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Blanford (W. T.)-GEOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY OF ABYSSINIA. By W. T. BLANFORD. 8vo. 21S.

This work contains an account of the Geological and Zoological Observations made by the author in Abyssinia, when accompanying the British Army on its march to Magdala and back in 1868, and during a short journey in Northern Abyssinia, after the departure of the troops. With Coloured Illustrations and Geological Map.

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.

Bryce.-THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE. By JAMES BRYCE, D.C.L., Regius Professor of Civil Law, Oxford. Fourth Edition Revised and Enlarged. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d.

This edition contains a supplementary chapter giving a brief sketch of the rise of Prussia, and of the state of Germany under the Confederation which expired in 1866, and of the steps whereby the German nation has regained its political unity in the new Empire. "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.

Burke.-EDMUND BURKE, a Historical Study.

MORLEY, B.A., Oxon. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d.

By JOHN

"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. Carstares.-WILLIAM CARSTARES: a Character and Career of the Revolutionary Epoch (1649—1715). By ROBERT STORY, Minister of Rosneath. 8vo. 125. "William had, however, one Scottish adviser who deserved and possessed more influence than any of the ostensible ministers. This was "Carstares, one of the most remarkable men of that age. He united great scholastic attainments with great aptitude for civil business, and the firm faith and ardent zeal of a martyr, with the shrewdness and suppleness of a consummate politician. In courage and fidelity he resembled Burnet; but he had what Burnet wanted, judgment, self-command, and a singular power of keeping secrets. There was no post to which he might not have aspired if he had been a layman, or a priest of the Church of England.” -MACAULAY'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

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Chatterton : A BIOGRAPHICAL STUDY. By DANIEL WILSON, LL.D., Professor of History and English Literature in University College, Toronto. Crown 8vo. 6s. 6d.

The EXAMINER thinks this "the most complete and the purest biography of the poet which has yet appeared."

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

Cooper.- ATHENÆ CANTABRIGIENSES.

By CHARLES HENRY COOPER, F.S.A., and THOMPSON COOPER, F.S.A. Vol. I. 8vo., 1500—85, 18s.; Vol. II., 1586—1609, 185.

Cox (G. V., M.A.)-RECOLLECTIONS OF OXFORD. By G. V. Cox, M.A., New College, late Esquire Bedel and Coroner in the University of Oxford. Cheaper Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s.

"An amusing farrago of anecdote, and will pleasantly recall in many a country parsonage the memory of youthful days."-TIMES.

"Daily News."-THE DAILY NEWS CORRESPONDENCE of the War between Germany and France, 1870-1. Edited with Notes and Comments. New Edition. Complete in One Volume. With Maps and Plans. Crown 8vo. 6s.

Dilke.-GREATER BRITAIN. A Record of Travel in Englishspeaking Countries during 1866-7.

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(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."

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.

Dürer (Albrecht).-HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF AL-
BRECHT DÜRER, of Nürnberg. With a Translation of his
Letters and Journal, and some account of his Works.
CHARLES HEATON. Royal 8vo. extra gilt. 31s. 6d.

By Mrs.

Elliott.-LIFE OF HENRY VENN ELLIOTT, of Brighton. By JOSIAH BATEMAN, M. A., Author of "Life of Daniel Wilson, Bishop of Calcutta," &c. With Portrait, engraved by JEENS. Extra fcap. 8vo. Third and Cheaper Edition, with Appendix. 6s. "A very charming piece of religious biography; no one can read it without both pleasure and profit."-BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW. 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.” -ATHENEUM.

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. "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."

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, 165.

"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, M.A., D.C.L.:HISTORICAL ESSAYS. By EDWARD FREEMAN, M.A., Hon. D.C.L., late Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. Second 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.

Freeman (E. A.)-continued.

"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 First, King of Italy;" X. "The Emperor Frederick the Second;" XI. "Charles the Bold;" XII. "Presidential Government.” -“All of them are well worth reading, and very agreeable to read. He never touches a question without adding to our comprehension of it, without leaving the impression of an ample knowledge, a righteous purpose, a clear and powerful understanding."-SATURDAY REview.

A SECOND SERIES OF HISTORICAL ESSAYS. 8vo. IOS. 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 Cæsars."

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. 21s.

OLD ENGLISH HISTORY. With Five Coloured Maps. Third 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. 3s. 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. Second Edition, revised.

THE UNITY OF HISTORY. The "REDE" LECTURE delivered in the Senate House, before the University of Cambridge, on Friday, May 24th, 1872. Crown 8vo. 25. GENERAL SKETCH OF EUROPEAN HISTORY. Being Vol. I. of a Historical Course for Schools edited by E. A. FREEMAN. 18mo. 3s. 6d. Fourth Edition.

"It supplies the great want of a good foundation for historical teaching. The scheme is an excellent one, and this instalment has been executed in a way that promises much for the volumes that are yet to appear."-EDUCATIONAL TIMES.

Galileo. THE PRIVATE LIFE OF GALILEO. Compiled principally from his Correspondence and that of his eldest daughter, Sister Maria Celeste, Nun in the Franciscan Convent of S. Matthew in Arcetri. With Portrait. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d. Gladstone (Right Hon. W. E., M.P.)-JUVENTUS MUNDI. The Gods and Men of the Heroic Age. Crown 8vo. cloth. With Map. 10s. 6d. Second Edition.

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"Seldom," says the ATHENEUM, out of the great poems themselves, have these Divinities looked so majestic and respectable. To read these brilliant details is like standing on the Olympian threshold and gazing at the ineffable brightness within."

Goethe and Mendelssohn (1821-1831). Translated from the German of Dr. KARL MENDELSSOHN, Son of the Composer, by M. E. VON GLEHN. From the Private Diaries and HomeLetters of Mendelssohn, with Poems and Letters of Goethe never before printed. Also with two New and Original Portraits, Facsimiles, and Appendix of Twenty Letters hitherto unpublished. Crown 8vo. 55. Second Edition, enlarged.

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"The volume is most welcome, giving us, as it does, vivid though brief glimpses of the famous musician as a boy, a youth, and a man. above all, it gives us a glowing picture of the boy Mendelssohn at Weimar in its golden days. Every page is full of interest, not merely to the musician, but to the general reader. The book is a very charming one, on a topic of deep and lasting interest."-STANDard.

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Goldsmid.-TELEGRAPH AND TRAVEL.

A Narrative of

the Formation and Development of Telegraphic Communication between England and India, under the orders of Her Majesty's Government, with incidental Notices of the Countries traversed by the Lines. By Colonel Sir FREDERIC GOLDSMID, C.B. K.C.S.I., late Director of the Government Indo-European Telegraph. With numerous Illustrations and Maps. 8vo. 215.

"The second portion of the work, less historical, bnt more likely to attract the general reader, is composed of bright sketches from Persia, Russia, the Crimea, Tartary, and the Indian Peninsula; both sketches being illuminated by a profusion of delicate woodcuts, admirably drawn, and as admirably engraved. The merit of the work is a total absence of exaggeration, which does not, however, preclude a vividness and vigour of style not always characteristic of similar narratives.' STANDARD.

Green. A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE. By J. R. GREEN, M.A., Examiner in the School of Modern History, Oxford. With Coloured Maps and Genealogical Tables. Crown 8vo. 8s. 6d.

"To say that Mr. Green's book is better than those which have pre

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