Auerbach has been called the Charles Dickens of Germany. He is not only a brilliant writer of fiction, but is at the same time a profound thinker and elevated moralist. In “On the Heights,” his most powerful work, education, labor, wealth, poverty, and the relations of rich and poor; aristocracy, religion and philosophy, the rights of the individual, and their various applications to our daily life, are illumed and illustrated by its progress and development. It is a beautiful story, sad in its ending, but free from any tinge of coarseness or sensationalism; pure, sweet, warm with human love and tenderness.—Frederick Mynon Cooper.
The Last Days of Pompeii. By Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Bart. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.
The fate of the rich Campanian city, the most awful catastrophe which history records, supplies a superb climax to the story. This is dramatic and powerful throughout, and of absorbing interest. The characters arise naturally from the scene of the story, and they move and speak in perfect accord with their surroundings; with a human sympathy which easily bridges the eighteen centuries which have rolled over the buried city, we follow with eager interest this tale of the men and women of ancient Pompeii.—Robert Thorne.
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Westward Ho! or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight. By Charles Kingsley. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.
“Westward Ho!” is one of the most vigorous, powerful, and fascinating of novels. It is strong and graphic in its portraiture, intense and dramatic in its diversified coloring. The nervous and effective style, the skillful blending of the manifold portraits into one comprehensive picture, are among the merits which have made this Kingsley’s greatest work.—Frederic Mynon Cooper.
The Pilgrim’s Progress. By John Bunyan, with a life of Bunyan by James Anthony Froude. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.
No other book except the Bible has gone through so many editions and attained to so wide a popularity in all languages as “The Pilgrim’s Progress.” ... It narrates the struggles, the experiences, and the trials of a Christian in his passage from a life of sin to everlasting felicity: and it abounds with those little inimitable touches of natural feeling and description which have placed its author among the most picturesque of writers.... Bunyan may truly be called the prince of allegorists, and he is also the most perfect representative of the plain, vigorous, idiomatic, and sometimes picturesque and poetical language of the common people.—Taken from “A Manual of English Literature,” by T. B. Shaw.
Self-Help, with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance. By Samuel Smiles. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.
“Self-Help” is a book which helps and stimulates men to elevate and improve themselves. It teaches them that the humblest person who sets before his fellows an example of industry, sobriety, and upright honesty of purpose in life, has a present as well as a future influence upon the well-being of his country.... Hundreds of its terse and happy phrases have become the common property of mankind, and it has been already translated into four or five of the European languages.—Frederic Mynon Cooper.