“This is an admirable book. It lacks no quality that a biography ought to have. Its method is excellent, its theme is profoundly interesting: its tone is the happiest mixture of sympathy and discrimination: its style is clear, masculine, free from effort or affectation, yet eloquent by its very sincerity.”—Standard.
“He has given a life of Lessing clear, interesting, and full, while he has given a study of his writings which bears distinct marks of an intimate acquaintance with his subject, and of a solid and appreciative judgment.”—Scotsman.
In Three Volumes, post 8vo. Vol. I. pp. xvi.—248, cloth, 7s. 6d.; Vol. II. pp. viii.—400, cloth, 10s. 6d.; Vol. III. pp. xii.—292, cloth, 9s.
AN ACCOUNT OF THE POLYNESIAN RACE:
ITS ORIGIN AND MIGRATIONS, AND THE ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE HAWAIIAN PEOPLE TO THE TIMES OF KAMEHAMEHA I.
By ABRAHAM FORNANDER, Circuit Judge of the Island of Maui, H.I.
“Mr. Fornander has evidently enjoyed excellent opportunities for promoting the study which has produced this work. Unlike most foreign residents in Polynesia he has acquired a good knowledge of the language spoken by the people among whom he dwelt. This has enabled him, during his thirty-four years’ residence in the Hawaiian Islands, to collect material which could be obtained only by a person possessing such an advantage. It is so seldom that a private settler in the Polynesian Islands takes an intelligent interest in local ethnology and archæology, and makes use of the advantage he possesses, that we feel especially thankful to Mr. Fornander for his labours in this comparatively little-known field of research.”—Academy.
“Offers almost portentous evidence of the acquaintance of the author with the Polynesian customs and languages, and of his industry and erudite care in the analysis and comparison of the tongues spoken in the Pacific Archipelagoes.”—Scotsman.
In Two Volumes, post 8vo, pp. viii.—408; viii.—402, cloth, 21s.
ORIENTAL RELIGIONS,