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-WOEICS PUBLISHED 33Y
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The Life of J. Deacon Hume, Esq., late
Secretary to the Board of Trade. By the Rev, Charles
BaDHAM. Post 8vo, price 9s., cloth.
" A masterly piece of biographical narrative.
To minute and conscientious industry in
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attractions of a.graceful style and a sincere liking for
the task lie lias in hand. He has produced one of
the most useful and judicious biographies extant
in our literature, peculiarly full of beauties, anil
peculiarly free Irom faults."—Atlas.
" It is well that the world’s attention should b?
called to such a man, and that the particulars of
his character and career should be preserved in a
biography."—Spectator.
The Life of Charlotte Bronte. (Currer Bell.)
Author of "Jane Eyre," "Shirley," "Villette," &c.
By Mrs. Gaskell, Author of " North and South," &c.
Fourth Edition, Ttevised, One Volume, with a Portrait of Miss Bronte and
a View of Haworth Parsonage. Price 7 s. 6d.; morocco elegant, 14s.
"All the secrets of the literary workmanship
of the authoress of Jane Eyre’ are unfolded in
the course of this extraordinary narrative."—
Times.
" Mrs. Gaskell’s account of Charlotte Bronte
and her family is one of theprofoundest tragedies
of modern life."—Spectator.
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can recall to mind."—Athenæum.
"If any one wishes to see how a woman
possessed of the highest intellectual power can
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in the way of women—bow generously and nobly
a human bein^ can live under the pressure of
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’The Life of Charlotte Bronte.’"— Saturday
Review.
"Mrs. Gaskell has done her work -well. Iler
narrative is simple, direct, intelligible, unaffected.
No one else could have paid so tender and
discerning a tribute to the memory of Charlotte Bronte."
—Fraser’s Magazine.
Sermons. By the late Rev. Fred. W. Robertson, A.M.,
Incumbent of Trinity Chapel, Brighton.
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second series—Fifth Edition, price 9s. cloth.
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"There are many persons, and their number
Increases every year, to whom Robertson’s
writings arc the most stable, exhaustless, and
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nineteenth century lias given—the most wise,
suggestive, and practical."—Saturday Review.
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there is a great and true preacher. And in that,
beyond everything else, lay the secret of Mr.
Robertson’s influence. We feel that a brother
man is speaking to us as brother men ; that we are
listening, not to the measured words of a calm,
cool thinker, but to the passionate deep-toned
voice of an earnest human soul."—Edinburgh
Christian Magazine.
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There is not a sermon in the series that does not
furnish evidence of originality without
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of piety without cant or conventionalism."—
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Economist.
"They are very remarkable compositions. The
thoughts are often very striking, and entirely out"
of the track of ordinary sermonising."—Guardian.
Lectures and Addresses on JAterary and Social
Topics. By the late Rev. Fred. W. Robertson.
Post 8vo, price 7s. 6d. cloth.
" Those lectures and addresses are marked by
the same qualities that made the author’s
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manilest the same earnest, liberal spirit, the
ardent love of truth the lucid eloquence, the wide
sympathy, and singleness of purpose."—Literary
Gazette.
" We value this volume for Us frankness and
earnestness."— Critic.
" They throw some new light on the
constitution ol’ Robertson’s mind, and on the direction ill
which it was unfolding itself."—Saturday Review.
" It is in papers such as these that Frederick
Robertson makes the world his
debtor."—Constitutional Press.
" In these addresses we are gladdened by rare
liberality of view and range of sympathy boldly
expressed."—Daily Telegraph.
The Oxford Museum. By Henry W. Acland, M.D„,
and John Ruskin, A.M.
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of thU little volume as interest in the book itself."
—Spectator.
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