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THE POETRY OF THE ORIENT. A Critical
and Historical Introduction to Sanscrit, Arabic, and Per-
sian Poetry. Illustrated by several hundreds of charac-
teristic Specimens. One volume, 16mo. Fourth edition,
enlarged. Price $1.50.
A
CRITICAL
HISTORY OF THE DOC-
LIFE. With a complete
TRINE OF A FUTURE
Bibliography of the subject.
improved. Price $3.50.
Tenth edition, revised and
This elaborate history of the opinions of the human race concerning the fate
of the soul presents every portion of the great subject with popular clearness, with
thoroughness, and with impartiality. It forms a royal octavo volume of nine hun-
dred and fourteen pages. It includes an ACCOUNT OF THE LITERATURE OF
THE SUBJECT, by EZRA ABBOT, which embraces a description of over five thou-
sand and three hundred distinct works, carefully arranged in chronological order,
and furnished with an Alphabetical Index.
THE GENIUS OF SOLITUDE.
12mo. Ninth edition. Price $1.50.
PART I. THE SOLITUDES OF NATURE.
One volume,
Gregarious-
ness and Solitariness. 1. Solitude of the Desert; 2. Solitude
of the Prairie; 3. Solitude of the Ocean; 4. Solitude of the
Pole; 5. Solitude of the Forest; 6. Solitude of the Mountain;
7. Solitude of the Ruin.
PART II. - THE SOLITUDES OF MAN. Physical Solitude
and Spiritual Loneliness.
1. Solitude of Individuality; 2.
Solitude of Grief; 3. Solitude of Love; 4. Solitude of Occu-
pation; 5. Solitude of Selfishness; 6. Solitude of Genius;
7. Solitude of Death.
PART III. - THE MORALS OF SOLITUDE. 1. The Dangers
Solitude; 2. The Uses of Solitude; 3. Conclusion.
PART IV. - SKETCHES OF LONELY CHARACTERS. Per-
strations of the Good and Evil of Solitude by means
phic and analytic studies of the experience of thirty-
the most distinguished of the great and lonely men
ry. Summary of the subject and its lessons.