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EGYPT, THE SOUDAN, AND CENTRAL AFRICA.

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BEING SKETCHES FROM SIXTEEN YEARS' TRAVEL.

By JOHN PETHERICK, F.R.G.S.

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LIVES OF LORD CASTLEREAGH AND
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THE MONKS OF THE WEST.

By the COUNT DE MONTALEMBERT.

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HISTORY OF THE GREEK REVOLUTION.

By GEORGE FINLAY, LL.D., Athens;

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THE PUNJAB AND DELHI IN 1857:

being a narrative of the measures by which the punjab
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indian mutiny.

By the Rev. J. CAVE-BROWNE,

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THE PAST AND PRESENT LIFE OF THE GLOBE:

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By DAVID PAGE, F.G.S.
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THE BOOK OF FARM BUILDINGS:

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By HENRY STEPHENS, F.R.S.E.

And R. SCOTT BURN.

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The Past and Future of British Relations in China.

By Captain Sherard Osborn, C.B., R.N.

With a Map of China and Chart of the Peiho from the Entrance to Pekin.
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Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's Mission to China and Japan.

By Laurence Oliphant,

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A Cruise in Japanese Waters.

By Captain Sherard Osborn, C.B.,

Author of "Leaves from an Arctic Journal," "Quedah," &c.

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Wellington's Career.

A MILITARY AND POLITICAL SUMMARY.

By Edward Bruce Hamley,

Captain R.A., and Lieut.-Colonel; Professor of Military History and Art at the Staff College; Author of "The Campaign of Sebastopol." Foolscap Octavo, price 2s.

Patriots and Filibusters; or, Incidents of Political and Exploratory Travel.

By Laurence Oliphant,

Author of "Lord Elgin's Mission to China and Japan," "Minnesota and the Far West," &c.

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Vol. I. The Glenmutchkin Railway.—Vanderdecken's Message Home.—The Floating Beacon.—Colonna the Painter.—Napoleon.—A Legend of Gibraltar.—The Iron Shroud. Vol. II. Lazaro's Legacy.—A Story without a Tail.—Faustus and Queen Elizabeth. How I became a Yeoman.—Devereux Hall.—The Metempsychosis.—College Theatricals. Vol. III. A Reading Party in the Long Vacation.—Father Tom and the Pope-La Petite Madelaine.—Bob Burke's Duel with Ensign Brady.—The Headsman: A Tale of Doom.—The Wearyful Woman.

Vol. IV. How I stood for the Dreepdaily Burghs.—First and Last.—The Duke's Dilemma: A Chronicle of Niesenstein.—The Old Gentleman's Teetotum.—"Woe to us when we lose the Watery Wall."—My College Friends: Charles Russell, the Gentleman Commoner. The Magic Lay of the One-Horse Chay.

Vol. V. Adventures In Texas.—How we got Possession of the Tuileries.—Captain Paton's Lament.-The Village Doctor.—A Singular Letter from Southern Africa.

Vol. VI. My Friend the Dutchman.—My College Friends—No II.: Horace Leicester.The Emerald Studs.—My College Friends—No III.: Mr W. Wellington Hurst.—Christine: A Dutch Story.—The Man in the Bell.

Vol. VII. My English Acquaintance.—The Murderer's Last Night.—Narration of Certain Uncommon Things that did formerly happen to Me, Herbert Willis, B.D.—The Wags.—The Wet Wooing: A Narrative of '98.—Ben-na-Groich.

Vol. VIII. Tho Surveyor's Tale. By Professor Aytoun.—The Forrest-Race Romance. -Di Vasari: A Tale of Florence.—Sigismund Fatello.—The Boxes.

Vol. IX. Rosaura: A Tale of Madrid.—Adventure in the North-West Territory.— Harry Bolton's Curacy.—The Florida Pirate.—The Pandour and his Princess.—The Beauty Draught.

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Vol. XII. Tickler among the Thieves!—The Bridegroom of Barna.—The Involuntary Experimentalist.—Lebrun's Lawsuit.-The Snowing-up of Strath Lugas.—A Few Words on Social Philosophy.

Sketches of the Poetical Literature of the Past HalfCentury.

By D. M. Moir.

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The Campaign of Garibaldi in the Two Sicilies.

A PERSONAL NARRATIVE.

By Charles Stewart Forbes,

Commander R.N.

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THE WITNESS OF REASON AND NATURE TO AN ALL-WISE AND
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Principal and Primarius Professor of Theology, St Mary's College, St
Andrews.

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