=Poetry as a Representative Art.= 8º =$1.75=
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the results of modern investigation, to determine scientifically the
laws of poetic composition and criticism, by deriving and distinguishing
the methods and meanings of the various factors of poetic form and
thought from those of the elocution and rhetoric of ordinary speech, of
which poetry is an artistic development. The principles unfolded are
illustrated by quotations from the first English poets.
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=The Essentials of Æsthetics.= Fully illustrated. 8º =$2.50=
A compendium of all the art-volumes, designed as a Text-Book.
“So lucid in expression and rich in illustration that every
page contains matter of deep interest even to the general
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appraisement.”—_New York Times._
=The Orator’s Manual.= 12mo =$1.50=
A Practical and Philosophic Treatise on Vocal Culture, Emphasis, and
Gesture, together with Hints for the Composition of Orations and
Selections for Declamation and Reading, designed as a Text-book for
Schools and Colleges, and for Public Speakers and Readers who are obliged
to Study without an Instructor, fully revised with important Additions
after the Fifteenth Edition.
“It is undoubtedly the most complete and thorough treatise
on oratory for the practical student ever published.”—_The
Educational Weekly_, Chicago.
“I consider it the best American book upon technical elocution.
It has also leanings toward a philosophy of expression that no
other book written by an American has presented.”—_Moses True
Brown_, Head of the Boston School of Oratory.
=The Writer= (with POST WHEELER, Litt.D.) 12mo =$1.00=
A Concise, Complete, and Practical Text-book of Rhetoric, designed to aid
in the Appreciation, as well as Production of All Forms of Literature,
Explaining, for the first time, the Principles of Written Discourse by
correlating them to those of Oral Discourse.
“A book of unusual merit ... prepared by practical teachers,
and the end in view is evidently to teach rather than to give
information.”—_The Pacific Educational Journal._
“The pupil will forget he is studying rhetoric, and will come
to express himself for the pure pleasure he has in this most
beautiful art.”—_Indiana School Journal._
=Ethics and Natural Law.= 8vo. Net, =$2.25.=
A Reconstructive Review of Moral Philosophy, Applied to the Rational Art
of Living,—a Book that is in effect a Continuation and Completion of
the Author’s well-known Æsthetic Works, showing the Relationship of the
Principles underlying Art to the Culture of Character.
“The student of ethics will considerably fortify his knowledge
of the history of ethical thought by reading the book,
especially the first twelve chapters. In these Mr. Raymond
embodies, with copious references, his extensive knowledge
of what has been written and thought by moral philosophers.
On pp. 63-67, for instance, will be found in footnotes a
kind of classified anthology of all the definitions given of
conscience by modern writers. The various ethical theories
holding the field do not, he thinks, recognize as indispensable
the coöperation, in every slightest detail of thought and
feeling, of the two necessary factors of every desire; and he
claims that his own doctrine keeps to the purpose he avows
in his opening chapter,—to draw no inference, and to advance
no theory, not warranted by known facts as ascertainable in
connection with the operations of natural law.... Chapters XIII
to XXIII deal acutely and comprehensively with the various
sides of American life.”—_London_ (England) _Times_.
In an article entitled _A Desirable Acquaintance_, _Prof.
A. S. Hobart_, _D.D. of Crozer Theological Seminary_, after
mentioning his twenty years’ experience in teaching Ethics,
says, “I find this book the only one that has come within the
range of my reading which has, for the basis of its system,
what I have found to be satisfactory. The writer assumes that
there is in the nature of things a law of ethical conduct
as continuous and self-evincing as is the law of physical
health.... The study of psychology has opened the mind to
inspection as we open the back of a watch-case and see the
wheels go round; and this study lays its crown of victorious
explorations at the feet of ethics.... His view is that
conscience is the sense of conflict between bodily and mental
desires ... therefore not a guide; it is only a sense of
lostness in the woods, that wants a guide. Good sense and good
religion are the guides to be consulted. By many illustrations
and very clear reasoning he verifies his view. Then, ... he
takes up the task unusual in such books—of showing how the
leading moral qualities can and ought to be cultivated. In
view of my own careful reading of the book I venture to call
attention to it as a most fertile source of instruction and
suggestion for ethical teaching.”—_The Baptist._
“The book is clear and comprehensive. His theory in regard to
conflict is reasonable, and the principles deduced from it have
philosophic foundation.”—_Boston Transcript._
“Professor Raymond extracts a fundamental principle that
largely reconciles existing ethical theories ... makes
distinctions that have vitality, and will repay the necessary
study and application.”—_Scientific American._
=A Poet’s Cabinet= and =An Art Philosopher’s Cabinet=.
