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HE LITTLE WONDER-HORN.

Child Stories. By JEAN INGELOW.

Cloth, gilt. 35. 6d.

A Book of Fifteen Illustrations.

"Full of fresh and vigorous fancy; it is worthy of the author of some of the best of our modern verse."-Standard.

"We like all the contents of the Little Wonder-Horn' very much." -Athenæum.

66 'We recommend it with confidence."-Pall Mall Gazette.

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RAVE MEN'S FOOTSTEPS. A Book of Example and Anecdote for Young People. By the Editor of "Men who have Risen." With Four Illustrations, by C. DOYLE.

3s. 6d.

"The little volume is precisely of the stamp to win the favour of those who, in choosing a gift for a boy, would consult his moral development as well as his temporary pleasure."-Daily Telegraph.

"A readable and instructive volume."-Examiner.

"No more welcome book for the schoolboy could be imagined.”— Birmingham Daily Gazette.

Second Edition.

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UTTA-PERCHA WILLIE, THE WORKING GENIUS. By GEORGE MACDONALD. With Illustrations by ARTHUR HUGHES. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d.

"The cleverest child we know assures us she has read this story through five times. Mr. Macdonald will, we are convinced, accept that verdict upon his little work as final."-Spectator.

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HE TRAVELLING MENAGERIE. BY CHARLES
CAMDEN, Author of "Hoity Toity."
MAHONEY. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d.

"A capital little book

our boys and girls."-Hour.

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deserves a wide circulation among

"A very attractive story."-Public Opinion.

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"This is one of the very best 'Books for Boys' which have been issued this year."-Morning Advertiser.

66 A thorough book for boys written throughout in a manly straightforward manner that is sure to win the hearts of the children for whom it is intended."-London Society.

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New Edition.

HE DESERT PASTOR, JEAN JAROUSSEAU.
Translated from the French of EUGENE PELLETAN. BY
COLONEL E. P. DE L'HOSTE. In fcap. 8vo, with an
Engraved Frontispiece. Price 3s. 6d.

"There is a poetical simplicity and picturesqueness; the noblest
heroism; unpretentious religion; pure love, and the spectacle of a house-
hold brought up in the fear of the Lord.
The whole story has

an air of quaint antiquity similar to that which invests with a charm more easily felt than described the site of some splendid ruin."--Illustrated London News.

"This charming specimen of Eugène Pelletan's tender grace, humour, and high-toned morality."-Notes and Queries.

"A touching record of the struggles in the cause of religious liberty of a real man."-Graphic.

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HE DESERTED SHIP. A Real Story of the
Atlantic. By CUPPLES HOWE, Master Mariner. Illustrated

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by TOWNLEY GREEN. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d.

"Curious adventures with bears, seals, and other Arctic animals, and with scarcely more human Esquimaux, form the mass of material with which the story deals, and will much interest boys who have a spice of romance in their composition."-Courant.

OITY TOITY, THE GOOD LITTLE FELLOW. By CHARLES CAMDEN. Illustrated. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d.

"Young folks may gather a good deal of wisdom from the story, which is written in an amusing and attractive style."-Courant.

"Relates very pleasantly the history of a charming little fellow who meddles always with a kindly disposition with other people's affairs and helps them to do right. There are many shrewd lessons to be picked up in this clever little story."-Public Opinion.

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By STEPHEN J. MAC KENNA.
Illustrations. Price 5s.

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OLD DRAGOON. Crown 8vo. 5s. With six

Stories of Military and Naval Adventure, related by a Retired Army Officer.

HE GREAT DUTCH ADMIRALS. By JACOB
DE LIEFDE. Crown 8vo. Illustrated.

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"A wholesome present for boys."-Athenæum.
"A really excellent book."-Spectator.

Price 5s.

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"A pretty little book which fanciful young persons will appreciate, and which will remind its readers of many a legend, and many an imaginary virtue attached to the gems they are so fond of wearing."Post.

"A series of pretty tales which are half fantastic, half natural, and pleasantly quaint, as befits stories intended for the young."-Daily Telegraph.

"Certainly the book is well worth a perusal, and will not be soon laid down when once taken up."-Daily Bristol Times.

ANTASTIC STORIES. Translated from the

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German of Richard Leander, by PAULINA B. GRANVILLE.
Crown 8vo. With six Illustrations, by M. E. Fraser-Tytler.
Price 5s.

These are translations of some of the best of Richard Leander's wellknown stories for children.

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TWO STORIES OF THE ANTIPODES.
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BY JAMES BONWICK, Author of "Curious Facts of Old Colonial Days," &c. Crown 8vo. Illustrated. Price 5s.

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"The characters of the story are capitally conceived and are full of hose touches which give them a natural appearance."-Public Opinion. "Certainly attractive, and to those who have made up their mind to emigrate The Tasmanian Lily' will prove an interesting and useful book."-Hour.

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IKE HOWE, THE BUSHRANGER OF VAN DIEMEN'S LAND. By JAMES BONWICK, Author of "The Tasmanian Lily," &c. Crown 8vo. With a Frontispiece.

Price 5s.

Mr. Bonwick's wide Australasian knowledge has enabled him to produce a vivid and life-like historical story of the early days of the country.

ONGS FOR MUSIC. By FOUR FRIENDS. Square crown 8vo. Price 5s.

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Containing Songs by

STEPHEN H. GATTY.

MRS. ALEXANDER EWING.

REGINALD A. GATTY.
GREVILLE J. CHESTER.

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AYS OF A KNIGHT ERRANT IN MANY

LANDS. By Major-General Sir VINCENT EYRE, C.B.,
K.C.S.I. Large Crown 8vo. Illustrated.

Price 5s.

Lays of Pharaoh Land, of Wonder Land, of Home Land, and of Rhine Land, &c.

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Handsomely bound. Price 7s. 6d.

The following are among the contributors:

His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury,-the Right Rev. the Bishop of Winchester, C. J. Vaughan, D.D., Master of the Temple, the Rev. Thomas Binney, the Rev. Hugh Stowell Brown,-Jean Ingelow,Lady Verney,-Hesba Stretton,-Dora Greenwell,-C. C. FraserTytler, the Rev. A. W. Thorold, the Rev. W. Fleming Stevenson,the Rev. Professor Charteris,-Professor David Brown,-A. K. H. B.,the Rev. Alexander Raleigh, D.D.,-the Very Rev. Dean Howson,George Mac Donald,-the Author of "Episodes in an Obscure Life," -the Rev. R. W. Dale,-the Rev. J. Oswald Dykes, D.D.

CHOES OF A FAMOUS YEAR. By HARRIET
PARR, Author of "The Life of Jeanne d'Arc," "In the
Silver Age," &c. Crown 8vo. 8s. 6d.

"A graceful and touching, as well as truthful account of the FrancoPrussian War. Those who are in the habit of reading books to children will find this at once instructive and delightful.”—Public Opinion.

"Miss Parr has the great gift of charming simplicity of style; and if children are not interested in her book, many of their seniors will be."— British Quarterly Review.

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"Written somewhat after the fashion of Mr. Helps's Friends in Council.""-Examiner.

"Will well repay perusal by all thoughtful and intelligent readers.”Liverpool Leader.

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'The 'Pelican Papers' make a very readable volume."-Civilian.

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OF A ROVING CORRESPONDENT. BY JAMES GReenwood, "The Amateur Casual." Crown 8vo. Price 6s.

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These are some of the author's more recent experiences among the Strange Company" of the Metropolis, which he chiefly found in the lower strata of Society. [Just out.

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