“There is a great amount of erudition in the collection, but the style is so simple and direct that the reader does not realize that he is following the travels of a close scholar through many learned volumes in many different languages.”—Chautauquan.
EDMOND SCHERER.
Essays on English Literature. (With portrait. 12mo, $1.50.)
“M. Scherer had a number of great qualities, mental and moral, which rendered him a critic of English literature, in particular, whose views and opinions have not only novelty and freshness, but illumination and instruction for English readers, accustomed to conventional estimates from the English standpoint.”—Literary World.
WILLIAM G. T. SHEDD, D.D.
Literary Essays. (8vo, $2.50.)
“They bear the marks of the author’s scholarship, dignity and polish of style, and profound and severe convictions of truth and righteousness as the basis of culture as well as character.”—Chicago Interior.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.
Across the Plains, with Other Essays and Memories. (12mo, $1.25.)
Contents: Across the Plains: Leaves from the Notebook of an Emigrant between New York and San Francisco—The Old Pacific Capital—Fontainebleau: Village Communities of Painters—Epilogue to an Inland Voyage—Contribution to the History of Life—Education of an Engineer—The Lantern Bearers—Dreams—Beggars—Letter to a Young Man Proposing to Embrace a Literary Life—A Christmas Sermon.