Boston University - HUB Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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BOSTON UNIVERSITY YEAR BOOK. EDITED BY THE UNIVERSITY COUNCIL. VOL. VII. B O S T O N : UNIVERSITY OFFICES, 20 BEACON STREET. 1Brfntz'a bg Banu, Qhztg, 86 Gin. 1880.

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TA DARD ESSAYS. 4-...il I I E BACON. THE Womcs or FRANCIS BAOON. Collected and edlted byl JAMES SPEDDING, Ronnxvr I.EsI.IE EI.LIs, and DOUGLAS DENoN Ilnlvru. ltivn-olde Edition. Two steel portraits of Lord Bacon and a full index. 15 vols. crown Svc, 333.755 half calf, 380.00. THE SAME. Popular Edition. XVlth portraits. 2 vods. crown 8vo, 35.005 half calf, 89.00. These cdltlons of Bacon's works are thr the best ever publlshed. The scholarly and crltloal care devoted to them ls almost without parallel in the hlstory ot' literature. P Lord Bacon was the greatest genlus that England, or perhaps any other country, ever produced. - OPE. BROWN. SPARE Houus. By Dr. Jenn Bnown. First and Second Series. With tlne steel portrait. 2 vols. 12mo, 81.50 cnchg the set, half calf, 566.005 The charm that pervades theserpages has rarely boon erfuallcd by the host. thlngs of modern or ancient writers of tale and essay. 'ull of truth, tenderness, rumor, wlsdom, and wlt, they delight us wlth their slmple beauty and the depth ot' thelr pathctlc passages. -New York Observer. There have been no more polished, thoughtful, and elevated Essays published ln thls age. - The Uhrlstian Register Cllostonl. . CARLYLE. CRITICAL AND MISCET.T.ANEOUS ESSAYS or TIIOMAS CARLYLE. YVlth a flnc steel portrait of the author. 4 vols. crown Svc, 87.505 half calf, S15.00. 4' As fin- as completeness goes, nothing can equal thls edition. - R.. B. Macxnnzrn, in the Pltttarlat- phla Press. - His value ns nn lnsplrcr and nwnkener cannot be over-estimated. - James RUSSELL LOWELL. DE QUINCEY. Cm'I'IcAL. IIISTORICAL, AND MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS, AND COMPLETE Worms or 'l'IIoMAs DE Quxucnv. Riverside Edition. Re-cdlted and enlarged, wlth steel portrait ot' Dc Qulneey. 12 vols. crown Bvo, per vol. 81.75Q thc set, 321.005 hall' calf, Sl2.00. A great master of English composition, n. critic el' uncommon delicacy, an honest and unfllnchlng lnvcstlgator of received opinions, a phlloso mhlc lnqulrer second only to hls tlrst and sole hero tCole- rldgej, Do Qulnccy has left no successor to lmls rank. The cxqulsltc llnlsh of style, wlth the sehclastlc vigor of hls loglc, forms a comblnatlou which eenturles may never rcproduco, but which every genera- tlon should study ns one of the marvels of English literature. - Quarterly lteview fLondonJ. ZBMERSON. Pnosm Womcs or RALPH WALno Emcrtson. Including all the Essays he has over published in book form. 3 vols. crown 8vo, 87.50, half calt',t1s13.50g mcrocco or tree calf, :?.18.00. A collection of prose-wrltlng informed wlth poetry, the fearless and serene slnccrltty of whlch, the wisdom, the sound sense, the humor, the wlt, the marvellous lnslght of whlch, make it al terary treasure that may well move our gratltude. - The Nation 1New Yorkl. Therein no man living to whom, as n writer, so many of us feel and thankfully acknowledge so great an indebtedness for cnnobllng impulses. NVe look upon hlm as one of thc ow men of genius whom our age has produced. -JAMES tussnu. Lownm.. MONTAIGNE. Womcs or MICHAEL DE MONTAIGNE. Comprising his Essays, Journey into Italy, and Letters, wlth Notes from all the Commentators, Blographlcnl and Blbllo- graphical Notices, etc., by W. 1IAzL1'r'I'. With n portrait of Montaigne. 4vols. crown Svc, cloth, 87.605 half calf, S15.00. There have bccn men wlth deeper insight, but, one would say, ncvcr n man with such abundance of thoughts. Ho ls never dull, never lnslnecre, and has the genius to make the reader care for all that he cares for. -R. W. Ennnson, in Representative Men. - Montalgne's and Howcll's Letters are mly bcdslde books. If I wake at nlght, I have one or other of them to prattle me to sleep again. They tnl about themselves forever, and on't weary me. I llke to hear them tell their old stories over and over again. -W. M. THAUKERAY. PASCAL. THE Tnoeerrrs, LETTERS, AND OPUSCULEB or BLAIBE PAscAL. Translated from the French by 0. W. Wlonr, A.M., wlth Introductory Notices, and Notes from all the Commentators. Tan Pnovmcull. LE'r'rEns or BI.A1sE Pascal.. A new trnnslntlon, with Hlstorlcal Introduction amd geties by Rev. Tuomas MCOBIE, preceded by a Llts of Pascal, a Crltlcnl Essay, and a Blograph- ea ct cc. 2 vols. crown 8vo, each, 32.25g halt calf, 34.00. There are few names which have become more classical ln modern llterature than Blaise Pascal. His wrltlngs continue to be studied for the perfection of their style and the vltallty of their substance. -PRINUIPAL Tunnocn. ' Ho ls sublime by good sense as well as by genius. -M. VILLEMAIN. By the confession of the tlrst French orltlcs, the Lettres Provlnetalen dld more than any other com- position to flx the French language, . . . and as the Letters were the tlrst model of French prose, so hey stlll rcmaln the objects or unqualltled admlratlon. -HENRY Roenns, in Edinburgh Review. - E, For calc by Booksellers. Sant, postpaid, on receipt of price, by the Publishers, HOUGHTON, OSGOOD, 8v. CO., Boston: 21 Astor Place, New York.

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