‘Admirable descriptions, which place “Ravenshoe” almost in the first rank of novels. Of the story itself it would really be difficult to speak too highly. The author stems to possess every essential for a writer of fiction.’ —London Review.
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‘Mr. Henry Kingsley has written a work that keeps up its interest from the first page to the last—it is full of vigorous stirring life. The descriptions of Australian life in the early colonial days are marked by an unmistakable touch of reality and personal experience. A book which the public will be more inclined to read than to criticise, and we commend, them to each other.’ —Athenæum.
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‘A book that will live. In no other work that we can call to mind are the finer qualities of the English gentleman more happily portrayed.’ —Daily News.
‘The extracts we have given can give no adequate expression to the literary vividness and noble ethical atmosphere which pervade the whole book.’ —Spectator.
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‘A book which every father might well wish to see in the hands of his son.’ —Times.
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‘The execution is excellent.... Like “Tom Brown’s School Days,” the “White Horse” gives the reader a feeling of gratitude and personal esteem towards the author. The author could not have a better style, nor a better temper, nor a more excellent artist than Mr. Doyle to adorn his book.’ —Saturday Review.
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‘The poem is a pure, tender, touching tale of pain, sorrow, love, duty, piety, and death.’ —Edinburgh Review.
‘A true poem, noble in subject and aim, natural in flow, worthy in expression, with the common soul of humanity throbbing in every page through wholesome words.’ —Examiner.
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‘The writer has music and meaning in his lines and stanzas, which, in the selection of diction and gracefulness of cadence, have seldom been excelled.’ —Leader.
‘Full of a true poet’s imagination.’ —John Bull.
‘Few, if any, literary men of larger, deeper, and more massive mind have lived in this generation than the author of these few poems, and of this the volume before us bears ample evidence ... There is nothing in it that is not in some sense rich either in thought or beauty, or both.’ —Spectator.
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‘This charming tale is told with such excellent art, that it reads like an episode from real life.’ —Atlas.
‘The whole plot of the story is conceived and executed in an admirable manner: a work which, when once taken up, it is difficult to put down.’ —John Bull.
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‘Its power is unquestionable, its felicity of expression great, its plot fresh, and its character very natural ... Wherever read, it will be enthusiastically admired and cherished.’ —Morning Herald.
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‘Since “The Mill on the Floss” was noticed, we have read no work of fiction which we can so heartily recommend to our readers as “A Lady in her Own Right:” the plot, incidents, and characters are all good: the style is simple and graceful: it abounds in thoughts judiciously introduced and well expressed, and throughout a kind, liberal, and gentle spirit.’ —Church of England Monthly Review.
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‘The style is so easy and natural ... The story is well told from beginning to end.’ —Press.
‘A genuine Italian tale—a true picture of the Tuscan peasant population, with all their virtues, faults, weaknesses, follies, and even vices ... The best Italian tale that has been published since the appearance of the ‘Promessi Sposi’ of Manzoni ... The ‘Broken Troth’ is one of those that cannot be read but with pleasure.’ —London Review.
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‘We do not know a more readable book on a scientific subject, and it will be invaluable to young people, as well as interesting to those who are already acquainted with the subject it treats of.’ —Clerical Journal.
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‘The appearance of this work will be welcomed by every politician and every Englishman capable of appreciating exhaustive and solid thought.’ —Spectator.
‘Few men of the nineteenth century have attained a more remarkable influence.... Charming as specimens of style, they are of infinitely greater value as showing the inner life of a man who was as simple as a child, and yet as gifted as any of the many learned writers and scholars whom France has produced.’ —Bell’s Messenger.
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| I. | CANTERBURY AND THE WORSHIP OF ST. THOMAS À BECKET. |
| II. | MONKS AND MENDICANT FRIARS. |
| III. | PARLIAMENT IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY. |
| IV. | ENGLAND’S EARLIEST RELATIONS TO AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA. |
| V. | THE EMPEROR LOUIS IV. AND KING EDWARD III. |
| VI. | THE HANSEATIC STEEL YARD IN LONDON. |
| VII. | TWO POETS, GOWER AND CHAUCER. |
| VIII. | JOHN WICLIF. |
‘There are some books so admirable, that merely general criticism subsides into “Read, it will satisfy you.” Dr. Pauli’s work is of this kind.’ —Nonconformist.
