VOLUME I.

LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1849.

Shakespeare and Milton--what third blazoned name Shall lips of after-ages link to these? His who, beside the wild encircling seas, Was England's voice, her voice with one acclaim, For threescore years; whose word of praise was fame, Whose scorn gave pause to man's iniquities.

What strain was his in that Crimean war? A bugle call in battle, a low breath, Plaintive and sweet above the fields of death! So year by year the music rolled afar, From Euxine wastes to flowery Kandahar, Bearing the laurel or the cypress wreath.

Others shall have their little space of time, Their proper niche and bust, then fade away Into the darkness, poets of a day; But thou, O builder of enduring rhyme, Thou shalt not pass! Thy fame in every clime On earth shall live where Saxon speech has sway. ALDRICH

IN MEMORIAM.

LONDON. EDWARD MOXON, DOVER STREET. 1850.

New England's poet, soul reserved and deep, November nature with a name of May. LOWELL

THE SCARLET LETTER,

A ROMANCE.

BY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE.

BOSTON: TICKNOR, REED, AND FIELDS M DCCC L.

Works of imagination written with an aim to immediate impression are commonly ephemeral; but the creative faculty of Mrs. Stowe, like that of Cervantes in _Don Quixote_ and of Fielding in _Joseph Andrews_, overpowered the narrow specialty of her design, and expanded a local and temporary theme with the cosmopolitanism of genius. LOWELL

UNCLE TOM'S CABIN; OR, LIFE AMONG THE LOWLY.

BY HARRIET BEECHER STOWE.

VOL. I.

BOSTON: JOHN P. JEWETT & COMPANY. CLEVELAND, OHIO: JEWETT, PROCTOR & WORTHINGTON. 1852.

A strange, unexpected and, I believe, most true and excellent _sermon_ in Stones--as well as the best piece of school-mastery in architectonics. CARLYLE

THE

=Stones of Venice.=

VOLUME THE FIRST.

=The Foundations.=

BY JOHN RUSKIN, AUTHOR OF "THE SEVEN LAMPS OF ARCHITECTURE," "MODERN PAINTERS," ETC. ETC.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS DRAWN BY THE AUTHOR.

LONDON: SMITH, ELDER, AND CO., 65. CORNHILL. 1851.

Reduced Leaf in orignal 7 x 10 inches.

There is delight in singing, tho' none hear Besides the singer; and there is delight In praising, tho' the praiser sit alone And see the prais'd far off him, far above. Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's; Therefore on him no speech! and brief for thee, Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, No man hath walkt along our roads with step So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue So varied in discovery. But warmer climes Give brighter plumage, stronger wing: the breeze Of Alpine hights thou playest with, borne on Beyond Sorrento and Amalfi, where The Siren waits thee, singing song for song. LANDOR

MEN AND WOMEN.

BY ROBERT BROWNING.

IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I.

LONDON: CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193, PICCADILLY. 1855.

Far from making his book a mere register of events, he has penetrated deep below the surface and explored the causes of these events. He has carefully studied the physiognomy of the times and given finished portraits of the great men who conducted the march of the revolution. PRESCOTT

THE RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC.

=A History.=

BY JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY.

IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL I.

NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, 329 & 331 PEARL STREET. 1856.

The sphere which she has made specially her own is that quiet English country life which she knew in early youth. She has done for it what Scott did for the Scotch peasantry, or Fielding for the eighteenth century Englishman, or Thackeray for the higher social stratum of his time. STEPHEN

ADAM BEDE

BY GEORGE ELIOT AUTHOR OF "SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE"

"So that ye may have Clear images before your gladden'd eyes Of nature's unambitious underwood And flowers that prosper in the shade. And when I speak of such among the flock as swerved Or fell, those only shall be singled out Upon whose lapse, or error, something more Than brotherly forgiveness may attend." WORDSWORTH.

IN THREE VOLUMES VOL. I.

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS EDINBURGH AND LONDON MDCCCLIX

_The Right of Translation is reserved._

The most potent instrument for the extension of the realm of natural knowledge which has come into men's hands since the publication of Newton's _Principia_ is Darwin's _Origin of Species_. HUXLEY

ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION,

OR THE

PRESERVATION OF FAVOURED RACES IN THE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE.

BY CHARLES DARWIN, M.A.,

FELLOW OF THE ROYAL, GEOLOGICAL, LINNÆAN, ETC., SOCIETIES; AUTHOR OF 'JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES DURING H.M.S. BEAGLE'S VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD.'

LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1859.

_The right of Translation is reserved._

A planet equal to the sun Which cast it, that large infidel Your Omar. TENNYSON

RUBÁIYÁT OF OMAR KHAYYÁM, THE ASTRONOMER-POET OF PERSIA.

=Translated into English Verse.=

* * * * *

LONDON: BERNARD QUARITCH, CASTLE STREET, LEICESTER SQUARE. 1859.

I know of no writings which combine, as Cardinal Newman's do, so penetrating an insight into the realities of the human world around us in all its details, with so unwavering an inwardness of standard in estimating and judging that world; so steady a knowledge of the true vanity of human life with so steady a love for that which is not vanity or vexation of spirit. HUTTON

APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA:

BEING

=A Reply to a Pamphlet=

ENTITLED

"WHAT, THEN, DOES DR. NEWMAN MEAN?"

"Commit thy way to the Lord, and trust in Him, and He will do it. And He will bring forth thy justice as the light, and thy judgment as the noon-day."

BY JOHN HENRY NEWMAN, D.D.

LONDON: LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, ROBERTS, AND GREEN. 1864.

In his prose writings there was discernible an intellectual _hauteur_ which contrasted with the uneasiness and moral incertitude of his versified moods, and which implied that a dogmatist stood erect under the shifting sensitiveness of the poet. A dogmatist--for Mr. Arnold is not merely a critic who interprets the minds of other men through his sensitiveness and his sympathies; he delivers with authority the conclusions of his intellect; he formulates ideas. DOWDEN

ESSAYS IN CRITICISM.

BY MATTHEW ARNOLD, PROFESSOR OF POETRY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

=London and Cambridge:= MACMILLAN AND CO. 1865.

The most faithful picture of our northern winter that has yet been put into poetry. BURROUGHS

SNOW-BOUND.

A WINTER IDYL.

BY

JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.

BOSTON: TICKNOR AND FIELDS. 1866.

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