Albert Hornby was taken to an asylum to be cured--if possible of delirium tremens, he lost his last friend. It speaks volumes for them both that they were friends after what had passed.

Sir Maynard Kingc'erq and Tom's rector get on splendidly, when the former comes with Rosey and the boy to stay at the cottage. They walk down the youth of the period over the stubbles, and give them a lead in the hunting field-these stalwart veterans. Tom is very fond of Rosey now, and Mary is not one bit jealous of Bella Hornby.

Mr. Walter Brierley has gone out to China as the agent of the HUMAN HAIR IMPORTATION COMPANY (Limited)—his own idea. He has a scheme for inducing the Celestials to part with their pigtails at a profit of one hundred and twenty per cent. to the Company, and is sanguine that he will make a large fortune. I hope he may.

Tdruary, 1879.

CHATTO & WINDUS'S

List of Books.

ON BOOKS AND BOOK-BUYERS.

BY JOHN RUSKIN.

"I say we have despised literature; what do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses? If a man spends lavishly on his library, you call him mad -a bibliomaniac. But you never call one a horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of peoble ruining themselves by their books. Or, to go lower still, how much do you think the contents of the book-shelves of the United Kingdom, public and private, would fetch, as compared with the contents of its winecellars? What position would its expenditure on literature take as compared with its expenditure on luxurious eating? We talk of food for the mind, as of food for the body: now, a good book contains such food inexhaustible: it is provision for life, and for the best part of us; yet how long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it! Though there have been men who have pinched their stomachs and bared their backs to buy a book, whose libraries were cheaper to them, I think, in the end, than most men's dinners are. We are few of us put to such a trial, and more the pity; for, indeed, a precious thing is all the more precious to us if it has been won by work or economy; and if public libraries were half as costly as bublic dinners, or books cost the tenth part of what bracelets do, even foolish men and women might sometimes suspect there was good in reading as well as in munching and sparkling; whereas the very cheapness of literature is making even wiser people forget that if a book is worth reading it is worth buying."-SESAME AND LILIES; OR, KING'S TREASURES.

Square 8vo, cloth, extra gilt, gilt edges, with Coloured Frontispiece and numerous Illustrations, Ios. 6d.

The Art of Beauty.

By Mrs. H. R. HAWEIS, Author of "Chaucer for Children. " With nearly One Hundred Illustrations by the Author. "A most interesting book, full of valuable hints and suggestions. young ladies would but lend their ears for a little to Mrs. Haweis, we are quit. sure that it would result in their being at once more tasteful, more happy, and more healthy than they now often are, with their false hair, high heels, tight corsets, and ever so much else of the same sort."-NONCONFORMIST.

Crown 8vo, cloth extra, with 639 Illustrations, 7s. 6d.

A Handbook of Architectural Styles.

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

Crown 8vo, Coloured Frontispiece and Illustrations, cloth gilt, 7s. 6d.

A History of Advertising,

From the Earliest Times. Illustrated by Anecdotes, Curious
Specimens, and Biographical 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."-ATHENAUM.

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. "The author combines the powers of Thackeray with those of Albert Smith. The salt is rubbed in with a native hand-one which has the gift of tickling."SATURDAY REVIEW.

Small 4to, green and gold, 6s. 6d.; gilt edges, 7s. 6d.

As Pretty as Seven,

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

Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 75. 6d.

A Handbook of London Bankers ;

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

Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 7s. 6d.

Bardsley's Our English Surnames:

Their Sources and Significations. By CHARLES WAREING BARDSLEY, M.A. Second Edition, revised throughout, considerably enlarged, and partially rewritten.

"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.

Second Edition, demy 8vo, cloth extra, with Maps and Illustrations, 18s. Baker's Clouds in the East:

Travels and Adventures on the Perso-Turkoman Frontier. By VALENTINE Baker. Second Edition, revised and corrected. This book, written by General Valentine Baker Pasha in 1876, bears directly upon the locality of the Central Asian Question, which is now assuming so much public interest.

Demy 8vo, Illustrated, uniform in size for binding.

Henry Blackburn's Art Handbooks:

With One Hundred and Seven Illustrations. IS.

Academy Notes, 1877.

With One Hundred and Forty-three Illustrations. IS.