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Works by Mrs. Oliphant.
Dante, Giotto, Savanarola, and Their City.
"The studies of character are lifelike and fair, and the narrative portions are full of picturesque touches. . . . The book is beautifully illustrated with woodcuts after drawings of Florentine buildings, statues, and paintings."—The Athenæum.
A companion volume.
Doges, Conquerors, Painters, Men of Letters.
"Mrs. Oliphant's hand has not lost its cunning. 'The Makers of Venice' is even more delightful than 'The Makers of Florence.' The writing is bright and animated, the research thorough, the presentation of Venetian life brilliantly vivid."—Blackwood's Magazine (Edinburgh).
Her Saints, Kings, and Scholars.
"History and tradition, fact and romance, the changing characteristics of the old and new town, and the personality of the women of distinction and the men of power and genius whose lives centred there,—all get a place in Mrs. Oliphant's enticing pages."—Boston Beacon.
Its History and Hope.
Illustrated. Crown 8vo. $2.50.
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Rome.
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Harvard College by an Oxonian.
By George Birkbeck Hill, D.C.L.,
Pembroke College, Oxford; Editor of "Boswell's Life of Johnson";
Author of "Writers and Readers," etc.
Illustrated with New Frontispiece Portrait in Photogravure of
President Eliot, and with Views of the Principal Buildings,
including the oldest Picture of the College.
12mo. "Crimson" Cloth, gilt top. pp. 329. $2.25.
The accomplished and scholarly editor of Boswell's Johnson, Dr. G. Birkbeck Hill, records in this volume his impressions of Harvard in a very entertaining series of chapters, touching upon such subjects as, for instance, The Growth of Harvard—Cambridge in England and Cambridge in New England—The College Chapel—Fagging and "Hazing"—Odd Characters—After-dinner Speeches—Class-day—The Athletic Craze—Signs and "Shingles"—Harvard and Yale—The Elective System—The Law School—The Lawrence Scientific School—Radcliffe College—The Library—The Faculty—Oxford and Harvard.
"Harvard has found a worthy foreign chronicler in Dr. Hill, the learned editor of 'Boswell.'"
A View From the Radcliffe Library.
By Goldwin Smith, D.C.L.
With Illustrations reproduced from photographs.
18mo. Cloth, gilt top. $1.50.
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The Writings
of
"Taken altogether he has in my judgment no equal."
—Lord Coleridge.
Just published.
The Letters of Matthew Arnold.
1848–1888.
Collected and arranged
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First Series.
(Fourth Edition.)
12mo. Cloth. $1.50.
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"There is no Englishman who has conceived a more exalted idea of the functions of the critic or kept more faithfully in view his own definition of the business of the critical power 'in all branches of knowledge, theology, philosophy, history, art, science, to see the object as in itself it really is,' or exercised that power with a more fascinating clearness, a more elegant and charming urbanity."—N. Y. Tribune.
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"Some of his ripest, best and most interesting writing."—N. Y. Observer.
"Qualities of the poet's soul are understood by the critic in full measure, and his elegance of style adds to the beauty of the interpretation. In these essays, Matthew Arnold will find a longer remembrance than in any of his controversial writings. They are uplifting and masterly."—Boston Journal.
"All of these have the same high quality which marked the critical work of their distinguished author, and many of them embody his ripest and richest thought."—The Week.
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An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension
of the Bible.
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Press notice.
"This is perhaps the most characteristic of Mr. Arnold's publications. It shows his keenness as a critic, his pure and incisive use of English, and his attitude towards revealed religion, . . . with many noble thoughts expressed in memorable sentences."—Zion's Herald.
A Review of Objections to 'Literature
and Dogma.
12mo. Cloth. $1.50.
"In revising the present volume, the suspicion and alarm which its contents, like those of its predecessor, will in some quarters excite, could not but be present to my mind. I hope, however, that I have at last made my aim clear, even to the most suspicious. Some of the comments on 'Literature and Dogma' did, I own, surprise me; . . . but however that judgment may go, whether it pronounce the attempt here made to be of solid worth or not, I have little fear but that it will recognize it to have been an attempt conservative and an attempt religious."—From the Author's Preface.
