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BEDFORD STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON.

April, 1871.

MACMILLAN & Co.'s GENERAL CATALOGUE of Works in the Departments of History, Biography, Travels, Poetry, and Belles Lettres. With some short Account or Critical Notice concerning each Book.

SECTION I.

HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, and TRAVels.

Baker (Sir Samuel W.).—THE NILE TRIBUTARIES OF
ABYSSINIA, and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs.
By SIR SAMUEL W. BAKER, M.A., F.R.G.S.
Illustrations. Fourth and Cheaper Edition.

With Maps and Crown 8vo. 6s.

Sir Samuel Baker here describes twelve months' exploration, during which he examined the rivers that are tributary to the Nile from Abyssinia, including the Atbara, Settite, Royan, Salaam, Angrab, Rahad, Dinder, and the Blue Nile. The interest attached to these portions of Africa differs entirely from that of the White Nile regions, as the whole of Upper Egypt and Abyssinia is capable of development, and is inhabited by races having some degree of civilization; while Central Africa is peopled by a race of savages, whose future is more problematical.

THE ALBERT N'YANZA Great Basin of the Nile, and Exploration of the Nile Sources. New and Cheaper Edition, with Portraits, Maps, and Illustrations. Two vols. crown 8vo. 16s.

"Bruce won the source of the Blue Nile; Speke and Grant won the Victoria source of the great White Nile; and I have been permitted to

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succeed in completing the Nile Sources by the discovery of the great reservoir of the equatorial waters, the Albert N'yanza, from which the river issues as the entire White Nile."-PREFACE.

NEW AND CHEAP EDITION OF THE ALBERT N'YANZA. I vol. crown 8vo. With Maps and Illustrations.

7s. 6d. Barker (Lady).-STATION LIFE IN NEW ZEALAND. By LADY BARKER. Second and Cheaper Edition. Globe 8vo. 3s. 6d.

"These letters are the exact account of a lady's experience of the brighter and less practical side of colonization. They record the expeditions, adventures, and emergencies diversifying the daily life of the wife of a New Zealand sheep-farmer; and, as each was written while the novelty and excitement of the scenes it describes were fresh upon her, they may succeed in giving here in England an adequate impression of the delight and freedom of an existence so far removed from our own highly-wrought civilization."-PREFACE.

"We have never read a more truthful or a pleasanter little book." ATHENÆUM.

Baxter (R. Dudley, M.A.).-THE TAXATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. By R. DUDLEY BAXTER, M. A. 8vo. cloth, 4s. 6d.

The First Part of this work, originally read before the Statistical Society of London, deals with the Amount of Taxation; the Second Part, which now constitutes the main portion of the work, is almost entirely new, and embraces the important questions of Rating, of the relative Taxation of Land, Personalty, and Industry, and of the direct effect of Taxes upon Prices. The author trusts that the body of facts here collected may be of permanent value as a record of the past progress and present condition of the population of the United Kingdom, independently of the transitory circumstances of its present Taxation.

NATIONAL INCOME. With Coloured Diagrams. 8vo. 3s. 6d.

PART I.-Classification of the Population, Upper, Middle, and Labour Classes. II.-Income of the United Kingdom.

A painstaking and certainly most interesting inquiry."-PALL MALL GAZETTE.

Bernard.-FOUR LECTURES ON SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH DIPLOMACY. By MOUNTAGUE BERNARD, M.A., Chichele Professor of International Law and Diplomacy, Oxford. 8vo. 9s.

Four Lectures, dealing with (1) The Congress of Westphalia; (2) Systems of Policy; (3) Diplomacy, Past and Present; (4) The Obligations of Treaties.

Blake.-THE LIFE OF WILLIAM BLAKE, THE ARTIST.

By ALEXANDER GILCHRIST. With numerous Illustrations from
Blake's designs, and Fac-similes of his studies of the "Book of
Job." Medium 8vo. half morocco, 18s.

These volumes contain a Life of Blake; Selections from his Writings, including Poems; Letters; Annotated Catalogue of Pictures and Drawings, List, with occasional notes, of Blake's Engravings and Writings. There are appended Engraved Designs by Blake; (1) The Book of Job, twentyone photo-lithographs from the originals; (2) Songs of Innocence and Experience, sixteen of the original Plates.

Blanford (W. T.).—GEOLOGY AND

ZOOLOGY OF

ABYSSINIA. By W. T. BLANFORD. 8vo. 21S.

This work contains an account of the Geological and Zcological Observations made by the Author in Abyssinia, when accompanying the British Army on its march to Magdala and back in 1868, and during a short journey in Northern Abyssinia, after the departure of the troops. Part 1. Personal Narrative; Part II. Geology; Part III. Zoology. With Coloured Illustrations and Geological Map.

Bright (John, M.P.).-SPEECHES ON QUESTIONS OF PUBLIC POLICY. By the Right Hon. JOHN BRIGHT, M. P. Edited by Professor THOROLD ROGERS. Two vols. 8vo. 25s. Second Edition, with Portrait.

"I have divided the Speeches contained in these volumes into groups. The materials for selection are so abundant, that I have been constrained to omit many a speech which is worthy of careful perusal. I have naturally given prominence to those subjects with which Mr. Bright has been especially identified, as, for example, India, America, Ireland, and Parliamentary Reform. But nearly every topic of great public interest on which Mr. Bright has spoken is represented in these volumes."

EDITOR'S PREFACE.

Bright (John, M.P.) (continued)——

AUTHOR'S POPULAR EDITION. Extra fcap. 8vo. cloth. Second

Edition.

35. 62.

Bryce.-THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE. BY JAMES BRYCE,
B.C.L., Regius Professor of Civil Law, Oxford. New and Re-
vised Edition. Crown 8vo.
CHATTERTON: A Biographical Study.

7s. 6d.

BY DANIEL WILSON,

LL.D., Professor of History and English Literature in University
College, Toronto. Crown 8vo. 6s. 6d.

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The Author here regards Chatterton as a Poet, not as a mere resetter and defacer of stolen literary treasures." Reviewed in this light, he has found much in the old materials capable of being turned to new account; and to these materials research in various directions has enabled him to make some additions.

Clay. THE PRISON CHAPLAIN. A Memoir of the Rev. JOHN CLAY, B.D., late Chaplain of the Preston Gaol. With Selections from his Reports and Correspondence, and a Sketch of Prison Discipline in England. By his Son, the Rev. W. L. CLAY, M. A. 8vo. 15s.

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Few books have appeared of late years better entitled to an attentive perusal. It presents a complete narrative of all that has been done and attempted by various philanthropists for the amelioration of the condition and the improvement of the morals of the criminal classes in the British dominions."-LONDON REVIEW.

Cobden.-SPEECHES

ON QUESTIONS OF PUBLIC
Edited by the Right Hon.

POLICY. By RICHARD COBDEN.

JOHN BRIGHT, M.P., and Professor ROGERS. Two vols. 8vo. With
Portrait. (Uniform with BRIGHT'S SPEECHES.)

volumes have been selected and

The Speeches contained in these two edited at the instance of the Cobden Club. They form an important part of that collective contribution to tolitical science which has conferred on their author so vast a reputation.

Cooper.

ATHENA CANTABRIGIENSES.

By CHARLES HENRY COOPER, F.S.A., and THOMPSON COOPER, F.S. A. Vol. I. 8vo., 1500-85, 18s.; Vol. II., 1586-1609, 18s. This elaborate work, which is dedicated by permission to Lord Macaulay, contains lives of the eminent men sent forth by Cambridge, after the fashion of Anthony à Wood, in his famous "Athena Oxonienses."

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