Short Studies on Great Subjects.
By James Anthony Froude, M.A. Fourth Series. 1 vol., 12mo, $1.50.
Contents: Life and Times of Thomas Becket—The Oxford Counter-Reformation—Origen and Celsus—A Cagliostro of the Second Century—Cheneys and the House of Russell—A Siding at a Railway Station.
The chief interest of this volume centers in Mr. Froude’s brilliant and vivid narrative of the Oxford religious movement, of which Cardinal Newman was the leader.
The London Athenæum says:
“In these personal recollections of a movement in which his brother was one of the leaders, and in which he himself for a while took part, we have Mr. Froude at his best.... After all that has been said of late on the subject of the Oxford Catholic revival, there is nothing that can for a moment compare with these letters.... Some of Mr. Froude’s most perfect illustrations are to be found in this volume, and who has given us such exquisite images as he?”
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The Religions of the Ancient World,
Including Egypt, Assyria, and Babylonia, Persia, India, Phœnicia. Etruria, Greece, Rome. By George Rawlinson, M.A., author of “The Origin of Nations,” etc. 1 vol., 12mo, $1.
Canon Rawlinson’s great learning and his highly esteemed contributions to the history of the ancient world qualify him to treat the subject of this volume with a breadth of view and accuracy of knowledge that few other writers can lay claim to. The treatise is not intended to give an exhaustive view of the ancient religions, but to enable students of history to gain a more accurate knowledge of the inner life of the ancient world.