JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.
1 vol. 16mo. $2.00.
Contents: Dryden, Witchcraft, Shakespeare, Lessing, New England Two Centuries Ago, Rousseau and the Sentimentalists.
“This book has more good sense, good wit, and good learning than any American or any Englishman, with perhaps a single exception, could bring to the illustration of the subjects here treated. Still more, it shows on almost every page that keen insight and sympathy with the mind of the person criticised, which is necessary to give a high value to any criticism.”—Springfield Republican.
My Study Windows.
BY
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.
1 vol. 12mo. Uniform with “Among My Books.” $2.00.
Contents: My Garden Acquaintance, A Good Word for Winter, On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners, A Great Public Character (Hon. Josiah Quincy), Carlyle, Abraham Lincoln, The Life and Letters of James Gates Percival, Thoreau, Swinburne’s Tragedies, Chaucer, Library of Old Authors, Emerson the Lecturer, Pope.
“This latest book of essays by Mr. Lowell opens with two which are perhaps the best. That is hardly the right word, either, there are so many kinds of goodness in the book,—as of criticism often unsurpassable in acuteness; of criticism unsurpassable often in the delicacy of its sensibility to imaginative beauty; of humor; of wit, sarcastic, or playful, or almost poetically fanciful; of penetrative thought; of a cheerful hopefulness for the future; of righteous indignation at certain things, yet of unfailing kind-heartedness; of keen enjoyment of nature; of poetry.”—The Nation (New York).