I know of no volumes of sermons published in recent years which are so well fitted to uplift the reader, and inspire all that is finest and best in his nature, as are the series of essays entitled "The World Beautiful," by Lilian Whiting.—B. O. Flower, in The Coming Age.
The World Beautiful (First Series)
16mo. Cloth, $1.00. Decorated cloth, $1.25. Comprising: The World Beautiful; Friendship; Our Social Salvation; Lotus Eating; That Which is to Come.
The world beautiful about which she writes is no far-off event to which all things move, but the every-day scene around us filled by a spirit which elevates and transforms it.—Prof. Louis J. Block, in The Philosophical Journal.
No one can read it without feeling himself the better and richer and happier for having done so.—The Independent.
The World Beautiful (Second Series)
16mo. Cloth, $1.00. Decorated cloth, $1.25. Comprising: The World Beautiful; Our Best Society; To Clasp Eternal Beauty; Vibrations; The Unseen World.
The style is at once graceful and lively. Every touch is fresh.—Zion's Herald.
The World Beautiful (Third Series)
16mo. Cloth, $1.00. Decorated cloth, $1.25. Comprising: The World Beautiful; the Rose Of Dawn; the Encircling Spirit-world; The Ring of Amethyst; Paradisa Gloria.
The thoughtful reader who loves spiritual themes will find these pages inspiring.—Chicago Inter-Ocean.
After Her Death
The Story of a Summer
By Lilian Whiting, author of "The World Beautiful," etc. 16mo. Cloth, $1.00. Decorated cloth, $1.25.
Comprising: What Lacks the Summer? From Inmost Dreamland; Past the Morning Star; In Two Worlds; Distant Gates of Eden; Unto My Heart Thou Livest So; Across the World I Speak To Thee; the Deeper Meaning of The Hour.
My conviction is that every preacher, reformer, religious editor, and Christian worker should read the books by Lilian Whiting.—Rev. W. H. Rogers, in The Christian Standard.
"After Her Death" has given me the light and help I have so long craved; it has given me comfort and strength which no other book has ever done.—Cordelia L. Commore.
From Dreamland Sent
Verses of the Life to Come
By Lilian Whiting. New Edition, with additional verses, 16mo. Cloth, extra, $1.00. Decorated cloth, $1.25.
Lilian Whiting's verse is like a bit of sunlit landscape on a May morning.—Boston Herald.
Graceful, tender, and true, appealing to what is best in the human heart.—The Independent.
I never saw anything on earth before which looked so much as if just brought from heaven by angel hands as this new edition of "From Dreamland Sent." In the golden sunshine of an Italian morning I have heard the silver trumpets blow. This exquisite book reminds me of them.—Sarah Holland Adams.
Kate field: A Record
By Lilian Whiting. Author of "The World Beautiful," "A Study of Elizabeth Barrett Browning," etc. With several portraits of Miss Field, including one by Elihu Vedder. 12mo. Cloth, extra. $2.00.
CONTENTS
CHILDHOOD AND CIRCUMSTANCE.
An Interesting Heredity; Family Letters; Mr. and Mrs. Field's Stage Life; Death of Joseph M. Field; The Mother and Daughter.
EARLY YOUTH.
Aspirations and Studies; Interest in Art and Literature; Ardent Devotion to Music.
FLORENTINE DAYS.
At Villa Bellosguardi; Enthusiasm for Italy; George Eliot and the Trollopes; Walter Savage Landor; At Casa Guidi with the Brownings.
LECTURING AND WRITING.
Intense Energy of Purpose; John Brown's Grave; Ristori, Fechter, and the Drama; Planchette's Diary; Death of Eliza Riddle Field.
EUROPE REVISITED.
Among London Celebrities; In Spain with Castelar; Music and Drama; Professor Bell and the Telephone; The Shakespeare Memorial.
A SIGNIFICANT DECADE.
Return to America; Failures and Renewed Effort; The Mormon Problem; Alaska and the Golden Gate; Fame and Friends.
"KATE FIELD'S WASHINGTON."
A Unique Enterprise; Miss Gilder's Friendship; Charming Life in the Capitol; The Columbian Exposition; France decorated Kate Field.
CROSSING THE BAR.
A Journey of Destiny; Life and Studies in Hawaii; Noble and Generous Work; The Angel of Death.
IN RETROSPECT.
Universal Appreciation and Love; The Strange Ordering of Circumstance; A Sculptured Cross in Mount Auburn; Death only an Event in Life.
The Spiritual Significance
or, Death as an Event in Life
By Lilian Whiting. Author of "The World Beautiful," "Boston Days," etc. 16mo. Cloth, $1.00. Decorated cloth, gilt top, $1.25. Comprising: The Spiritual Significance; Vision And Achievement; Between the Seen and The Unseen; Psychic Communication; the Gates Of New Life.
It suggests and hints at the ultimate significance of scientific investigation with relation to the totality of thought in a very fresh and suggestive way.... The spirit of her book, like that of its predecessors, is admirable.—The Outlook.
A book from her pen means new flashes of insight, a revelation of spiritual truth almost Emersonian in kind.—Chicago Chronicle.
The World Beautiful in Books
By Lilian Whiting. 16mo. Cloth, $1.00 net. Decorated cloth, $1.25 net.
The careful and repeated reading of "The World Beautiful in Books" would be a liberal education.—Philadelphia Telegraph.
It is like a Greek urn filled with priceless relics. Hundreds of brains, ancient and modern, are daintily picked of their best thoughts, and there is scarcely a page that is not enriched with some rifled treasure. It is, in fact, concentrated food for select minds.—Chicago Post.
To read it is like being taken informally into a great assemblage of poets, romancers, and thinkers, while all are at their best, and being introduced to them by a near friend of all.—The Era, Philadelphia.
Boston Days
The City of Beautiful Ideals, Concord and Its Famous Authors, The Golden Age of Genius, Dawn of the Twentieth Century. By Lilian Whiting. Author of "The World Beautiful," etc. With portraits and other illustrations. 12mo. Decorated cloth, $1.50 net.
All the famous names associated with Boston pass in review before the reader of this apotheosis of the intellectual life of Massachusetts.—The Boston Herald.
The book is full of fascination of the intrinsic sort, by virtue of the material of which it is made up, and Miss Whiting has fulfilled her task with special literary grace and discretion.—Albany Argus.
A volume to place on the same shelf with the "Yesterdays With Authors" of the late James T. Fields and the "Literary Friends and Acquaintances" of William D. Howells.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Life Radiant
By Lilian Whiting, 16mo. Cloth, $1.00 net. Decorated cloth, $1.25 net.
In this book Miss Whiting aims to portray a practical ideal for daily living that shall embody the sweetness and exaltation and faith that lend enchantment to life. It is, in a measure, a logical sequence of "The World Beautiful," leading into still diviner harmonies.
Little, Brown, & Company, Publishers
254 Washington Street, Boston, Mass.