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‘After all has been told, there was something wanting to the full and true impression of the Patriot’s character and mode of life; as every one who reads this artless and enthusiastic narration will certainly admit. Mrs. Gaskell says she knows that “every particular” of this full and minute account may be relied upon; and it has an air of truth that commends it even when it is most extravagant in its admiration.’ —Nonconformist.
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‘So striking and apparently so faithful a portrait. It is the Rome of real life he has depicted.’ —Spectator.
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‘Perhaps the most difficult of all literary tasks—the task of giving historical unity, dignity, and interest to events so recent as to be still encumbered with all the details with which newspapers invest them—has never been more successfully discharged ... Mr. Lushington, in a very short compass, shows the true nature and sequence of the event, and gives to the whole story of the struggle and defeat of Italy a decree of unity and dramatic interest which not one newspaper reader in ten thousand ever supposed it to possess.’ —Saturday Review.
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‘Full of information without being dull, and full of humour without being frivolous; stating in the most popular form the main results of modern research.... We have said enough to take our readers to the book itself, where they will learn more of Ancient Egypt than in any other popular work on the subject.’ —London Review.
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Contents:—I. Tennyson’s Poems; II. Wordsworth’s Poems; III. Poetry and Criticism; IV. Angel in the House; V. Carlyle’s Life of Sterling; VI. Esmond; VII. My Novel; VIII. Bleak House; IX. Westward Ho! X. Wilson’s Noctes; XI. Comte’s Positive Philosophy.
‘One of the most delightful and precious volumes of criticism that has appeared in these days ... To every cultivated reader they will disclose the wonderful clearness of perception, the delicacy of feeling, the pure taste, and the remarkably firm and decisive judgment which are the characteristics of all Mr. Brimley’s writings on subjects that really penetrated and fully possessed his nature.’ —Nonconformist.
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‘An excellent book ... well conceived, and well worked out.’ —Literary Churchman.
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‘A book which girls will read with avidity, and cannot fail to profit by.’ —Literary Churchman.
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‘There is no book in the English language which will make a more delightful companion than this ... which must not only be read, but possessed, in order to be adequately valued.’ —Spectator.
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‘Mr. Patmore deserves our gratitude for having searched through the wide field of English poetry for these flowers, which youth and age can equally enjoy, and woven them into “The Children’s Garland.”’ —London Review.
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‘A prettier and better edition, and one more exactly suited for use as an elegant and inexpensive gift book, is not to be found.’ —Examiner.
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‘Comprehending nearly all that is excellent in the hymnology of the language. ... In the details of editorial labours the most exquisite finish is manifest.’ —The Freeman.
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Edited in a manner worthy of their merit and fame, as an English classic ought to be edited.’ —Daily News.
‘Mr. Masson’s Life of Milton has many sterling merits ... his industry is immense: his zeal unflagging; his special knowledge of Milton’s life and times extraordinary.... With a zeal and industry which we cannot sufficiently commend, he has not only availed himself of the biographical stores collected by his predecessors, but imparted to them an aspect of novelty by his skilful re-arrangement.’ —Edinburgh Review.
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‘A work eminently calculated to win popularity, both by the soundness of its doctrine and the skill of its art.’ —The Press.
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| I. | SHAKESPEARE AND GOETHE. |
| II. | MILTON’S YOUTH. |
| III. | THE THREE DEVILS: LUTHER’S, MILTON’S, AND GOETHE’S. |
| IV. | DRYDEN, AND THE LITERATURE OF THE RESTORATION. |
| V. | DEAN SWIFT. |
| VI. | CHATTERTON: A STORY OF THE YEAR 1770. |
| VII. | WORDSWORTH. |
| VIII. | SCOTTISH INFLUENCE ON BRITISH LITERATURE. |
| IX. | THEORIES OF POETRY. |
| X. | PROSE AND VERSE: DE QUINCEY. |
‘Mr. Masson has succeeded in producing a series of criticisms in relation to creative literature which are satisfactory as well as subtile—which are not only ingenious, but which possess the rarer recommendation of being usually just.’ —The Times.
