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Great Writers. Monthly Shilling Volumes. Cut or Uncut Edges. A New Series of Critical Biographies. Edited by Professor Eric S. Robertson.

Brontë, Charlotte. By Augustine Birrell.

"Those who know much of Charlotte Brontë will learn more, and those who know nothing about her will find all that is best worth learning in Mr. Birrell's pleasant book."-St. James' Gazette.

Bunyan. By Canon Venables.

Burns. By Professor Blackie.

[April Volume.

"Unless we are much mistaken, his monograph will take rank with the best essays that have been written on Scotland's best-loved bard. -Pall Mall Gazette.

Carlyle, Thomas. By Richard Garnett, LL.D.

"This is an admirable book. Nothing could be more felicitous and fairer than the way in which he takes us through Carlyle's life and works."-Pall Mall Gazette.

Coleridge. By Hall Caine.

"Brief and vigorous, written throughout with spirit and great literary skill, often rising into eloquence."-Scotsman.

Darwin. By G. T. Bettany.

"Mr. G. T. Bettany's Life of Darwin is a sound and conscientious work."-Saturday Review.

Dickens. By Frank T. Marzials.

66 Notwithstanding the mass of matter that has been printed relating to Dickens and his works . . . we should, until we came across this volume, have been at a loss to recommend any popular life of England's most popular novelist as being really satisfactory. The difficulty is removed by Mr. Marzials's little book."-Athenæum.

Goldsmith. By Austin Dobson.

In

"Mr. Dobson's narrative is clear and well arranged, and his remarks on Goldsmith's literary work are full of common sense. many respects a model of short biography."-Athenæum. Hugo, Victor. By F. T. Marzials.

Johnson, Samuel. By Colonel F. Grant.

[May Volume.

"Colonel Grant has performed his task with diligence, sound judgment, good taste, and accuracy."-Illustrated London News.

Keats. By W. M. Rossetti.

"Valuable for the ample information which it contains, and the sympathetic and authoritative criticism which it furnishes."-Cambridge Independent.

Longfellow. By Professor Eric S. Robertson.

"A most readable little work, brightened by fancy, and enriched by poetic feeling."-Liverpool Mercury.

Great Writers-continued.

Rosetti, Dante Gabriel. By Joseph Knight.

"Mr. Knight's picture of the great poet and painter is the fullest and best yet presented to the public."-The Graphic.

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"For readers and lovers of the poems and novels of Sir Walter Scott this is a most enjoyable book."-Aberdeen Free Press.

Shelley. By William Sharp.

"Another fit memorial of a beautiful soul.

it is a worthy

addition, to be cherished for its own sake, to our aiready rich collection of Shelley literature."-The Academy.

Smith, Adam. By R. B. Haldane, M.P.

"Written throughout with a perspicuity seldom exemplified when dealing with economic science."-Scotsman.

Smollett. By David Hannay.

"A capable record of a writer who still remains one of the great masters of the English novel."-Saturday Review.

Library edition of Great Writers, printed on large paper of extra quality, in handsome binding, Demy 8vo, price 2s. 6d. per volume.

Guide to Emigration and Colonisation: An Appeal to the Nation. By Waldemar Bannow, upwards of Eighteen years a resident of Victoria, Australia. Crown 8vo, price is. 6d.

"Mr. Bannow writes in a practical, terse fashion; and the information and advice he furnishes render his book a valuable help to persons who are thinking of emigrating.-Shieffield Daily Telegraph.

Gypsy Series of Is. Reward Books. F'cp. 8vo, Cloth Gilt. By G. Stuart Phelps.

Gypsy Breynton.

Gypsy's Cousin Joy. In which Joy comes to Yorkbury.

Gypsy's Sowing and Reaping. Which concerns Gypsy and
Tom.

Gypsy's Year at the Golden Crescent. In which Gypsy goes
to Boarding School.

Handy Guide to Conveyancing Costs under

the Solicitors' Remuneration Act, 1881. By J. Hough. Price 2s. 6d.

Harding, Emily Grace. Crown 8vo, Cloth,

Bevelled Boards, price 2s. 6d.

A Mountain Daisy.

"It is entitled to the first place in the order of merit."-Academy. Hazel; or, Perilpoint Lighthouse.

Health Resorts of Northern England. By

Richard Ellis, F.R.C.S., Edin., Senior Surgeon, Newcastle-on-
Tyne Throat and Ear Hospital. With New Chapters on Whitby,
Scarborough, Redcar, Saltburn, Harrogate, etc. Where to go,
and why, with Hints on Sea Bathing, etc.

"Dr. Ellis has done very good service in classifying for his professional brethren the Health Resorts of the North of England,' and has placed in the hands of the laity a little work which all may read with interest and profit. It is rich in facts of history, and is replete with points of geographical and geological worth.”—Liverpool Medico-Chirurgical Journal, Jan. 1884.

Hedley, George Roberts. Ballads and other Poems. Crown 8vo, price 3s. 6d.

"There are some verses which have all the ring in them of some of the work of the old dramatists. The book is a melodious collection of good things."-Newcastle Courant.

Helen's Babies. With some Account of their Ways. Royal 16mo, in Cloth Gilt, with numerous Fullpage Engravings. Price Is.; Bevelled Boards, Gilt Edges, Is. 6d. Hume and Smollett's History of England. Imperial 8vo, 1420 pages, Cloth, price 7s. 6d.

