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Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle, with an introductory note by Robert Thorne, M.A. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.
His (Carlyle’s) bidding is to do the allotted work of life silently and bravely. and there is probably no person who has not gained strength by the reading of his strong and earnest writings.—Robert Thorne.
The History of Civilization in Europe. By Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot. Translated by William Hazlitt, with a biographical sketch of the author. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.
These lectures made a profound impression at the time they were delivered and published, and indeed marked an epoch in the history of education, raising the reputation of their author at once to the highest point of fame, and placing him among the best writers of France and of Europe.—Robert Thorne.
Ivanhoe. A Romance. By Sir Walter Scott, Bart. Reprinted from the author’s edition, unaltered and unabridged. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.
Ivanhoe is one of the most famous and brilliant of all the master romances of Sir Walter Scott, who is placed by many at the head of modern novelists.... The breadth and power of Scott’s style and his charm as a story-teller are too well known to need comment, and in this volume we have him at his best.—Robert Thorne.
The Vicar of Wakefield, The Traveller, and The Deserted Village. By Oliver Goldsmith. With a Life of Goldsmith by William Black. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1 00.
The style is easy and delightful. The humor is delicate and all good humor; there is hardly a trace of satire or ill-nature in the whole book, which is a true expression of the spirit of Goldsmith himself, one of the most lovable personalities in the world of letters.—Robert Thorne.
The Discourses of Epictetus, with the Encheiridion and Fragments. Translated with notes, a life of Epictetus, a view of his philosophy, and index. By George Long, M.A. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.