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‘His life was so pregnant in meaning, so rich in noble deeds, so full of that spiritual vitality which serves to quicken life in others; it bore witness to so many principles which we can only fully understand when we see them in action: it presented so many real pictures of dauntless courage and of Christian heroism, that we welcome gratefully the attempt to reproduce it which has resulted in the volume before us. Miss Wilson has entered lovingly upon her task, and has accomplished it well.’ —Press.
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‘We welcome this volume as a graceful tribute to the memory of as gifted, tender, generous a soul as Science has ever reared, and prematurely lost.’ —Literary Gazette.
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‘It presents a vigorous account of the Penal system in England in past times, and in our own ... It exhibits in detail the career of one of our latest prison reformers; alleged, we believe with truth, to have been one of the most successful, and certainly in his judgments and opinions one of the most cautious and reasonable, as well as one of the most ardent.’ —Saturday Review.
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‘A more edifying biography we have rarely met with ... If any parish priest, discouraged by what he may consider an unpromising aspect of the time, should be losing heart ... we recommend him to procure this edifying memoir, to study it well, to set the example of the holy man who is the subject of it before him in all its length and breadth, and then he will appreciate what can be done even by one earnest man; and gathering fresh inspiration, he will chide himself for all previous discontent, and address himself with stronger purpose than ever to the lowly works and lofty aims of the ministry entrusted to his charge.’ —Literary Churchman.
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Macmillan & Co. have issued at intervals during the last ten years, this Series of CAMBRIDGE CLASS-BOOKS FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES, which is intended to embrace all branches of Education, from the most elementary to the most advanced, and to keep pace with the latest discoveries in Science. A descriptive Catalogue, stating the object aimed at in each work, with their size and prices, will be forwarded on application. Of those hitherto published, the sale of many thousands is a sufficient indication of the manner in which they have been appreciated by the public.
The following SERIES of a more ELEMENTARY CHARACTER is now in course of publication. All the Volumes in this Elementary Series will be handsomely printed in 18mo., and published at a low price to ensure an extensive sale in the Schools of the United Kingdom and the Colonies:—
Euclid. For Colleges and Schools. By I. Todhunter, M.A., F.R.S., Fellow and Principal Mathematical Lecturer of St. John’s College, Cambridge. 3s. 6d. [Now ready.
An Elementary Latin Grammar. By H. J. Roby, M.A., Under Master of Dulwich College Upper School, late Fellow and Classical Lecturer of St. John’s College, Cambridge. 2s. 6d. [Now ready.
An Elementary History of the Book of Common Prayer. By Francis Proctor, M.A., Vicar of Witton, Norfolk, late Fellow of St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge. 2s. 6d. [Now ready.
Algebra for Beginners. By I. Todhunter, M.A., F.R.S. [In the Press.
The School Class-Book of Arithmetic. By Barnard Smith, M.A., late Fellow of St. Peter’s College, Cambridge. [In the Press.
The Bible Word-Book. A Glossary of Old English Bible Words, with Illustrations. By J. Eastwood, M.A., St. John’s College, Cambridge, and Incumbent of Hope-in-Hanley, Stafford, and W. Aldis Wright, M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge, [Preparing.
A Treatise on Algebra. For the Use of Colleges and Schools. With numerous Examples. Third Edition, revised. Crown 8vo. cloth, 7s. 6d.
An Elementary Treatise on the Theory of Equations, with a Collection of Examples. Crown 8vo. cloth, 7s. 6d.
A Treatise on Plane Trigonometry. For the use of Colleges and Schools. With numerous Examples. Second edition, revised. Crown 8vo. cloth, 5s.
A Treatise on Spherical Trigonometry. For the use of Colleges and Schools. With numerous Examples. Crown 8vo. cloth, 4s. 6d.
