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MACMILLAN

BEDFORD STREET, STRAND, LONDON, W.C.
March, 1879.

& Co.'s CATALOGUE of Works in the Departments of History, Biography, Travels, Critical and Literary Essays, Politics, Political and Social Economy, Law, etc.; and Works connected with Language.

HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, TRAVELS, &c. Albemarle.-FIFTY YEARS OF MY LIFE.

By GEORGE THOMAS, Earl of Albemarle. With Steel Portrait of the first Earl of Albemarle, engraved by JEENS. Third and Cheaper Edition. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d.

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"The book is one of the most amusing of its class. niscences have the charm and flavour of personal experience, and they bring us into direct contact with the persons they describe."-EDINBURGH

REVIEW.

Anderson. -MANDALAY TO MOMIEN; a Narrative of the

Two Expeditions to Western China, of 1868 and 1875, under Colonel E. B. Sladen and Colonel Horace Browne. By Dr. ANDERSON, F. R.S. E., Medical and Scientific Officer to the Expeditions. With numerous Maps and Illustrations. 8vo. 215. "A handsome, well-timed, entertaining, and instructive volume."ACADEMY.

"A pleasant, useful, carefully-written, and important work."ATHENÆUM.

Appleton.-Works by T. G. APPLETON :—

A NILE JOURNAL. Illustrated by EUGENE BENSON. Crown 8vo. 65.

SYRIAN SUNSHINE. Crown 8vo. 6s.

Arnold.-ESSAYS IN CRITICISM. By MATTHEW ARNOLD. New Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Crown 8vo. 95.

Atkinson.-AN ART TOUR TO NORTHERN CAPITALS OF EUROPE, including Descriptions of the Towns, the Museums, and other Art Treasures of Copenhagen, Christiania, Stockholm,

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Abo, Helsingfors, Wiborg, St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Kief.
By J. BEAVINGTON ATKINSON. 8vo. 125.

Although the main purbose of the book is strictly kept in view, and we never forget for long that we are travelling with a student and connoisseur, Mr. Atkinson gives variety to his narrative by glimpses of scenery and brief allusions to history and manners which are always welcome when they occur, and are never wordy or overdone. We have seldom met with a book in which what is principal and what is accessory have been kept in better proportion to each other."-SATURDAY REVIEW.

Awdry. THE STORY OF A FELLOW SOLDIER. By FRANCES AWDRY. With Six Illustrations.

Extra fcap. 8vo. 35. 6d.

Second Edition.

"This is a life of that brave, single-minded, and untiring Christian Soldier, Bishop Patteson, written for the young. It is simply and pleasantly written, and presents a lively picture of the labours, hardships, troubles, and pleasures of earnest Missionary work among the Polynesian Islands."-STANDARD.

Baker (Sir Samuel W.)-Works by Sir SAMUEL BAKER, Pacha, M. A., F.R.G.S.:

ISMAILIA: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade, organised by Ismail, Khedive of Egypt. With Portraits, Map, and fifty full-page Illustrations by ZWECKER and DURAND. New and Cheaper Edition. With New Preface. Crown Svo. 6s.

"A book which will be read with very great interest."-TIMES. "Well written and full of remarkable adventures."--PALL MALL GAZETTE. "Adds another thrilling chapter to the history of African adventure.”DAILY NEWS. "Reads more like a romance. . . . incomparably more entertaining than books of African travel usually are."-MORNING POST. THE ALBERT N'YANZA Great Basin of the Nile, and Exploration of the Nile Sources. Fifth Edition. Maps and Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 6s.

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"Charmingly written;" says the SPECTATOR, "full, as might be expected, of incident, and free from that wearisome reiteration of useless facts which is the drawback to almost all books of African travel."

THE NILE TRIBUTARIES OF ABYSSINIA, and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs. With Maps and Illustrations. Sixth Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s.

