8 Books Published by William Blackwood and Sons. The Angler's Companion to the Rivers AND LOCHS OF SCOTLAND. By Thomas Tod Stoddart. In post 8vo price 10s. 6d. With a Fishing Map of Scotland, and other İllustrations. "Indispensable in all time to come, as the very strength and grace of an Angler's Tackle and Equipment in Scotland, must and will be 'STODDART'S ANGLER'S COMPANION.'"-Blackwood's Magazine. Without a second's pause of hesitation, we pronounce the book the best extant as an angling guide to the salmon and trout waters of Scotland, and particularly to the famous Tweed and its many tributaries. Every angler who has an ambition to become an adept in the art of killing trout and salmon by means of rod and line, should peruse assiduously Mr Stoddart's work."-Bell's Life. "Pleasant it is to wander by the loch and stream with such a guide and companion as Mr Stoddart." -Athenæum. "The author is a perfect enthusiast in the gentle craft,' and the matter seems chiefly drawn from his own experience. A peculiar feature of the book is its detailed account of the Scottish lochs and rivers, with their tributaries. This feature renders The Angler's Companion a necessary volume to any one contemplating a piscatorial excursion in Scotland, independently of its general use as a book of instructions."-Spectator. Lays of the Deer-Forest. A Selection from the Original Poems of John Sobieski Stuart and Charles "This is, we have no hesitation in saying, the best work on deer-stalking which has yet been written; and the amount of information which it contains regarding the habits of the stag and roe, combined with the vivid pictures of which we have made such ample use, cannot fail to render it popular. In an antiquarian point of view it is also highly interesting, for it embodies a large amount of traditionary lore, sketches of the clans, and fragments of Highland song, of much superior merit to those which have hitherto come into our hands. The disquisitions, too, upon the disappearance of some animals once indigenous to Scotland-such as the wolf, the elk, the wild bull, and the beaver-exhibit a great amount of research, and supply a gap which has long been wanted in the page of natural history."-Blackwood's Magazine. "Rich with a thousand excellencies, with traits of natural history in its most attractive department, and poetised by the ardent language of keen and hereditary sportsmen."—Morning Chronicle. Recreations of Christopher North. In Three Volumes, Post Octavo, price £1, 11s. 6d. "Welcome, right welcome, Christopher North; we cordially greet thee in thy new dress, thou genial and hearty old man, whose Ambrosian nights' have so often in imagination transported us from solitude to the social circle, and whose vivid pictures of flood and fell, of loch and glen, have carried us in thought from the smoke, din, and pent-up opulence of London, to the rushing stream, or tranquil tarn, or those mountain ranges," &c.-Times. "Delightful volumes-full of fun and fervour, power and pathos-of deep feeling and light-hearted gaiety of impassioned language, rolling along in the strength and majesty of genuine eloquence-and of familiar gossip, tripping it lightly over the merrier pages."-Scotsman. The Moor and the Loch: containing Minute Instructions in all Highland Sports, from the Red-Deer and "Mr Colquhoun is one of the increasing class of naturalist sportsmen who combine an ardent love and nice observation of nature with surpassing skill in the death-dealing art. Of the various amateurs we remember, he is facile princeps, from the solidity of his matter, and the native power of his style. He has the prejudices of his craft and his Highland home; but they are the genuine feelings of his mind, not a taste simulated to spin a paragraph or point a period. As a sportsman he strikes us as of the first class, owing to the variety of his pursuits. Nothing comes amiss to him. In deer-stalking or roebuck-shooting he is at home; all that haunt the Moor and the Loch,' with the River in addition -whether of grouse or other game, fish or waterfowl-all are within his dominion."-Spectator. Books Published by William Blackwood and Sons. Life in the "Far West." 9 By the late George F. Ruxton, Esq., Author of "Travels in Mexico." A New "One of the most fascinating productions in this class of literature. The intensely graphic force with which the scenes and characters are delineated, and which is the natural result of the author's personal familiarity with the originals of the pictures drawn by his pen, and of his keen powers of observation, transports the reader's mind involuntarily into the Far West itself, among the Red hunters and warriors, and the American trappers and mountaineers. To read the volume is almost equal to a personal visit to those romantic regions, and their savage and half-savage inhabitants-so vivid is the impression which the perusal of Mr Ruxton's sketches leaves on the imagination."-John Bull. "One of the most daring and resolute of modern travellers. is seldom submitted to the public."—Athenæum. A volume fuller of excitement Hudson's Bay; or, Every-day Life SCENES IN THE WILDS OF NORTH AMERICA. By Robert M. "An able, graphic, and spirited description, not merely of interesting journeys and adventures, throughout these wild and uncultivated regions, but a full and well written account of the formation, object, and trade of the Company, of the Indian tribes, and much valuable and useful information upon almost every matter connected with the country."-Perth Constitutional. Men and Manners in America. By the Author of "Cyril Thornton." A New Edition, with a Portrait of the "Though many excellent volumes have since been published, not one has superseded it as a standard and safe authority. Other travellers have confirmed its accuracy without adding much to its information. . But this edition has another advantage. It is enriched with the private letters he wrote to his friends from America, in which his first impressions are recorded without concealment."—Britannia. Impressions and Experiences of the WEST INDIES and NORTH AMERICA in 1849. By Robert Baird, "The reader will find in the present work a most faithful and attractive description of the countries which the author has visited-the West Indies, Canada, and the United States- as regards both their natural features and scenery, and the character, the manners, and habits of the inhabitants, interspersed with many interesting traits and incidents, forming altogether a tourist's note-book and traveller's guide of the very best class."-John Bull. Leaves from the Journal of a Subal TERN, DURING THE CAMPAIGN IN THE PUNJAUB, 1848-49. "An extremely graphic, animated narrative of events, most readable from the first page to the last, does much more to convey to the reader's mind a just and vivid conception of the lights and shadows of life in an Indian camp--the suspense before the coming strife, the wild excitement of the fray, and the painful reaction of the inactivity which succeeds."-Atlas, July 1, 1849. 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A grander moral is not to be found than that which dwells upon the reader's mind when the book is closed; conveyed, too, as it is, in language as masculine and eloquent as any the English tongue can furnish."-Times. It is sculpture, not painting, that we have here to deal with. The characters are few, the events simple; and both characters and events stand broadly and boldly out, chiselled into big, massive, rigid proportions. It is a book displaying peculiar and remarkable talents. In parts the narration is of breathless interest. There is an utter and blessed absence of conventionalism about the tale; and it is invested with a species of severe epic grandeur, which, as it were, overshadows the mind."-Morning Chronicle.. and Professional The Moral, Social, DUTIES OF ATTORNEYS AND SOLICITORS. By Samuel 12 Books Published by William Blackwood and Sons. A Memoir of John Philpot Curran. With SKETCHES of his CONTEMPORARIES. By Charles Phillips, Esq., A.B., one of her Majesty's Commissioners of the Court for the Relief of The present work, while embracing the more valuable portion of the Recollections of Curran formerly published by Mr Phillips, mainly consists of hitherto unpublished matter, in the drawing up of which the author has been for some time engaged. It comprises Sketches and Anecdotes of Flood and Grattan, Clare, Tone, Norbury and his Court, Bushe, Plunket, Dean Kirwan, Hamilton Rowan, Clonmell, O'Connell, Emmett, &c.; with specimens of their eloquence, and very copious extracts from the speeches of Curran. "It may seem an omission, in a work professing to give the Orators as well as the Statesmen of the last age, that Curran should not appear among them-the greatest orator, after Grattan and Plunket, that Ireland has produced, and in every respect worthy of being placed on a line with those great masters of speech. 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