Man and womanScott, 1894 - 409 Seiten |
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Seite 373 - XVIII. PROPERTY : ITS ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT. By CH. LETOURNEAU, General Secretary to the Anthropological Society, Paris, and Professor in the School of Anthropology, Paris. "M. Letourneau has read a great deal, and he seems to us to have selected and interpreted his facts with considerable judgment and learning.
Seite 404 - Mercury. Life of Marryat. By David Hannay. " What Mr. Hannay had to do— give a craftsman-like account of a great craftsman who has been almost incomprehensibly undervalued — • could hardly have been done better than in this little volume." — Manchester Guardian. Life of Mill. By WL Courtney. " A most sympathetic and discriminating memoir.
Seite 398 - Life of Goldsmith. By Austin Dobson. "The story of his literary and social life in London, with all its humorous and pathetic vicissitudes, is here retold as none could tell it better.
Seite 408 - Life of Thackeray. By Herman Merivale and Frank T. Marzials. "The book, with its excellent bibliography, is one which neither the student nor the general reader can well afford to miss. " — Pall Mall Gazette. " The last book published by Messrs. Merivale and Marzials is full of very real and true things." — Mrs. Anne Thackeray Ritchie on "Thackeray and his Biographers,
Seite 407 - Brief and vigorous, written throughout with spirit and great literary skill."— Scotsman. Life of Congreve. By Edmund Gosse. " Mr. Gosse has written an admirable and most interesting biography of a man of letters who is of particular interest to other men of letters.
Seite 400 - Life of Crabbe. By TE Kebbel. " No English poet since Shakespeare has observed certain aspects of nature and of human life more closely; and in the qualities of manliness and of sincerity he is surpassed by none. . . . Mr. Kebbel's monograph is worthy of the subject.
Seite 411 - III. THE ORIGIN OF THE ARYANS. By Dr. ISAAC TAYLOR. Illustrated. Second Edition. "Canon Taylor is probably the most encyclopaedic all-round scholar now living. His new volume on the Origin of the Aryans is a first-rate example of the excellent account to which he can turn his exceptionally wide and varied information.
Seite 411 - Life of Heine. By William Sharp. "This is an admirable monograph, . . . more fully written up to the level of recent knowledge and criticism of its theme than any other English work. " — Scotsman. Life of Victor Hugo.
Seite 404 - Within equal compass the life-story of the great poet of Puritanism has never been more charmingly or adequately told.