The following Volumes are ready for consecutive publication :— THE APOSTLE OF ITALY: THE LIFE OF ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI. By MRS. OLIPHANT. THE STORY OF RECENT MISSIONARY By MISS YONGE. WISE MEN OF THE EAST. By DR. REYNOLDS. SAINT AUGUSTINE AND HIS TIMES. By the Right Rev. W. ALEXANDER, Bishop of Derry and Raphoe. ANGÉLIQUE ARNAULD: THE STORY OF PORT ROYAL. By FRANCES MARTIN. 16, BEDFORD STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON, W. C. 1870. MESSRS. MACMILLAN & CO. BEG TO ANNOUNCE THAT THEY HAVE NOW IN COURSE OF PUBLICATION A SUNDAY LIBRARY FOR HOUSEHOLD READING. In crown 8vo. Volumes, handsomely bound in cloth, price 4s. 6d. With Illustrations. The issue for each year may be had in an Ornamented Box, price 215. The projectors of the Sunday Library feel that there is a want of books of a kind that will be welcome in many Households for reading on Sundays, and will be in accordance with earnest convictions as to the nature of the "Sabbath Day." Sunday is the day of rest, as well as the day of worship, and this rest should consist not only in the cessation of labour, but in the repose which the spirit finds in the contemplation of all things that are good. We should be strengthened for the work of the week by the services of the Sabbath, and also by religious contemplation, in which on that day, if on no other, we ought to find the deep and absorbing interest that attends the employment of our highest faculties. Sunday should contain the theory, the collective view, of our work-day lives; and these work-days should be the Sunday in action. Our Sunday Books, therefore, ought to do more than afford abstract subjects of meditation; they should exercise a living power, by bringing us into direct contact with all that is true and noble in human nature and human life, and by showing us the life of Christ as the central truth of humanity. For Sunday reading, therefore, we need not only history, but history in its relation to Christianity; not only biography, but the lives of men who have consciously promoted the Christian religion-Christian heroes in art, in science, in divinity, and in social action. The history of Christianity, permanent and progressive, is also the history of civilization, and from the growth of the latter we may be strengthened in the faith that the former will ultimately prevail throughout the whole world. The Publishers have secured the co-operation of very eminent writers, a list of whom, with the works they undertake, is herewith given. THE PUPILS OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE. BY THE AUTHOR OF "THE HEIR OF REDCLYFFE." THE HERMITS. BY THE REV. CANON KINGSLEY. SEEKERS AFTER GOD. LIVES OF SENECA, EPICTETUS, AND MARCUS AURELIUS. BY THE REV. F. W. Farrar, M.A. F.R.S. ENGLAND'S ANTIPHON. A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF THE RELIGIOUS POETRY OF ENGLAND. BY GEORGE MACDONALD, M.A. GREAT CHRISTIANS OF FRANCE: ST. LOUIS AND CALVIN. BY M. GUIZOT. CHRISTIAN SINGERS OF GERMANY. BY CATHERINE WINKWORTH. APOSTLES OF MEDIEVAL EUROPE. ALFRED THE GREAT. By T. HUGHES, M. P. Author of "TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS." NATIONS AROUND. BY MISS KEARY. The following are in Preparation : CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA AND ORIGEN. BY THE REV. CANON WESTCOTT. HUSS, WYCLYFFE, AND LATIMER. BY THE REV. PROFESSOR MAURICE. SAINTS AND MYSTICS, BY MRS. OLIPHANT. SIR THOMAS MORE AND HIS TIMES. BY L. B. SEELEY, M.A. ANSELM. BY THE REV. R. W. CHURCH. WISE MEN OF THE EAST. BY DR. REYNOLDS. SAINT AUGUSTINE AND HIS TIMES. BY THE RIGHT REV. W. ALEXANDER, Bishop of Derry and Raphoe. XAVIER AND THE JESUIT MISSIONARIES. BY THE REV. ISAAC TAYLOR, M.A. MODERN MISSIONARIES. BY THE AUTHOR OF "THE Heir of Redclyffe." Other eminent writers, whose names will appear in future announcements, have also promised their assistance. |