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."-Examiner. "Richter is exhibited in a most amiable light in this biography-industrious, frugal, benevolent, with a child-like simplicity of character, and a heart overflowing with the purest love. His letters to his wife are beautiful memorials of true affection, and the way in which he perpetually speaks of his children shows that he was the most attached and indulgent of fathers. Whoever came within the sphere of his companionship appears to have contracted an affection for him that death only Essays. By R. W. Emerson. dissolved: and while his name was resounding through Germany, he remained as meek and humble as if he had still been an unknown adventurer on Parnassus."-The Apprentice. "The life of Jean Paul is a charming piece of biography which draws and rivets the attention. The affections of the reader are fixed on the hero with an intensity rarely bestowed on an historical character. It is impossible to read this biography without a conviction of its integrity and truth; and though Ritcher's style is more difficult of translation than that of any other German, yet we feel that his golden thoughts have reached us pure from the mine, to which he has given that impress of genius which makes them current in all countries."-Christian Reformer. (Second Series.) With a Notice by THOMAS CARLYLE. 38. paper cover; 3s. 6d. cloth. "Among the distinguishing features of Christianity-we are ready to say THE distinguishing feature is its humanity, its deep sympathy with human kind, and its strong advocacy of human wants and rights. In this particular, few have a better title to be ranked among the followers of Jesus than the author of this book."-American Christian Examiner. "The difficulty we find in giving a proper notice of this volume, arises from the pervadingness of its excellence, and the compression of its matter. With more learning than Hazlitt, more perspicuity than Carlyle, more vigour and depth of thought than Addison, and with as much originality and fascination as any of them, this volume is a brilliant addition to the Table Talk of intellectual men, be they who or where they may."-Prospective Review. that invigorates the soul that is steeped therein. His mind is ever dealing with the eternal; and those who only live to exercise their lower intellectual faculties, and desire only new facts and new images, and those who have not a feeling or an interest in the great question of mind and matter, eternity and nature, will disregard him as unintelligible and uninteresting, as they do Bacon and Plato, and, indeed, philosophy itself."Douglas Jerrold's Magazine. Of this "Bevond social science, because beyond and outside social existence, there lies the science of self, the development of man in his individual existence, within himself and for himself. latter science, which may perhaps be called the philosophy of individuality, Mr. Emerson is an able apostle and interpreter."-League. "As regards the particular volume of EMERSON before us, we think it an im "Mr. Emerson is not a common man, and everything he writes contains sug-provement upon the first series of essays. gestive matter of much thought and earnestness."-Examiner. "That Emerson is, in a high degree, possessed of the faculty and vision of the seer, none can doubt who will earnestly and with a kind and reverential spirit peruse these nine Essays. He deals only with the true and the eternal. His piercing gaze at once shoots swiftly, surely through the outward and the superficial, to the inmost causes and workings. Any one can tell the time who looks on the face of the clock, but he loves to lay bare the machinery and show its moving principle. His words and his thoughts are a fresh spring, The subjects are better chosen. They come more home to the experience of the mass of makind, and are consequently more interesting. Their treatment also indicates an artistic improvement in the composition."-Spectator. "All lovers of literature will read Mr. Emerson's new volume, as the most of them have read his former one; and if correct taste, and sober views of life, and such ideas on the higher subjects of thought as we have been accustomed to account as truths, are sometimes outraged, we at least meet at every step with originality, imagination, and eloquence."-Inquirer. THE CATHOLIC SERIES-(continued.) The Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies. rica of a potential voice, who can utter these words of reproof to his country, of justice to Great Britain."-Pros. Rev. An Address delivered at Concord, Massachusetts, on the 1st of August, 1844. By R. W. EMERSON. Post 8vo. 6d. paper cover. "It is really purifying to be able to turn, at this moment, to anything righteous and generous from an American on Slavery and Great Britain, so as to be relieved from the scorn and loathing produced by Mr. Calhoun's Letter to the American Minister at Paris. Since Channing is no more, it is a satisfaction that there is one man in Ame "We need not tell any one who has the slightest acquaintance with his previous writings that Mr. Emerson is eloquent; and here he has a noble subject, into which he has thrown his whole soul."-Inquirer. The Roman Church and Modern Society. By E. QUINET, of the College of France. Translated from the French Third Edition (with the Author's approbation), by C. COCKS, B.L. 8vo. 5s. cloth. "We take up this enlightened volume, which aims, in the spirit of history and philosophy, to analyze the Romanist principle, with peculiar pleasure. A glance at the headings of the chapters much interested ourselves, and we doubt not will our readers:-The Superlatively Catholic Kingdom of Spain; Political Results of Catholicism in Spain; The Roman Church and the State; The Roman Church and Science; The Roman Church and History; The Roman Church and Law; The Roman Church and Philosophy; The Roman Church and Nations; The Roman Church and the Universal Church."