George Eliot's Novels. In George Eliot's books the effect is produced by the most delicate strokes and the nicest proportions. In her pictures men and women fill the foreground, while thin lines and faint color show us the portentous clouds of fortune or circumstance looming in the dim distance behind them and over their heads. She does not paint the world as a huge mountain, with pigmies crawling or scrambling up its rugged sides to inaccessible peaks, and only tearing their flesh more or less for their pains. *** Each and all of George Eliot's novels abound in reflections that beckon on the alert reader into pleasant paths and fruitful fields of thought. -Macmillan's Magazine. George Eliot has Sir Walter Scott's art for revivifying the past. You plunge into it with as headlong an *** There interest as into the present. At the same time, she has a wider and deeper intellectual grasp. has, we suspect, never been a popular favorite who has so completely found the key to the sympathies of her special audience as George Eliot.-Spectator, London. George Eliot's novels belong to the enduring literature of our country-durable, not for the fashionableness of its pattern, but for the texture of its stuff.-Examiner, London. Few women-no living woman, indeed-have so much strength as George Elict, and, more than that, she never allows it to degenerate into coarseness. With all her so-called "masculine" vigor, she has a feminine tenderness, which is shown in her descriptions of children.-Boston Transcript. She looks out upon the world with the most entire enjoyment of all the good that there is in it to enjoy, and with an enlarged compassion for all the ill that there is in it to pity. But she never either whimpers over the sorrowful lot of man, or snarls and chuckles over his follies and littlenesses and impotence.-Saturday Review, London. No larger and more intellectual audience probably waits upon any living writer in the English language than George Eliot now assembles by the touch of her pen.-Congregationalist, Boston. No writer of this generation is more worthy of being studied; to none can the term "many-sided " be so fittingly applied.-Cincinnati Daily Times. George Eliot is at the same time novelist and philosopher. *** She has a Shakspearean power in creating and portraying her characters, and then, having done this, she proceeds to make their acquaintance, analyze the hidden forces of their life and conduct, and study them as if she had simply found them in the world, and happened to become absorbed in ascertaining whatever it may be that is most deeply affecting their destiny. *** The vital pith of her philosophy of human life is distinctively and eminently Christian.Advance, Chicago. LIBRARY EDITION OF GEORGE ELIOT'S NOVELS. Adam Bede. Illustrated. 12mo, Cloth, $1 25. Daniel Deronda. 2 vols., 12mo, Cloth, $2 50. Felix Holt, the Radical. Scenes of Clerical Life, and Silas Illustrated. 12mo, Cloth, $1 25. The above nine vols. in Cloth, $10 00; in Half Calf, $27 00 Impressions of Theophrastus Such; 12mo, Cloth, $1 25; 4to, Paper, 10 cents. There is a Cheaper Edition of the following of GEORGE ELIOT's Novels: The Creeds of Christendom. Bibliotheca Symbolica Ecclesiæ Universalis. The Creeds of Christendom, with a History and Critical Notes. By the Rev. PHILIP SCHAFF, D.D., LL.D., Professor of Biblical Literature in the Union Theological Seminary, N. Y. Three Volumes. Vol. I. The History of Creeds. Vol. II. The Greek and Latin Creeds, with Translations. Vol. III. The Evangelical Protestant Creeds, with Translations. 8vo, Cloth, $15 00. No work from the pen of Dr. Schaff needs commendation. His reputation for ability, learning, and accuracy is thoroughly established. The work consists of three large octavo volumes, elegantly printed. The first contains the history, analysis, and critical judgment of the creeds of the great historical churches. The second and third volumes contain the creeds themselves. Every theologian needs to have access to the authentic and acknowledged doctrines of the great bodies into which Christendom has been divided. Familiarity with these different phases of belief enlarges and, within due bounds, liberalizes the mind, by showing that "the precious faith of God's elect" underlies all these great historical symbols.Rev. CHAS. HODGE, D.D., LL.D., Princeton, Ñ. J. These volumes appear to me immensely valuable. Wherever I have dipped I have found the author's statements carefully and accurately made. They will help us very much in our lectures in the university.Rev. C. A. SWAINSON, D.D., Professor of Divinity, Cambridge, England. There is nothing like it in comprehensiveness of plan and execution in the English language. It contains matter which it would be very difficult even for the professional scholar to find elsewhere, and places within reach of the ordinary reader immense stores of information, which, so far as I