"This charming addition to the storehouse of biographical literature is one of the most interesting publications of the day. In its pages the memory of Dr. Dewey, one of the greatest pulpit orators of his time, is pleasantly revived. Miss Dewey, the daughter of the subject of the memoir, has prepared the book for the press. It contains a brief autobiography of the eloquent divine, a selection from his letters to familiar friends, and a running commentary from Miss Dewey's pen that connects the different portions into a nearly complete biography, far more acceptable than one carried out in the ordinary routine. The autobiography is a model in its way. It was written at the request of his family and for their special use, without a thought of publication. It is a piece of literary composition remarkable for its polished, transparent and unaffected style. It is equally remarkable for the honesty, modesty and purity of character it reveals in the man who tells with naïve unconsciousness the story of his youth, his active life, and his occupation after his retirement from the ministry.... To the present generation, who know him only by printed sermons and lectures, from which the living presence was wanting, the book will be a new revelation. Readers who have a taste for biography will enjoy this book for the refreshing absence of eulogy, and as the interesting record of a life where eminent distinction was won by unfaltering perseverance in the cultivation of great natural gifts."—Providence Journal.
| THE HIGH TIDE ON THE COAST OF LINCOLNSHIRE. 1571. By Jean Ingelow. Embellished with thirty-nine illustrations in the highest style of the art from designs by F.S. Church, J.D. Woodward, Harry Fenn, William St. John Harper, W.A. Rogers, J. Appleton Brown, W.L. Taylor, J. Francis Murphy, F.B. Schell, F. Childe Hassam, W.F. Halsall, and engraved under the supervision of George T. Andrew. An appendix contains some interesting facts descriptive of the ballad, and elucidating obscure passages and words, with pictorial representations of Miss Ingelow's home, Skirbeck church and John Cotton's house. Royal 8vo. Beautifully bound in cloth, bevelled boards, gilt and gilt edge. Price, | $4.00 |
| Antique morocco and tree calf. Price, | 8.00 |
"But, after all, it is in the preparation of Jean Ingelow's 'High Tide' that the publishers, artists, engravers and printers have shown what could be done in making an illustrated book. The strikingly picturesque character of the poem makes it one of the most suggestive for illustration, and the many prominent artists who have been engaged on the work have given their hearty coöperation to Mr. Andrew in the preparation of this volume. The liberality of the publishers has enabled him to engage the highest talent among American artists, and here we have the best work of such men as Church, Fenn, Woodward, Schell, Rogers, Harper and others. We cannot give the illustrations higher praise than to quote from a letter from Jean Ingelow to the publishers: 'I hope it is a pardonable pride which makes me feel delight in the most beautiful series of illustrations I ever saw bestowed on a single poem. I hardly know which to admire most. There has manifestly been a world of care given to the book. There is not a failure throughout.' Such praise from an author like Jean Ingelow must be very gratifying to the publishers, and especially to Mr. Andrew, to whose skill, judgment and good taste the success of the book is largely due. Like the author we find it difficult to determine which illustrations we admire most, for after a careful examination of the book, from the quaint title page by Mr. Hassam to the 'Old Vicarage' by Mr. Schell, we must agree with her that 'there is not a failure in it."—Boston Transcript.
| THE LIFE OF SAMUEL SHARPE, Egyptologist and Translator of the Bible. By P.W. Clayden. One vol. 12mo. Cloth. Price, | $1.50 |
"Samuel Sharpe's long life of more than eighty-two years (1799-1881) was an uncommonly active and useful one. He is one of the most pleasing examples of that tolerably large class of Englishmen who, while mainly engaged in commerce or politics, devote their leisure hours to questions of science and literature.... His Egyptian studies were truly remarkable. That a man who had left school at sixteen, and was occupied all day with business affairs, should, when he was over thirty, take up so difficult a subject as Egyptology, master its literature, and make useful contributions to the infant science in the shape of a number of books, is a sufficiently rare phenomenon to excite our wonder.... Mr. Clayden has made an uncommonly interesting biography. Sharpe was concerned in important affairs, and was brought into connection with some noteworthy persons. There was his uncle, Samuel Rogers, the banker-poet; Bonomi, Crabb Robinson, Bishop Colenso, Chunder Sen, Miss Lucy Aiken, Alexander Dyce, Samuel Birch, besides others less known, about whom there is a good deal of pleasant talk."—N.Y. Nation.
| THE EXPANSION OF ENGLAND. By Prof. J.R. Seeley, author of "Ecce Homo," "Natural Religion," etc. Crown 8vo. Cloth. Price, | $1.75 |
"Those who take even the slightest interest in historical reading cannot fail to be absorbed and delighted by Professor Seeley's book."—Washington Herald.
"The Expansion of England, by J.R. Seeley, M.A., consists of two courses of lectures delivered by the author at Cambridge University, where he is Regius Professor of Modern History. It is a brilliant volume, charming in style, and of the highest interest in the method chosen by the author for the marshalling and development of his subject. There are eight lectures in all, and they show, with rare skill in the management and condensation of a vast amount of material, how and why England, from small beginnings, had reached her present position, and left the rest of Europe behind her in political and commercial progress. Mr. Seeley believes that the empire is destined to go on with the work it has begun, and to exercise on the rest of the world an influence still greater than she has yet had. Whether this view be right or wrong, Professor Seeley's book is delightful reading, and deals with history in the most fascinating manner."—Saturday Evening Gazette.
| SEVEN SPANISH CITIES, AND THE WAY TO THEM. By E.E. Hale. 16mo. Cloth. Price, | $1.25 |
"Whatever else the Rev. Edward Everett Hale may or may not be, he is, on paper, a most delightful travelling companion; and in his new volume, 'Seven Spanish Cities,' he is at his most genial, companionable, agreeable best. He has the sharp perception, the quick, light touch, which are the making of a book like this, while his ready sympathy and the endless exuberance of his fancy throw a glamour over the most common objects. The book is thoughtful, entertaining, and, above all—for that is the prime requisite in a volume of travels—eminently readable."—Boston Courier.