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GARIBALDI AT CAPRERA.

By COLONEL VECCHJ. With Preface by Mrs. Gaskell, and a View of Caprera. Fcp. 8vo. cloth, 3s. 6d.

After all has been told, there was something wanting to the full and true impression of the Patriot's character and mode of life; as every one who reads this artless and enthusiastic narration will certainly admit. Mrs. GASKELL says she knows that "every particular" of this full and minute account may be relied upon; and it has an air of truth that commends it even when it is most extravagant in its admiration."-NONCONFORMIST.

ROME IN 1860.

By EDWARD DICEY, author of 'Life of Cavour.' Crown 8vo. cloth, 6s. 6d. 'So striking and apparently so faithful a portrait. It is the Rome of real life he has depicted.'-SPECTATOR.

THE ITALIAN WAR OF 1848-9,

And the last Italian Poet. By the late HENRY LUSHINGTON, Chief Secretary to the Government of Malta. With a Biographical Preface by G. STOVIN VENABLES. Crown 8vo. cloth, 6s. 6d.

'Perhaps the most difficult of all literary tasks the task of giving historical unity, dignity, and interest to events so recent as to be still encumbered with all the details with which newspapers invest them-has never been more successfully discharged. Mr. Lushington, in a

very short compass, shows the true nature and sequence of the event, and gives to the whole story of the struggle and defeat of Italy a degree of unity and dramatic interest which not one newspaper reader in ten thousand ever supposed it to possess.'-SATURDAY REVIEW.

EARLY EGYPTIAN HISTORY.

FOR THE YOUNG.

WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF THE TOMBS AND MONUMENTS. By the Author of Sidney Grey,' &c. and her Sister. Fcp. 8vo. cloth, 5s.

'Full of information without being dull, and full of humour without being frivolous; stating in the most popular form the main results of modern research. We have said enough to take our readers to the book itself, where they will learn more of Ancient Egypt than in any other popular work on the subject.'-LONDON REVIEW.

DAYS OF OLD;

OR, STORIES FROM OLD ENGLISH HISTORY.
FOR THE YOUNG.

By the Author of Ruth and Her Friends.' With a Frontispiece by W. HOLMAN HUNT. Royal 16mo. beautifully printed on toned paper and bound in extra cloth, 5s.

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'A delightful little book, full of interest and instruction.. fine feeling, dramatic weight, and descriptive power in the stories. They are valuable as throwing a good deal of light upon English history, bringing rapidly out the manners and customs, the social and political conditions of our British and Anglo-Saxon ancestors, and the moral always of a pure and noble kind.' LITERARY GAZETTE.

HOW TO WIN OUR WORKERS,

A Short Account of the Leeds Sewing School for Factory Girls. By Mrs. HYDE. Dedicated by permission to the EARL of CARLISLE. Fcp. 8vo. limp cloth, 1s. 6d.

This work is intended to exhibit the successful working of an Institution for bringing the Working-girls of a large town into communication and sympathy with those who are separated from them by social position.

'A little book brimful of good sense and good feeling.'-GLOBE.

OUR YEAR.

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Child's Book in Prose and Rhyme. By the author of John Halifax.' With numerous Illustrations by CLARENCE DOBELL. Royal 16mo. cloth, gilt leaves, 5s.

'Just the book we could wish to see in the hands of every child.'-ENGLISH CHURCHMAN.

LITTLE ESTELLA,

AND OTHER FAIRY TALES.

By MAY BEVERLEY. With Frontispiece. Royal 16mo. cloth, gilt leaves, 5s.

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A Book for Children. By GEORGIANA M. CRAIK, author of 'Lost and Won.' With Frontispiece. Royal 16mo. cloth, gilt leaves, 4s. 6d.

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By Mrs. OLIPHANT, author of 'Margaret Maitland.' With Frontispiece Royal 16mo. cloth, gilt leaves, 5s.

'Described with exquisite reality. . . teaching the young pure and good lessons.'

JOHN BULL.

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DAYS OF OLD:

STORIES FROM OLD ENGLISH HISTORY.

By the author of 'Ruth and Her Friends.' With Frontispiece. Royal 16mo. cloth, gilt leaves, 5s.

'A delightful little book, full of interest and instruction and descriptive power in the stories.'-LITERARY GAZETTE.

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fine feeling, dramatic weight,

DAVID, KING OF ISRAEL.

A History for the Young. By JOSIAH WRIGHT, Head Master of Sutton Coldfield Grammar School. With Illustrations. Royal 16mo. cloth, gilt leaves, 5s.

'An excellent book . . .

well conceived, and well worked out.'-LITERARY CHURCHMAN.

RUTH AND HER FRIENDS.

A Story for Girls. With Frontispiece. Third Edition. Royal 16mo, cloth, gilt

leaves, 5s.

'A book which girls will read with avidity, and cannot fail to profit by.'

LITERARY CHURCHMAN.

SECOND EDITION.

GEORGE BRIMLEY'S ESSAYS.

