“This is a work which has long and impatiently been expected by a large circle of readers. It has been well praised by two eminent scientists, and their words have created for it, as regards its appearance in our English tongue, a sort of ante-natal reputation. The reputation is in many respects well deserved. The book is marked throughout by singular ability, abounds in striking and suggestive reflections, subtle and profound discussions, felicitous and graphic descriptions of mental and social movements, both in themselves and in their mutual relations.”—Scotsman.

“Miss Simcox deserves cordial recognition for the excellent work she has done in vindication of naturalism, and especially for the high nobility of her ethical purpose.”—AthenÆum.

“No candid reader of the ‘Creed of Christendom’ can close the book without the secret acknowledgment that it is a model of honest investigation and clear exposition, conceived in the true spirit of serious and faithful research.”—Westminster Review.

“Few books of its size contain the result of so much wide thinking, able and laborious study, or enable the reader to gain a better bird’s-eye view of the latest results of investigations into the religious history of nations.... These pages, full of information, these sentences, cut and perhaps also dry, short and clear, condense the fruits of long and thorough research.”—Scotsman.

“We confidently recommend a careful perusal of the present work to all interested in this great subject.”—London and China Express.

“Dr. Edkins has been most careful in noting the varied and often complex phases of opinion, so as to give an account of considerable value of the subject.”—Scotsman.

“It is impossible to go through this work without forming a very high opinion of his speculative and argumentative power, and a sincere respect for his temperance of statement and his diligent endeavour to make out the best case he can for the views he rejects.”—Academy.

“The book is attractive throughout, for its object is pursued with an earnestness and singleness of purpose which never fail to maintain the interest of the reader.”—Saturday Review.

“We may recommend it as an extremely useful compendium of modern research into the scientific basis of music. There is no want of completeness.”—Pall Mall Gazette.

“The papers translated in this volume deal with various aspects of a very fascinating study. Herr Geiger had secured a place in the foremost ranks of German philologers, but he seems to have valued his philological researches chiefly as a means of throwing light on the early condition of mankind. He prosecuted his inquiries in a thoroughly philosophical spirit, and he never offered a theory, however paradoxical it might seem at first sight, for which he did not advance solid arguments. Unlike the majority of German scholars, he took pleasure in working out his doctrines in a manner that was likely to make them interesting to the general public; and his capacity for clear and attractive exposition was hardly inferior to that of Mr. Max MÜller himself.”—St. James’s Gazette.

“Although the life of Dr. Appleton was uneventful, it is valuable as illustrating the manner in which the speculative and the practical can be combined. His biographers talk of his geniality, his tolerance, his kindliness; and these characteristics, combined with his fine intellectual gifts, his searching analysis, his independence, his ceaseless energy and ardour, render his life specially interesting.”—Noncomformist.

“Without attaching the immense value to Edgar Quinet’s writings which Mr. Heath considers their due, we are quite ready to own that they possess solid merits which, perhaps, have not attracted sufficient attention in this country. To a truly reverent spirit, Edgar Quinet joined the deepest love for humanity in general. Mr. Heath ... deserves credit for the completeness and finish of the portraiture to which he set his hand. It has evidently been a labour of love, for the text is marked throughout by infinite painstaking, both in style and matter.”—Globe.

“I confess that to Feuerbach I owe a debt of inestimable gratitude. Feeling about in uncertainty for the ground, and finding everywhere shifting sands, Feuerbach cast a sudden blaze into the darkness, and disclosed to me the way.”—From S. Baring-Gould’s “The Origin and Development of Religious Belief,” Part II., Preface, page xii.

“This is a good piece of work to have done, and Mr. Edwardes deserves praise both for intention and execution.”—AthenÆum.

“Gratitude is due to Mr. Edwardes for an able portraiture of one of the saddest figures in literary history, and an able translation of his less inviting and less known works.”—Academy.

“Nowhere is the singular charm of this writer more marked than in the vivid pages of this work.... Irrespective of subject, there is a charm about whatever Heine wrote that captivates the reader and wins his sympathies before criticism steps in. But there can be none who would fail to admit the power as well as the beauty of the wide-ranging pictures of the intellectual development of the country of deep thinkers. Beneath his grace the writer holds a mighty grip of fact, stripped of all disguise and made patent over all confusing surroundings.”—Bookseller.

“Mr. Conway has not confined himself to personal reminiscences; he brings together all the important facts of Emerson’s life, and presents a full account of his governing ideas—indicating their mutual relations, and tracing the processes by which Emerson gradually arrived at them in their mature form.”—St. James’s Gazette.

