Oriental religions and their relation to universal religion : India / by Samuel Johnson.
- Samuel Johnson
- Date:
- 1879
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Oriental religions and their relation to universal religion : India / by Samuel Johnson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Vols. I.-II.] EXTRA SERIES. Two Volumes, post 8vo, pp. 348 and 374, with Portrait, clotb, 21s. LESSING : His Life and Writings. By JAMES SIME, M.A. It is to1 Leasing that an Englishman would turn with readiest affection. We cannot but wonder that more of this man is not known amongst us'.—Thomas Cabltle J'Bu* J?,Mr- James simo nas Deen reserved the honour of presenting to'the'Enirlish public a fall- ength portrait of Lessing, in which no portion of the canvas is uncovered and m which there is hardly a touch but tells. He has studied his subject with that patient care which only reverence and sympathy can support; he has attained the true proportion which can alone be gamed by penetration and clear insight into motive and purposes. We can say that a clearer or more compact piece of biographic criticism has not been produced in England for many a day.— Westminster Review. An account of Lessing's life and work on the scale which he deserves is now for the first time offered to English readers. Mr. Sime has performed his task with industry knowledge, and sympathy; qualities which must concur to make a successful bio£rra- pher.—Pall Mall Gazette. e This is an admirable book. It lacks no quality that a biography ought to have Its method is excellent, its theme is profoundly interesting : its tone is the happiest mixture of sympathy and discrimination : its style is clear, masculine, free from effort or affecta- tion, yet eloquent by its very sincerity. It is not a page too long; and though the reader closes it with regret, the critic must own that it is not a page too short Standard He has given a life of Lessing clear, interesting, and full, while he has given a study of his writings which bears distinct marks of an intimate acquaintance with his subject, and of a solid and appreciative judgment. Scotsman. Vor allem erweist sich der Verfasser als ein Mann vom freiem, unbefangenem Geiste, von vielseitiger ernster Bildung. Im neuen Reich. Sicher wird dieses Buch, das mit solcher Liebe und eingehenden Griindlichkeit sich an die Schilderung des Lebens eines so bedeutsamen Geistes uusrer Ver°-angenheit maclit, und diese hohe schone Aufgabe in einer so vortrefflichen Weise lbst,°sich nicht bloss in des Verfassers Heimathslande, sondera auch in der Heimath des Dichters liebe und viele Freunde erwerben.—Weser Zeitung. Diessmal ist es ein Englander, welcher den Unsterblichen in' der verbreitetsten Sprache der civilisirten Welt emfiihrt, und siehe da, der englische Lessing hat fiir uns kaum ein fremdes Haar, kaum eine fremde Nuance oder Zuthat. Sein lebensgrosses Bild strahlt aus dem von der Liebe polirten und hingehaltenen Spiegel rein und voll zuriiek. Die leidige ' Kramernation' hat wieder einmal gezeigt, dass sie vollkommen auf der Hohe des 1 ureigenen Geistes ' zu stehen vermag, dass sie im Stande ist in die feinsten Falten des kritisch-philosophischen Gewebes hineinzuschauen und das Rathsel dialecti- scher Analyse virtuos zu lojen.—Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung. Vol. III.] Vol. I., post 8vo, pp. 264, cloth, price 7s. 6d. AN ACCOUNT OF THE POLYNESIAN RACE: ITS ORIGIN AND MIGRATIONS, AND THE ANCIENT HISTORY OP THE HAWAIIAN PEOPLE TO THE TIMES OP KAMEHAMEHA I. By ABRAHAM PORNANDEB, Circuit Judge of the Island of Maui, H.I. Mr. Pomander has evidently enjoyed excellent opportunities for promoting the study which has produced this work. Unlike most foreign residents in Polynesia, he has acquired a good knowledge of the language spoken by the people among whom he dwelt. This has enabled him, during his thirty-four years' residence in the Hawaiian Islands, to collect material which could be obtained only by a person possessing such an advantage. It is so seldom that a private settler in the Polynesian Islands takes an intelligent interest in local ethnology and archseology, and makes use of the advantage he possesses, that we feel especially thankful to Mr. Fornander for hid labours in this comparatively little known field of research.—Academy. [Vol. II. in preparation. Vols. IV., V.] In Two Volumes, post Svo, pp. viii.—408 ; viii. 402—cloth. ORIENTAL RELIGIONS, AND THEIR RELATION TO UNIVERSAL RELIGION. By SAMUEL JOHNSON. I.— IND I A. LONDON: TRUBNER & CO., LUDGATE HILL.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21782477_0426.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
