G 22 MR. CHAPMAN'S PUBLICATIONS. Over-Legislation. By HERBERT SPENCER, Reprinted from 'The Westminster Review.' NEW SERIES. No. VII. July, 1853. Social Statics; or, the Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the first of them Developed. By HERBERT SPENCER. 8vo, cloth, price 128. P. 18. "Mr. Spencer in his able and logical science of social polity."-Literary Gawork on Social Statics' . . . ."-Edin-zette. burgh Review. "It deserves very high praise."-North British Review. "A remarkable work."-British Quarterly Review. "We shall be mistaken if this book do not assist in organizing that huge mass of thought which, for want of a more specific name, is now called Liberal Opinion." Athenæum. "It is the most eloquent, the most interesting, the most clearly-expressed and logically-reasoned work, with views the most original, that has appeared in the The book will mark an epoch in the literature of scientific morality.”— Economist. "We remember no work on ethics, since that of Spinoza, to be compared with it in the simplicity of its premises, and the logical rigour with which a complete system of scientific ethics is evolved from them."-Leader. "The careful reading we have given it has both afforded us intense pleasure, and rendered it a duty to express, with unusual emphasis, our opinion of its great ability and excellence."-Nonconformist. The Elements of Individualism. A Series of Lectures. By Post 8vo, cloth, 7s. 6d. P. 1s. ments of Individualism' a book of strong and general interest."-Critic. WILLIAM MACCALL. "The expansive philosophy, the pene- "We have been singularly interested by this book. . . . Here is a speaker and thinker whom we may securely feel to be a lover of truth, exhibiting in his work a form and temper of mind very rare and peculiar in our time."-Manchester Exa miner. History and Biography. Life and Letters of Judge Story, the eminent American Jurist, "Greater than any Law Writer of which there can be no difficulty in accounting "We look in vain over the legal literature of England for names to put in comparison with those of Livingstone, Kent, and Story. . . . After reading his (Judge Story's) Life and Miscellaneous Writings, "The biography before us, written by his son, is admirably digested, and written in a style which sustains the attention to the last, and occasionally rises to true and striking eloquence."-Eclectic Review. HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY. 23 Ultima Thule; or, Thoughts and Questions suggested by a Esq. A History of the Session 1852-3, a Parliamentary Retrospect. The Life of the Rev. Joseph Blanco White. Written by Himself. With Portions of his Correspondence. Edited by JOHN HAMILTON THOM. 3 vols. post 8vo, cloth, cloth. Original price, £1. 4s.; reduced to 15s. P. 2s. "This is a book which rivets the attenIt has, tion, and makes the heart bleed. indeed, with regard to himself, in its substance, though not in its arrangement, an almost dramatic character; so clearly and strongly is the living, thinking, active man projected from the face of the records which he has left. "His spirit was a battle-field, upon which, with fluctuating fortune and singular intensity, the powers of belief and scepticism waged, from first to last, their unceasing war; and within the compass of his experience are presented to our view most of the great moral and spiritual problems that attach to the condition of our race."-Quarterly Review. "This book will improve his (Blanco There is much in White's) reputation. the peculiar construction of his mind, in its close union of the moral with the intellectual faculties, and in its restless desire for truth, which may remind the reader of Dr. Arnold."-Examiner. "There is a depth and force in this book which tells."-Christian Remembrancer. "These volumes have an interest beyond the character of Blanco White. And besides the intrinsic interest of his self-portraiture, whose character is indicated in some of our extracts, the correspondence, in the letters of Lord Holland, Southey, Coleridge, Channing, Norton, Mill, Professor Powell, Dr. Hawkins, and other names of celebrity, has considerable attractions in itself, without any relation to the biographical purpose with which it was published."-Spectator. Historical Sketches of the Old Painters. By the Author of 'The Log Cabin.' Post 8vo, 2s. P. 6d. THE SECOND EDITION OF History of the Hebrew Monarchy, from the Administration of Samuel to the Babylonish Captivity. By FRANCIS WILLIAM NEWMAN, formerly Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and Author of The Soul: Her Sorrows and Her Aspirations,' etc. 8vo, cloth, 8s. 6d. P. 1s. Histoire des Crimes du Deux Decembre. Par VICTOR SCHOELCHER, Représentant du Peuple. Post 8vo, cloth, 5s. "There is much that is new in it, and every page is curious. The history of the several 'preventive arrests,' with which the coup d'état opened, is told with circumstantial minuteness, and reads like a Dumas novel."-Leader. 