Vanity Fair. A Novel Without a Hero. By William Makepeace Thackeray. Portrait, 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.
As a whole the book is full of quiet sarcasm and severe rebuke. It is replete with humor and morality, and rivets attention to the end by the vivid reality of all the persons and scenes.—From “A Manual of English Literature” by T. B. Shaw.
Other Worlds Than Ours. The plurality of worlds studied under the light of recent scientific researches. By Richard A. Proctor. With an introductory note by Frank Parsons. Portrait. Cloth, gilt top. $1.00.
Like Huxley and Tyndall, Mr. Proctor sees the poetry of his subject and knows how to bring the largest truths within the comprehension of a child, and make the deepest researches as interesting to the general reader as a novel.—Frank Parsons.
The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World, from Marathon to Waterloo. By E. S. Creasy, M.A., Professor of Ancient and Modern History in University College, London; late Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. With an introductory note by Frank Parsons. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.
So vivid are his descriptions that one feels as though he were present at the scene himself, listening to the counsels of the generals, hearing the tread of marching columns, watching the gleaming spears and bayonets, armies of infantry, charging cavalry, breach, rally and retreat, deafened with the roar of batteries, saddened by the death of friends, and flushed with triumph; and at last the reader lays the book away exhausted with the rush of feeling through his heart.—Frank Parsons.
The Essays of Elia. By Charles Lamb. With an introduction and notes by Alfred Ainger, and a Biographical Sketch of Charles Lamb, by Henry Morley. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.
The Essays of Elia have been characterized as the “finest things for humor, taste, penetration and vivacity which have appeared since the days of Montaigne.” In his bits of criticism Charles Lamb shows a most delicate and acute critical faculty; in his few poems, much grace and sweetness, but first and foremost, he is an essayist of rare power. The refined wit, genuine pleasantry, deep and tender pathos, and subtle discrimination of his essays, are unexcelled by any compositions in the language.—Robert Thorne.
Essays. By Ralph Waldo Emerson. First and second series. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.
He exercised a great power over men; he brought them wide comfort, and to him more than to any man of his time belongs the glory of having taught them that life was worth the living.—From the “Optimism of Emerson,” by W. F. Dana.