know, are alone to be seen gathered together in this treasure-house of learning and painstaking research. I have had occasion to consult the volumes in several instances; and so far as I have gone, I have found them perfectly trustworthy, and I believe them to be so throughout. Rev. GEORGE F. SEYMOUR, D.D., Dean of the General Theological Seminary, New York, and Professor of Ecclesiastical History. After a careful reading of these volumes, we have come to the conclusion that no work of greater inter est and importance for the study of theology has issued from the press in our generation. Dr. Schaff has, by this thorough, careful, and discriminating "History of the Creeds of Christendom," filled a blank in our theological literature, and conferred a priceless boon on all students of theology. *** The book is a most complete work of reference to a vast and various literature. We know not whether to admire most the great erudition and wide theological learning, the sound judgment, or the faculty of compressed exposition which has reduced that heap of material into an ordered whole. Nothing of importance is left out, the narrative flows on clear and lucid, moving with swift precision to its destined end. -Daily Review, Edinburgh. As a book of reference, the Bibliotheca Symbolica deserves a place in every Catholic library. The author is a scholar of extensive erudition, and a very painstaking, accurate compiler, and he has fulfilled a laborious and serviceable task in gathering together and editing with so much thoroughness and accuracy the collection of authentic documents.-Catholic World, N. Y. A better apparatus for studying the "symbols" of Christendom no reader can desire. *** Never was there so complete a collection. The work is unique, and everything has been done by skilful arrangement, by scholarship, by notes and indexes, to make it available and helpful both for scholars and for ordinary readers.-British and Foreign Quarterly Review, London. We cordially commend the compiler's workmanship. His notices of the times and authors of the creede, as well as of the circumstances in which they originated, are accurate and good. **The work before us is the fruit of much labor. It fills a blank in ecclesiastical literature.—Athenæum, London. Revision of the English Version of the New Testament. The Revision of the English Version of the New Testament. With an Introduction by the Rev. PHILIP SCHAFF, D.D., LL.D. 618 pages, Crown 8vo, Cloth, $3 00. This work embraces in one volume: By 1. ON A FRESH REVISION OF THE ENGLISH NEW TESTAMENT. 2. ON THE AUTHORIZED VERSION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, in Con- 3. CONSIDERATIONS ON THE REVISION OF THE ENGLISH VERSION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. By C. J. ELLICOTT, D.D., Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. The revision of the English Bible is a subject that has taken a stronger hold upon the mind of the English-speaking world than could have been anticipated a few years ago, and to this change in public opinion Dr. Schaff has contributed in an important degree. The position he occupies in relation to the revision now in progress under the auspices of a portion of the Anglican communion peculiarly fits him to speak to the public concerning it. He has, however, modestly contented himself with acting as introducer of three English scholars, who have discussed the subject with admirable force and judgment in the essays which Dr. Schaff has republished in this volume. To these he has prefixed an introduction detailing the steps taken in England by the Convocation of Canterbury and the committees appointed by its authority, and the plan for co-operation by Biblical scholars in this country; and stating briefly the reasons which call for such a work, with indications of its character and probable extent.-Examiner and Chronicle, N. Y. *Story on the Constitution of the United States. A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States. Designed for the Use of School Libraries and General Readers. With an Appendix, containing important Public Documents illustrative of the Constitution. By JOSEPH STORY. 12mo, Cloth, $1 05. A book of great interest to the student of history | been so retentive that a single reading was quite suffias well as to the lawyer. With vast learning, strong sense, great industry, reasoning powers of a high order, and accurate taste, his memory is said to have cient to make him familiar with almost any author. Perhaps none of the distinguished jurists of his day could be compared with him for extent of acquisition. Thomas Carlyle's Works. Frederick the Great. History of Friedrich II., called Frederick the Great. By THOMAS CARLYLE. Portraits, Maps, Plans, &c. 6 vols., 12mo, Cloth, $12 00; Sheep, $14 40; Half Calf, $22 50. Probably the history of Frederick will forever remain one of the finest pieces of literary painting, as