24 MR. CHAPMAN'S PUBLICATIONS. The Life of Jean Paul Fr. Richter. Compiled from various sources. Together with his Autobiography, translated from the German. Second Edition. Illustrated with a Portrait engraved on Post 8vo, cloth, 7s. 6d. P. 1s. Steel. "The autobiography of Richter, which extends only to his twelfth year, is one of the most interesting studies of a true poet's childhood ever given to the world." -Lowe's Edinburgh Magazine. and patient endurance-are furnished with data for clearing up and working out the intricate problem of life, and are inspired, like them, with the prospect of immorta lity. No reader of sensibility can rise from the perusal of these volumes without becoming both wiser and better."—Atlas, "Richter has an intellect vehement, rugged, irresistible, crushing in pieces the hardest problems; piercing into the most "Apart from the interest of the work, hidden combinations of things, and grasp as the life of Jean Paul, the reader learns ing the most distant; an imagination vague, something of German life and German sombre, splendid, or appalling, brooding thought, and is introduced to Weimar over the abysses of being, wandering during its most distinguished periodthrough infinitude, and summoning before when Goethe, Schiller, Herder, and Wieus, in its dim religious light, shapes of land, the great fixed stars of Germany, in brilliancy, solemnity, or terror; a fancy of conjunction with Jean Paul, were there, exuberance literally unexampled, for it pours its treasures with a lavishness which knows no limit, hanging, like the sun, a jewel on every grass-blade, and sowing the earth at large with orient pearls. But deeper than all these lies humour, the ruling quality of Richter-as it were the central fire that pervades and vivifies his whole being. He is a humorist from his inmost soul; he thinks as a humorist; he imagines, acts, feels as a humorist; sport is the element in which his nature lives and works."-Thomas Carlyle. "With such a writer it is no common treat to be intimately acquainted. In the proximity of great and virtuous minds we imbibe a portion of their nature,-feel, as mesmerists say, a healthful contagion, are braced with the same spirit of faith, hope, surrounded by beautiful and admiring The work is a useful exhibition of a great and amiable man, who, possessed of the kindliest feelings and the most brilliant fantasy, turned to a high purpose that humour of which Rabelais is the great grandfather, and Sterne one of the line of ancestors, and contrasted it with an exaltation of feeling and a rhapsodical poetry which are entirely his own. Let us hope that it will complete the work begun by Mr. Carlyle's Essays, and cause Jean Paul to be really read in this country."-Exlaminer. The History of Ancient Art among the Greeks. By JOHN WINCKELMANN. From the tifully illustrated. 8vo, cloth. 68. P. 18. "That Winckelmann was well fitted for the task of writing a History of Ancient Art, no one can deny who is acquainted with his profound learning and genius. He undoubtedly possessed in the highest degree the power of appreciating artistic skill wherever it was met with, but never more so than when seen in the garb of antiquity. The work is of no common order,' and a careful study of the great principles embodied in it must necessarily tend to form a pure, correct, and elevated taste."-Eclectic Review. German, by G. H. LODGE. Beau- length, but aims at a general view of Art, with attention to its minute developments. It is, if we may use the phrase, à Grammar of Greek Art, a sine quá non to all who would thoroughly investigate its language of form."-Literary World. "Winckelmann is a standard writer, to whom most students of art have been more or less indebted. He possessed extensive information, a refined taste, and great zeal. His style is plain, direct, and specific, so that you are never at a loss for his meaning. Some very good outlines, representing "The work is throughout lucid, and free fine types of Ancient Greek Art, illustrate from the pedantry of technicality. Its the text, and the volume is got up in a clearness constitutes its great charm. It style worthy of its subject."-Spectator. does not discuss any one subject at great "To all lovers of art, this volume will HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY. 25 furnish the most necessary and safe guide once an elegance, penetration, and knowin studying the pure principles of nature ledge, which fitted him to a marvel for and beauty in creative art. . . We can- the task he undertook. Such a not wish better to English Art than for work ought to be in the library of every a wide circulation of this invaluable work." artist and man of taste, and even the -Standard of Freedom. most general reader will find in it much "The mixture of the philosopher and to instruct, and much to interest him."artist in Winckelmann's mind gave it at Atlas. Italy: Past and Present; or, General Views of its History, Religion, Politics, Literature, and Art. By L. MARIOTTI. 