LITERARY, SOCIAL, HISTORICAL,

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ESSAYS ON LITERATURE, ᎪᎡᎢ, MUSIC, ETC., PUBLISHED BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, 743-745 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.ee

HENRY ADAMS.

HISTORICAL ESSAYS. (12m0, $2.00.)

CONTENTS: Primitive Rights of Women-Captaine John Smith Harvard College, 1786-1787-Napoleon I. at St. Domingo-The Bank of England Restriction-The Declaration of Paris, 1861-The Legal Tender Act-The New York Gold Conspiracy-The Session, 1869-1870.

"Mr. Adams is thorough in research, exact in statement, judicial in tone, broad of view, picturesque and impressive in description, nervous and expressive in style. His characterizations are terse, pointed, clear."-New York Tribune.

AUGUSTINE BIRRELL.

OBITER DICTA, First Series.

(16m0, $1.00.)

CONTENTS Carlyle-On the Alleged Obscurity of Mr. Browning's Poetry-Truth_ Hunting-Actors-A Rogue's Memoirs-The Via Media-Falstaff.

"Some admirably written essays, amusing and brilliant, The book is the book of a highly cultivated man, with a real gift of expression, a good deal of humor, a happy fancy."-Spectator. OBITER DICTA, Second Series. (16m0, $1.00.) CONTENTS: Milton-Pope-johnson-Burke-The Muse of History-Lamb-Emerson-The Office of LiteratureWorn Out Types-Cambridge and the Poets-Book-buying.

"Neat, apposite, clever, full of quaint allusions, happy thoughts, and apt, unfamiliar quotations."-Boston Advertiser,

RES JUDICATAE. Papers and Essays. (16mo, $1.00.)

Mr. Birrell's essays, which are written in the same charming vein as his "Obita Dicta," relate to Richardson, Gibbon, Cowper, Borrow, Newman, Matthew Arnold, Lamb's Letters, Saint-Beuve, "Authors in Court," Hazlitt, "Nationality" and "The Reformation."

Prof. H. H. BOYESEN.

ESSAYS ON GERMAN LITERATURE.

$1.50.)

(12mo,

CONTENTS: The Life and Works of Goethe-Goethe and Carlyle The English Estimate of Goethe-Some English Translations of Goethe-Sermons from Goethe (1) The Problem of Happiness; (2) The Victims of Progress-Goethe in his Relations to Women-The Life and Works of Schiller -Evolution of the German Novel-Studies of the German Novel-Carmen Sylva-The Romantic School in Germany.

W. C. BROWNELL.

FRENCH TRAITS. An Essay in Comparative Criticism. (12m0, $1.50.)

CONTENTS: The Social Instinct-Morality-Intelligence -Sense and Sentiment-Manners-Women-The Art Instinct-The Provincial Spirit-Democracy-New York after Paris.

"These chapters form a volume of criticism which is sympathetic, intelligent, acute, and contains a great amount of wholesome suggestion. The comparison, always either implied or expressed, is between France and the United States." -Boston Advertiser.

THOMAS CARLYLE.

12m0, $1.00.

LECTURES ON THE HISTORY OF LITERATURE. (Now printed for the first time. Copyrighted.)

SUMMARY OF CONTENTS: Literature in General-Language, Tradition-The Greeks-The Heroic Ages-Homer—Æschylus to Socrates-The Romans-Middle Ages-Christianity -The Crusades-Dante-The Spaniards-Chivalry-Cervantes-The Germans-Luther-The Origin, Work and Destiny of the English-Shakespeare-Milton-Swift-Hume -Wertherism-The French Revolution-Goethe and his

Works.

"Every intelligent American reader will instantly wish to read this book through, and many will say that it is the clearest and wisest and most genuine book that Carlyle ever produced. We could have no work from his hand which embodies more clearly and emphatically his literary opinions than his rapid and graphic survey of the great writers and great literary epochs of the world.” -Boston Herald.

BOOK-BUYING.

THE most distinguished of living Eng lishmen, who, great as he is in many directions, is perhaps inherently more a man of letters than anything else, has been overheard mournfully to declare that there were more booksellers' shops in his native town sixty years ago when he was a boy in it than are to-day to be found within its boundaries. And yet the place 'all unabashed' now boasts its bookless self a city!

Mr. Gladstone was, of course, referring to second-hand bookshops. Neither he nor any other sensible man puts himself out about new books. When a new book is published, read an old one, was the advice of a sound though surly critic. It is one of the boasts of letters to have glorified the term 'second-hand,' which other crafts have 'soiled to all ignoble use.' But