well as one of the most marvellous attempts at special pleading, extant in our own or any language. -The Spectator, London. Mr. Carlyle has at last completed his graven image, and sets it up for the admiration of the world. The Smelfunguses and Dryasdusts have been great helps to him in gathering up the details of a life which at best was unamiable, if not brutal; stern and unlovely, if not repulsive-the life of a man whose love for war in the field was carried into the closet, and penetrated the gentler seclusion of the family circle. Mr. Carlyle, with that amazing fancy for hero-worship in which he excels, would force us to believe his paragon all that he paints him; and there is certainly power in the picture. The records have been most thoroughly sifted, and he seems to have eliminated every grain of wheat from bushels of chaff.-Examiner and Chronicle, N. Y. Oliver Cromwell. He writes history just as no man but Carlyle can write it, and for this reason his history will be widely held in great admiration. We should never turn to this so much for a history of Frederick as for Carlyle: he gives us himself emphatically, amusingly, unquestiouably, in these pages; yet he picks up facts to illustrate the life of his hero and his times that no other man would have thought of touching; and to the thinking mind these facts are full of the bone and sinew of history.-N. Y. Evening Post. History, in the true sense, he does not and cannot write, for he looks on mankind as a herd without volition and without moral force; but such vivid pictures of events, such living conceptions of character, we find nowhere else in prose. The figures of most historians seem like dolls stuffed with bran, whose whole substance runs out through any hole that criticism may tear in them; but Carlyle's are so real that, if you prick them, they bleed.-North American Review. Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell, including the Supplement to the First Edition. With Elucidations. By THOMAS CARLYLE. 2 vols., 12mo, Cloth, $3 50; Sheep, $4 30; Half Calf, $7 00. A work more valuable as a guide to the study of the singular and complex character of our pious revolu Past and Present. tionist, our religious demagogue, our preaching and praying warrior, has not been produced.-Blackwood. Past and Present, Chartism, and Sartor Resartus. $175; Sheep, $2 15; Half Calf, $3 50. The Early Kings of Norway. By THOMAS CARLYLE. 12mo, Cloth, The Early Kings of Norway; also an Essay on the Portraits of John Knox. By THOMAS CARLYLE. 12mo, Cloth, $1 50. It has the picturesque qualities so familiar in Mr. Carlyle's style.-Saturday Evening Gazette, Boston. The essay on the portraits of Knox is. altogether charming. Philadelphia Times. In historical portrait-painting there is certainly no writer now living at all comparable to Mr. Carlyle, and The French Revolution. History of the French Revolution. these sketches show him at his best. The book is very well worth reading as an example of how a man of genius can resuscitate into real vitality for himself and his contemporaries the bearers of what, to the readers of ordinary history-books, remain forever dead and meaningless names.-N. Y. World. By THOMAS CARLYLE. 2 vols., 12mo, Cloth, $3 50; No work of greater genius, either historical or poetical, has been produced in this country for many years. -Westminster Review, London. Goodrich's British Eloquence. This is one of the few books of our time that are likely to live for some generations beyond it.-Examiner, London. Select British Eloquence: embracing the best Speeches entire of the most Eminent Orators of Great Britain for the last Two Centuries; with Sketches of their Lives, an Estimate of their Genius, and Notes, Critical and Explanatory. By CHAUNCEY A. GOODRICH, D.D., Professor in Yale College. 8vo, Cloth, $4 00; Sheep, $4 50; Half Calf, $6 25. In this carefully prepared volume we have an im- | Great Britain. The copious and valuable memoirs portant contribution to rhetorical literature. Contain- and notices by the editor make this less a compilation ing the speeches of the great British orators which than an original work. The manner in which he has are regarded as the masterpieces of their respective performed his task is a model of accurate and thorauthors; a memoir of each orator, showing the lead-ough editorship. He has omitted nothing which the ing events of his public life, and the distinctive charac- most exacting student could demand for the elucidateristics of his oratory; an historical introduction to tion of the subject in hand, without ever being tempteach of the speeches, explaining the circumstances of ed to indulge in superfluous details. A great mass of the case, the state of parties, and the exact point at attractive information is thus presented, and in a style issue; an analysis of the longer speeches in side-notes; of singular clearness, strength, and elegance. It