Two books containing quotations, the one from the poems, and the other
from the æsthetic works of George Lansing Raymond, selected by Marion
Mills Miller, Litt.D., editor of _The Classics, Greek, and Latin_. Each
book 8vo. cloth-bound, gilt top. $2.00
“Dr. Raymond is one of the most just and pregnant critics,
as well as one of the most genuine poets, that America has
produced.... His verse generally, and his prose frequently,
is a solid pack of epigrams; and hundreds of the epigrams are
vigorous, fresh, telling, worth collecting and cataloguing....
Probably from no other American but Emerson could a collection
at all comparable be made. Many of the phrases are profound
paradox.... Others are as hard-headed as La Rochefoucauld....
Some are plain common sense, set in an audacious figure, or
a vigorous turn of phrase.... But few or none of them are
trivial.... As an æsthetic critic, Professor Raymond is, by
training and temperament, remarkably versatile and catholic.
He is almost or quite equally interested in architecture,
painting, sculpture, music, poetry.... Each is as definitely
placed in his system as the several instruments in a great
orchestra.... If Dr. Raymond had been born in France, England,
or Germany, he would, no doubt, have enjoyed a wider vogue. But
it is just as well that he was none of these; for the, as yet,
æsthetically immature New World has sore need of him.”—_Revue
Internationale_, Paris.
“We risk little in foretelling a day when all considerable
libraries, private as well as public, will be deemed quite
incomplete if lacking these twin volumes. Years after the
thinker has paid the debt to nature due, his thoughts will
rouse action and emotion in the hearts and minds of generations
now unborn.”—_Worcester_ (Mass.) _Gazette_.
“This Poet’s Cabinet is the best thing of its class—that
confined to the works of one author—upon which our eyes have
fallen, either by chance or purpose. We can’t help wishing that
we had a whole book-shelf of such volumes in our own private
library.”—_Columbus_, (O.) _Journal_.
“The number and variety of the subjects are almost
overwhelming, and the searcher for advanced or new thought as
expressed by this particular philosopher has no difficulty in
coming almost immediately upon something that may strike his
fancy or aid him in his perplexities. To the student of poetry
and the higher forms of literature ... the volume will be of
distinct aid.”—_Utica_ (N. Y.) _Observer_.
“Dr. Miller’s task in selecting representative extracts from
Professor Raymond’s works has not been a light one, for there
has been no chaff among the wheat, and there was an ever
present temptation to add bulk to the book through freedom in
compilation. He thought best, however, to eliminate all but
the features which revealed the rare rich soul and personality
of the poet, and each quotation is a gem.”—_Albany_ (N. Y.)
_Times-Union_.
“To study the works of any one man so that we are completely
familiar with his ideas upon all important subjects—if the
man have within him any element of greatness—is a task which
is likely to repay the student’s work.... This fact makes the
unique quality of the present volume ... quotations which deal
with practically every subject to be found in more general
anthologies.”—_Boston_ (Mass.) _Advertiser_.
=The Psychology of Inspiration=. 8vo, cloth. (New Revised Edition). Net,
=$2.00=; by mail, =$2.14=
The book founds its conclusions on a study of the action of the human
mind when obtaining and expressing truth, as this action has been
revealed through the most recent investigations of physiological,
psychological, and psychic research; and the freshness and originality
of the presentation is acknowledged and commended by such authorities as
Dr. J. Mark Baldwin, Professor of Psychology in Johns Hopkins University,
who says that its psychological position is “new and valuable”; Dr. W.
T. Harris, late United States Commissioner of Education and the foremost
metaphysician in the country, who says it is sure “to prove helpful to
many who find themselves on the border line between the Christian and the
non-Christian beliefs”; and Dr. Edward Everett Hale, who says that “no
one has approached the subject from this point of view.”
