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Imperial 8vo, with 147 fine Engravings, half-morocco, 36s. THE EARLY TEUTONIC, ITALIAN,

AND FRENCH MASTERS.

Translated and Edited from the Dohme Series by A. H. KEANE, M.A.I. With numerous Illustrations.

"Cannot fail to be of the utmost use to students of art history."-TIMES. Crown 8vo, 1,200 pages, cloth extra, 12s. 6d.

THE READER'S HANDBOOK

OF ALLUSIONS, REFERENCES, PLOTS, AND STORIES. By the Rev. E. COBHAM BREWER, LL.D.

The object of this Handbook is to supply readers and speakers with a lucid bus very brief account of such names as are used in allusions and references, whether by poets or prose writers-to furnish those who consult it with the plot of popular dramas, the story of epic poems, and the outline of well-known tales. Thus, it gives in a few lines the story of Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey," of Virgil's "Eneid," Lucan's "Pharsalia," and the "Thebaid" of Statius: of Dante's "Divine Comedy," Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso," and Tasso's "Jerusalem Delivered;" of Milton's "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Regained;" of Thomson's "Seasons;" of Ossian's tales, the "Nibelungen Lied" of the German Minnesingers, the Romance of the Rose," the "Lusiad" of Camoens, the "Loves of Theagenes and Charicleia" by Heliodorus; with the several story poems of Chaucer, Gower, Piers Plowman, Hawes, Spenser, Drayton, Phineas Fletcher, Prior, Goldsmith, Campbell, Southey, Byron, Scott, Moore, Tennyson, Longfellow, and so on. Far from limiting its scope to poets, the Handbook tells, with similar brevity, the stories of our national fairy tales and romances, such novels as those by Charles Dickens, "Vanity Fair" by Thackeray, the "Rasselas" of Johnson, Gulliver's Travels" by Swift, the "Sentimental Fourney" by Sterne, "Don Quixote" and "Gil Blas," "Telemachus" by Fénélon, and" Undine" by De la Motte Fouqué. Great pains have been taken with the Arthurian stories, whether from Sir T. Mallory's collection or from the "Mabinogion," because Tennyson has brought them to the front in his "Idylls of the King" and the number of dramatic plots sketched out is many hundreds. Another striking and interesting feature of the book is the revelation of the source from which dramatists and romancers have derived their stories, and the strange repetitions of historic incidents. In the Appendix are added two lists: the first contains the date and author of the several dramatic works set down; and the second, the date of the divers poems or novels given under their author's name.

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Architectural Styles, A Handbook of.

Translated from the German of A. ROSENGARTEN by W. COLLETT-
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Artemus Ward's Works:

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AFGHANISTAN AND THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE ON MERV. Second Edition, demy 8vo, cloth extra, with Map and Illustrations, 18s. Baker's Clouds in the East:

Travels and Adventures on the Perso-Turcoman Frontier.
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Bankers, A Handbook of London;

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Bardsley's Our English Surnames:

Their Sources and Significations. By CHARLES WAREING BARDSLEY, M.A. Second Edition, revised throughout, and considerably enlarged. "Mr. Bardsley has faithfully consulted the original mediaval documents and works from which the origin and development of surnames can alone be satisfactorily traced. He has furnished a valuable contribution to the literature of surnames, and we hope to hear more of him in this field."-TIMES.

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Bechstein's As Pretty as Seven,

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Blackburn's Art Handbooks:

Academy Notes, 1875. With 40 Illustrations.
Academy Notes, 1876.
Academy Notes, 1877.
Academy Notes, 1878.
Academy Notes, 1879.
Grosvenor Notes, 1878.

With 107 Illustrations.
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Pictures at the Paris Exhibition, 1878. 80 Illustrations. Pictures at South Kensington. (The Raphael Cartoons, Sheepshanks Collection, &c.) With 70 Illustrations. Is.

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From the Earliest Times. Illustrated by Anecdotes, Curious Specimens, and Notes of Successful Advertisers. By HENRY SAMPSON. "We have here a book to be thankful for. We recommend the present volume which takes us through antiquity, the middle ages, and the present time, illustrating all in turn by advertisements-serious, comic, roguish, or downright rascally. The volume is full of entertainment from the first page to the last."-ATHENÆUM. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, with 639 Illustrations, 7s. 6d.

Architectural Styles, A Handbook of.

Translated from the German of A. ROSENGARTEN by W. COLLETT-
SANDARS. With 639 Illustrations.

Crown 8vo, with Portrait and Facsimile, cloth extra, 7s. 6d.

Artemus Ward's Works:

The Works of CHARLES FARRER BROWNE, better known as ARTEMUS
WARD. With Portrait, Facsimile of Handwriting, &c.

AFGHANISTAN AND THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE ON MERV. Second Edition, demy 8vo, cloth extra, with Map and Illustrations, 18s. Baker's Clouds in the East:

Travels and Adventures on the Perso-Turcoman Frontier.
VALENTINE BAKER. Second Edition, revised and corrected.

Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 6s.

By

Balzac.-The Comédie Humaine and its Author. With Translations from Balzac. By H. H. Walker. "Deserves the highest praise. The best compliment we can pay him is to hope that we may soon see his translation of the Comédie Humaine' followed by another work. Good taste, good style, and conscientious work."-EXAMINER.

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Bankers, A Handbook of London;

With some Account of their Predecessors, the Early Goldsmiths; together with Lists of Bankers from 1677 to 1876. By F. G. HILTON PRICE.

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Bardsley's Our English Surnames:

Their Sources and Significations. By CHARLES Wareing BardsLEY, M.A. Second Edition, revised throughout, and considerably enlarged. "Mr. Bardsley has faithfully consulted the original mediaval documents and works from which the origin and development of surnames can alone be satisfactorily traced. He has furnished a valuable contribution to the literature of surnames, and we hope to hear more of him in this field."-TIMES.

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Bechstein's As Pretty as Seven,

And other German Stories. Collected by LUDWIG BECHSTEIN. Additional Tales by Brothers GRIMM, and 100 Illustrations by RICHTER.

Bret Harte, Works by:

The Select Works of Bret Harte, in Prose and Poetry. With
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An Heiress of Red Dog, and other Stories. By BRET HARTE.
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The Outcome of a Visit to the United States.
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