EXTRA SERIES. Two Volumes, post 8vo, pp. 348 and 374, with Portrait, cloth, price 218. LESSING: His Life and Writings. By JAMES SIME, M.A. "It is to Lessing that an Englishman would turn with readiest affection. We cannot but wonder that more of this man is not known amongst us."-THOMAS CARLYLE, "But to Mr. James Sime has been reserved the honour of presenting to the English public a full-length portrait of Lessing, in which no portion of the canvas is uncovered, and in which there is hardly a touch but tells. He has studied his subject with that patient care which only reverence and sympathy can support; he has attained the true proportion which can alone be gained by penetration and clear insight into motive and purposes. We can say that a clearer or more compact piece of biographic criticism has not been produced in England for many a day."— Westminster Review. "In the meantime we would only add here our cordial appreciation of a really admirable piece of biographical and critical work. Although the fruit of minute and careful study, the style of the book renders it eminently readable, and it will be treasuretrove to all (and in these days they are legion) to whom German literature has attractions."-British Quarterly Review. "An account of Lessing's life and work on the scale which he deserves is now for the first time offered to English readers. Mr. Sime has performed his task with industry, knowledge, and sympathy; qualities which must concur to make a successful biographer."-Pall Mall Gazette. "This is an admirable book. It lacks no quality that a biography ought to have. Its method is excellent, its theme is profoundly interesting: its tone is the happiest mixture of sympathy and discrimination: its style is clear, masculine, free from effort or affectation, yet eloquent by its very sincerity. It is not a page too long; and thou h the reader closes it with regret, the critic must own that it is not a page too short."-. Standard. "Mr. Sime's volumes embody the result of careful scholarship and independent reflection. He renders, on the whole, ample justice to the philosophical side of the subject."-Mind. "He has given a life of Lessing clear, interesting, and full, while he has given a study of his writings which bears distinct marks of an intimate acquaintance with his subject, and of a solid and appreciative judgment."-Scotsman. "Vor allem erweist sich der Verfasser als ein Manu vom freiem, unbefangenem Geiste, von vielseitiger ernster Bildung."-Im neuen Reich. "Sicher wird dieses Buch, das mit solcher Liebe und eingehenden Gründlichkeit sich an die Schilderung des Lebens eines so bedeutsamen Geistes unsrer Vergangenheit macht, und diese hohe schöne Aufgabe in einer so vortrefflichen Weise löst, sich nicht bloss in des Verfassers Heimathslande, sondern auch in der Heimath des Dichters liebe und viele Freunde erwerben."-Weser Zeitung. "Diessmal ist es ein Engländer, welcher den Unsterblichen in der verbreitetsten Sprache der civilisirten Welt einführt, und siehe da, der englische Lessing hat für uns kaum ein fremdes Haar, kaum eine fremde Nüance oder Zuthat. Sein lebensgrosses Bild strahlt aus dem von der Liebe polirten und hingehaltenen Spiegel rein und voll zurück. Die leidige Krämernation' hat wieder einmal gezeigt, dass sie voilkommen auf der Höhe des ureigenen Geistes' zu stehen vermag, dass sie im Stande ist in die feinsten Falten des kritisch-philosophischen Gewebes hineinzuschauen und das Räthsel dialectischer Analyse virtuos zu lösen."-Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung. Vol. I, post 8vo, pp. 264, cloth, price 7s. 6d. AN ACCOUNT OF THE POLYNESIAN RACE AND THE ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE HAWAIIAN PEOPLE TO THE TIME OF KAMEHAHA I. By ABRAHAM FORNANDER, Circuit Judge of the Island of Maul, H.I. "Mr. Fornander has evidently enjoyed excellent opportunities for promoting the study which has produced this work. Unlike most foreign residents in Polynesia, he has acquired a good knowledge of the language spoken by the people among whom he dwelt. This has enabled nim, during his thirty-four years' residence in the Hawaiian Islands, to collect material which could be obtained only by a person possessing such an advantage. It is so seldom that a private settler in the Polynesian Islands takes an intelligent interest in local ethnology and archaeology, and makes use of the advantage he possesses, that we feel especially thankful to Mr. Fornander for his labours in this comparatively little known field of research."-Academy. [Vol. II. in preparation. LONDON: TRÜBNER & CO., LUDGATE HILL. |