REMINISCENCES OF A SCIENTIST
REMINISCENCES OF A SCIENTIST
REMINISCENCES OF A SCIENTIST
REMINISCENCES OF A SCIENTIST
The Autobiography of Joseph Le Conte.
The Autobiography of Joseph Le Conte.
The Autobiography of Joseph Le Conte.
With portrait. 12mo. Cloth, $1.25 net.
With portrait. 12mo. Cloth, $1.25 net.
With portrait. 12mo. Cloth, $1.25 net.
Professor Le Conte was widely known as a man of science, and notably as a geologist. His later years were spent at the University of California. But his early life was passed in the South; there he was born and spent his youth; there he was living when the civil war brought ruin to his home and his inherited estate. His reminiscences deal with phases of life in the South that have unfailing interest to all students of American history. His account of the war as he saw it has permanent value. He was in Georgia when Sherman marched across it. Professor Le Conte knew Agassiz, and writes charmingly of his associations with him.
“Attractive because of its unaffected simplicity and directness.”—Chicago Chronicle.
“Attractive by virtue of its frank simplicity.”—New York Evening Post.
“Well worth reading even if the reader be not particularly interested in geology.”—New York American.
“This story of a beautiful, untiring life is worthy of consideration by every lover of truth.”—St. Paul Despatch.
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“Destined to take rank as one of the two or three most remarkable self-portrayals of a human life ever committed to posterity.”
—Franklin H. Giddings, LL.D., in the Independent.
—Franklin H. Giddings, LL.D., in the Independent.
—Franklin H. Giddings, LL.D., in the Independent.
—Franklin H. Giddings, LL.D., in the Independent.
An Autobiography by Herbert Spencer.
An Autobiography by Herbert Spencer.
An Autobiography by Herbert Spencer.
With Illustrations. Many of them from the Author’s Own Drawings. Cloth, 8vo. Gilt Top. Two vols. in a box, $5.50 net. Postage, 40 cents additional.
“It is rare, indeed, that a man who has so profoundly influenced the intellectual development of his age and generation has found time to record the history of his own life. And this Mr. Spencer has done so simply, so frankly, and with such obvious truth, that it is not surprising that Huxley is reported as having said, after reading it in manuscript, that it reminded him of the ‘Confessions’ of Rousseau, freed from every objectionable taint.”—New York Globe.
“As interesting as fiction? There never was a novel so interesting as Herbert Spencer’s ‘An Autobiography’.”—New York Herald.
“It is rich in suggestion and observation, of wide significance and appeal in the sincerity, the frankness, the lovableness of its human note.”—New York Mail and Express.
“The book, as a whole, makes Spencer’s personality a reality for us, where heretofore it has been vaguer than his philosophical abstractions.”—John White Chadwick in Current Literature.
“In all the literature of its class there is nothing like it. It bears the same relationship to autobiographical productions as Boswell’s ‘Life of Johnson’ bears to biographies.”—Philadelphia Press.
“This book will always be of importance, for Herbert Spencer was a great and original thinker, and his system of philosophy has bent the thought of a generation, and will keep a position of commanding interest.”—Joseph O’Connor in the New York Times.
“Planned and wrought for the purpose of tracing the events of his life and the growth of his opinions, his autobiography does more than that. It furnished us, half unconsciously, no doubt, a more vivid portraiture of his peculiarities than any outsider could possibly provide. We pity his official biographer! Little can be left for him. Here we have Spencer in habit as he was.”—New York Evening Post.