-Christian Reformer. "The fourth lecture, entitled ⚫ The Roman Church and Science' appears to us the most striking and luminous exposition we have seen of the condition of the Roman church, and ofits unavailing hostility to the progress of mankind. Our space precludes the possibility of quoting the whole, or we should do so with great pleasure. It delineates, in vivid colours, the history of Galileo, his character, his discoveries, his philosophical protest against the theology of Rome, the horrible persecutions which he suffered, and his effects upon the ecclesiastical power-changing the relative positions of science and the church, unfolding a theology more profound than that of Rome, a code of laws more infallible than that of the church, a grand and comprehensive system of ideas transcending in its Catholicity Catholicism itself. "The four remaining lectures are severally entitled-The Roman Church and Law (in which the Inquisition is a conspicuous subject)- The Roman Church and Philosophy-The Roman Church and Nations-The Roman Church and the Universal Church. We cannot characterize each of these in particular: suffice it to say that there is a profound and expansive philosophical spirit breathing through the whole; every subject is compelled to contribute its entire force of facts and illustration for the construction of the one great argument which is the object and complement of each-viz., that the Roman Church is no longer adequate to the enlarged needs and aspirations of mankind, that it has fulfilled the mission for which it was originated-that the energies it once put forth in the cause of humanity are paralyzed, that its decrepitude is manifest, and its vitality threatened, that it has shown itself incapable of continuing as the minister of God's will, and the interpreter of those divine laws whose incarnation in human life is the pledge of man's spiritual advancement and happiness, that it heeds not the signs of the times, refuses any alliance with the spirit of progression, clings tenaciously to the errors and dead formulas of the past, recognizes the accession of no new truths, and hence prostrates the intellect, proscribes the enlargement of our spiritual boundaries, lays an inderdict on human progress, compels us to look perpetually backwards, and blights our hopes of the future, and-in the words of Quinetrepresents the earth as a condemned world formed for chastisement and evil.' "Considered as a whole, the book before us is the most powerful and philosophically consistent protest against the Roman Church which has ever claimed our attention, and, as a strong confirmation of its stirring efficiency, we may mention that the excitement it has created in Paris has subjected the author to a reprimand from both Chambers of the Legislature, and excommunication by the Pope."-Inquirer. "M. Quinet belongs to the movement party, and has lately been conspicuous in resisting the pretensions of the Jesuit and French clergy to the exclusive edu 30 Works published by John Chapman. THE CATHOLIC SERIES-Continued. cation of the youth of France. He has grappled with his theme both practically, and in the philosophical spirit of history....... Rare merits are comprised in this volume ...... a genuine spirit | pervades it, and there are many pasa- The Rationale of Religious Inquiry; Or, the Question stated, of Reason, the Bible, and the Church. By JAMES Sermons of Consolation. By F. W. P. GREENWOOD, D.D. 58. cloth. "This is a really delightful volume, which we would gladly see producing its purifying and elevating influences in all our families."-Inquirer. "This beautiful volume we are sure Self-Culture. will meet with a grateful reception from all who seek instruction on the topics most interesting to a thoughtful mind. There are twenty-seven sermons in the volume."-Christian Examiner. By WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING. 6d. paper cover; 1s. cloth. Christianity, or Europe. Translated from the German of NOVALIS (Friedrich von Hardenberg), by the Rev. J. DALTON. 6d. paper cover. 32 Works published by John Chapman. The Catholic Series. (Uniform, in Post Octavo.) For Prospectus, explaining the Principles and Object of the Series, and for the Opinions of the Press, see pages 20 and 21 of the Catalogue. The whole of the Works which have been published in the Series appear in the following list; but for the prices of the different books, and criticisms upon them, see the preceding pages from 22 to 30. Works already Published. 1. The Philosophical and Æsthetic Letters and Essays of Schiller. 2. The Philosophy of Art. By F. W. J. Von Schelling. 3. The Destination of Man. By Johann G. Fichte. 4. The Nature of the Scholar and its Manifestations. By Johann Gottlieb Fichte. 5. Essays. By R. W. Emerson. 6. The Emancipation of the Negroes. By R. W. Emerson. 2 vols. 7. The Life of Jean Paul Fr. Richter. 9. The Rationale of Religious Inquiry. By James Martineau. 10. The Mental History of an Inquiring Spirit. A Biography of Charles Elwood. By O. W. Brownson. 11. Sermons of Consolation. By F. W. P. Greenwood, D.D. 12. Self-Culture. By William Ellery Channing. 13. Christianity, or Europe. By Novalis. 14. The Mission of the German Catholics. By Prof. G. G. Gervinus. 15. The Worship of Genius, and The Distinctive Character or Essence of Christianity. By Prof. C. Ullmann. 16. Characteristics of Men of Genius. 17. The Vocation of the Scholar. By J. G. Fichte. 18, The Characteristics of the Present Age. By Johann Gottlieb Fichte. H. Morton, Printer, 2, Crane-court, Fleet-street. |