Lorna Doone. A Romance of Exmoor. By R. D. Blackmore. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.
These wonderfully reproduced scenes, and the men and women with whom they are peopled, and finally the beautiful language in which the narrative is set forth, unite to make a delightful, and, what is more, a wholesome, invigorating, inspiring book.—E. S. Hawes.
Hypatia, or New Foes with an Old Face. By Charles Kingsley, F.S.A., F.L.S. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.
The plot is well developed, the characters are vigorously drawn, and the scenes and incidents show great dramatic power, while the language and word-painting are exquisite. The book holds throughout, with a firm grasp, our sympathy and interest, Kingsley being one of the very few who have succeeded in throwing a strong human interest into a historical novel.—Robert Thorne.
Romola. By George Eliot. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.
George Eliot is admitted by thoughtful persons to have been endowed with one of the greatest minds of this century.... Romola, which is one of her earlier works, is also one of the most popular. The movement is so rapid, and the situations are so dramatic, that the interest never flags; ... the book has nowhere the air of tiresome preaching, but it stands the test of a great novel—it may be read again and again with pleasure.—E. S. Hawes.
The Data of Ethics. By Herbert Spencer. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.
Herbert Spencer is the foremost name in the philosophic literature of the world. He is the Shakespeare of science. He has a grander grasp of knowledge and more perfect conscious correspondence with the external universe than any other human being who ever looked wonderingly out into the starry depths; and his few errors flow from an over-anxiety to exert his splendid power of making beautiful generalizations. Plato and Spencer are brothers. Plato would have done what Spencer has had he lived in the nineteenth century.—From “The World’s Best Books,” by Frank Parsons.
The Origin of Species, by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of a Favored Race in the Struggle for Life. By Charles Darwin, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.
This book is the grandest achievement of modern scientific thought and research. It has passed through many editions in English, has been translated into almost all the languages of Europe, and has been the subject of more reviews, pamphlets and separate books than any other volume of the age.—Robert Thorne.