The Solitudes of Nature.
The Solitudes of Man.
The Morals of Solitude.
Sketches of Lonely Characters: or, Personal Illustrations
of the Good and Evil of Solitude.
Summary of the Subject.
In one handsome volume. 16mo. Cloth. Price $2.00.
"This volume is the result of much investigation, much
meditation, and much experience; and is very comprehensive in
its scope.... The author has shown the influence of solitude
on every grade of mind and character, has discriminated its
beneficent form and its morbid action, and has shown how it
nurtures lofty thoughts as well as how it pampers self-will,
and, in the throng of his personal illustrations, has
indicated its effect on representative men of genius in
almost every department of human effort."--_Boston
Transcript._
"We know of no work like it, and question whether any of its
size has appeared in this generation with an equal amount of
intellectual enrichment and stimulus, moral nutriment, and
invaluable ethical instruction."--_The Liberal Christian._
"This book is a worthy mate to Burton's famous Anatomy of
Melancholy. The fortunate reader may learn from it how to win
the benefits and shun the evils of being alone."--_N. Y.
Express._
"We envy the heart of no one who, unmoved, and with tearless
eye, can read them (The Solitude of the RUIN and the Solitude
of DEATH)."--_West. Missionary._
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Publishers,
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_Memoirs and Correspondence of Madame RA(C)camier._
Translated and Edited by MISS LUYSTER. 1 vol., 16mo., with a finely
engraved Portrait. Price $2.00.
"The diversified contents of this volume can hardly fail to
gain for it a wide perusal. It has the interest, in a greater
or less degree, of history and romance; of truth stranger
than fiction; of personal sketches; of the curious phases of
an exceptional social life; of singular admixtures of piety
and folly, of greatness and profligacy, fidelity and
intrigue, all mingling or revealed in connection with the
prolonged career of one who was, in certain respects, the
most remarkable woman of her time."--_Boston Transcript._
"With nothing like the talents which immortalized the author
of _Corinne_, Madame RA(C)camier won herself a place of not less
social influence among the men and women of her day. We must
clearly look elsewhere than either to intellect, wealth,
beauty, or all three combined, for the secret of that
witchery which was so distinctive of her. There was
something, we are led to infer, in her constitutional
temperament, which, even beyond her delicate and indefinable
tact, may afford the real clew to much of her mysterious
ascendency. Love seems to have existed in her as a yearning
of the soul almost entirely free from those elements of
passion which are grounded in the difference of the sexes.
There was in it not so much of the desire which centres in a
single object, as of the emotion which seeks to diffuse
itself over the very widest sphere of objects. It could thus
be warm and deep, while pure and inaccessible to evil.
Sainte-Beuve's remark, that she had carried the art of
friendship to perfection, helps us here to give the true key
to her character. A warm and constant friend, she never
admitted, never showed herself, a lover. Satisfied with the
arrangement which gave her from an early age nothing more
than the name and status of a wife, she could let her natural
affection range with freedom and security wherever it met
with a response that left intact her dignity and
self-respect. Such coquetry as she showed arose rather from
an instinctive desire to please and attract, than from
anything approaching to a vicious instinct, or a silly desire
to swell the list of her conquests. What seemed to begin in
flirtation never went to the point of danger, and men who at
first sight loved her passionately usually ended by becoming
her true friends."--_The London Saturday Review._
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