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The Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral of Francis Bacon. 
First published in 1597, and as he left them newly written and pub- 
lished in 1625. Including also his Apophthegms, Elegant Sentences, 
and Wisdom of the Ancienjts. With an introduction by HENRY 
MORLEY, LL.D., Professor of English Literature at University Col- 
lege, London. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00. 
They (Bacon's Essays) contain the condensed wisdom gathered during the 
whole long life-time of one of the mightiest minds of modern times. Frank 
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Vanity Fair. A Novel Without a Hero. By WILLIAM MAKE 
PEACE THACKERAY. Portrait, 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00. 
As a whole the book is full of quiet sarcasm and severe rebuke. It is replete 
with humor and morality, and rivets attention to the end by the vivid reality 
of all the persons and scenes. From "A Manual of English Literature " by T. B. 
Shaw. 
Other Worlds Than Ours. The plurality of worlds studied 
under the light of recent scientific researches. By RICHARD A. 
PROCTOR. With an introductory note by FRANK PARSONS. Portrait. 
Cloth, gilt top, $1.00. 
Like Huxley and Tyndall, Mr. Proctor sees the poetry of his subject and 
knows how to bring the largest truths within the comprehension of a child, 
and make the deepest researches as interesting to the general reader as a 
novel. Frank Parsons. 
The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World, from Marathon to 
Waterloo. By E. S. CREASY, M.A., Professor of Ancient and Mod- 
ern History in University College, London; late Fellow of King's 
College, Cambridge. With an introductory note by FRANK PAR- 
SONS. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00. 
So vivid are his descriptions that one feels as though he were present at the 
scene himself, listening to the counsels of the generals, hearing the tread of 
marching columns, watching the gleaming spears and bayonets, armies of in- 
fantry, charging cavalry, breach, rally and retreat, deafened with the roar of 
batteries, saddened by the death of friends, and flushed with triumph ; and at 
last the reader lays the book away exhausted with the rush of feeling through 
his heart. Frank Parson*. 
The Essays of Elia. By CHARLES LAMB. With an introduc- 
tion and notes by Alfred Ainger, and a Biographical Sketch of 
Charles Lamb, by Henry Morley. Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, 
$1.00. 
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and foremost, he is an essayist of rare power. The refined wit. genuine pleas- 
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Essays. By RALPH WALDO EMERSON. First and second series. 
Portrait. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00. 
He exercised a great power over men ; he brought them wide comfort, and 
to him more than to any man of his time belongs the glory of having taught 
them that life was worth the living. From the " Optimism of Emerson," by W. 
F. Dana. 
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