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PRESS OPINIONS ON “THE NEW SPIRIT.”
“It is easy to dislike his book, it is possible to dislike it furiously; but the book is so honest, so earnest, so stimulating in its tolerant but convinced unconventionality, that it claims for itself a like sincerity and seriousness in the reader.... Mr. Ellis has produced a book which will be hotly discussed, no doubt, for it is nothing if not initiative, we might almost say revolutionary; but it is not a book to be disregarded.... It has sincerity and it has power; and sincerity and power compel at least attention.”--_Speaker._
“Mr. Havelock Ellis has discovered a ‘New Spirit.’ We have read him with care and patience, and we should be sorry to describe it; we only know that it is not intoxicating.”--_Scots Observer._
“Welcome is warmly due to this fresh, buoyant, and sincere volume of essays by Mr. Havelock Ellis.... There are parts of the study of Heine which are not unworthy to be named--it is high praise--with Matthew Arnold’s inimitable paper upon that writer, a paper almost as classic as Heine himself.... The last word upon so suggestive and finished a piece of work ought to be one of ungrudging praise.”--_Academy._
“Mr. Carlyle described, it seems to us, Mr. Havelock Ellis himself with great exactness in the person of a certain biographer of Voltaire, ‘an inquiring, honest-hearted character, many of whose statements must have begun to astonish even himself.’ Mr. Ellis must be very ‘inquiring,’ for we have seldom met with one who knows so many things that other people do not know.”--_Athenæum._
“Each of these essays is a thorough and well-considered piece of work, admirable in information, firm in grasp, stimulating in style, appreciative in matter, and the survey afforded is broad.... It is an altogether unusual work, both for its ambition and for its matter; it brings the reader near to some of the marked ideas of the time.”--_Nation._
“The points of the New Spirit are its passion for getting things right in the matter of property and in the matter of true human worth.”--_Daily News._
PRESS OPINIONS ON “THE NEW SPIRIT.” (_Continued._)
“The only coherent constituent of the New Spirit which this book professes to set forth, is a vehement hatred, amounting to a passion, against conventional unveracities, and a determination that they should be swept away.... We cannot imagine anything of which it could be more necessary for human nature, so taught [by our Lord], to purge itself, than the New Spirit of Havelock Ellis.”--_Spectator._
“Mr. Havelock Ellis has written an interesting and significant book, which it is quite easy to ridicule, but which certainly deserves a fair hearing.... Apparently these writers are chosen because they all agree in a hatred of shams, in looking facts in the face, and in demanding provision for the healthy satisfaction of animal wants.... Mr. Ellis writes with force and insight; but, whether from brevity or want of caution, he leaves with regard to these subjects an impression which he would probably not himself desire to produce.”--_Murray’s Magazine._
“The concluding chapter, wherein Mr. Ellis expresses his own ‘intimate thought and secret emotion,’ is one of the best utterances of the New Spirit which we have ever read.”--_Echo._
“Un volume de haute critique littéraire qui rappelle le style fort et la méthode stricte de Hennequin.”--_Mercure de France._
“A more foolish, unwholesome, perverted piece of sentimental cant we have never wasted our time over.”--_World._
“Excellent examples of appreciative criticism of an exceedingly interesting series of authors, of whom every one ought to know at least as much as Mr. Ellis here tells us so freshly and vivaciously.”--_Scottish Leader._
“We only refer to this unpleasant compilation of cool impudence and effrontery to warn our readers against it.”--_Dundee Advertiser._
“Beautiful both in thought and expression. But Mr. Ellis seems to have laid aside altogether the wise restraint which characterises his volume on ‘The Criminal.’... The scientific spirit, of which at other times he has shown himself a distinguished exponent, should have prevented him from such error.”--_Arbroath Herald._
“Ardent, enthusiastic, and eloquent.”--_Boston Literary World._
“It is not often that the weary and heart-sore reviewer, struggling to keep abreast of the Protean outpourings of the press, falls in with anything so well-informed, so rich in thought and suggestion as _The New Spirit_.”--_Wit and Wisdom._
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The Contemporary Science Series.
Edited by Havelock Ellis.
