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Clark. MEMORIALS FROM JOURNALS AND LETTERS
OF SAMUEL CLARK, M.A., formerly Principal of the
Edited with
National Society's Training College, Battersea.
Introduction by his WIFE. With Portrait. Crown 8vo.
Combe.-THE LIFE OF GEORGE COMBE, Author of "The
With Three
By CHARLES GIBBON.
Constitution of Man."

325.

75. 6d.

Portraits engraved by JEENS. Two Vols. 8vo. "A graphic and interesting account of the long life and indefatigable labours of a very remarkable man."-SCOTSMAN. Cooper. ATHENÆ CANTABRIGIENSES.

By CHARLES HENRY COOPER, F.S.A., and THOMPSON COOPER, F.S.A. Vol. I. 8vo., 1500-85, 18г.; Vol. II., 1586—1609, 18s.

Correggio. ANTONIO ALLEGRI DA CORREGGIO. From the German of Dr. JULIUS MEYER, Director of the Royal Gallery, Berlin. Edited, with an Introduction, by Mrs. HEATON. taining Twenty Woodbury-type Illustrations. Royal 8vo. elegant. 315. 6d.

Con

Cloth

"The best and most readable biography of the master at present to be found in the English language."—ACADEMY.

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By its pictures alone the book forms a worthy tribute to the painter's genius.”—PALL MALL GAZETTE.

Cox (G. V.)—RECOLLECTIONS OF OXFord.

By G.

65. V. Cox, M.A., New College, late Esquire Bedel and Coroner in the University of Oxford. Cheaper Edition. Crown 8vo. Cunynghame (Sir A. T.)-MY COMMAND IN SOUTH AFRICA, 1874-78. Comprising Experiences of Travel in the Colonies of South Africa and the Independent States. By Sir ARTHUR THURLOW CUNYNGHAME, G.C.B., then LieutenantGovernor and Commander of the Forces in South Africa. Edition. Svo. 12s. 6d.

Third

The TIMES says:-"It is a volume of great interest, . . . . full of incidents which vividly illustrate the condition of the Colonies and the It contains valuable illuscharacter and habits of the natives.

trations of Cape warfare, and at the present moment it cannot fail to command wide-spread attention."

"Daily News."-THE DAILY NEWS' CORRESPOND.
ENCE of the War between Germany and France, 1870-1. Edited
New Edition. Complete in One
with Notes and Comments.
Volume. With Maps and Plans. Crown 8vo. 6s.
THE DAILY NEWS' CORRESPONDENCE of the War between
Russia and Turkey, to the fall of Kars. Including the letters of
Mr. Archibald Forbes, Mr. J. E. McGahan, and other Special
Correspondents in Europe and Asia. Second Edition, enlarged.
65.
Cheaper Edition. Crown Svo.

FROM THE FALL OF KARS TO THE CONCLUSION OF
PEACE. Cheaper Edition. Crown Svo. 65.

HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, TRAVELS, ETC. 7

Davidson.-THE LIFE OF A SCOTTISH PROBATIONER being a Memoir of Thomas Davidson, with his Poems and Letters. BY JAMES BROWN, Minister of St. James's Street Church, Paisley. Second Edition, revised and enlarged, with Portrait. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d.

Deas.-THE RIVER CLYDE. An Historical Description of the Rise and Progress of the Harbour of Glasgow, and of the Improvement of the River from Glasgow to Port Glasgow. By J. DEAS, M. Inst. C.E. 8vo. IOS. 6d.

Denison.-A HISTORY OF CAVALRY FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES. With Lessons for the Future. By Lieut.-Col. GEORGE DENISON, Commanding the Governor-General's Body Guard, Canada, Author of "Modern Cavalry." With Maps and Plans. 8vo. 18s.

Dilke.-GREATER BRITAIN.

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A Record of Travel in English

speaking Countries during 1866-7. (America, Australia, India.) By Sir CHARLES WENTWORTH DILKE, M.P. Sixth Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s.

"Many of the subjects discussed in these pages," says the DAILY NEWS, are of the widest interest, and such as no man who cares for the future of his race and of the world can afford to treat with indifference."

Doyle.-HISTORY OF AMERICA. By J. A. DOYLE. With Maps. 18mo. 4s. 6d.