is and a large body of critical and explanatory notes, to- rarely that so much profound scholarship, sound judggether with translations of the passages quoted from ment, refined taste, and vigorous expression are deforeign languages; it leaves nothing to be desired as voted to the critical preparation for the press of the a text-book of the political and forensic eloquence of standard productions of other writers. Alison's History of Europe. History of Europe. FIRST SERIES: from the Commencement of the French Revolution, in 1789, to the Restoration of the Bourbons, in 1815. In addition to the Notes on Chap ter LXXVI., which correct the errors of the original work concerning the United States, a copious Analytical Index has been appended to this American Edition. SECOND SERIES: from the Fall of Napoleon, in 1815, to the Accession of Louis Napoleon, in 1852. By Sir ARCHIBALD ALISON. 8 vols., 8vo, Cloth, $16 00; Sheep, $20 00; Half Calf, $34 00. Wherever we have been led to compare the conflicting accounts of any important event in Alison's history, we have almost invariably found that his narrative steers judiciously between them, and combines the most probable and consistent particulars contained in each.-Edinburgh Review. Its vigor of research and its manliness of principle, its accurate knowledge and its animation of style, have been the grounds of its remarkable public favor, as they are the guarantees for its permanent popularity.-Blackwood's Magazine. Alison's Life of Marlborough. His work forms a magnificent portal to the present; it contains a key to the strange characters which the passions of men are now writing upon earth.-Dublin University Magazine. The history of Europe during the French Revolu tion is by far the most remarkable historical work of the century.-Foreign Quarterly Review. Alison combines the minutest attention to detail, the utmost carefulness in authenticating facts, with the greatest facility in deducing principles and laying them before the reader.-London Times. The Military Life of John, Duke of Marlborough. With Maps. By Sir ARCHIBALD AL12mo, Cloth, $1 75. ISON. 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VANE, Marquis of Londonderry, &c. 12mo, Cloth, $1 50; Half Calf, $3 25. Smith's Mohammed and Mohammedanism. Lectures delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in February and March, 1874. By R. BOSWORTH SMITH, M.A., Assistant Master in Harrow School; late Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. With an Appendix containing Emanuel Deutsch's Article on "Islam." 12mo, Cloth, $150. history, the work, and the better characteristics of Mohammedanism has been made by the accomplished and impartial author.-Daily Telegraph, London. A vigorous treatment of one of the greatest of all | Mohammedanism. *** A calm and just study of the Listorical themes. Mr. Smith is not only the master of a lively and forcible style; he shows real historical power, and he writes with a keen interest in his subject which communicates itself to the reader.-Saturday Review, London. In this book will be found an exposition, in every way excellent and exhaustive, of the great topic of An important contribution to our historical theology. It gives us a clear, accurate, and, in the best sense, popular account of the leading facts in Mohammed's life.-Westminster Review, London. Musset's Mr. Wind and Madam Rain. Mr. Wind and Madam Rain. By PAUL DE MUSSET. Translated, with Permission of the Author, by EMILY MAKEPEACE. Beautifully Illustrated by Charles Bennett. Square 4to, Cloth, 75 cents. An ingenious and most amusing fairy tale; showing | taining letters of nobility from the Conqueror, and how John Peter, a miller of Brittany, received magical gifts from Mr. Wind and Madam Rain, and foolishly abused them, till his son Peter, wiser than his sire, found out a proper use for them, and ended by ob marrying a baron's daughter. The story is full of fun the puppet play especially-and the illustrations of Mr. Wind and Madam Rain admirably grotesque.Reader, London. Wallace's Geographical Distribution of Animals. The Geographical Distribution of Animals. With a Study of the Relations of Living and Extinct Faunas, as elucidating the Past Changes of the Earth's Surface. By ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE. With Colored Maps and numerous Illustrations by ZWECKER. vols., 8vo, Cloth, $10 00. An important and long-expected contribution to the science of zoology has been made by Mr. Wallace, who shares with Mr. Darwin the merit of calling at tention to the mutability of species under certain conditions, and produced a few years ago a delightful book on the Malay Archipelago. "The Geographical Distribution of Animals" is a masterly attempt to face the difficulties which beset any explanation of the strange and apparently capricious manner in which animal life is scattered over the world. * * * Whatever may be the opinion of the reader as to the generalizations and theories advanced in the two handsome volumes under consideration, there can be no doubt as to the painstaking accuracy and scientific skill with which the enormous array of facts has been marshalled. With a truly philosophic spirit, Mr. Wallace writes less in the tone of an advocate than an inquirer, and in a style at once picturesque and intelligible to all who have the slightest rudimentary knowledge of the vast subject to which he has devoted so much labor.