I. THE EVOLUTION OF SEX. By Prof. PATRICK GEDDES and J. A. THOMSON. With 90 Illustrations. Second Edition.
“The authors have brought to the task--as indeed their names guarantee--a wealth of knowledge, a lucid and attractive method of treatment, and a rich vein of picturesque language.”--_Nature._
II. ELECTRICITY IN MODERN LIFE. By G. W. DE TUNZELMANN. With 88 Illustrations.
“A clearly-written and connected sketch of what is known about electricity and magnetism, the more prominent modern applications, and the principles on which they are based.”--_Saturday Review._
III. THE ORIGIN OF THE ARYANS. By Dr. ISAAC TAYLOR. Illustrated. Second Edition.
“Canon Taylor is probably the most encyclopædic all-round scholar now living. His new volume on the Origin of the Aryans is a first-rate example of the excellent account to which he can turn his exceptionally wide and varied information.... Masterly and exhaustive.”--_Pall Mall Gazette._
IV. PHYSIOGNOMY AND EXPRESSION. By P. MANTEGAZZA. Illustrated.
“Brings this highly interesting subject even with the latest researches.... Professor Mantegazza is a writer full of life and spirit, and the natural attractiveness of his subject is not destroyed by his scientific handling of it.”--_Literary World_ (Boston).
V. EVOLUTION AND DISEASE. By J. B. SUTTON, F.R.C.S. With 135 Illustrations.
“The book is as interesting as a novel, without sacrifice of accuracy or system, and is calculated to give an appreciation of the fundamentals of pathology to the lay reader, while forming a useful collection of illustrations of disease for medical reference.”--_Journal of Mental Science._
VI. THE VILLAGE COMMUNITY. By G. L. GOMME. Illustrated.
“His book will probably remain for some time the best work of reference for facts bearing on those traces of the village community which have not been effaced by conquest, encroachment, and the heavy hand of Roman law.”--_Scottish Leader._
VII. THE CRIMINAL. By HAVELOCK ELLIS. Illustrated. Second Edition.
“The sociologist, the philosopher, the philanthropist, the novelist--all, indeed, for whom the study of human nature has any attraction--will find Mr. Ellis full of interest and suggestiveness.”--_Academy._
VIII. SANITY AND INSANITY. By Dr. CHARLES MERCIER. Illustrated.
“Taken as a whole, it is the brightest book on the physical side of mental science published in our time.”--_Pall Mall Gazette._
IX. HYPNOTISM. By Dr. ALBERT MOLL. Fourth Edition.
“Marks a step of some importance in the study of some difficult physiological and psychological problems which have not yet received much attention in the scientific world of England.”--_Nature._
X. MANUAL TRAINING. By Dr. C. M. WOODWARD, Director of the Manual Training School, St. Louis. Illustrated.
“There is no greater authority on the subject than Professor Woodward.”--_Manchester Guardian._
XI. THE SCIENCE OF FAIRY TALES. By E. SIDNEY HARTLAND.
“Mr. Hartland’s book will win the sympathy of all earnest students, both by the knowledge it displays, and by a thorough love and appreciation of his subject, which is evident throughout.”--_Spectator._
XII. PRIMITIVE FOLK. By ELIE RECLUS.
“An attractive and useful introduction to the study of some aspects of ethnography.”--_Nature._
XIII. THE EVOLUTION OF MARRIAGE. By Professor LETOURNEAU.
“Among the distinguished French students of sociology, Professor Letourneau has long stood in the first rank. He approaches the great study of man free from bias and shy of generalisations. To collect, scrutinise, and appraise facts is his chief business. In the volume before us he shows these qualities in an admirable degree.”--_Science._
XIV. BACTERIA AND THEIR PRODUCTS. By Dr. G. SIMS WOODHEAD. Illustrated. Second Edition.
“An excellent summary of the present state of knowledge of the subject.”--_Lancet._
XV. EDUCATION AND HEREDITY. By J. M. GUYAU.
“It is at once a treatise on sociology, ethics, and pædagogics. It is doubtful whether among all the ardent evolutionists who have had their say on the moral and the educational question any one has carried forward the new doctrine so boldly to its extreme logical consequence.”--Professor SULLY in _Mind_.