2 P. 1s. 6d. vols. post 8vo, cloth, 10s. "This is a useful book, informed with lively feeling and sound judgment. It contains an exhibition of Italian views of matters social and political, by an Italian who has learned to speak through English thoughts as well as English words. Particularly valuable are the sketches of recent Italian history; for the prominent characters are delineated in a cordial and sympathetic spirit, yet free from enthusiastic ideas, and with unsparing discrimination. The criticismis on The Past' will richly repay perusal; it is, however, in The Present' of Italy that the main interest of the book resides. This volume does not merely possess an interest similar to that of contemporary works, it supplies a desideratum, and is well adapted to aid the English reader in forming a just estimate of the great events now in progress in Italy. Not the least wonderful part of the book is the entire mastery the author has acquired of our language.”— Examiner, April. The following notices refer to the first volume of the work : "The work is admirable, useful, instruc-us is altogether extraordinary, as that of tive. I am delighted to find an Italian a foreigner; and in the higher quality of coming forward with so much noble en- thought we may commend the author for thusiasm, to vindicate his country, and his acute, and often original, criticism, obtain for it its proper interest in the eyes and his quick perception of the grand and of Europe. The English is wonderful. beautiful in his native literature."-PresI never saw any approach to such a style cott, in the North American Review. in a foreigner before,-as full of beauty in diction as in thought."-Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, Bart. "I recognize the rare characteristics of genius-a large conception of the topic, a picturesque diction founded on profound thought, and that passionate sensibility which becomes the subject · -a subject beautiful as its climate, and inexhaustible as its soil."-B. Disraeli, Esq., M.P. "A very rapid and summary résumé of the fortunes of Italy from the fall of the Roman Empire to the present moment. A work of industry and labour, written with a good purpose.-A bird's-eye view of the subject that will revive the recol lections of the scholar, and seduce the tyro into a longer course of reading."Atheneum. "This work contains more information on the subject, and more references to the present position of Italy, than we have seen in any recent production."Foreign Quarterly Review." "In reference to style, the work before "The work before us consists of a continuous parallel of the political and literary history of Italy from the earliest period of the Middle Ages to the present time. The author not only penetrates the inner relations of those dual appear ances of national life, but possesses the power of displaying them to the reader with great clearness and effect. We remember no other work in which the civil conditions and literary achievements of a people have been blended in such a series of living pictures, representing successive periods of history."-Allgemeine Zeitung. "An earnest and eloquent work.' Examiner. "A work ranking distinctly in the class of belles-lettres, and well deserving of a library place in England."-Literary Gazette. "A work warmly admired by excellent judges."-Tait's Magazine. "An admirable work, written with great power and beauty."-Prof. Longfellow: Poets and Poetry of Europe. 26 MR. CHAPMAN'S PUBLICATIONS. Poetry and Fiction. Poems by Anna Blackwell. Feap. 8vo, cloth, 6s. P. 6d. "The literary finish of the poems is almost faultless. From the first page to the ending the metre is as musical, and the rhyme as true, as the nicest ear could demand, and the harmony of thought and word is closely sustained."-Glube. "If, as a great critic has declared, the 'union of music with meaning' is one of the first proofs of poetry, the test may be fearlessly invited by the volume of poems before us."-Morning Advertiser. "A poet, and one so gifted, so self-sustained, that she may sing henceforth and claim the world's ear."- Critic. "We appreciate her hearty smpathies for truth and progress, respect the sincerity of a religion whose ECCE VENIT is the Herald of True Freedom's Birth,' and admire the spirit which can look at the difficulties of humanity without dismay."-Atlas. "Fine thoughts, great faiths, and noble sentiments, in full-toned and expressive speech."-Nonconformist. "Solid good sense, and genuine revelations of the beautiful... that must tell on the age we live in, and help to mould it into a lovely form.-Glasgow Commonwealth. Honour; or, The Story of the brave Annerl. By CLEMENS BRENTANO. and a Biographical Notice of the Author. Caspar and the fair Hearts in Mortmain and Cornelia. A Novel, in 1 vol. post 8vo, cloth. Original price, 10s. 6d. ; reduced to 5s. P. 6d. "To come to such writings as Hearts in Mortmain' and Cornelia' after the anxieties and roughness of our worldly struggle, is like bathing in fresh waters after the dust and heat of bodily exertion. 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