Edited by WILLIAM GEORGE CLARK, M.A. Public Orator in the University of Cambridge. With Portrait. Crown, 8vo. cloth, 5s.

CONTENTS:

I. TENNYSON'S POEMS.
II. WORDSWORTH'S POEMS.
III. POETRY AND CRITICISM.
IV. ANGEL IN THE HOUSE.

V. CARLYLE'S LIFE OF STERLING.

VI. ESMOND.

VII. MY NOVEL.

VIII. BLEAK HOUSE.

IX. WESTWARD HO!

X. WILSON'S NOCTES.

XI. COMTE'S POSITIVE PHILOSOPHY.

"One of the most delightful and precious volumes of criticism that has appeared in these days... To every cultivated reader they will disclose the wonderful clearness of perception, the delicacy of feeling, the pure taste, and the remarkably firm and decisive judgment which are the characteristics of all Mr. Brimley's writings on subjects that really penetrated and fully possessed his nature.'-NONCONFORMIST.

WORKS BY DAVID MASSON, M.A.

PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON.

LIFE OF JOHN MILTON.

Narrated in connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of his time. Vol. 1. 8vo. with Portraits, 18s.

his industry is immense; his

With

'Mr. Masson's Life of Milton has many sterling merits zeal unflagging; his special knowledge of Milton's life and times extraordinary. a zeal and industry which we cannot sufficiently commend, he has not only availed himself of the biographical stores collected by his predecessors, but imparted to them an aspect of novelty by hisskilful re-arrangement.'-EDINBURGH REVIEW.

BRITISH NOVELISTS AND THEIR STYLES;

Being a critical sketch of the History of British Prose Fiction. Crown 8vo. cloth, 7s. 6d.

'A work eminently calculated to win popularity, both by the soundness of its doctrine and the skill of its art.'-THE PRESS.

ESSAYS, BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL.

Chiefly on English Poets. By DAVID MASSON: 8vo. cloth, 12s. 6d.

CONTENTS:

1. SHAKESPEARE AND GOETHE.

II. MILTON'S YOUTH.

III. THE THREE DEVILS: LUTHER'S, MILTON'S, AND GOETHE'S. IV. DRYDEN, AND THE LITERATURE OF THE RESTORATION.

V. DEAN SWIFT.

VI. CHATTERTON: A STORY OF THE YEAR 1770.

VII. WORDSWORTH.

VIII. SCOTTISH INFLUENCE ON BRITISH LITERATURE.

IX. THEORIES OF POETRY,

X. PROSE AND VERSE: DE QUINCEY.

Mr. Masson has succeeded in producing a series of criticisms in relation to creative literature which are satisfactory as well as subtile-which are not only ingenious, but which possess the rarer recommendation of being usually just.'-THE TIMES.

RELIGIO CHEMICI.

By GEORGE WILSON, M.D. late Regius Professor of Technology in the
University of Edinburgh. Crown 8vo. cloth.

With a Vignette Title Page by NOEL PATON, engraved by C. JEENS.
Price 8s. 6d.

THE FIVE GATEWAYS OF KNOWLEDGE. A popular work on the Five Senses. By GEORGE WILSON, M.D. Eighth Thousand. In fcp. 8vo. cloth, with gilt leaves, 2s. 6d. People's Edition in ornamental stiff cover, 1s.

THE PROGRESS OF THE TELEGRAPH.
By GEORGE WILSON, M.D. Fcp. 8vo. 1s.

MEMOIR OF GEORGE WILSON, M.D. F.R.S.E. Regius Professor of Technology in the University of Edinburgh. By his Sister, JESSIE AITKEN WILSON. With Portrait. 8vo. cloth, price 14s.

'His life was so pregnant in meaning, so rich in noble deeds, so full of that spiritual vitality which serves to quicken life in others; it bore witness to so many principles which we can only fully understand when we see them in action; it presented so many real pictures of dauntless courage and of Christian heroism, that we welcome gratefully the attempt to reproduce it which has resulted in the volume before us. Miss Wilson has entered lovingly upon her task, and has accomplished it well.'-PRESS.

MEMOIR OF EDWARD FORBES, F.R.S.

Late Regius Professor of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh. By GEORGE WILSON, M.D. F.R.S.E. and ARCHIBALD GEIKIE, F.R.S.E. F.G.S. of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. 8vo. cloth, with Portrait, 14s.

'We welcome this volume as a graceful tribute to the memory of as gifted, tender, generous a soul as Science has ever reared, and prematurely lost.'- LITERARY GAZETTE.

'It is long since a better memoir than this, as regards either subject or handling, has come under our notice. The first nine chapters retain all the charming grace of style which marked everything of Wilson's, and the author of the latter two-thirds of the memoir deserves very high praise for the skill he has used, and the kindly spirit he has shown. From the first page to the last, the book claims careful reading, as being a full but not overcrowded rehearsal of a most instructive life, and the true picture of a mind that was rare in strength and beauty.'- EXAMINER.

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