Part 10

“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.)