8

Works published by

Political Economy, and the Philosophy of Government.

A Series of Essays selected from the works of M. DE SISMONDI. With an Historical Notice of his Life and Writings by M. MIGNET. Translated from the French, and illustrated by Extracts from an unpublished Memoir, and from M. de Sismondi's private Journals and Letters, to which is added a List of his Works, and a preliminary Essay, by the Translator. 8vo. cloth, 12s.

"In this country the views of Sismondi, long derided, and long kept down, have lately achieved a signal triumph, and are still advancing for the amelioration of social ills... The essays embody Sismondi's settled views on Political Economy, and on the true policy which should animate a Government... After having studied more deeply than most men, the science of Government and the speculations of Political Philosophy, he settled down into the conviction that the principles of Christianity were as applicable to the life of nations as to that of individuals, and that the happiness of the people would be best promoted by observing them...... Besides the essays the volume contains many curious illustrations of the Life of Sismondi.. In an ingenious preliminary essay by the translator, the views of Sismondi are applied to our social condition at the present time. The volume is altogether admirably produced, and, we think, is entitled to the earnest consideration of all persons who take an interest in social politics."-Britannia.

"The work is admirably translated. It has all the vigour of original composition. The preliminary notice by the translator is replete with enlightened ideas. We heartily commend the volume to all who feel an interest in the great social and political problems which must soon be solved and adjusted, lest England is reduced to the state of Ireland."-Douglas Jerrold's News.

The Elements of Individualism.

"Few recent writers on Political Economy have claims on our attention equal to those of Sismondi. In England he is best known as an historian, but he is no less entitled to high reputation as a sound and thoughtful expounder of the social sciences......We cordially recommend this volume, as forming a most pleasant introduction to the study of the sciences of which it treats. It is both valuable in itself and peculiarly well timed."-Atlas.

"A writer of first-rate merit in history and politics, and one whose sympathy with the poor and discernment of the true good of men and of nations must give weight to all his moral convictions, concerning the right and wrong of our results."-Prospective

Review.

"We should like that these essays should have a wide circulation, and that the tone of pure benevolence which pervades them should thrill the hearts of cold-blooded economists with tenderer feelings of commiseration than usually mingle with their frigid calculations. There can be no question as to the evils he so powerfully exposes being directly caused by the reckless application of the principles he would entirely discard.

"They will amply repay a careful reading, as each is a masterly discussion of the most prominent questions relating to our social condition."-Nonconformist.

[Now ready.

The Elements of Individualism a book of strong and general interest."-Critic.

By WILLIAM MACCALL. Post 8vo, 7s. 6d. cloth. "It is a book worthy of perusal. Even those who can find no sympathy with its philosophy, will derive pleasure and improvement from the many exquisite touches of feeling, and the many pictures of beauty which mark its pages.

"The expansive philosophy, the penetrative intellect, and the general humanity of the author, have rendered

Dour and Bertha.

A Tale. 18mo. cloth, 1s.

"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 Examiner.

[Now ready.

The Dramas of Iphigenia in Tauris, and Torquato Tasso, of GOETHE; and the MAID OF ORLEANS, of SCHILLER. Translated, (omitting some passages,) with Introductory Remarks, by ANNA SWANWICK. 8vo, cloth; 6s.

Shakspeare's Dramatic Art, and his relation to Calderon and

Goethe. Translated from the German of Dr. HERMANN ULRICI. 8vo. 12s. cloth.

Outline of Contents.

"We welcome this work as a valuable accession to Shaksperian literature. It is the principal object of Dr. Ulrici's criticisms of the several plays, to trace and bring to light the fundamental and vivifying idea of each. In this difficult task we think he has been eminently successful..... We cannot dismiss this very valuable work, which breathes a tone of pure and exalted morality, derived from a mind truly religious, and whose holy and chastening influence expresses itself throughout, without remarking how much we admire the excellent manner in which it is translated."-Inquirer.

"Excellencies of a high order pervade this performance, which, in our judgment, entitle it to the grateful re

ception of all who are desirous of becoming better acquainted with the mind of Shakspeare. ..... The sketch of the modern dramatic art with which the book opens, as well as of the life of Shakspeare, is well drawn; indeed, the historical sketches throughout are admirably executed.... The author's views are ingenious, and the criticisms on the several dramas are admirable, and will fully repay the reader's study." -Nonconformist.

"Ulrici's admirable 'Shakspeare's Dramatic Art' has been lately translated with considerable skill. We recommend the work as an addition to our higher critical literature, and we should like to recur to it more fully."Christian Remembrancer.

De Wette's Introduction to the Canonical Scriptures of the Old

Testament. Translated by THEODORE PARKER. 2 vols. 8vo. £1. 4s. cloth.

Translations from the German of Jean Paul, Novalis, Goethe,

UHLAND, RUCKERT, and from the French of MICKIEWICZ, an eminent Polish poet. By HENRY REEVE, Esq., and JOHN EDWARD TAYLOR. 12mo. Elegantly bound in cloth, 2s. 6d.

"Of all these translations the chief praise is that they are executed with singular delicacy, taste, and power, so that they read like so many finished originals. This applies equally to the verse, and to the prose. In the scene from Goethe's "Tasso" the verse flows melodiously, and the ideas put on a

Characteristics of Painters.

dress purely English."-Sunday Times. "Each extract is a gem."-Critic.

"These translations are executed with great success, and introduce the English reader to a few passages of eminent beauty, favourably exhibiting the genius of the several writers."Inquirer.

By HENRY REEVE, Esq. Second Edition. 8vo. Elegantly bound in cloth, 3s.

