"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 though the reader closes it with regret, the critic must own that it is not a page too short."-Standard. "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. VOL. III.] Vol. I., post 8vo, pp. 264, cloth, price 7s. 6d. AN ACCOUNT OF THE POLYNESIAN RACE: ITS ORIGIN AND MIGRATIONS, AND THE ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE HAWAIIAN PEOPLE TO THE TIMES OF By ABRAHAM FORNANDER, Circuit Judge of the Island of Maui, 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 him, 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 archæology, 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. VOLS. IV., V.] In Two Volumes, post 8vo, pp. viii.—408; viii.—402, cloth. ORIENTAL RELIGIONS, AND THEIR RELATION TO UNIVERSAL RELIGION. By SAMUEL JOHNSON. I. INDIA. VOL. VI.] Vol. II., post 8vo, pp. 408, cloth, price 10s. 6d. AN ACCOUNT OF THE POLYNESIAN RACE: ITS ORIGIN AND MIGRATIONS, AND THE ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE HAWAIIAN PEOPLE TO THE TIMES OF KAMEHAMEHA I. By ABRAHAM FORNANDER, Circuit Judge of the Island of Maui, H.I. LONDON: TRÜBNER & CO., LUDGATE HILL. 250-4/7/81. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HISTORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT LECTURES AND DISSERTATIONS BY LAZARUS GEIGER, AUTHOR OF "ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF HUMAN SPEECH AND REASON." Translated from the Second German Edition BY DAVID ASHER, PH.D. CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE BERLIN SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF LONDON: TRÜBNER & CO., LUDGATE HILL. 1880. [All rights reserved.] |