"Mr. Doyle's style is clear and simple, his facts are accurately stated, and his book is meritoriously free from prejudice on questions where partisanship runs high amongst us."-SATURDAY REVIEW. Drummond of Hawthornden: THE STORY OF HIS

LIFE AND WRITINGS. BY PROFESSOR MASSON. With Portrait and Vignette engraved by C. H. JEENS. Crown 8vo. 10s. 6d. "Around his hero, Professor Masson groups national and individual episodes and sketches of character, which are of the greatest interest, and which add to the value of a biographical work which we warmly recommend to the lovers of thoroughly healthy books."-NOTES AND QUERIES. Duff.-Works by M. E. GRANT-DUFF, M. P., late Under Secretary

of State for India :

NOTES OF AN INDIAN JOURNEY. With Map. 8vo. 10s. 6d. "These notes are full of pleasant remarks and illustrations, borrowed from every kind of source."-SATURDAY REVIEW.

MISCELLANIES POLITICAL AND LITERARY, 8vo. 10s. 6d. Eadie.-LIFE OF JOHN EADIE, d.d., LL.D. By JAMES BROWN, D.D., Author of "The Life of a Scottish Probationer." With Portrait. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d. "An ably written and characteristic biography."-TIMES.

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Elliott.-LIFE OF HENRY VENN ELLIOTT, of Brighton. By JOSIAH BATEMAN, M. A. With Portrait, engraved by JEENS. Extra fcap. 8vo. Third and Cheaper Edition. 6s.

Elze.-ESSAYS ON SHAKESPEARE. By Dr. KARL ELZE. Translated with the Author's sanction by L. DORA SCHMITZ, 8vo. 12s.

"A more desirable contribution to criticism has not recently been made.” -ATHENÆUM.

English Men of Letters. Edited by JOHN MORLEY.

A

Series of Short Books to tell people what is best worth knowing as to the Life, Character, and Works of some of the great English Writers. In crown 8vo. Price 2s. 6d. each.

I. DR. JOHNSON. By Leslie Stephen. [Sixth Thousand. "The new series opens will with Mr. Leslie Stephen's sketch of Dr. Johnson. It could hardly have been done better; and it will convey to the readers for whom it is intended a juster estimate of Johnson than either of the two essays of Lord Macaulay "—PALL MALL GAZETTE.

II. SIR WALTER SCOTT. By R. H. HUTTON. [Fifth Thousand. "The tone of the volume is excellent throughout.”—ATHENÆUM. "We could not wish for a more suggestive introduction to Scott ana his poems and novels."-EXAMINER.

III. GIBBON. By J. C. MORISON. [Fifth Thousand. "As a clear, thoughtful, and attractive record of the life and works of the greatest among the world's historians, it deserves the highest praise.”EXAMINER.

IV. SHELLEY. By J. A. SYMONDS. [Fifth Thousand. "The lovers of this great poet are to be congratulated on having at their command so fresh, clear, and intelligent a presentment of the subject, written by a man of adequate and wide culture."—ATHENÆUM.

[Fifth Thousand.

V. HUME. By Professor HUXLEY. "It may fairly be said that no one now living could have expounded Hume with more sympathy or with equal perspicuity."—ATHENÆUM, VI. GOLDSMITHI. By WILLIAM BLACK. [Fifth Thousand. "Mr. Black brings a fine sympathy and taste to bear in his criticism of Goldsmith's writings as well as in his sketch of the incidents of his life.” ATHENÆUM.

VII. DEFOE. By W. MINTO.

BURNS. By Principal SHAIRp.

SPENCER. By R. W. CHURCH, Dean of St. Paul's.

HAWTHORNE. By HENRY JAMES, Jun.

THACKERAY. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE.

Others in preparation.

[In the press.

Eton College, History of. By H. C. MAXWELL LYTE, With numerous Illustrations by Professor DELAMOTTE, Coloured Plates, and a Steel Portrait of the Founder, engraved

M.A.

HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, TRAVELS, ETC.

by C. H. JEENS. New and cheaper Issue, with Corrections Medium 8vo. Cloth elegant.

215.

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"Hitherto no account of the College, with all its associations, has appeared which can compare either in completeness or in interest with this... It is indeed a book worthy of the ancient renown of King Henry's College."-DAILY NEWS.

"We are at length presented with a work on England's greatest public school, worthy of the subject of which it treats. A really valuable and authentic history of Eton College."-GUARDIAN. European History, Narrated in a Series of Historical Selections from the best Authorities. Edited and arranged by E. M. SEWELL and C. M. YONGE. First Series, crown 8vo. 6s. ; Second Series, 1088-1228, crown 8vo. 6s. Third Edition.

