January 1879. MACMILLAN & 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. "The book is one of the most amusing of its class. . . These reminiscences 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. 21S. "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. 9s. Atkinson.-AN ART TOUR TO NORTHERN CAPITALS OF EUROPE, including Descriptions of the Towns, the Museums, and other Art Treasures of Copenhagen, Christiania, Stockholm, 2 MACMILLAN'S CATALOGUE OF WORKS IN Abo, Helsingfors, Wiborg, St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Kief. Although the main purbose of the book is strictly kept in view, and w 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 wher they occur, and are never wordy or overdone. We have seldom met wit 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. 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 8vo. 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. "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." 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. 6s. "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. Blackburne.-BIOGRAPHY OF THE RIGHT HON. FRANCIS BLACKBURNE, Late Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Blanford (W. T.)-GEOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY OF 2s. 6d. 215. Brimley. ESSAYS BY THE LATE GEORGE BRIMLEY, 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 A 2 4 MACMILLAN'S CATALOGUE OF WORKS IN she was by nature (as Mr. Reid puts it) “a happy 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. 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 |