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BY CHARLES HARDWICK, M.A.
Christian Advocate in the University of Cambridge.

Christ and other Masters: An Historical Inquiry into some of the chief Parallelisms and Contrasts between Christianity and the Religious Systems of the Ancient World; with special reference to prevailing Difficulties and Objections. Part I. Introduction. Part II. Religions of India. In 8vo. cloth, 7s. 6d. each.

Part III. Religions of China.

BY CHARLES MANSFIELD, M.A.

In the Press.

1. Letters from Paraguay, Brazil, and the Plate.
By the late CHARLES MANSFIELD, M.A., Clare College, Cambridge.
With a life by CHARLES KINGSLEY, Rector of Eversley. Post 8vo.
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2. On the Constitution of Salts. Edited from the Author's MS. by N. H. S. MASKELYNE, M.A., Wadham College, and Reader in Mineralogy in the University of Oxford. In the Press.

BY THE RIGHT REV. MATTHEW HALE, D.D.
Lord Bishop of Perth.

The Transportation Question: or, Why Western
Australia should be made a Reformatory Colony instead of a
Penal Settlement.
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BY THE LATE HENRY MACKENZIE, B.A.,

Scholar of Trinity College.

The Christian Clergy of the First Ten Centuries; their Beneficial Influence on European Progress.

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"He has shown considerable research into the History of the early Clergy, and expresses himself with a facility and force which many an experienced writer may envy. He has displayed in this essay a sound judgment, a freedom from prejudice, and a conscientious endeavour to reach the truth, which convinces us that an able and excellent man was lost to the world by the untimely death of HENRY MACKENZIE."-ATHENEUM, Jan. 12, 1856.

"We rarely meet with a prize-essay of so much general interest."

GUARDIAN, Feb. 6, 1856.

BY DAVID MASSON, M.A.,

Professor of English Literature in University College, London.

Essays, Biographical and Critical: chiefly on English Poets.

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OPINIONS.

8vo. cloth, 12s. 6d.

"Mr. Masson has succeeded in producing a series of criticisms in relation to
creative literature, which are satisfactory as well as subtile, which are not only
ingenious, but which possess the rarer recommendation of being usually just ...
But we pass over these Essays to that which is in the main a new, and, according
to our judgment, an excellent biographical sketch of Chatterton... This' Story
of the Year 1770, as Mr. Masson entitles it, stands for nearly 200 pages in his
volume, and contains, by preference, the fruits of his judgment and research in
an elaborated and discursive memoir. . . Its merit consists in the illustration
afforded by Mr. Masson's inquiries into contemporary circumstances, and the
clear traces thus obtained of Chatterton's London life and experience..
Mr. Masson unravels this mystery very completely."-TIMES, Nov. 4, 1856.
"No one who reads a single page of Mr. Masson will be likely to content himself
with that alone. He will see at a glance that he has come across a man endowed
with a real love of poetry; a clear, fresh, happy insight into the poet's heart;
and a great knowledge of the historical connexion of its more marked epochs in
England. He has distinct and pleasant thoughts to utter; he is not above doing
his very best to utter them well; there is nothing slovenly or clumsy or untidy
in their expression; they leap along in a bright stream, bubbling, sparkling, and
transparent."-THE GUARDIAN, Nov. 5, 1856.

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EDINBURGH WITNESS (edited by Hugh Miller), Aug. 23,

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. . . a classical biography.”—THE GLASGOW COMMONWEALTH, Aug. 16, 1856.
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"Very admirable criticisms, which show not only a thorough acquaintance with the works he criticises, but a deep sense of poetic beauty."

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BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW, July, 1856. "Here is a biography (the essay on Chatterton) told without exaggeration, without unwarranted use of hypothetic incidents, yet surpassing the most highly-wrought fiction in its power over our emotions."

THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW, July, 1856. "Not only a series of biographical studies, but in some sort a philosophical history of English poetry from Shakspeare to Alexander Smith."

THE LEADER, June 4, 1856. Distinguished by a remarkable power of analysis, a clear statement of the actual facts on which speculation is based, and an appropriate beauty of languaye. These Essays should be popular with serious men.'

THE ATHENÆUM, May 24, 1856.

BY THE REV. F. D. MAURICE, M.A.,

Chaplain of Lincoln's Inn.

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8. Prophets and. Kings of the Old Testament.

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REV. F. D. MAURICE'S WORKS-continued.

11. The Religions of the World.

CONTENTS: Mahometanism-Hindooism-Buddhism-The Old Per-
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Eternal Life and Eternal Death. 1s. 6d.

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Right and Wrong Methods of Supporting Pro-

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The Duty of a Protestant in the Oxford Election.

1847. 1s.

The Case of Queen's College, London.

Death and Life. In Memoriam C. B. M. 1s.
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MANUALS FOR THEOLOGICAL STUDENTS

NOW IN COURSE OF PUBLICATION.

It is now about five years since the Prospectus of this Series was first issued. Four volumes have now been published, and several others are in an advanced state. The reception which the volumes already published have met with, has fully justified the anticipation with which the Publishers commenced the Series, and warrants them in the belief, that their aim of supplying books concise, comprehensive, and accurate," "convenient for the professional Student and interesting to the general reader,” has been not unsuccessfully fulfilled.

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