HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY

The Idfe of Jean Paul Tr. Blchter. Compiled

from yarious sources. Together with hîs Autobiography, translated from the Qerman. Second Edition. Illustrated ynth a Portrait engraved on Steel. Post 8vo, cloth, 7«. Qd, P. 1«.

** Tbe autobiography of Blchter, whlch extendâ only to his twelfth year, is one of the roost Interesting studios of a true poet's childhood ever given to the world.**— Loto 3* s Edinburgh Magazine.

"Richter has an intellect véhément, rogged, irrttsistible, crushing in pièces the hardest problems ; piercing into the most hidden corobinations of things, and grasping the most distant; an imagination vague, sombre, splendid, or appalling, brooding over the abysses of being, wandering through infiiiitude, and summoning before us, in its dim religious light, shapes of brilliancy, solemnity , or terror ; a fancy of exubérance literally unexampled, for it pours its treasures with a lavishness which knows no limit, hanging, like the sun, a jewel on every grass-blade, and sowing the earth at large with orient pearls. But deeper than ail thèse lies humour, the ruUng quality of Richter— as it were the central flre that pervades and vivifies his wbole being. He is a hiunorist from his inmost soûl; he thinks as a hiunorist; he imagines, acts, feels as a humorist ; sport is the élément in which his nature lives and works."— 7%omiw Carlyle.

** With such a writer it is no oommon treat to be intimately acquainted. In the proximity of great and virtuous minds we imbibe a portion of their nature,— feel, as mesmerists say, a healthfùl contî^on, are braced with the same spirit of faith, hope, and patient endurance — are ftirnished with data for clearing up and workingout the intricate problera of life, and are inspired, like them, with the prospect of immortality. No reader of lenslbility can rise from the perusal of thèse volumes without beooming both wiser and better." ^Atlat.

** Apartfrom thelnterestofthe work,as the life of Jean Paul, the reader leams something of Qerman life and Oerman thought, and is introdueed to Weimar during its most distlnguished period— when Goethe, Schiller, Herder, and Wieland, the great flxed stars of Oermany, in coi\)unction with Jean Paul, were there, i surrounded by beautiful and admiring I

w<Mnen, of the most reflned and exalted natures, and of princely rank. It is ftall of passages so attractive and valuable, that it is difflcult to make a sélection as examples of its character." — Inqufrer.

** The work is a useftil exhibition of a great and amiable man, who, possessed of the kindliest feelings, and the most brilliant tanusy, tumed to a high purpose that humour of which Rabelais isthe great grandfather, and Sterne one of the Une of ancestors, and contrasted it witb an exaltation of feeling and a rhapsodical pœtry which are entirely his own. Let us hope that it will complète the work begun by Mr. Carlyle's Essays, and cause Jean Paul to be really read in this country .**—£*aminer.

" Richter is exhibited In a most amiable light in this biography— hiduBtrious, frugal, benevolent, with a child-like sUnpllcity of character and a heart overflowing with the purest love. His letters to his wife are beautiftil memorials of true affection, and the way in which he perpetuidly speaks of his children shows that he was the most attached and indulgent of fathers. Whoever came wlthin ihe sphère of his companionsbip appears to bave contracted an affection for him that death <mly dissolved : and while his name was resounding through Germany, he remained as meek and humble as if he had stlU been an unknown adventurer on Parnassus.'* — The Apprèntice.

** The * Life of Jean Paul ' Is acharming pièce of biography which draws and rivets the attention. The affections of the reader are flxed on the hero with an intensity rarely bestowed on an historical character. It is impossible to read this bio* graphy without a conviction of its integrity and truth; and though Ricbter's style is more difRcult of translation than that of any other German, yet we feel that his golden thoughts bave i^eached us pure from the mine, to which he has given that Impress of genius which makes them current in ail countries."— CAmfian B^ormer.

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Written by Himself. With Portions of his Correspondence. Edited by JOHN HAMILTON THOM. 8 vols, poat 8vo, dotb. Original price, £1 is, ; reduced to 15^. P. 23.

■* This is a book which rivets the attentkm, and makes tbe heart bieed. It bM> , indaed, with regard to himaetf^ in its sdb- ■tance, though not in its arrangement, ka almost dramatic character; soclearlyand strongly is tbe living, thinking, active man projected from the face of the records wliich he has left.

**His spirit was a battle-field, npon which, with fluctuating fortune and ungular intensity, the powers of belief and scepticism waged, flrom flrst to la«t, their unceasing war ; and witliin the compass of his expérience ara presented to our view most of the great moral and spiritual problems that attach to the concUtion of our ruine"— Quarterlj^ Review,

** This book will improve his (Blanco White's) réputation. There is much in

the peculiar construction of his mind, in its cloàe union of the moral with the intellectuel faculties, and in îts restless désire for truth, which may remind the reader of Dr. Arnold.** — Examiner.

*' There is a depth and force In this book which teUs.**— CArâi/ùt» Betnembrancer.

** Thèse volumes hâve an interest beyond the character of Blanco White. And beslde the intrinsic interest of his self-portraiture, whose character Is indicated in some of our extracts, the correspondence, in the letters of Lord HoUand. Southey, Coleridge, Channing, Norton, Mill, Professor Powetl, Dr. Hawkins, and other names of celebrity, has considérable attractions in itself, without any relation to the biogi'aphl<atl purpose with which it was published.'*— S/«?c/a/or.

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tion. ByProfessor DE VERICOUR. Post 8vo, cloth. Orignal price, 10«. 6d. ; reduced to 6«. P. 1».

The History of Ancient Art amoxig the

Greeks. By JOHN WINCKELMANN. From the German, by G. H. LoDGB. BeautifuUy illustrated. 8to, cloth. Original price, 12«. : reduced to 6«. P. 1».

** That Winckelmann was well fitted for the task of writing a History of Ancient Art, no one can deny who is acquainted with his profound leaming and genius.

He undonbtedly possessed in the

highest degree the power of appreciatinff artistic skill whererer it was met with, but never more so thanwhen seen in the garb

of anUquity The work is of * no

common order,* and a careful study of the great principles emtM>died in it must necessarily tend to form a pure, correct, and elevated taste.** — Eclectic Sevt'ew.

** The work is throughout lucid, andfree fh>m the pedantry of technicality. Its cleamess constitutes its great chartn. It does not discuss any one subject at great length, but aims at a gênerai view of Art, with attention to its minute developments. It is, if we may use the phrase, a Orammar of Greek Art, a sine quâ non to ail who would thoroughly investigate its language of form.^—Literary World.

** Winckelman is a standard writer, to whom most studentsof art bave been more

or less indebted. He possessed extensive information, a reflned ta«te, and great aeal. His style is plain, direct, and speciflc, so that you are aérer at a loss for his meaning. 8<Hneverygoodoutlines,reiMreseating fine types of Ancient Greek Art, illustrate the text, and the volume is got up in a style worthy of its subject." — Sprctator.

** To ail lovera of art, this volume will fomish the most necessary and safe guide in studying the pure principles of nature

and beauty m créative art We

cannot x^iiah better to English art than for a wide circulation of this invaluable work ." — Standard qf Freedom.

*' The mixture of the philosopher and artist ia Winckelman's mind gave it at once an élégance, pénétration, and knowledge, which fitted him to a marvel for

the task he undertook Such

a work ought to be in the library of every artist and man of taste, and even ttie most général reader wHl find in it much to instruct, and much to interest him.** — Atlat.