"Though apparently addressed to a narrow circle, these poems possess charms for all persons who happen to be endowed with fancy or sensibility. They seek to express and develope the principle which presided over the creations of the great masters of the mimetic arts, and in most instances touch with judgment and sagacity on the characteristic excellences of each painter, and felicitously describe his manner of representing nature."Sunday Times.

"The associations connected with particular pictures are blended with

general characteristics in such vital union in these sketches, that they affect us somewhat like the pictures themselves. As criticisms, they show a keen sensibility to excellence, and the utmost delicacy of discrimination; and poems, they are distinguished by condensation of thought, brilliant clearness of expression, and melody of versification."-Morning Chronicle.

as

"Every lover of Art must read them with pleasure, and they may contribute not a little to awaken a taste for art."Inquirer.

Historical Sketches of the Old Painters.

By the Author of the "Log Cabin." 2s. 6d. paper cover; 3s. cloth.

Human Nature:

A Philosophical Exposition of the Divine Institution of Reward and Punishment, which obtains in the Physical, Intellectual, and Moral Constitutions of Man. 12mo. 2s. 6d. cloth.

The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined.

By Dr. DAVID FRIEDRICH STRAUSS. 3 vols. 8vo. £1 16s. cloth. "The extraordinary merit of this book....Strauss's dialectic dexterity, his forensic coolness, the even polish of his style, present him to us as the accomplished pleader, too completely master of his work to feel the temptation to unfair advantage or unseemly temper.... We can testify that the translator has achieved a very tough work with remarkable spirit and fidelity. The author, though indeed a good writer, could hardly have spoken better had his country and language been English. The work has evidently fallen into the hands of one who has not only effective command of both languages, but a familiarity with the subject-matter of theological criticism, and an initiation into its technical phraseology."-Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review, 1847.

venience has induced the translator often to supply the rendering into English of a Greek quotation, where there was no corresponding rendering into German in the original. Indeed, Strauss may well say, as he does in the notice, which he writes for this English edition, that as far as he has examined it, the translation is, "et accurata et perspicua.'"-Prospective Review.

With whatever amount of apprehension the results of Strauss's criticism may be contemplated, it remains incontestably true that the claims of science on the one hand, and the necessities of the age on the other, freely justify the line of criticism which he has adopted-and all the opposition made to it from so many quarters may be interpreted as a requisition to a still deeper and more fundamental pursuit of that critical process which he has begun."-Dr. Ferdinand Christian Bauer, Professor in Ordinary of Evangelical Theology in the University of Tubingen.

In pre

"Whoever reads these volumes without any reference to the German, must be pleased with the easy, perspicuous, idiomatic, and harmonious force of the English style. But he will be still more satisfied when, on turning to the original, he finds that the rendering is word for word, thought for thought, and sentence for sentence. paring so beautiful a rendering as the present, the difficulties can have been neither few nor small in the way of preserving, in various parts of the work, the exactness of the translation, combined with that uniform harmony and clearness of style, which impart to the volumes before us the air and spirit of an original. A modest and kindly care for his reader's con

Channing's Works, Complete.

"In regard to learning, acuteness, and sagacious conjectures, the work resembles Niebuhr's History of Rome.' The general manner of treating the subject and arranging the chapters, sections, and parts of the argument, indicates consummate dialectical skill; while the style is clear, the expression direct, and the author's openness in referring to his sources of information, and stating his conclusions in all their simplicity, is candid and exemplary...... It not only surpasses all its predecessors of its kind in learning, acuteness, and thorough investigation, but it is marked by a serious and earnest spirit."-Christian Examiner.

"The position which the Historical Scriptures occupy in Strauss's system does not seem to have attracted sufficient attention among ourselves. It addresses itself, as will have been already observed, to a higher element in the mind than the common reluctance to acquiesce in supernatural narratives.... There is not an objection, a cavil, or rational solution which is not instantly fused and incorporated into his system."-Christian Remembrancer.

"A work which is acknowledged, on all sides, to be a master-piece of its kind, to evince signs of profound and varied learning, and to be written in a spirit of serious earnestness."-West. Rev.

"I found in M. Strauss a young man full of candour, gentleness, and modesty -one possessed of a soul that was almost mysterious, and, as it were, saddened by the reputation he had gained. He scarcely seems to be the author of the work under consideration."-Quinet, Revue des Mondes.

"Strauss is too candid to be popular." -Voices of the Church, by the Rev. J. R. Beard, D.D.

Edited by JOSEPH BARKER. In 6 vols. 12mo. 6s. sewed; 8s. cloth. "Channing's function was rather that of the prophet than that of the scholar and philosopher; his scattered pieces have gone out into the world like so many oracles of religious wisdom; he uttered forth in tones of such deep conviction and thrilling persuasiveness, sentiments and aspirations which lie

folded up in every human breast,-that he has called out a wide responsive sympathy, and made thousands receive through the kindling medium of his affectionate spirit, a fresh communication of religious life."-Retrospect of the Religious Life of England, by John James Tayler, B.A.

Works published by

A Discourse of Matters pertaining to Religion.

By THEODORE PARKER. Post 8vo. 7s. cloth.

CONTENTS:

A Retrospect of the Religious Life of England;

Or, the Church, Puritanism, and Free Inquiry. By JOHN JAMES TAYLER, B.A. Post 8vo. 10s 6d. cloth.

"The work is written in a chastely beautiful style, manifests extensive reading and careful research; is full of thought, and decidedly original in its character. It is marked also by the modesty which usually characterises true merit."-Inquirer.

"Mr. Tayler is actuated by no sectarian bias, and we heartily thank him