The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 3a
A Selection from the R.P.A. List
A Selection from the R.P.A. List.
"A masterly record Modern England is a book to keep you up late at night. It tells you in a delightful way all that is best worth remembering in the history of the eventful period it covers."—The Clarion.
—Revaluations: Historical and Ideal. XV.-320 pp.; cloth, 3s. 6d. net, by post 3s. 10d.
A really great work, pronounced by Matthew Arnold to be "learned and exact," and by John Morley to be "decisive, trenchant, and far-reaching," the author stating "his case with a force which no previous English writer on the negative side can have the smallest claim to rival."
In his Preface the Author states that his object is to inquire carefully who Jesus of Nazareth was, what were his real aims and ideas, what the means at his command for realising them, and how the great institutions connected with his name originated and grew up. The investigation is conducted in a simple and straightforward, and at the same time scholarly, manner. Mr. Conybeare insists that we must face the problems of our age and adopt the solutions which an enlightened criticism provides. (Highly praised by the Press.)
"The book is well written, is marked by conscientious study, and takes a wide survey of the field."—Edinburgh Evening News.
"An impartial and clear-headed summing-up of evidence."—Scotsman.
Gould, F. J.—The Children's Plutarch. With six full-page Illustrations by Walter Crane. viii.-286 pp.; cloth, 2s. 6d. net, by post 2s. 10d.
No work of the same size and dealing with this important theme contains such a mass of information. All the highest authorities have been carefully consulted, and the book gives the main results of Biblical criticism, together with other valuable matter, in what is, by comparison at least, a nutshell. The First Volume treats of the superstitions of savages and primitive man, and delineates the characteristics of the religions of America, Finland, China, Egypt, Arabia, Chaldæa, Syria, India, Japan, Persia, the Kelts, Greeks, and Romans. The Second Volume takes to pieces the whole of the Old Testament literature, and explains the origin of the various parts. The last chapter describes the Religious Environment of early Christianity. The Third Volume traces the growth of the Christian movement, the lives of Paul and Jesus (with due separation of the mythical elements), and affords a Rationalistic analysis of the whole of the New Testament books.
While theology is strictly excluded from the lessons here reproduced, they are constructed on such a humanitarian basis as to fit them for use in homes and schools of all classes and creeds.
—Stories for Moral Instruction. Supplementary volume to The Children's Book of Moral Lessons, containing additional stories illustrative of the topics treated in the four volumes of that work; also "The Story of the Nibelungs." viii.-202 pp.; cloth, 2s., by post 2s. 3d.
"We know of no work which tells the whole story of the development of man in plainer language than this, and can recommend it to all who desire information on a subject that ought to interest us all."—Westminster Review.
"Mr. McCabe has done his work carefully, sympathetically, and well.......It is a valuable record of one of the most useful lives of the Victorian era. Mr. Holyoake came into contact with many of the most noteworthy persons of his time; but there were few, even among the best, who could be compared to him for nobility of character, unselfishness of aim, courage of conviction, or who rendered more useful services in their day and generation."—Review of Reviews.
"It is a fine figure of a man which stands out from the pages of this well-written and interesting biography."—Daily Telegraph.
Robertson, John M.—A Short History of Freethought, Ancient and Modern. In 2 vols., xxvL-935 pp.; 21s. net, by post 2is. 7d.
"An encyclopaedic book by a well-known scholar, and likely to be of much value."—Times.
"Ought to be in the library of every student, and, indeed, of every person aspiring to knowledge."—Leicester Mercury.
"Forms a valuable book of reference for reading men, and should have a place of its own in every well-stocked library."—Scotsman.
"The best book of its kind."—London Opinion.
"The book is of intense interest to the student of comparative religion, and it is marked by the industrious ability which has enabled Mr. Robertson to gain the ear of many who dissent widely from his views."—Literary World.
—A Short History of Christianity. 400 PP.; cloth, 6s. net, by post 6s. 4d.
—Pioneer Humanists. 399 pp.; cloth, 6s. net, by post 6s. 4d.
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