Part 9

FRENCH TRAITS. (12mo, $1.50.)

CONTENTS: The Social Instinct--Morality--Intelligence--Sense and Sentiment--Manners--Women--The Art Instinct--The Provincial Spirit--Democracy--New York after Paris.

“These chapters form a volume of criticism which is sympathetic, intelligent, acute, and contains a great amount of wholesome suggestion.”--Boston Advertiser.

FRENCH ART. (12mo, $1.25.)

“Brought to the judgment in this cool and scientific spirit, the whole course of French painting and sculpture, as shown by the masters pre-eminent in each era, is reviewed by a critic as certain of his criticisms as he is capable in forming them.”--Springfield Republican.

THOMAS CARLYLE.

LECTURES ON THE HISTORY OF LITERATURE. (Now printed for the first time. 12mo, $1.00.)

SUMMARY OF CONTENTS: Literature in General--Language, Tradition--The Greeks--The Heroic Ages--Homer--Æschylus to Socrates--The Romans--Middle Ages--Christianity--The Crusades--Dante--The Spaniards--Chivalry--Cervantes--The Germans--Luther--The Origin, Work and Destiny of the English-- Shakespeare--Milton--Swift--Hume--Wertherism--The French Revolution--Goethe and his Works.

“Every intelligent American reader will instantly wish to read this book through, and many will say that it is the clearest and wisest and most genuine book that Carlyle ever produced. We could have no work from his hand which embodies more clearly and emphatically his literary opinions than his rapid and graphic survey of the great writers and great literary epochs of the world.”--Boston Herald.

ALICE MORSE EARLE.

THE SABBATH IN PURITAN NEW ENGLAND. (12mo, $1.25.)

“She writes with a keen sense of humor, and out of the full stores of adequate knowledge and plentiful explorations among old pamphlets, letters, sermons, and that treasury, not yet run dry in New England, family traditions. The book is as sympathetic as it is bright and humorous.”--The Independent.

CHINA COLLECTING IN AMERICA. (with 75 illustrations. Sq. 8vo, $3.00.)

“Her book is full of entertainment, not only for the china hunter and collector, but for all who are interested in early times and manufactures, in the old houses and country people, in the history of America, and the habits and customs of the past.”--New York Observer.

CUSTOMS AND FASHIONS IN OLD NEW ENGLAND. (12mo, $1.25.)

Mrs. Earle describes the daily life and habits, the festivals, larder, taverns, modes of travel, peculiarities of courtship, marriages, funerals, the utensils and furniture of the Puritan farm and home, with the same wit, sympathetic feeling, and copious information so marked in her former works.

HENRY T. FINCK.

CHOPIN, and Other Musical Essays. (12mo, $1.50.)

“Written from abundant knowledge: enlivened by anecdote and touches of enthusiasm, suggestive, stimulating.”--Boston Post.

JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE.

THE SPANISH STORY OF THE ARMADA, AND OTHER ESSAYS. (12mo, $1.50.)

CONTENTS: The Spanish Story of the Armada--Antonio Perez: An Unsolved Historical Riddle--Saint Teresa--The Templars--The Norway Fjords--Norway Once More.

SHORT STUDIES ON GREAT SUBJECTS. (Half leather, 12mo, 4 vols., each $1.50.)

CONTENTS:

VOL. I. The Science of History--Times of Erasmus and Luther--The Influence of the Reformation on the Scottish Character--The Philosophy of Catholicism--A Plea for the Free Discussion of Theological Difficulties--Criticism and the Gospel History--The Book of Job--Spinoza--The Dissolution of Monasteries--England’s Forgotten Worthies--Homer--The Lives of the Saints--Representative Man--Reynard the Fox--The Cat’s Pilgrimage--Fables--Parable of the Bread-fruit Tree--Compensation.

VOL. II. Calvinism--A Bishop of the Twelfth Century--Father Newman on “The Grammar of Assent”--Conditions and Prospects of Protestantism--England and Her Colonies--A Fortnight in Kerry--Reciprocal Duties in State and Subject--The Merchant and His Wife--On Progress--The Colonies Once More--Education--England’s War--The Eastern Question--Scientific Method Applied to History.

VOL. III. Annals of an English Abbey--Revival of Romanism--Sea Studies--Society in Italy in the Last Days of the Roman Republic--Lucian--Divus Caesar--On the Uses of a Landed Gentry--Party Politics--Leaves from a South African Journal.

VOL. IV. The Oxford Counter--Reformation--Life and Times of Thomas Becket--Origen and Celsus--A Cagliostro of the Second Century--Cheneys and the House of Russell--A Siding at a Railway Station.