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"Mr. Arnold's writings so abound in impressive and suggestive passages which bear separation from the text in which they appear, and are worthy of frequent rereading, that his works may be said to lend themselves in a peculiar and unusual degree to this sort of anthological treatment."—Evening Post.
St. Paul and Protestantism.
LAST ESSAYS ON CHURCH AND RELIGION.
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IRISH ESSAYS.
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"Matthew Arnold never puts his pen to paper except to write something trenchant and original. He is a deep, careful thinker, and deals with the problems of the present in a manner so vigorous, and yet so candid, as to command respect and consideration from all readers. In his Irish essays he considers the whole Irish question in a very candid, philosophical manner."—Boston Post.
"Written in the Essayist's most delightful style, and would repay perusal simply by the pleasure there is in reading them, even if we had no special interest in the topics discussed."—Boston Journal.
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"Whatever the future may say of Mr. Arnold's views, to the present, his book is an inestimable boon."
—Brooklyn Union.
"No one who is hungry for truth, reasonableness and intellectual justice will be disappointed in his 'Discourses.'"—Boston Beacon.
"Every sentence is a text for thought."
—Toledo Post.
"Fresh, outspoken and sincere; and if one does not always agree with them in all points, one can yet take pleasure in them."—Churchman.
"The purity and clearness of his style render them delightful reading."—Argonaut.
"Treasures—the best thought in the choicest English of our time."—Buffalo Times.
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IN 3 VOLS.
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"Matthew Arnold's poetry is essentially the poetry of the scholar, and it is, we may say, poetry for the scholar; . . . his poems certainly belong among the finest of the century, and will last so long as good poetry is read and enjoyed."—The Critic.
"One of the best and wisest writers of our age . . . Arnold's poetry reminds one somewhat of Emerson's. Its lofty intellectuality takes us, as it were, to the clear, rare atmosphere of a high mountain peak whence we can look down on the comings and goings on earth and see things in their true relations and light."
—Chicago Tribune.
"No other poet of the age has expressed with more perfect truth or greater beauty of form the thoughts and the feelings that lie deepest in the souls of thoughtful men."—Dial.
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PLATO AND PLATONISM.
A Series of Lectures.
By WALTER PATER, M.A.
Third Edition. Globe 8vo. Cloth, $1.75.
"Many will read the book because Pater wrote it, and all will have some good from it, though in various degrees; in any case, valuable service has been done for the study of Plato, and a valuable contribution to higher English prose. . . . As might be expected from the nature of Pater's genius, he has much to say on the Æsthetics of Plato—in fact, it is this side of Plato, as above remarked, that offers most attraction to the author. In Plato he finds the first philosopher who speculated at all about the beautiful. So it is as an art lover that Pater comes to Plato, and it is this side of Plato's philosophy that receives most attention at the hands of the author. One is very glad, too, to have so masterly and sympathetic a spirit to interpret for us this aspect of Platonism. Jowett's Introductions have done much, but we have no volume which sets forth in such clear and charming way the literary, æsthetic, and political features of this philosophy."—Philosophical Review.
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IMAGINARY PORTRAITS.
By WALTER PATER,
FELLOW OF BRASENOSE COLLEGE
Globe 8vo. $1.50.
"The subtle appreciation, and the infinite number of small touches in the rendering of what he sees, which lie at the heart of Mr. Pater's literary individuality, and give to his style its extraordinary distinction, lift the work out of the range of the common, and set it apart as unique with his other work, to the refined thoughtfulness of which we have hitherto endeavored to do some justice."—Nation.
"The portraits are of incomparable perfection and beauty, and are educational of art and literary taste."—Boston Globe.
"Whatever his subject-matter, the mere flow of his words and sentences has the enchanting power of a richly musical voice. His command of the qualities of grace and beauty in English prose seems to us seldom to have been equalled. . . . We do not know of another fiction-writer of to-day—certainly not more than one—who would do such purely artistic work in the line of drawing characters of a bygone day."—Critic.
"Mr. Walter Pater is one of the few—the very few—living English authors who have never published anything which the most fastidious lover of pure literature cannot read with pleasure as well as profit, and to which he is not certain to return in his leisure hours for a renewal of that pleasure."—Mail and Express.
"It is impossible to make adequate extracts from such a book as this. It is full of the finest insights into life and art; of pictures and suggestions; of delicate fancies so harmoniously strung that the reading is like the passing of exquisite music."—Boston Traveller.
