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Page 5 - Our Soldiers, or ANECDOTES OF THE CAMPAIGNS AND GALLANT DEEDS OF THE BRITISH ARMY DURING THE REIGN OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA. By WHG KINGSTON. With Frontispiece.
Page 230 - Hurricane Hurry, or THE ADVENTURES OF A NAVAL OFFICER DURING THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE.
Page 13 - Paper Boards The Nursery Companion. Paper Boards. These Four Volumes contain about 450 pictures. Each one being complete in itself, and bound in an attractive paper cover, in boards (also with coloured Illustrations, 2s.), or in Two Vols., cloth, 3s., or coloured Illustrations, 5s. The Four Volumes bound together form the " Favourite Picture Book," bound in cloth, price 5s., or coloured Illustrations, gilt edges, 10s.
Page 6 - Funny Fables for Little Folks. Fun and Earnest, or RHYMES WITH REASON. By D'ARCY W. THOMPSON. Illustrated by CH BENNETT. Imperial 16mo. Gerty and May. Eighth Thousand. By the same Author, Granny's Story Box. New Edition. With 20 Engravings. Children of the Parsonage. Our White Violet.
Page 14 - Nine Lives of a Cat (The) : a Tale of Wonder. Written and Illustrated by CH BENNETT. 24 Coloured Engravings, sewed. Peter Piper. PRACTICAL PRINCIPLES OF PLAIN AND PERFECT PRONUNCIATION. Coloured Illustrations, sewed. Plaiting Pictures. A NOVEL PASTIME BY WHICH CHILDREN CAN CONSTRUCT AND RECONSTRUCT PICTURES FOR THEMSELVES. Four Series in Fancy Coloured Wrappers. Oblong 4to. First Series.— Juvenile Party— Zoological Gardens— The Gleaner. Second Series. — Birds' Pic-nic — Cats
Page 11 - By Mrs. JE AYLMER. Father Time's Story Book. By KATHLEEN KNOX. From Peasant to Prince. By Mrs. PIETZKER.
Page 12 - Adrift on the Sea. By EM NORRIS. Alice and Beatrice. By GRANDMAMMA. Among the Brigands. By CE BOWEN. The Children's Picnic. By E. MARRYAT NORRIS. Christian Elliott ; or, Mrs. Danver's Prize. By LN COMYN. Claudine ; or, Humility the Basis of all the Virtues. By the Author of " William Tell,
Page 232 - Illustrations, 6s. ; also in Four parts, in paper boards, fancy wrapper, price Is. each, or coloured Illustrations, 2s. each. Little Gipsy (The). By ELIE SAUVAGE. Translated by ANNA BLACKWELL. Profusely Illustrated by ERNEST FROLICH. Small 4to, (or, extra cloth, gilt edges, 6s.) Norstone ; or, RIFTS IN THE CLOUDS.
Page 13 - By MRS. TRIMMER. 4. MEMOIR OF BOB, THE SPOTTED TERRIER. 5. KEEPER'S TRAVELS IN SEARCH OF HIS MASTER. 6. THE SCOTTISH ORPHANS. By LADY STODDART. 7. NEVER WRONG; or, THE YOUNG DISPUTANT; and "IT WAS ONLY IN FUN." 8. THE LIFE AND PERAMBULATIONS OF A MOUSE. 9. EASY INTRODUCTION TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF NATURE. By MRS. TRIMMER. 10. RIGHT AND WRONG. By the Author of
Page 4 - Bible Illustrations; Or, a Description of Manners and Customs peculiar to the East, and especially Explanatory of the Holy Scriptures. By the Rev. BH DRAPER. With Engravings. Fourth Edition. Revised bv Dr. KITTO, Editor of " The Pictorial Bible,