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Printed by T. and A. Constable, (late) Printers to Her Majesty A SELECTION FROM Messrs. Duckworth & Co.’s List MR. LESLIE STEPHEN’S NEW WORK In Three Volumes, on THE ENGLISH UTILITARIANS Is now Ready. Demy 8vo. 30s. net Times.—'Never dull; always incisive in speech; bright phrases, happy verbal turns; and everywhere there is unflagging interest in all things human, a large vision, and toleration extended to every class but fools.’ Literature.—'This is a book we must be profoundly thankful for. The work will never be done again with equal thoroughness and appreciation. A permanent addition to English philosophical literature; one that will be not only quoted in the future, but read.’ Spectator.—'A critical estimate clothed, it need hardly be said, in excellent literary form. We find a sympathetic imagination which we should indeed expect from one of the best living critics of English literature. 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