The TIMES says: "It adds much to our information respecting Egyptian Abyssinia and the different races that spread over it. It contains, moreover, some notable instances of English daring and enterprising skill; it abounds in animated tales of exploits dear to the heart of the British sportsman; and it will attract even the least studious reader, as the author tells a story well, and can describe nature with uncommon power."

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Bancroft.-THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, FROM THE DISCOVERY OF THE CONTINENT. By GEORGE BANCROFT. New and thoroughly Revised Edition. Six Vols. Crown 8vo. 54s.

Barker (Lady).—Works by LADY BARKER :—

A YEAR'S HOUSEKEEPING IN SOUTH AFRICA. With Illustrations. New and Cheaper Edition. Crown 8vo. 65. "We have to thank Lady Barker for a very amusing book, over which we have spent many a delightful hour, and of which we will not take leave without alluding to the ineffably droll illustrations which add so very much to the enjoyment of her clear and sparkling descriptions."-MORNING

POST.

Beesly.-STORIES FROM THE HISTORY OF ROME. By Mrs. BEESLY. Extra fcap. 8vo. 2s. 6d.

"A little book for which every cultivated and intelligent mother will be grateful for."-EXAMINER.

Bismarck-IN THE FRANCO-GERMAN WAR. An Authorized Translation from the German of Dr. MORITZ BUSCH. Two Vols. Crown 8vo. 18s.

The TIMES says :-" The publication of Bismarck's after dinner talk, whether discreet or not, will be of priceless biographical value, and Englishmen, at least, will not be disposed to quarrel with Dr. Busch for giving a picture as true to life as Boswell's Johnson' of the foremost practical genius that Germany has produced since Frederick the Great."

Blackburne.-BIOGRAPHY

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OF THE RIGHT HON. FRANCIS BLACKBURNE, Late Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Chiefly in connexion with his Public and Political Career. By his Son, EDWARD BLACKBURNE, Q.C. With Portrait Engraved by JEENS. Svo. 125.

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Blanford (W. T.)-GEOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY OF
ABYSSINIA. By W. T. BLANFORD. 8vo.
Brimley.-ESSAYS BY THE LATE GEORGE BRIMLEY,
M. A. Edited by the Rev. W. G. CLARK, M. A. With Portrait.
Cheaper Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 2s. 6d.

Brontë.-CHARLOTTE BRONTË. A Monograph.

By T.

WEMYSS REID. With Illustrations. Third Edition. Crown
Svo. 6s.

Mr. Reid's little volume, which is based largely on letters, hitherto unpublished, from Charlotte Brontë to her school-fellow and life-long friend, Miss Ellen Nussey, is meant to be a companion, and not a rival, to Mrs. Gaskell's well-known " "Life." To speak of the advantage of making biography autobiographical by the liberal use of correspondence has

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she was by nature (as Mr. Reid puts it) “a habpy and high-spirited girl, and that even to the very last she had the faculty of overcoming her sorrows by means of that steadfast courage which was her most precious possession, and to which she was indebted for her successive victories over trials and disappointments of no ordinary character."

The book is illustrated by a Portrait of the Rev. Patrick Brontë, several Views of Haworth and its neighbourhood, and a facsimile of one of the most characteristic of Charlotte's letters.

Brooke.-THE RAJA OF SARAWAK an Account of Sir James Brooke, K. C.B., LL.D. Given chiefly through Letters or Journals. By GERTRUDE L. JACOB. With Portrait and Maps. Two Vols. 8vo. 255.

"They who read Miss Jacob's book—and all should read it: all who are under the delusion that in our time there is no scope for heroism, and no place for romantic adventure, ond no place for enterprise and ambition -will see how incident is crowded upon incident, and struggle upon struggle, till in the very abundance of materials that come to her hand the authoress can scarcely stop to give sufficient distinctness to her wonderful narrative."-ACADEMY.

Brooke.

RECOLLECTIONS OF THE IRISH CHURCH.

