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LYTTELTON, THE HON. MRS. NEVILLE, 

 and WARD, MRS. HUMPHR Y. 



JOUBERT: A Selection from his Thoughts. 



Translated by Katharine Lyttelton, with a Preface 

 by Mrs. Humphry Ward. Crow7i 87/^, pp. xlii + 224. 

 With a specially designed cover, dull gold top, 5^-, net. 

 Limited Edition of Seventy - five Copies, printed 

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Messrs. Duckworth & Co. have pleasure in announcing the 

 publication of the above translation of the Pensees de Jotcbert by 

 the Hon. ]\Irs. Neville Lyttelton, with a Preface by Mrs. 

 Humphry Ward. 



Of Joubert (1754- 1824) Matthew Arnold {Essays in Criticism, 

 First Series) spoke thus: — 'With Joubert, the striving after a 

 consummate and attractive clearness of expression came from no 

 mere frivolous dislike of labour and inability for going deep, but 

 was a part of his native love of truth and perfection. The delight 

 of his life he found in truth, and in the satisfaction which the 

 enjoying of truth gives to the spirit ; and he thought the truth 

 was never really and worthily said so long as the least cloud, 

 clumsiness, and repulsiveness hung about the expression of it. . . . 

 He is the most prepossessing and convincing of witnesses to the 

 good of loving light. Because he sincerely loved light, and did 

 not prefer to it any little private darkness of his own, he found 

 light ; his eye was single, and therefore his whole body was full of 

 light. And because he was full of light, he was also full of 

 happiness. \n spite of his infirmities, in spite of his sufferings, in 

 spite of his obscurity, he was the happiest man alive ; his life was 

 as charming as his thoughts.' 



