ESSAYS, LECTURES, AND COLLECTED PAPERS.
Reading edition
IN STRANGE COMPANY; or, The Note Book of a Roving Correspondent. By James Greenwood, “The Amateur Casual.” Crown 8vo. 6s.
MASTER-SPIRITS. By Robert Buchanan. Post 8vo. 10s. 6d.
“Good Books are the precious life-blood of Master-Spirits.”—Milton.
Criticism as a Fine Art.
Charles Dickens.
Tennyson.
Browning’s Marteyneco.
A Young English Positivist.
Hugo in 1872.
Prose and Verse.
Birds of the Hebrides.
Scandinavian Studies:—
1. A Morning in Copenhagen.
2. Bjornsen’s Masterpiece.
3. Old Ballads of Denmark.
4. Modern Danish Ballads.
Poets in Obscurity:—
1. George Heath, the Moorland Poet.
2. William Miller.
These are some of the author’s lighter and more generally interesting Essays on literary topics of permanent interest. His other prose contributions, critical and philosophical, to our literature are included in the collected editions of his works.
THEOLOGY IN THE ENGLISH POETS. Being Lectures delivered by the Rev. Stopford A. Brooke, Chaplain in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen.
MOUNTAIN, MEADOW, AND MERE; a Series of Outdoor Sketches of Sport, Scenery, Adventures, and Natural History. By G. Christopher Davies. With 16 Illustrations by W. Harcourt. Crown 8vo, price 6s.
HOW TO AMUSE AND EMPLOY OUR INVALIDS. By Harriet Power. Fcap. 8vo. Price 2s. 6d.
What Invalids may do to Amuse Themselves.
What Friends and Attendants may do for them.
Articles for comfort in a Sick Room.
Amusement for Invalid Children.
To the Invalid.
Comforts and Employment for the Aged.
Employment for Sunday.
The question, so often put by invalids, “Can you not find me something to do?” is answered at some length in this little book, which takes up a subject but little touched upon in the many manuals for nurses. [Just out.
STUDIES AND ROMANCES. By H. Schutz Wilson. 1 vol. Crown 8vo. Price 7s. 6d.
Shakespeare in Blackfriars.
The Loves of Goethe.
Romance of the Thames.
An Exalted Horn.
Two Sprigs of Edelweiss.
Between Moor and Main.
An Episode of the Terror.
Harry Ormond’s Christmas Dinner.
Agnes Bernauerin.
“Yes” or “No”?
A Model Romance.
The Story of Little Jenny.
Dining.
The Record of a Vanished Life.
“Vivacious and interesting.”—Scotsman.
“Open the book, however, at what page the reader may, he will find something to amuse and instruct, and he must be very hard to please if he finds nothing to suit him, either grave or gay, stirring or romantic, in the capital stories collected in this well-got-up volume.”—John Bull.
SHORT LECTURES ON THE LAND LAWS. Delivered before the Working Men’s College. By T. Lean Wilkinson. Crown 8vo. limp cloth. 2s.
“A very handy and intelligible epitome of the general principles of existing land laws.”—Standard.
“A very clear and lucid statement as to the condition of the present land laws which govern our country. These Lectures possess the advantage of not being loaded with superfluous matter.”—Civil Service Gazette.
AN ESSAY ON THE CULTURE OF THE OBSERVING POWERS OF CHILDREN, especially in connection with the Study of Botany. By Eliza A. Youmans. Edited, with Notes and a Supplement, by Joseph Payne, F.C.P., Author of “Lectures on the Science and Art of Education,” &c. Crown 8vo. 2s. 6d.
“This study, according to her just notions on the subject, is to be fundamentally based on the exercise of the pupil’s own powers of observation. He is to see and examine the properties of plants and flowers at first hand, not merely to be informed of what others have seen and examined.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
THE GENIUS OF CHRISTIANITY UNVEILED. Being Essays by William Godwin, Author of “Political Justice,” &c. Never before published. 1 vol., crown 8vo. 7s. 6d.
“Few have thought more clearly and directly than William Godwin, or expressed their reflections with more simplicity and unreserve.”—Examiner.
“The deliberate thoughts of Godwin deserve to be put before the world for reading and consideration.”—Athenæum.
THE PELICAN PAPERS. Reminiscences and Remains of a Dweller in the Wilderness. By James Ashcroft Noble. Crown 8vo. 6s.
“Written somewhat after the fashion of Mr. Helps’s ‘Friends in Council.’”—Examiner.
“Will well repay perusal by all thoughtful and intelligent readers.”—Liverpool Leader.
“The ‘Pelican Papers’ make a very readable volume.”—Civilian.
BRIEFS AND PAPERS. Being Sketches of the Bar and the Press. By Two Idle Apprentices. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d.
“Written with spirit and knowledge, and give some curious glimpses into what the majority will regard as strange and unknown territories.”—Daily News.
“This is one of the best books to while away an hour and cause a generous laugh that we have come across for a long time.”—John Bull.
THE SECRET OF LONG LIFE. Dedicated by Special Permission to Lord St. Leonards. Third Edition. Large crown 8vo. 5s.
“A charming little volume.”—Times.
“A very pleasant little book, cheerful, genial, scholarly.”—Spectator.
“We should recommend our readers to get this book.”—British Quarterly Review.
“Entitled to the warmest admiration.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
SOLDIERING AND SCRIBBLING. By Archibald Forbes, of the Daily News, Author of “My Experience of the War between France and Germany.” Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d.
“All who open it will be inclined to read through for the varied entertainment which it affords.”—Daily News.
“There is a good deal of instruction to outsiders touching military life, in this volume.”—Evening Standard.
“Thoroughly readable and worth reading.”—Scotsman.
THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION. By Walter Bagehot. A New Edition, revised and corrected, with an Introductory Dissertation on recent changes and events. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d.
“A pleasing and clever study on the department of higher politics.”—Guardian.
“No writer before him had set out so clearly what the efficient part of the English Constitution really is.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
“Clear and practical.”—Globe.
REPUBLICAN SUPERSTITIONS. Illustrated by the Political History of the United States. Including a Correspondence with M. Louis Blanc. By Moncure D. Conway. Crown 8vo. 5s.
“A very able exposure of the most plausible fallacies of Republicanism, by a writer of remarkable vigour and purity of style.”—Standard.
“Mr. Conway writes with ardent sincerity. He gives us some good anecdotes, and he is occasionally almost eloquent.”—Guardian, July 2, 1873.
STREAMS FROM HIDDEN SOURCES. By B. Montgomerie Ranking. Crown 8vo. 6s.
“In point of style it is well executed, and the prefatory notices are very good.”—Spectator.
“The effect of reading the seven tales he presents to us is to make us wish for some seven more of the same kind.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
“The tales are given throughout in the quaint version of the earliest English translators, and in the introduction to each will be found much curious information as to their origin, and the fate which they have met at the hands of later transcribers or imitators, and much tasteful appreciation of the varied sources from whence they are extracted.... We doubt not that Mr. Ranking’s enthusiasm will communicate itself to many of his readers, and induce them in like manner to follow back these streamlets to their parent river.”—Graphic.