A Treatise on Plane Co-ordinate Geometry, as applied to the Straight Line and the Conic Sections. With numerous Examples. Third and cheaper Edition. Crown 8vo. cloth, 7s. 6d.
A Treatise on the Differential Calculus. With numerous Examples. Third Edition, revised. Crown 8vo. cloth, 10s. 6d.
A Treatise on the Integral Calculus and its Applications. With numerous Examples. Second Edition, revised and enlarged. Crown 8vo. cloth, 10s. 6d.
A Treatise on Analytical Statics. With numerous Examples. Second Edition, revised and enlarged. Crown 8vo. cloth, 10s. 6d.
Examples of Analytical Geometry of Three Dimensions. Crown 8vo. cloth, 4s.
A History of the Progress of the Calculus of Variations during the Nineteenth Century. 8vo. cloth, 12s.
Euclid for Colleges and Schools. 18mo. 3s. 6d.
Arithmetic and Algebra, in their Principles and Application. With numerous Examples, systematically arranged. Eighth Edition, 696 pp. (1861). Crown 8vo. strongly bound in cloth, 10s. 6d.
Arithmetic. For the use of Schools. New Edition (1862), 348 pp. Crown 8vo. strongly bound in cloth, 4s. 6d. Answers to all the Questions.
Key to the above, containing Solutions to all the Questions in the latest Edition. Crown 8vo. 392 pp. Second Edition (1860). 8s. 6d.
Exercises in Arithmetic. 104 pp. Crown 8vo. (1860), 2s. Or with Answers, 2s. 6d. Also sold separately in 2 Parts, price 1s. each. Answers, 6d.
Plane and Spherical Trigonometry. With the Construction and Use of Tables of Logarithms. By J. C. Snowball, M.A. Ninth Edition, 240 pp. (1856). Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d.
Plane Trigonometry. With a numerous Collection of Examples. By R. D. Beasley, M.A. 106 pp. (1868). Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d.
Elementary Treatise on Mechanics. With a Collection of Examples. By S. Parkinson, B.D. Second Edition, 345 pp. (1860). Crown 8vo. 9s. 6d.
A Treatise on Optics. By S. Parkinson, B.D. 304 pp. (1859). Crown 8vo. 10s. 6d.
Elementary Hydrostatics. With numerous Examples and Solutions. By J. B. Phear, M.A. Second Edition. 156 pp. (1857). Crown 8vo. 5s. 6d.
Dynamics of a Particle. With numerous Examples. By P. G. Tait, M.A. and W. J. Steele, M.A. 304 pp. (1856). Crown 8vo. 10s. 6d.
Dynamics of a System of Rigid Bodies. With numerous Examples. By E. J. Routh, M.A. 336 pp. (1860). Crown 8vo. 10s. 6d.
A Geometrical Treatise on Conic Sections. With Copious Examples from the Cambridge Senate-House Papers. By W. H. Drew, M.A. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. cloth, 4s. 6d.
Solutions of the Problems contained in Drew’s Conic Sections. Crown 8vo. 4s. 6d.
An Elementary Treatise on Conic Sections and Algebraic Geometry. With a numerous Collection of Easy Examples progressively arranged, especially designed for the use of Schools and Beginners. By G. Hale Puckle, M.A. Second Edition, enlarged and improved. Crown 8vo. cloth, 7s. 6d.
Elementary Treatise on Trilinear Co-ordinates. By N. M. Ferrers, M.A. 154 pp. (1861). Crown 8vo. 6s. 6d.
A Treatise on Solid Geometry. By P. Frost, M.A. and J. Wolstenholme, M.A. 8vo. 18s.
A Treatise on the Calculus of Finite Differences. By Geoege Boole, D.C.L. Crown 8vo. 10s. 6d.
A Treatise on Differential Equations. By George Boole, D.C.L. Crown 8vo. cloth, 14s.
On the Algebraical and Numerical Theory of Errors of Observations and the Combination of Observations. By the Astronomer Royal, G. B. Airy, M.A. 103 pp. (1861). 6s. 6d.
Elementary Treatise on the Planetary Theory. By C. H. Cheyne, B.A. Scholar of St. John’s College. Crown 8vo. cloth, 6s. 6d.
