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Excerpt from Foot-Prints of the Creator: Or, the Asterolepis of Stromness The Testimony of the Rocks: or, Geology in its Bearings on the two Theologies, Natural and Revealed. By Hugh Miller. "Thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field." - Job. With numerous elegant illustrations. 12mo. cloth, $1.25. The completion of this important work employed the last hours of the lamented author, and may be considered his greatest and in fact his life work. Macaulay On Scotland. A Critique. By Hugh Miller, Author of "Footprints of the Creator," &c. 16mo, flexible cloth, 25c. When we read Macaulay's last volumes, we said that they wanted nothing but the fiction to make an epic poem; and now it seems that they are not wanting even in that. - Puritan Recorder. He meets the historian at the fountain head, tracks him through the old pamphlets and newspapers on which he relied, and demonstrates that his own authorities are against him. - Boston Transcript. The Greyson Letters. Selections from the Correspondence of R. E. H. Greyson, Esq. Edited by Henry Rogers, Author of "The Eclipse of Faith." 12mo, cloth, $1.25. "Mr. Greyson and Mr. Rogers are one and the same person. The whole work is from his pen; and every letter is radiant with the genius of the author of the "Eclipse of Faith." It discusses a wide range of subjects in the most attractive manner. It abounds in the keenest wit and humor, satire and logic. It fairly entitles Mr. Rogers to rank with Sydney Smith and Charles Lamb as a wit and humorist, and with Bishop Butler as a reasoner. If Mr. Rogers lives to accomplish our expectations, we feel little doubt that his name will share, with those of Butler and Pascal, in the gratitude and veneration of posterity. - London Quarterly. Full of acute observation. of subtle analysis, of accurate logic, fine description, apt quotation, pithy remark, and amusing anecdote... A book, not for one hour, but for all hours; not for one mood. but for every mood, to think over, to dream over, to laugh over. - Boston Journal. A truly good book, containing wise, true and original reflections, and written in an attractive style. - Hon. Geo. S. Hillard, LL.D., in Boston Courier. Mr. Rogers has few equals as a critic, moral philosopher, and defender of truth... This volume is full of entertainment, and full of food for thought, to feed on. - Philadelphia Presbyterian. The Letters are intellectual gems, radiant with beauty and the lights of genius, happily intermingling the grave and the gay. - Christian Observer. Essays In Biography And Criticism. By Peter Bayne, M.A., Author of "The Christian Life, Social and Individual." Arranged in Two Series, on Parts. 12mo, cloth, each, $1.25. This work is prepared by the author exclusively for his American publishers. It includes eighteen articles. viz.: First Series: - Thomas De Quincy. - Tennyson and his Teachers. - Mrs. Barrett Browning. - Recent Aspects of British Art. - John Ruskin. - Hugh Miller. - The Modern Novel: Dickens, &c. - Ellis, Aeton, and Currer Bell. Charles Kingsley. Second Series: - S. T. Coleridge. - T. B. Macaulay. - Alison. - Wellington. - Napoleon. - Plato. - Characteristics of Christian Civilization. - Education in the Nineteenth Century. - The Pulpit and the Press. Life And Character Of James Montgomery. Abridged from the recent London, seven volume edition. By Mrs. H. C. Knight. Author of "Lady Huntington and her Friends," &c. With a fine likeness and an elegant illustrated title page on steel. 12mo, cloth, $1.25. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com