# The Art of Controversy and Other Posthumous Papers/Advertisements

SCHOPENHAUER SERIES.
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1. THE WISDOM OF LIFE. Being the First Part of Arthur Schopenhauer's Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit. Translated, with a Preface, by T. Bailey Saunders, M.A. Fifth Edition.
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"Schopenhauer is not simply a moralist writing in his study and applying abstract principles to the conduct of thought and action, but is also in a large measure a man of the world, with a firm grasp of the actual, and is therefore able to speak in a way which, to use Bacon's phrase, comes home to men's business and bosoms. The essentially practical character of his 'Wisdom of Life' is evidenced by his frequent recourse to illustrations, and his singularly apt use of them. . . . This allusive, illustrative method of treatment gives to his work a special charm in which similar treatises are, as a rule, deficient. Mr. Bailey Saunders' introductory essay adds much to the value and interest of a singularly suggestive volume."—Manchester Examiner.
"Schopenhauer, as seen through the medium of Mr. Saunders' translation, might easily become a widely-read and popular preacher among us. . . . We are very much indebted to Mr. Saunders for his neat little essay as an introduction to an author interesting and easily understanded of the people."—Cambridge Review. ​"From the point of view of the English reader there is a good deal to be said in favour of taking Schopenhauer in small doses, commencing with the less technical of the philosopher's writings, such as treat of subjects interesting to the human kind—a course made easy by Mr. Bailey Saunders' fluent translations."—Saturday Review.
2. COUNSELS AND MAXIMS: Being the Second Part of Arthur Schopenhauer's Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit. Translated by T. Bailey Saunders, M.A. Fourth Edition.
"In publishing these two little volumes Mr. Saunders has done English readers a genuine service.…He has also introduced his translation by a clear and thoroughly helpful preface, in which are defined with sufficient exactness Schopenhauer's philosophic standpoint and the relation of his minor writings to his chief metaphysical treatise.…Schopenhauer is commonly ranked among the few philosophers, including our own Berkeley, who possess a literary style. The aphorisms give an excellent sample of this style. By their very form they exhibit at its best Schopenhauer's characteristic manner—his directness, his momentum, his brevity.…Even in point of substance, it contains many a keen observation, and enforces unpalatable, but eminently wholesome truths.…Nor do wo remember to have met with a finer plea, on the whole, for that inner self-culture which is the great and unfailing condition of human happiness."—Athenæum.
"It was a happy thought which inspired Mr. Saunders to translate some of Schopenhauer's minor essays. He has succeeded in a remarkable degree in retaining the pungent flavour of the original, and at the same time in dressing his dish for the English palate."—Academy.
"Let your view of Schopenhauer be what it may, you cannot help enjoying and admiring the wealth of observation, reflection, and wisdom in 'Counsels and Maxims'."—Truth.
3. RELIGION: a Dialogue, and other Essays. By Arthur Schopenhauer. Selected and Translated by T. Bailey Saunders, M.A. Fourth and Enlarged Edition.
"In this modest volume we have a selection of very readable essays from the writings of the famous pessimistic philosopher, clothed in good, intelligible English."—Literary World.
"Mr. Saunders' extracts from Schopenhauer's Parerga und Puralipomena make a most readable booklet. They do not deal with the more technical aspects of his philosophy…but contain some of Schopenhauer's brilliant obiter dicta on matters of more immediate popular interest."—Scots Observer.
"There is no doubt either as to the public interest taken in Schopenhauer or as to the services rendered to his memory by Mr. Saunders. This is a very handy and useful little book."—Spectator.
"The essays are eminently readable and full of clever things. To the translator we cannot pay a higher compliment than by saying that he never makes us aware of his existence."—Igdrasil.
4. THE ART OF LITERATURE. A Series of Essays. By Arthur Schopenhauer. Selected and Translated by T. Bailey Saunders. Third Edition.
"Mr. Saunders has fitly brought his Schopenhauer series to a close with a group of essays on literature. The essays on authorship, style, criticism and genius are among the most attractive and suggestive of his writing."—Athenæum.
"This final instalment on the art of literature exhibits the sage at his best. Mr. Saunders has evidently regarded his translation as a labour of love, and has done full justice to it."—Liverpool Post.
"The translator has done excellent service to the great pessimist's reputation in this country. Whatever else these pages do, they provoke thought, and their bitterness is more often a tonic than an irritant."—Inquirer.
5. STUDIES IN PESSIMISM. A Series of Essays. By Arthur Schopenhauer. Selected and Translated by T. Bailey Saunders. Fourth Edition.
"We have once more to thank Mr. Saunders for a series of extracts, mostly from the 'Parerga'. Like the former translations this one is extremely well done, and the volume should be popular."—Glasgow Herald.
"If others have been the prophets of Schopenhauer to the mass of English readers, Mr. Saunders may fairly claim to have been the philosopher's interpreter. He has known how to make the pessimist not only intelligible, but attractive to the general reader by administering Schopenhauer's wisdom in small doses, and in a form not too highly concentrated. The series of little books by which Mr. Saunders has done this still goes on. The latest number is by no means the least interesting of them all, and as Mr. Saunders' version is again admirable. He unites readable idiomatic English, untainted by any infection of Teutonism that might easily have weakened the style."'—Scotsman.
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