LONDON: CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193, PICCADILLY. 1855.
Far from making his book a mere register of events, he has penetrated deep below the surface and explored the causes of these events. He has carefully studied the physiognomy of the times and given finished portraits of the great men who conducted the march of the revolution. PRESCOTT
NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, 329 & 331 PEARL STREET. 1856.
The sphere which she has made specially her own is that quiet English country life which she knew in early youth. She has done for it what Scott did for the Scotch peasantry, or Fielding for the eighteenth century Englishman, or Thackeray for the higher social stratum of his time. STEPHEN
BY GEORGE ELIOT AUTHOR OF "SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE"
"So that ye may have Clear images before your gladden'd eyes Of nature's unambitious underwood And flowers that prosper in the shade. And when I speak of such among the flock as swerved Or fell, those only shall be singled out Upon whose lapse, or error, something more Than brotherly forgiveness may attend." WORDSWORTH.
WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS EDINBURGH AND LONDON MDCCCLIX
The most potent instrument for the extension of the realm of natural knowledge which has come into men's hands since the publication of Newton's _Principia_ is Darwin's _Origin of Species_. HUXLEY
ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION,
PRESERVATION OF FAVOURED RACES IN THE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE.
FELLOW OF THE ROYAL, GEOLOGICAL, LINNÆAN, ETC., SOCIETIES; AUTHOR OF 'JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES DURING H.M.S. BEAGLE'S VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD.'
LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1859.
A planet equal to the sun Which cast it, that large infidel Your Omar. TENNYSON
RUBÁIYÁT OF OMAR KHAYYÁM, THE ASTRONOMER-POET OF PERSIA.
LONDON: BERNARD QUARITCH, CASTLE STREET, LEICESTER SQUARE. 1859.
I know of no writings which combine, as Cardinal Newman's do, so penetrating an insight into the realities of the human world around us in all its details, with so unwavering an inwardness of standard in estimating and judging that world; so steady a knowledge of the true vanity of human life with so steady a love for that which is not vanity or vexation of spirit. HUTTON
"Commit thy way to the Lord, and trust in Him, and He will do it. And He will bring forth thy justice as the light, and thy judgment as the noon-day."