Ingraham, Rev. J. Prince of the House of David. Crown 8vo, Cloth, Bevelled Boards, price 2s. 6d.

Irish Minstrelsy (See Windsor Series.)

Infant Feeding and Management, Plain Facts about. Popular Treatise by C. Stennett Redmond, L.K.Q.C.P.I. & L.R.C.S.I. Crown 8vo, Cloth, price 2s.

"An exceedingly useful treatise on a most important, yet much neglected study, for those having care of the young."-Irish Tribune.

Lever, Charles.

8vo, Cloth, price 2s.

Charles O'Malley, Crown

Life Stories of Famous Children. Adapted from the French. By the Author of "Spenser for Children." Foolscap 8vo, Cloth, price Is.

Lincoln and Garfield: New World Heroes. The Life Story of two self-made Men whom the People made Presidents. Crown 8vo, Cloth, Bevelled Boards, Illustrated, price 2s. 6d.

"We know no better book for the encouragement of young men to rise to be worthy of the endowments of mankind, the blessings of a birth-place in a free country, than the Lives of Lincoln and Garfield."-Warrington Guardian

Lives Great and Simple. By S. A. Tooley.

The Volume contains Lives of General Gordon, Princess Alice, Henry Irving, Alexander Macdonald, Lord Wolseley, Dr. William Chambers, Lord Lawrence, Robert Dick, Anthony Trollope, Sir William Fairbairn, Robert Tannahill, James Garfield, Janet Hamilton, Charles Dickens, Thomas Edward, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Scott Riddell, William Leighton Leitch, Henry M. Stanley, Edward Irving. Crown 8vo, Cloth, Bevelled Boards, price 2s. 6d, Livingstone, Life of David.

By J. S.

Robertson. Imperial 8vo, Cloth, Gilt Edges, 7s. 6d.; also Crown 8vo, Cloth, 2s. 6d.

No one can read Livingstone's life without admiring and loving the man. Above his greatness as an explorer rises the massiveness of his character; and his large-hearted love for the poor negro, his deep hatred of the accursed slave trade, his sturdy independence, strong iron will, stern tenacity of purpose, and calm fortitude under trouble or disaster, stamps him a truly great man.

Lytton, Bulwer. Crown 8vo, Cloth, 2s. 6d.

Alice; or, the Mysteries.
Ernest Maltravers.

Eugene Aram.

Last Days of Pompeii.

Last of the Barons.

Night and Morning.
Paul Clifford.
Pelham.

Rienzi.

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Marston, Philip Bourke.

For a Song's Sake. And other Stories. By the late Philip Bourke Marston. Crown 8vo, 507 pages, Cloth Gilt, price 4s. 6d.

"A brief memoir by Mr. William Sharp, ably and sympathetically written, introduces the stories, and makes the volume one which the author's many admirers will be eager to possess. Powerful studies, romantic in sentiment."-The Scotsman.

Marryat, Captain. Crown 8vo, Cloth, price

2s. 6d.

Jacob Faithful.

Midshipman Easy.

Peter Simple.

Memorable Shipwrecks and Seafaring Adventures of the Nineteenth Century. Crown 8vo, Cloth Gilt, with Illustrations, price 2s. 6d.

Moffat, Robert, Life of. By Rev. W. Walters. Crown 8vo, Cloth, Bevelled Boards, price 2s. 6d.

Christian Foreign Missions are characteristic of the nineteenth century. Robert Moffat's life was a marvellous illustration of the grandeur and power of goodness, and his labours were full of proof of the saving efficacy and civilising effects of the Gospel.

Monthly Chronicle of North-Country Lore and Legend. Crown 4to, 48 pages, price Sixpence.

The Monthly Chronicle has been established to preserve the great wealth of legend and story that abounds in the North of England. Every number contains a variety of articles of great popular interest. Most of the articles are illustrated with engravings of the persons or scenes described.

Newcastle and Gateshead, History of. Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries. Edited by Richard Welford. In 3 volumes, Royal 8vo, Cloth, price 12s. 6d. each; Half Morocco, 15s.; Full Morocco, 21S.

"Its plan is admirable. . . . The style is excellent, being marked with a scholarly refinement. For a record of local annals the book strikes us as coming very nearly up to the standard of perfection.”—Antiquarian Magazine.

Newcastle Town. An account of its Rise

and Progress: Its Struggles and Triumphs : and Its Ending. By R. J. Charleton, with Illustrations by R. Jobling. Crown 8vo, Cloth Gilt, price 7s. 6d.

New Natural History of Birds, Beasts, and Fishes. By John K. Leys, M.A. Foolscap 8vo, Cloth, price Is. "Mr. Leys has not only a talent for diverting story-telling, but also for instilling into youthful minds happy thoughts, the echo of which will linger long in childish memories."- Whitehall Review.

Nine Months on the Nile.

By the Rev.

Hampson S. Eckersley. Crown 8vo, Cloth, price 2s. 6d.

"Cannot fail to delight the home reader, and be of great service to all future travellers in the same regions who may have the opportunity of perusing its instructive pages."-Methodist Times.

Norway, Popular Guide to. By C. Jurgenson. Containing full description of that Wonderful Country, Maps of the Routes, and every other information useful to the Traveller. Revised edition, Cloth, price 3s. 6d.

"Evidently he knows the country, its fiords, its roads, its people, and its customs, and he has the faculty of planning and writing in such wise as to make his book a really useful, handy, popular guide."-Leeds Mercury.

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