that the proof of its correctness is abundant andpositive. The Kaballah is a geometrical figure, the actual measurements of which are established through all Nature and Art. This work is written without technical terms, and plainly, so that a child of twelve years may understand it. The geometrical problems are reduced to the simplest elements, so that they can be understood without a knowledge of geometry.
The work has been examined and approved, and enthusiastically endorsed by prominent members of the learned professions and mechanic arts, and is peculiarly interesting to students of Masonry, being a complete key to the Ancient Mysteries.
The distinguished sculptor, J. Q. A. Ward, Vice-President of the National Academy of Design, writes as follows:—
“There seems not the least doubt that Mr. Felt has discovered the Canon of Proportions of the Greeks, and the Kaballah of the Egyptians, and, as far as we can judge, he establishes the subject-matter of the first tables of stone, in establishing a law of proportion that exists in all the works of nature and their ramifications or parts.“His geometrical problems are new and startling, and are confirmed by nature and art. Altogether it is a work of vital interest to every person, and on a subject that cannot help being appreciated by the general reader.”
“There seems not the least doubt that Mr. Felt has discovered the Canon of Proportions of the Greeks, and the Kaballah of the Egyptians, and, as far as we can judge, he establishes the subject-matter of the first tables of stone, in establishing a law of proportion that exists in all the works of nature and their ramifications or parts.
“His geometrical problems are new and startling, and are confirmed by nature and art. Altogether it is a work of vital interest to every person, and on a subject that cannot help being appreciated by the general reader.”
To this testimony we add the following extract of a letter from Mr. William Page, the distinguished artist, President of the National Academy of Design:—
“I am greatly interested in the above-mentioned question of the Kaballah as presented by Mr. Felt, and concur in this agreement with his belief, that is, so far as I have been able in two investigations to understand, and believe that it will prove of the greatest results, and interest the intelligent to a very remarkable extent when once published to the world.”
“I am greatly interested in the above-mentioned question of the Kaballah as presented by Mr. Felt, and concur in this agreement with his belief, that is, so far as I have been able in two investigations to understand, and believe that it will prove of the greatest results, and interest the intelligent to a very remarkable extent when once published to the world.”
This work will be profusely illustrated in the highest style of the art, and will be invaluable to Students of Mathematics or Language, Clergymen, and all persons wishing to understand the true meaning of the Bible, Architects, Machinists, Engineers, Builders, Sculptors, etc.
The work will be issued to subscribers only. It will consist of ten parts, to be issued monthly, the first part to appear immediately. Price, $2.00 each part.
JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO.,Publishers.