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By J. HAMER, F.R.S.L.

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Spalding's Elizabethan Demonology:

An Essay in Illustration of the Belief in the Existence of Devils, as it was held during the period of the Reformation, and the times immediately succeeding; with special reference to Shakspere and his Works. By T. ALFRED SPALDING, LL.B.

"A very thoughtful and weighty book, which cannot but be welcome to every earnest student."-ACADEMY,

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Spenser for Children.

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By M. H. TOWRY. With Illustrations in Colours by WALTER J.
MORGAN.

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--THE TIMES.

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Stedman's Victorian Poets:

Critical Essays. By EDMUNd Clarence Stedman.

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Strutt's Sports and Pastimes of the People

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Swift's Choice Works,

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Atalanta in Calydon.

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Bothwell: A Tragedy.

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Syntax's (Dr.) Three Tours,

In Search of the Picturesque, in Search of Consolation, and in
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Taine's History of English Literature.

Translated by HENRY VAN LAUN.

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Tales of Old Thule.

Collected and Illustrated by J. MOYR SMITH.

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Taylor's (Tom) Historical Dramas:

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Thackerayana:

Notes and Anecdotes. Illustrated by a profusion of Sketches by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY, depicting Humorous Incidents in his School-life, and Favourite Characters in the books of his every-day reading. With Hundreds of Wood Engravings, facsimiled from Mr. Thackeray's Original Drawings.

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Thornbury's (Walter) Haunted London.

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"Mr. Thornbury knew and loved his London. . . . He had read much history, and every by-lane and every court had associations for him. His memory and his note-books were stored with anecdote, and, as he had singular skill in the matter of narration, it will be readily believed that when he took to writing a set book about the places he knew and cared for, the said book would be charming. Charming the volume before us certainly is. It may be begun in the beginning, or middle, or end, it is all one: wherever one lights, there is some pleasant and curious bit of gossip, some amusing fragment of allusion or quotation."--VANITY FAIR.

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Timbs' Clubs and Club Life in London. With Anecdotes of its famous Coffee-Houses, Hostelries, and Taverns. By JOHN TIMBS, F.S.A. With numerous Illustrations.

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Timbs' English Eccentrics and Eccen

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Artists, Theatrical Folks, Men of Letters, &c. By JOHN TIMBS,
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Torrens' The Marquess Wellesley,

Architect of Empire: An Historic Portrait. Forming Vol. I. of
PRO-CONSUL and TRIBUNE: WELLESLEY and O'CONNELL : Historic
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Turner's (J. M. W.) Life and Correspon

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English Minsters; and the English Student's Monasticon. By the
Rev. MACKENZIE E. C. WALCOTT, B.D.

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Walton and Cotton's Complete Angler ;

or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fish-ponds, Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a Clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON. With Original Memoirs and Notes by Sir HARRIS NICOLAS, and 61 Copper-plate Illustrations.

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Walford's County Families of the United Kingdom. A Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of Great Britain and Ireland. By EDWARD WALFORD, M.A., late Scholar of Balliol College, Oxford. Containing Notices of the Descent, Birth, Marriage, Education, &c., of more than 12,000 distinguished Heads of Families in the United Kingdom, their Heirs Apparent or Presumptive, together with a Record of the Patronage at their disposal, the Offices which they hold or have held, their Town Addresses, Country Residences, Clubs, &c.

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