By RICHARD S. BROOKE, D.D., late Rector of Wyton, Hunts.
Crown 8vo. 4s. 6d.

Bryce.-Works by JAMES BRYCE, D.C.L., Regius Professor of
Civil Law, Oxford :—

THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE.

Enlarged. Crown 8vo. 75. 6d.

Sixth Edition, Revised and

"It exactly supplies a want: it affords a key to much which men read of in their books as isolated facts, but of which they have hitherto had no connected exposition set before them."-SATURDAY REVIEW.

TRANSCAUCASIA AND ARARAT: being Notes of a Vacation Tour in the Autumn of 1876. With an Illustration and Map. Third Edition. Crown 8vo. 9s.

"Mr. Bryce has written a lively and at the same time an instructive description of the tour he made last year in and about the Caucasus. When so well-informed a jurist travels into regions seldom visited, and even walks up a mountain so rarely scaled as Ararat, he is justified in thinking that the impressions he brings home are worthy of being communicated to the world at large, especially when a terrible war is casting a lurid glow over the countries he has lately surveyed."—ATHENÆUM. Burgoyne. POLITICAL AND MILITARY EPISODES

DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THE REIGN OF
GEORGE III. Derived from the Life and Correspondence of
the Right Hon. J. Burgoyne, Lieut.-General in his Majesty's
Army, and M. P. for Preston. By E. B. DE FONBLANQUE. With
Portrait, Heliotype Plate, and Maps. 8vo. 165.

HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, TRAVELS, ETC.

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Burke.-EDMUND BURKE, a Historical Study. By JOHN MORLEY, B. A., Oxon. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d.

"The style is terse and incisive, and brilliant with epigram and point. Its sustained power of reasoning, its wide sweep of observation and reflection, its elevated ethical and social tone, stamp it as a work of high excellence."-SATURDAY REVIEW.

Burrows.-WORTHIES OF ALL SOULS: Four Centuries of

English History. Illustrated from the College Archives. By
MONTAGU BURROWS, Chichele Professor of Modern History at
Oxford, Fellow of All Souls. 8vo. 145.

"A most amusing as well as a most instructive book.-GUARDIAN. Campbell.-LOG-LETTERS FROM THE "CHALLENGER." By LORD GEOrge Campbell. With Map. Fifth and cheaper Edition. Crown 8vo. 65.

"A delightful book, which we heartily commend to the general reader." -SATURDAY REVIEW.

"We do not hesitate to say that anything so fresh, so picturesque, so generally delightful, as these log-letters has not appeared among books of travel for a long time."-EXAMINER.

"A more lively and amusing record of travel we have not had the fortune to read for some time. The whole book is pervaded by a spirit of life, animation, and fun.”—STANDARD.

Campbell.-MY CIRCULAR NOTES: Extracts from Journals;

Letters sent Home; Geological and other Notes, written while
Travelling Westwards_round_the World, from July 6th, 1874, to
July 6th, 1875. By J. F. CAMPBELL, Author of "Frost and
Fire." Cheaper Issue. Crown 8vo. 6s.

"We have read numbers of books of travel, but we can call to mind few that have given us more genuine pleasure than this. A more agreeable style of narrative than his it is hardly possible to conceive. We seem to be accompanying him in his trip round the world, so life-like is his description of the countries he visited."-LAND AND WATER.

Campbell.--TURKS AND GREEKS. Notes of a recent Ex

cursion. By the Hon. DUDLEY CAMPBELL, M.A. With Coloured Map. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d.

Carstares.-WILLIAM CARSTARES: a Character and Career of the Revolutionary Epoch (1649-1715). By ROBERT STORY, Minister of Rosneath. 8vo. 125.

Chatterton: A BIOGRAPHICAL STUDY.

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

Chatterton: A STORY OF THE YEAR 1770. By Professor MASSON, LL.D. Crown 8vo. 5s.

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