The first and, perhaps, the most important achievement of the book
is to show that the _fact_ of _inspiration_ can be _demonstrated
scientifically_; in other words, that the inner subconscious mind _can_
be influenced irrespective of influences exerted through the eyes and the
ears, _i.e._, by what one sees or hears. In connection with this fact it
is also shown that, when the mind is thus inwardly or inspirationally
influenced, as, for example, in hypnotism, the influence is _suggestive_
and _not dictatorial_. Not only so, but such faith as it is natural
and right that a rational being should exercise can be stimulated and
developed in only the degree in which the text of a sacred book is
characterized by the very vagueness and variety of meaning and statement
which the higher criticism of the Bible has brought to light. The book
traces these to the operation and requirements of the human mind through
which inspiration is received and to which it is imparted. Whatever
inspires must appear to be, in some way, beyond the grasp of him who
communicates it, and can make him who hears it _think_ and _train him to
think_, in the degree only in which it is not comprehensive or complete;
but merely, like everything else in nature, illustrative of that portion
of truth which the mind needs to be made to find out for itself.
“The sane, fair, kindly attitude taken gives of itself a
profitable lesson. The author proves conclusively that his
mind—and if his, why not another’s?—can be at one and the
same time sound, sanitary, scientific, and essentially
religious.”—_The Examiner_, Chicago.
“The author writes with logic and a ‘sweet reasonableness’ that
will doubtless convince many halting minds. It is an inspiring
book.”—_Philadelphia Inquirer._
“It is, we think, difficult to overestimate the value of
this volume at the present critical pass in the history of
Christianity.”—_The Arena_, Boston.
“The author has taken up a task calling for heroic effort,
and has given us a volume worthy of careful study....
The conclusion is certainly very reasonable.”—_Christian
Intelligencer_, New York.
“Interesting, suggestive, helpful.”—_Boston Congregationalist._
=Fundamentals in Education, Art, and Civics: Essays and Addresses.= 8vo,
cloth. Net, =$1.40=; by mail, =$1.53=
“Of fascinating interest to cultured readers, to the student,
the teacher, the poet, the artist, the musician, in a word
to all lovers of sweetness and light. The author has a lucid
and vigorous style, and is often strikingly original. What
impresses one is the personality of a profound thinker and a
consummate teacher behind every paragraph.”—_Dundee Courier_,
Scotland
“The articles cover a wide field and manifest a uniformly high
culture in every field covered. It is striking how this great
educator seems to have anticipated the educational tendencies
of our times some decades before they imprest the rest of
us. He has been a pathfinder for many younger men, and still
points the way to higher heights. The book is thoroughly
up-to-date.”—_Service_, Philadelphia.
“Clear, informing, and delightfully readable. Whether the
subject is art and morals, technique in expression, or
character in a republic, each page will be found interesting
and the treatment scholarly, but simple, sane, and
satisfactory ... the story of the Chicago fire is impressingly
vivid.”—_Chicago Standard._
“He is a philosopher, whose encouraging idealism is well
grounded in scientific study, and who illuminates points of
psychology and ethics as well as of art when they come up in
the course of the discussion.”—_The Scotsman_, Edinburgh,
Scotland.
“Agreeably popularizes much that is fundamental in theories
of life and thought. The American people owe much of their
progress, their optimism, and we may say their happiness to
the absorption of just such ideals as Professor Raymond stands
for.”—_Minneapolis Book Review Digest._
=Suggestions for the Spiritual Life—College Chapel Talks.= 8vo, cloth.
Net, =$1.50=; by mail, =$1.63=
“Sermons of more than usual worth, full of thought of the
right kind, fresh, strong, direct, manly.... Not one seems to
strain to get a young man’s attention by mere popular allusions
to a student environment. They are spiritual, scriptural; of
straight ethical import, meeting difficulties, confirming
cravings, amplifying tangled processes of reasoning, and not
forgetting the emotions.”—_Hartford Theological Seminary
Record_ (Congregationalist).
“The clergyman who desires to reach young men especially, and
the teacher of men’s Bible Classes may use this collection
of addresses to great advantage.... The subjects are those
of every man’s experience in character building ... such a
widespread handling of God’s word would have splendid results
in the production of men.”—_The Living Church_ (Episcopalian).
“Great themes, adequately considered.... Surely the young
men who listened to these sermons must have been stirred
and helped by them as we have been stirred and helped as we
read them.”—_Northfield_ (Mass.) _Record of Christian Work_
(Evangelical).
“They cover a wide range. They are thoughtful, original,
literary, concise, condensed, pithy. They deal with subjects
in which the young will be interested.”—_Western Christian
Advocate_ (Methodist).