MacMillan & Co.'s General Catalogue of Works in the Departments of History, Biography, Travels, and Belles Lettres, December, 1869 by Unknown
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"_A charming little book. For English readers, Mr. Garnett's translations will open a new world of thought_."--_Westminster Review_. GUESSES AT TRUTH. By _Two Brothers_. With Vignette, Title, and Frontispiece. New Edition, with Memoir. Fcap. 8vo. 6_s_. "_ The following year was memorable for the commencement of the 'Guesses at Truth.' He and his Oxford brother, living as they did in constant and free interchange of thought on questions of philosophy and literature and art; delighting, each of them, in the epigrammatic terseness which is the charm of the 'Pensees' of Pascal, and the 'Caractères' of La Bruyère--agreed to utter themselves in this form, and the book appeared, anonymously, in two volumes, in 1827_."--_Memoir_. Hamerton. --------- --A PAINTER'S CAMP. By _Philip Gilbert Hamerton_. Second Edition, revised. Extra fcap. 8vo. 6_s_. BOOK I. _In England_; BOOK II. _In Scotland_; BOOK III. _In France. This is the story of an Artist's encampments and adventures. The headings of a few chapters may serve to convey a notion of the character of the book: A Walk on the Lancashire Moors; the Author his own Housekeeper and Cook; Tents and Boats for the Highlands; The Author encamps on an uninhabited |
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