OTHER BOOKS BY MAX MÜLLER
Auld Lang Syne
First Series. Illustrated. 8vo, $2.00
“This book, the fruit of enforced leisure, as its author tells us, is a charming mass of gossip about people whom Professor Max Müller has known during his long career—musicians, literary men, princes, and beggars. The last class is not, perhaps, the least interesting or amusing. To our mind, however, the chapter on musicians, with its delightful pictures of the author’s early life, and the naïve confessions as to musical tastes, with some of the stories about celebrated composers, forms the most interesting portion of a work which has not one dull page.”—The Spectator.
“One of the most charming examples of reminiscent literature that has recently seen the light.”—New York Sun.
Auld Lang Syne
Second Series. My Indian Friends. 8vo, $2.00.
“The professor’s ‘Indian Friends’ are not all of the nineteenth century. His oldest friends are in the Veda, about which he has always loved to write. Indeed, he spent the best years of his life over the text of the Rig Veda, and has a clear right to be heard upon the classic he has done so much to make familiar.... But the real charm of his recollections lies rather in their peaceful kindliness, in their wide and tolerant sympathies, and in their earnest aim, which will surely be attained in some measure, of bringing what is best in India closer home to foreigners.”—Literature.
Science of Language
Founded on Lectures delivered at the Royal Institution. New Edition from New Plates. Largely Re-written. In 2 vols., crown 8vo, $6.00.
CONTENTS:—Vol. I.—The Science of Language one of the Physical Sciences; The Growth of Language in Contradistinction to the History of Language; The Empirical Stage in the Science of Language; The Classificatory Stage in the Science of Language; The Genealogical Classification of Languages; Comparative Grammar; The Constituent Elements of Language; The Morphological Classification of Languages; The Theoretical Stage in the Science of Language—Origin of Language; Genealogical Tables of Languages.
CONTENTS:—Vol. II.—Introductory Lecture. New Materials for the Science of Language and New Theories; Language and Reason; The Physiological Alphabet; Phonetic Change; Grimm’s Law; On the Principles of Etymology; On the Powers of Roots; Metaphor; The Mythology of the Greeks; Jupiter, The Supreme Aryan God; Myths of the Dawn; Modern Mythology.
“In practical value to the student of the science of language, the work stands alone.”—Boston Transcript.
Ramakrishna
His Life and Sayings. Crown 8vo, $1.50 net.
“As a whole the little book marks one of the summit points of recent scientific religious literature. Max Müller’s penetrating insight into the broad facts of Hindu intellectual history is coupled in this instance with all the just criticism needed for a true valuation of Ramakrishna’s personality and teaching.”—American Historical Review.
Science of Thought
Two Volumes. Crown 8vo, $4.00.
“Of the portion of the work in which the author exemplifies and illustrates his theory—his analysis of the Sanskrit roots, his chapters on Kant’s philosophy, on the formation of words, on propositions and syllogisms—it is only necessary to say that while they contain, along with much that will reward a careful study, not a little that will arouse controversy, they have, like all the author’s former productions, the prime merit of being free from the two greatest of literary faults—obscurity and dulness. A work in which two of the driest and hardest of studies, analytic philology and mental philosophy, are made at once lucid and attractive, is an acquisition for which all students of those mysteries have reason to be grateful.”—New York Evening Post.
Science of Religion
Lectures on the Science of Religion; with Papers on Buddhism, and a Translation of the Dhammapada, or Path of Virtue. Crown 8vo, $2.00.
CONTENTS:—LECTURES ON THE SCIENCE OF RELIGION; BUDDHIST NIHILISM; BUDDHA’S DHAMMAPADA, OR “PATH OF VIRTUE”; Introduction; The Twin-Verses; On Reflection; Thought; Flowers; The Fool; The Wise Man; The Venerable; The Thousands; Evil; Punishment; Old Age; Self; The World; The Awakened (Buddha); Happiness; Pleasure; Anger; Impurity; The Just; The Way; Miscellaneous; The Downward Course; The Elephant; Thirst; The Bhikshu (Mendicant); The Brahmana.
Chips from a German Workshop
Five Volumes. Crown 8vo, $2.00 per vol.; the set, $10.00.
Vol. I. Essays on the Science of Religion.
Vol. II. Essays on Mythology, Traditions and Customs.
Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography and Antiquities.
Vol. IV. Comparative Philology, Mythology, etc.
Vol. V. Miscellaneous. Later Essays.
Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion, as Illustrated by the Religions of India. [Hibbert Lectures for 1878.] Crown 8vo, $1.50 net.
Biographical Essays: Râmmohun Roy—Keshub Chunder Sen—Dayânanda Sarasvatî—Bunyiu Nanjio—Kenjiu Kasawara—Mohl—Kingsley. Crown 8vo, $2.00.
The German Classics. From the Fourth to the Nineteenth Century. With biographical notices, translations into modern German and notes. A New Edition, Revised, Enlarged and Adapted to Sherer’s “History of German Literature.” 2 vols, $6.00 net.
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