“What is to be the future of the human race? What are the great obstacles in the way of progress? What are the best means of surmounting these obstacles? Such, in rough statement, are some of the problems which are more or less present to Mr. Greg’s mind; and although he does not pretend to discuss them fully, he makes a great many observations about them, always expressed in a graceful style, frequently eloquent, and occasionally putting old subjects in a new light, and recording a large amount of reading and study.”—Saturday Review.

“Mr. White only lays claim to accuracy, the Euclidian form of the work giving but small scope for literary finish. We have carefully examined a number of passages with the original, and have in every case found the sense correctly given in fairly readable English. For the purposes of study it may in most cases replace the original; more Mr. White could not claim or desire.”—AthenÆum.

“The translators have done their part very well, for, as they say, their work has been one of difficulty, especially as the style of the original is occasionally ‘involved and loose.’ At the same time there is a force, a vivacity, a directness, in the phrases and sentences of Schopenhauer which are very different from the manner of ordinary German philosophical treatises. He knew English and English literature thoroughly; he admired the clearness of their manner, and the popular strain even in their philosophy, and these qualities he tried to introduce into his own works and discourse.”—Scotsman.

? Ten Editions of the German original have been sold since its first appearance in 1868.

“Mr. Coupland has been remarkably successful in dealing with the difficulties of Hartmann.... It must be owned that the book merited the honour of translation. Its collection of facts alone would be sufficient to deserve this, and the appendix in the third volume, giving a readable rÉsumÉ of Wurdt’s psycho-physics, is a valuable addition to English psychology.”—AthenÆum.

“It is with sincere satisfaction that we welcome an English translation of the well-known treatise of Maimonides, Moreh Nebhukhim, or, ‘Guide of the Perplexed.’... Dr. FriedlÄnder has performed his work in a manner to secure the hearty acknowledgment of students.”—Saturday Review.

“From every point of view a successful production.”—Academy.

“Dr. FriedlÄnder has conferred a distinct boon on the Jews of England and America.”—Jewish Chronicle.

“The interest of the book lies in the conception of Bruno’s character and in the elucidation of his philosophy.... His writings dropped from him wherever he went, and were published in many places. Their number is very large, and the bibliographical appendix is not the least valuable part of this volume.... We are tempted to multiply quotations from the pages before us, for Bruno’s utterances have a rare charm through their directness, their vividness, their poetic force. Bruno stands in relation to later philosophy, to Kant or Hegel, as Giotto stands to Raphael. We feel the merit of the more complete and perfect work; but we are moved and attracted by the greater individuality which accompanies the struggle after expression in an earlier and simpler age. Students of philosophy will know at once how much labour has been bestowed upon this modest attempt to set forth Bruno’s significance as a philosopher. We have contented ourselves with showing how much the general reader may gain from a study of its pages, which are never overburdened by technicalities and are never dull.”—AthenÆum.

“It is to Lessing that an Englishman would turn with readiest affection. We cannot but wonder that more of this man is not known amongst us.”—Thomas Carlyle.

“But to Mr. James Sime has been reserved the honour of presenting to the English public a full-length portrait of Lessing, in which no portion of the canvas is uncovered, and in which there is hardly a touch but tells. We can say that a clearer or more compact piece of biographic criticism has not been produced in England for many a day.”—Westminster Review.

“An account of Lessing’s life and work on the scale which he deserves is now for the first time offered to English readers. Mr. Sime has performed his task with industry, knowledge, and sympathy; qualities which must concur to make a successful biographer.”—Pall Mall Gazette.

“This is an admirable book. It lacks no quality that a biography ought to have. Its method is excellent, its theme is profoundly interesting: its tone is the happiest mixture of sympathy and discrimination: its style is clear, masculine, free from effort or affectation, yet eloquent by its very sincerity.”—Standard.

“He has given a life of Lessing clear, interesting, and full, while he has given a study of his writings which bears distinct marks of an intimate acquaintance with his subject, and of a solid and appreciative judgment.”—Scotsman.

“Mr. Fornander has evidently enjoyed excellent opportunities for promoting the study which has produced this work. Unlike most foreign residents in Polynesia he has acquired a good knowledge of the language spoken by the people among whom he dwelt. This has enabled him, during his thirty-four years’ residence in the Hawaiian Islands, to collect material which could be obtained only by a person possessing such an advantage. It is so seldom that a private settler in the Polynesian Islands takes an intelligent interest in local ethnology and archÆology, and makes use of the advantage he possesses, that we feel especially thankful to Mr. Fornander for his labours in this comparatively little-known field of research.”—Academy.

“Offers almost portentous evidence of the acquaintance of the author with the Polynesian customs and languages, and of his industry and erudite care in the analysis and comparison of the tongues spoken in the Pacific Archipelagoes.”—Scotsman.