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We know of scarcely anything," says the GUARDIAN, of this volume, "which is so likely to raise to a higher level the average standard of English education."

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Faraday. MICHAEL FARADAY. By J. H. GLADSTONE, Ph.D., F. R.S. Second Edition, with Portrait engraved by JEENS from a photograph by J. WATKINS. Crown 8vo. 4s. 6d. PORTRAIT. Artist's Proof. 5s.

CONTENTS:-I. The Story of his Life. II. Study of his Character. III. Fruits of his Experience. IV. His Method of Writing. V. The Value of his Discoveries.—Supplementary Portraits. Appendices:—List of Honorary Fellowships, etc.

Forbes.-LIFE AND LETTERS OF JAMES DAVID FORBES, F.R.S., late Principal of the United College in the University of St. Andrews. By J. C. SHAIRP, LL.D., Principal of the United College in the University of St. Andrews; P. G. TAIT, M.A., Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh; and A. ADAMS-REILLY, F.R.G.S. 8vo. with Portraits, Map, and Illustrations, 16s.

"Not only a biography that all should read, but a scientific treatise, without which the shelves of no physicist's library can be deemed complete."-STANDard.

Freeman.-Works by EDWARD A. FREEMAN, D. C. L., LL.D. :HISTORICAL ESSAYS. Third Edition. 8vo. IOS. 6d. CONTENTS:-I. "The Mythical and Romantic Elements in Early English History;" II. "The Continuity of English History;" III. "The Relations between the Crowns of 'England and Scotland;" IV. "St. Thomas of Canterbury and his Biographers;" V." The Reign of Edward the Third:" VI. “The Holy Roman Empire;" VII. "The Franks and the Gauls;” VIII. "The Early Sieges of Paris;" IX. "Frederick the birst, King of Italy;" X. "The Emperor Frederick the Second:" XI. "Charles the Bold;" XII. " Presidential Government." A SECOND SERIES OF HISTORICAL ESSAYS. 8vo. 10s. 6d.

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The principal Essays are:- Ancient Greece and Medieval Italy:" "Mr. Gladstone's Homer and the Homeric Ages:" "The Historians of Athens:" The Athenian Democracy:" "Alexander the Great:" "Greece during the Macedonian Period?" “Mommsen's History of Rome.” "Lucius Cornelius Sulla :” “ The Flavian Caesars."

COMPARATIVE POLITICS.-Lectures at the Royal Institution. To which is added the "Unity of History," the Rede Lecture at Cambridge, 1872. 8vo. 145.

THE HISTORY AND CONQUESTS OF THE SARACENS. Six Lectures. Third Edition, with New Preface. Crown 8vo. 35. 6d.

"Mr. Freeman opportunely reprints his erudite and valuable lectures."-DAILY TELEGRAPH.

HISTORICAL

AND ARCHITECTURAL

SKETCHES:

chiefly Italian. With Illustrations by the Author. Crown 8vo. 10s. 6d.

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“Mr. Freeman may here be said to give us a series of notes on the spot' in illustration of the intimate relations of History and Architecture, and this is done in so masterly a manner-there is so much freshness, so much knowledge so admirably condensed, that we are almost tempted to say that we prefer these sketches to his more elaborate studies."-NONCON

FORMIST.

HISTORY OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, from the Foundation of the Achaian League to the Disruption of the United States. Vol. I. General Introduction, History of the Greek Federations. 8vo. 215.

OLD ENGLISH HISTORY. With Five Coloured Maps. Fourth Edition. Extra fcap. 8vo., half-bound. 6s.

"The book indeed is full of instruction and interest to students of all ages, and he must be a well-informed man indeed who will not rise from its perusal with clearer and more accurate ideas of a too much neglected portion of English history."-SPECTATOR.

HISTORY OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF WELLS, as illustrating the History of the Cathedral Churches of the Old Foundation. Crown 8vo. 35. 6d.

“The history assumes in Mr. Freeman's hands a significance, and, we may add, a practical value as suggestive of what a cathedral ought to be, which make it well worthy of mention."-SPECTATOR.

THE GROWTH OF THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION
FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES. Crown 8vo. 5s. Third
Edition, revised.

GENERAL SKETCH OF EUROPEAN HISTORY. Being
Vol. I. of a Historical Course for Schools edited by E. A.
FREEMAN. New Edition, enlarged with Maps, Chronological
Table, Index, &c. 18mo.
35. 6d.

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