XVI. THE MAN OF GENIUS. By Prof. LOMBROSO. Illustrated.
“By far the most comprehensive and fascinating collection of facts and generalizations concerning genius which has yet been brought together.”--_Journal of Mental Science._
XVII. THE GRAMMAR OF SCIENCE. By Prof. KARL PEARSON. Illustrated.
“The problems discussed with great ability and lucidity, and often in a most suggestive manner, by Prof. Pearson, are such as should interest _all_ students of natural science.”--_Natural Science._
XVIII. PROPERTY: ITS ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT. By CH. LETOURNEAU, General Secretary to the Anthropological Society, Paris, and Professor in the School of Anthropology, Paris.
“M. Letourneau has read a great deal, and he seems to us to have selected and interpreted his facts with considerable judgment and learning.”--_Westminster Review._
XIX. VOLCANOES, PAST AND PRESENT. By Prof. EDWARD HULL, L.L.D., F.R.S.
“A very readable account of the phenomena of volcanoes and earthquakes.”--_Nature._
XX. PUBLIC HEALTH. By Dr. J. F. J. SYKES. With numerous Illustrations.
“Not by any means a mere compilation or a dry record of details and statistics, but it takes up essential points in evolution, environment, prophylaxis, and sanitation bearing upon the preservation of public health.”--_Lancet._
XXI. MODERN METEOROLOGY. AN ACCOUNT OF THE GROWTH AND PRESENT CONDITION OF SOME BRANCHES OF METEOROLOGICAL SCIENCE. By FRANK WALDO, PH.D., Member of the German and Austrian Meteorological Societies, etc.; late Junior Professor, Signal Service, U.S.A. With 112 Illustrations.
“The present volume is the best on the subject for general use that we have seen.”--_Daily Telegraph_ (London).
XXII. THE GERM-PLASM: A THEORY OF HEREDITY. By AUGUST WEISMANN, Professor in the University of Freiburg-in-Breisgau. With 24 Illustrations.
“There has been no work published since Darwin’s own books which has so thoroughly handled the matter treated by him, or has done so much to place in order and clearness the immense complexity of the factors of heredity, or, lastly, has brought to light so many new facts and considerations bearing on the subject.”--_British Medical Journal._
XXIII. INDUSTRIES OF ANIMALS. By F. HOUSSAY. With numerous Illustrations.
“His accuracy is undoubted, yet his facts out-marvel all romance. These facts are here made use of as materials wherewith to form the mighty fabric of evolution.”--_Manchester Guardian._
XXIV. MAN AND WOMAN. By HAVELOCK ELLIS. Illustrated. Second Edition.
“Mr. Havelock Ellis belongs, in some measure, to the continental school of anthropologists; but while equally methodical in the collection of facts, he is far more cautious in the invention of theories, and he has the further distinction of being not only able to think, but able to write. His book is a sane and impartial consideration, from a psychological and anthropological point of view, of a subject which is certainly of primary interest.”--_Athenæum._
XXV. THE EVOLUTION OF MODERN CAPITALISM. By JOHN A. HOBSON, M.A.
“Every page affords evidence of wide and minute study, a weighing of facts as conscientious as it is acute, a keen sense of the importance of certain points as to which economists of all schools have hitherto been confused and careless, and an impartiality generally so great as to give no indication of his [Mr. Hobson’s] personal sympathies.”--_Pall Mall Gazette._
XXVI. APPARITIONS AND THOUGHT-TRANSFERENCE. By FRANK PODMORE, M.A.
“A very sober and interesting little book.... That thought-transference is a real thing, though not perhaps a very common thing, he certainly shows.”--_Spectator._
XXVII. AN INTRODUCTION TO COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY. By Professor C. LLOYD MORGAN. With Diagrams.
“A strong and complete exposition of Psychology, as it takes shape in a mind previously informed with biological science.... Well written, extremely entertaining, and intrinsically valuable.”--_Saturday Review._
XXVIII. THE ORIGINS OF INVENTION: A STUDY OF INDUSTRY AMONG PRIMITIVE PEOPLES. By OTIS T. MASON, Curator of the Department of Ethnology in the United States National Museum.
