Intellectual Xife. 



The INTELLECTUAL LIFE. By Philip Gilbert 



HAMERTON. Elzevir Edition, Bourgeois type, leaded, 552 pages. Cloth, 

 red edges, 5O cents ; full Russia, gilt edges, very fine, 8S1.OO. 



One of the most charming volumes in the language, and wise 

 and helpful as it is delightful. The price of the volume is just one- 

 fourth that formerly asked for the Boston edition. 



; ' The print and paper are excellent, and altogether, the vol- 

 ume is as pretty to look at as it is entertaining to read." Democrat 

 and Chronicle, Rochester, K Y. 



"A book that no one, young or old, should fail to read, and 

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 Examiner, New York. 



i Hamerton's delightful essays are here put in form that will 

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 becoming to $ts excellence. All of the essays are of character to 

 entertain the general reader while at the same time the moral or 

 lesson of each is so subtly taught as to put itself in possession of the 

 reader before he is aware of it." Journal, Indianapolis. 



' 'A charming volume of wise and helpful reading for those 

 who keenly appreciate what is finest and noblest in literature." Cen- 

 tral Baptist, St. Louis. 



" In a Russian leather suit, and gilded edges, is the best piece 

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''As attractive as any gift-book of the season. The admira- 

 ble essays which it contains are masterpieces of rhetoric and counsel. " 

 Free Press, Detroit. 



'* It is not a profound, philosophic treatise, but a plain, enter- 

 taining statement of various conditions which enter into the intellec- 

 tual life, and of the means by which that life may be reached." 

 'Herald, Syracuse, N. Y. 



" We admire the style in which this book is written. The 

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 littlQCOst." Christian Advocate, Buffalo, N. Y. 



* * ' The Intellectual Life ' of Hamerton is so well known that 

 , it needs no commendation and no introduction. It is helpful, sugges- 

 \ tive, and quickening. All the chapters are full of practical hints that 

 \areto be prized as gold, but those on the physical and moral basis of 

 bur intellectual life are worthy a special attention." Lutheran Ob- 

 server, Philadelphia. 