A Treatise on Attractions, Laplace’s Functions, and the Figure of the Earth. By J. H. Pratt, M.A. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 126 pp. (1861). 6s. 6d.
Collection of Mathematical Problems and Examples. With Answers. By H. A. Morgan, M.A. Pp. 190 (1858). Crown 8vo. 6s. 6d.
Senate-House Mathematical Problems. With Solutions.
1848-51. By Ferrers and Jackson. 8vo. 15s. 6d.
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7s. 6d.
1854. By Walton and Mackenzie. 8vo. 10s. 6d.
1857. By Campion and Walton. 8vo. 8s. 6d.
1860. By Routh and Watson. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d.
Mythology for Latin Versification: a Brief Sketch of the Fables of the Ancients, prepared to be rendered into Latin Verse, for Schools. By F. C. Hodgson, B.D., late Provost of Eton College. New Edition, revised by F. C. Hodgson, M.A., Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. 18mo. cloth, 3s.
Hellenica: a First Greek Reading-Book. Being a History of Greece, taken from Diodorus and Thucydides. By Josiah Wright, M.A. Second Edition. Pp. 150 (1857). Fcp. 8vo. 3s. 6d.
Demosthenes on the Crown. With English Notes. By B. Drake, M.A. Second Edition, to which is prefixed Æschines against Ctesiphon. With English Notes. (1860.) Fcp. 8vo. 5s.
Juvenal. For Schools. With English Notes and an Index. By John E. Mayor, M.A. Pp. 464 (1853). Crown 8vo. 10s. 6d.
Cicero’s Second Philippic. With English Notes. By John E. B. Mayor. Pp. 168 (1861). 6s.
Help to Latin Grammar; or, the Form and Use of Words in Latin. With Progressive Exercises. By Josiah Wright, M.A. Pp. 176 (1855). Crown 8vo. 4s. 6d.
The Seven Kings of Rome. A First Latin Reading-Book. By Josiah Wright, M.A. Second Edit. Pp. 138 (1857). Fcp. 8vo. 3s.
Vocabulary and Exercises on ‘The Seven Kings.’ By Josiah Wright, M.A. Pp. 04 (1857). Fcp. 8vo. 2s. 6d.
First Latin Construing Book. By E. Thring, M.A. Pp. 104 (1855). Fcp. 8vo. 2s. 6d.
Sallust.—Catilina et Jugurtha. With English Notes. For Schools. By Charles Merivale, B.D. Second Edition. 172 pp. (1858). Fcp. 8vo. 4s. 6d. Catilina and Jugurtha may be had separately, price 2s. 6d. each.
Æschyli Eumenides. The Greek Text with English Notes and an Introduction, containing an Analysis of Müller’s Dissertations. By Bernard Drake, M.A. 8vo. 7s. 6d.
St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans. With Notes. By Charles John Vaughan, D.D. Second Edition (1861). Crown 8vo. 5s.
The Elements of Grammar taught in English. By E. Thring, M.A. Third Edition. 18mo. bound in cloth, 2s.
The Child’s English Grammar: being the Substance of the above. With Examples for Practice. Adapted for Junior Classes. By E. Thring, M.A. A New Edition. 18mo. limp cloth, 1s.
An Elementary Treatise on Natural Philosophy. By William Thomson, LL.D., F.R.S., late Fellow of St. Peter’s College, Cambridge, Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Glasgow; and Peter Guthrie Tait, M.A., late Fellow of St. Peter’s College, Cambridge, Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh. With numerous Illustrations. [In the press.
An Elementary Treatise on Quaternions: with numerous Examples. By P. G. Tait, M.A., Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh. [Preparing.
The New Testament in the Original Greek. Text revised by B. F. Westcott, M.A. and F. J. Hort, M.A., formerly Fellows of Trinity College. [Preparing.
Homer’s Odyssey. Books IX—XII. The Greek Text, with English Notes, for Schools and Colleges. By John E. B. Major, Fellow and Principal Classical Lecturer of St. John’s College, Cambridge. [In the press.