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*' This Is a veiy pleasing little rolume, which we can ooiàaently recommend. It is designed and admirably adapted for the use of cbildren fi om five to eleven yearsof âge. It purposes to inflise into that tender âge some acquaintance with the facts, and taate for the study of the Old Testament. The style is simple, easy, and for the moet

part correct. • The stories are told ir a spirited and graphie manner.

** Those whoare engaged in teaching the young, and in laying the foundation cf good character by early religions and moral impressions, will be thankfiil for additional resource* of a kind so judlcious as this Tolume.**— Jn^^'r^.

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Bssays by Bmerson. Second Séries, with Préface, by THOS. CARLYLE. Post 8vo, cloth. Sa. 6d, P. 6d,

** The difficulty we flnd in giving a proper notice of this volume arises from the penradingness of its excellence, and the compression of its matter. With more leaming than Hazlitt, more perspicuity than Carlyle, more vigour and depth of thought than Addison, and with as much originality and fascination as any of them, this volume is a brilliant addition to the Table Talk of intellectual men, be they wlio or where they may." — Fro»peciive Beviewi - -

" Mr. Emerson is not a common man, and everything he writes contains suggestive matter of much thought and earnestne.s8." — Examiner. >

•• That Emerson is, in a high degree, possessed of the faculty and vision uf the seer^ none can doubt who will eamestly and with a kind and reverential spirit peruf>e thèse nine Essays. He deals only with the true and the eternal. His piercing gaze at once shoots swiftly, surely, through the outward and the superficial, to the inmost causes and workings. Any one can tell the time who looks on the face of the dock, but he loves to lay bare the machinery and show its moving prin- 1 ciple. His words and his thoughts are a I fresh spring, that invigorates the soûl that j is steeped therein. His mind is everj dealing with the eternal ; and those who only live to exercise their lower intellectual faculties, and désire only new facts

and new images, and those who bave not a feeling or an interest in the great question of mind and matter, eternity and nature, will disregard him as unintellisrible and uninteresting, as they do Bacon and Plato, and, indeed, philosophy itself." — Douglas JerrolcTg Magazfne.

'* Beyond social science, because beyond and outside social existence, there lies the science of self, the development of man in his individual existence, within himself and for himself. Of this latter science, which may perhaps be called the philosophy of individuality, Mr. Emerson is an able apostle and interpréter." — League.

*' As regards the particular volume of F.MEBSON before us, we thlnk it an improvement upon the flrst séries of estra.vs. The subjects are better chosen. Tliey corne home more to the expérience of the mass of mankind, and are consequently more interesting. Their treatment also indicates an artistic improvement in the composition." — Spectator.

" AU levers of literature will read Mr. Emerson's new volume, as the niost of them bave read his former one; and if correct taste, and sober views of life, and such ideas on the higher subjects of thought as we hâve bejdn accustomed to account as truths, are soinetimes outraged, we at least meet at every step with originality, imagination, and éloquence." — Inquirer.

The Beautles of Ohanning. With an Introductory

Essay. By WILLIAM MOUNTFORD. 12mo, clotb, 28. Qd,

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read to us by a kindred spirit

Those who bave read Martyria will feel tiiat no man can be better qualified than its author, to bring together those passages which are at once most characteristic, and most rich in matter tending to the moral and religions élévation of human beings." —Inquirer.

** This is really a book of beauties. It is no collection of shreds and patches, but a faithful représentative of a mind which deserves to bave its image reproduced in a thousand forms. It is such a sélection firom ChanningasChanning himself mighc hâve made. It is as though we had the choicest passages of those divine discourses

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our remarks. But we should not know where to begin, or where to end ; we hâve therefore no alternative but to recommend the entire book to carefui perusai, and to promise a oontinuance of occasional extracts into our columns from the beauties of thought and feeling with which it abounds.** — Manchester Examiner and Times.

"It is the ouly complète collection of thèse remarkable letters, which bas y et been published in English, and the translation is singularly perfect; we bave seldom read such a rendering of German thought s into the English tongue."— Critic.

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lK>Gal Self-Govemment and Oentrallzatlon :

The Characteristics of each, and its Practical Tendencies as affecting Social, Moral, and Political Welfare and Progress : including coraprehensive Outlines of the English Constitution. By J. TOULMIN SMITH. Post 8vo, cloth. Original priée, 8«. Qd, ; reduced to 5«. P. 1*.

I chapters of the souudest practical philosophy; every page bearing the marks of I profound and practical thought." I •* The chapters on the crown, and on comroon law, and statute law, display a thorough knowledge of constitutionat law and history, and a vast body of leaming is brought forward for popular information without the least parade or pedantry."

*' Mr. Toulmin Smith has made a most valuable contribution to English literature ; for he has given the people a true account of their once glorious constitution ; more than that, he has given them a book replète with the soundest and most practical views of political philosophy." — Weekly News.

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** This is a valuable, because a thoughtfîil, treatise upon one of the gênerai sub- Jects of theoretical and practical politics. No one in ail probability will give an absolute assent to ail its conclusions, bat the reader of Mr. Smith's volume will in atiy case be induced to give more weight to the important principle insisted on." — Tait's Magazine.

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