“A valuable history of the development of the inventive faculty.”--_Nature._
XXIX. THE GROWTH OF THE BRAIN: A STUDY OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM IN RELATION TO EDUCATION. By HENRY HERBERT DONALDSON, Professor of Neurology in the University of Chicago.
“We can say with confidence that Professor Donaldson has executed his work with much care, judgment, and discrimination.”--_The Lancet._
XXX. EVOLUTION IN ART: AS ILLUSTRATED BY THE LIFE-HISTORIES OF DESIGNS. By Professor ALFRED C. HADDON. With 130 Illustrations.
“It is impossible to speak too highly of this most unassuming and invaluable book.”--_Journal Anthropological Institute._
XXXI. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE EMOTIONS. By TH. RIBOT, Professor at the College of France, Editor of the _Revue Philosophique_.
“Professor Ribot’s treatment is careful, modern, and adequate.”--_Academy._
XXXII. HALLUCINATIONS AND ILLUSIONS: A STUDY OF THE FALLACIES OF PERCEPTION. By EDMUND PARISH.
“This remarkable little volume.”--_Daily News._
XXXIII. THE NEW PSYCHOLOGY. By E. W. SCRIPTURE, Ph.D. (Leipzig). With 124 Illustrations.
XXXIV. SLEEP: ITS PHYSIOLOGY, PATHOLOGY, HYGIENE, AND PSYCHOLOGY. By MARIE DE MANACÉÏNE (St. Petersburg). Illustrated.
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_ISSUE OF NEW VOLUMES._
Vasari’s Lives of Italian Painters. Selected and Prefaced by HAVELOCK ELLIS.
“Vasari’s Lives” may be approached for such knowledge as they afford concerning the history of art and the cataloguing of the art-products of the Italian Renaissance; or they may be approached for the light Vasari throws on the psychology of genius in artists, from which point of view he is incomparable. As the personal friend or acquaintance of some of the world’s greatest artists, Vasari moved in an atmosphere of artistic tradition, which he has fully recorded. In this volume the editor has sought to gather from the voluminous _Lives_ everything that is really of value regarding the intimate nature and habits of the great Florentine artists of the Italian Renaissance.
Laocoon; and other Prose Writings of Lessing. A New Translation, with an Introduction, by W. B. RÖNNFELDT.
This volume, representative of the prose of Lessing, contains, besides the Laocoon essay, those portions of Lessing’s Dramatic Notes (_Hamburgische Dramaturgie_) which deal with various principles of dramatic art, and which are of permanent interest, together with the _Education of the Human Race_, Lessing’s last contribution to theological discussion. A biographical note is prefixed to the introduction. An entirely new translation is here given.
Pelleas and Melisanda and The Sightless. Two Plays by Maurice Maeterlinck. Translated from the French by LAURENCE ALMA TADEMA.
The preface to this volume, while providing for the reader who is unacquainted with the peculiarly imaginative dramas of Maeterlinck an excellent introduction to them, furnishes also a bibliography of Maeterlinck’s works. For the song in Act III. of Pelleas and Melisanda (“_Mes longs cheveux descendent_”), the attempt at an adequate English rendition of which has baffled various translators, another song has, at the request of M. Maeterlinck, been substituted.
The Complete Angler of Walton and Cotton. Edited, with an Introduction, by CHARLES HILL DICK.
This is a carefully edited reprint of this famous book, prefixed by a biographical introduction. Pains has been taken in the selection of the type for this edition, which will be found one of the neatest and handiest of the many editions of _The Angler_ which have appeared.
Lessing’s “Nathan the Wise.” Translated, with an Introduction, by Major-General PATRICK MAXWELL.
As the translator of Schiller’s “Maid of Orleans,” “William Tell,” and of various plays and essays, General Maxwell’s work has been received with considerable critical appreciation. An analysis of the play precedes the text in this volume, and copious elucidatory notes are appended. This translation of one of the most notable dramatic productions of the last century will be found as faithful and effective as any that has yet been given to the English reader.
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=TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES=
Simple typographical errors have been silently corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.
Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.
Inconsistent hyphens left as printed.