-Daily News, London. The key-note of the general scheme of distribution, as propounded by Mr. Wallace in the present work, is the comparison of the extinct and existing faunas of each country, and the attempt to trace the course by which that now peculiar to each region assumed its present character. As far as we know, this is the first time that such a mode of research has been worked out on anything like so large a scale, or with such complete materials; and Mr. Wallace's conclusions will be discussed with as much interest by the geologist and physical geographer as by the biologist. The main result arrived at, round which all the rest group themselves, is that all the higher forms of life seem to have originally appeared in the northern hemisphere, which has sent out migration after mi Wallace's Malay Archipelago. 2 gration to colonize the three southern continents. These also appear to have been of great antiquity, varying, indeed, from time to time in form and extent, but each keeping essentially distinct, and each receiving wave after wave of animal life from the northward. In this way Mr. Wallace believes that the main peculiarities and anomalies of the various faunas may be explained. *** We have to thank him for a work which can only find a fit place on our book-shelves between Lyell's "Principles of Geology" and Darwin's "Origin of Species."-Academy, London. The regular student of zoology will find a great deal more in this book than we have noticed. Along with the distribution of mammalia, Mr. Wallace describes that of birds, to which Mr. Sclater has given his particular attention. It exhibits many curious and interesting peculiarities, which are to be explained and reconciled with the general scheme. An account is also furnished, in each region and subregion, of the reptiles, fishes, insects, and mollusks, but these are less relied upon for proofs of the argument. In his "Geographical Zoology," which occupies much of the second volume, the author supplies for reference a systematic revision of all the families and genera of the vertebrate classes, and some groups of insects and mollusks, with their local distribution, forming a counterpart to the main subject of his book. Ẩ chapter on the means of dispersion and migration, which most readers will find only too short, is prefixed to the history of the zoological regions, near the beginning of the first volume. Mr. Wallace's labors cannot fail to be highly useful, and what he shows us is not less delightful, apart from its value as a contribution to the "Darwinian" theory.-Saturday Review, London. A Nar The Malay Archipelago: the Land of the Orang-Utan and the Bird of Paradise. rative of Travel, 1854–62. With Studies of Man and Nature. By ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE. With Maps and numerous Illustrations. Crown 8vo, Cloth, $2 50. Mr. Wallace's style is as charming as Darwin's, and greater praise it could not have. His scientific observations are as interesting as other people's adventures. He is a truly intelligent writer-one who has the power to interest others in his pursuits, investigations, and speculations. Those who have read Mr. Darwin's "Voyage of a Naturalist," a book too little known, will find in this a companion volume as absorbingly interesting and as clear and instructive as that.-N. Y. Evening Post. ***In short, no book of travels, adventure, and observations of our time can be pronounced superior to this.-Boston Traveller. Mrs. Hofland's Works. Daniel Dennison, Mr. Wallace deserves all the praise which we can bestow upon him for his lucid arrangement of facts, and for the pleasant and suggestive style in which he narrates his travels. Many of the chapters are exceedingly novel and amusing, while his scientific generalizations should be carefully read by all students of natural history.-Examiner, London. A vivid picture of tropical life, which may be read with unflagging interest, and a sufficient account of his scientific conclusions to stimulate our appetite without wearying us by detail. In short, we may safely say that we have seldom read a more agreeable book of its kind.—Saturday Review, London. And A Cumberland Statesman. A Novel. 8vo, Paper, 30 cents. The Czarina. A Historical Romance of the Court of Russia. 8vo, Paper, 40 cents. Or, The Shipwrecked Boy. Containing an Account of his Shipwreck, and of his Residence |