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 ANCIENT IDEALS Stody of Intellectual and Spiritual Growth from Early Times to the Establishment of Christianity. By HENRY OSBORN TAYLOR In Two Volumes Cloth 8vo $5.00 net " It needs something like genius to give an account so sympathetic and pene< trating of religions so diverse; yet the author never fails to leave in the mind a perfectly definite picture of each system, with its essential characteristics quite distinct, and illustrated by just so much history as is needed to make the picture living. . . . The treatment of his subjects leaves very little to be desired. There are few, if any, summaries of Oriental religions which approach this in clearness. . . ." — Tke Guardian, London. " Mr. Taylor has written a scholarly and comprehensive work. . . . The plan implies much research, a grasp of historical evolution and of the develop* ment of the human mind. . . . This work must have been the labor of years, and it is an extremely instructive and interesting one to read and put in one's library for reference." — TAt Hartford Courant. " Mr. Taylor's treatment of the theme is always noble, and in many cases It is also adequate and satisfactory. ... It will be of great advantage if this necessity should turn the reader from our own very partial sketch to the book itself, for he will find there a record of the achievement of the human spirit that must fire his enthusiasm and lend new inspiration to his own eflbrU after life." — Philadelphia Press. "The author has done what he set out to do with intelligence, skill, and ex« cellent judgment. The treatment is sympathetic and always fair minded. The style is admirable in simplicity and precision of statement. . . . The con* eluding chapter is a singularly luminous and masterly gathering up of the results of the whole historic survey." — Chicago Tribune. " We must congratulate Mr. Taylor upon his courage, but we may go further and say that his attempt to grapple with a gigantic subject is such as must com- mand respect. ... He has gone to the best modem books. . . . His reading is very wide indeed." — London Titntt. " The work is excellently done and deserving of high praise. The author has evidently read widely and diligently on his subject : he has made good use of the best authorities, and his own remarks and reflections are always judictoiu and to the poim." — Th4 Scotsman. THE MACMILLAN COMPANY ee FIFTH AVBNDB, NBW TOBK