Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ... natural scenery and the peculiarities of the human life in the midst of which the plants-were found. By this method the subject is made interesting to a very large class of readers. ' Botanical knowledge is blended with a love of nature, a pious enthusiasm, and a rich felicity of diction not to be met with in any works of kindred character, if we except those of Hugh Miller."--Telegraph. "Mr. M.'s giving pictures 0/ Scandinavian scenery."--Saturday Review. Martin (Frederick)--The Statesman's Year-book: See p. 36 of this Catalogue. Martineau.--BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, 1852--1868. By Harriet Martineau. Third and Cheaper Edition, with New Preface. Crown 8vo. 6s. A Collection of Memoirs under these several sections: --(1) Royal, (2) Politicians, (3) Professional, (4) Scientific, (5) Social, (6) Literary. These Memoirs appeared originally in the columns of the Daily News. "Miss Martineau's large literary penvers and her fine intellectual training mahe these little shetches more instructive, and constitute them more genuinely works of art, than many more ambitious and diffuse biographies."-- Fortnightly Review. "Each memoir is a complete digest of a celebrated life, illuminated by the food of searching light which streams from the gaze of an acute but liberal mind."--Morning Star. MaSSOn (David).--For other Works by same Author, see PHILOsOPHICAL and Belles Lettres Catalogues. LIFE OF JOHN MILTON. Narrated in connection with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of his Time. By David Masson, M.A., LL.D., Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh. Vol. I. with Portraits. 8vo. I8*. Vol. II., 1 DEGREES38--1643. 8vo. 16s. Vol. III. in the press. This work is not only a Biography, but also a continuous...
