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 2 SELECTED VOLUMES OF ESSAYS.

Pianoforte How Composers Work Schumann as Mirrored in his Letters Music and Morals Italian and German Vocal Styles German Opera in New York.

" Written from abundant knowledge ; enlivened by anecdote and touches of enthusiasm, suggestive, stimulating." Boston fast.

JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE.

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CONTENTS :

VOL. 1. The Science of History Times of Erasmus and Luther The Influence of the Reformation on the Scottish Character The Philosophy of Catholicism A Plea for the Free Discussion of Theological Difficulties Criticism and the Gospel History The Book of Job Spinoza The Dissolu- tion of Monasteries England's Forgotten Worthies Homer The Lives of the Saints Representative Man Reynard the Fox The Cat's Pilgrimage Fables Parable of the Bread-fruit Tree Compensation.

VOL. II. Calvinism A Bishop of the Twelfth Century Father Newman on "The Grammar of Assent" Con- ditions and Prospects of Protestantism England and Her Colonies A Fortnight in Kerry Reciprocal Duties in State and Subject The Merchant and His Wife On Progress The Colonies Once More Education England's War The Eastern Question Scientific Method Applied to History.

VOL. III. Annals of an English Abbey Revival of Romanism Sea Studies Society in Italy in the Last Days of the Roman Republic Lucian Divus Caesar On the Uses of a Landed Gentry Party Politics Leaves from a South African Journal.

VOL. IV. The Oxford Counter Reformation Life and Times of Thomas Becket Origen and Celsus A Cagliostro of the Second Century Cheneys and the House of Russell A Siding at a Railway Station.

"Ail the papers here collected are marked by the qualities which have made Mr. Froude the most popular of living English historians by skill in argumentative and rhetorical ex- position, by felicities of diction, by contagious earnestness, and by the rare power of fusing the results of research in the imagination so as to produce a picture of the past at once exact and vivid."

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