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THE RENAISSANCE:
Studies in Art and Poetry.
By WALTER PATER,
FELLOW OF BRASENOSE COLLEGE.
Third Edition. Revised and Enlarged. Globe 8vo. $2.00.
This edition has been carefully revised and, to some extent, enlarged. The 'Conclusion,' which was omitted from the second edition, has now been replaced with some slight changes which bring it closer to the author's original meaning.
"The appearance of Mr. Pater's Essays—one of the most characteristic and epoch-marking books of our day—in a third edition is a welcome proof of the power of good literature to win its way in the long run, however remote and unfamiliar its form may be. The text has been touched here and there in the successive remaiments which it has undergone, but Mr. Pater has been wisely careful to lay no irreverent hands upon cadences which linger in the memories of many readers of that beloved first edition, with its deep-ribbed, hand-made paper, and dark green cover. Such a reader will turn to the well-known passage on Lionardo's Mona Lisa, and will come under the old charm with great satisfaction. It is of course possible to have different opinions about a style so studied, so subtle, and so minutely wrought, but no one who can taste books at all will fail to feel its charm, while no student of art can turn over the essays on Botticelli and The School of Giorgione and Winckelmann without seeing how deep a mark Mr. Pater has left on the best criticism of our day."—Manchester Guardian.
"Among English authors who have identified themselves with the modern art movement in England, no one holds a higher position than Mr. Walter Pater, a thorough scholar, a man of strong artistic feeling, trained in literature as well as in art history. Mr. Pater has brought to the work of expressing some modern English ideas in art all the resources of a gifted and accomplished writer. In his delightful volume on the Renaissance he discloses many of those qualities which characterize what has been called modern pre-Raphaelite art."—Christian Union.
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APPRECIATIONS,
With an Essay on Style.
By WALTER PATER, M.A.
Globe 8vo. Cloth. $1.75.
"Will charm by the beauty of its literary workmanship, as well as by the depth and fineness of its criticism."—Boston Saturday Evening Gazette.
"They will be read with interest as a finished expression of the opinions of one of the most earnest and widely cultured of living English critics."—St. James' Gazette.
"He has something to say; he says it in English undefiled, and his sentences caress the ear, and linger like music in the memory. But, in addition to these, he has another gift, to the last degree individual—he has the power of illumination. In a single phrase he flashes a new light on the subject he is discussing, and yet what he says is so inevitable that we all wonder we have not thought of it before."—Boston Herald.
MARIUS, THE EPICUREAN:
His Sensations and Ideas.
By WALTER PATER, M.A.
Second Edition. Globe 8vo. $2.25.
"A style of perfectly finished beauty, full of an exquisite restraint, and, after all, only the fitting and adequate expression of the exactest thinking."—Athenæum.
"Any one who cares to think on counsels of perfection for man's life will find profound and original thought about the ideal elements still at hand in modern days for use, and many wise reflections, sown along these pages. It is a rare work and not carelessly to be read. Some exquisiteness of taste, some delight in scholarship, some knowledge of what is best worth knowing in the historic expressions of man's aspiration, and, above all, that 'inward tacitness of mind' the reader must bring to its perusal."—Nation.
"The polish of the style, the depth and refinement of the thought, the picturesque descriptions, and the lofty sentiment of the book as a whole, together with the beautiful gravity and impressiveness that mark it generally, make it a work far out of the ordinary current of fiction."—Boston Saturday Evening Gazette.
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GREEK STUDIES.
BY
WALTER PATER,
_Fellow of Brasenose College_.
Globe 8vo. $1.75.
"These essays appear to fall into two distinct groups, one dealing with the subjects of Greek mythology and Greek poetry, and the other is the history of Greek sculpture and architecture. The author was a consummate master of style, and the essays are as perfect in literary form as they are replete with information."
—_Indianapolis Journal._
"Nowhere in literature does the idea of Greek art seem more intimate than through these papers, or is a reader more flatteringly induced into a belief in his extraordinary perspicacity in divining the meaning of the remnants of the ancient world."—_The Scotsman._
"These essays are not only examples of the author's literary grace, but of the seriousness of his studies and the fine penetration of his genius."—_Philadelphia Press._
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