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From the Commencement of the French Revolution in 1789 to the Battle of Waterloo. BY Sir ARCHIBALD ALISON, Bart., D.C.L.

A New Library Edition (being the Tenth), in 14 vols. demy 8vo, with Portraits, and a copious Index, 10, 10s.

A People's Edition, 12 vols., closely printed in double columns, £2, 8s., and Index Volume, 3s.

"An extraordinary work, which has earned for itself a lasting place in the literature of the country, and within a few years found innumerable readers in every part of the globe. There is no book extant that treats so well of the period to the illustration of which Mr Alison's labours have been devoted. It exhibits great knowledge, patient research, indefatigable industry, and vast power."–Times, Sept. 7, 1850.

From the Fall of Napoleon to the Accession of Louis Napoleon. By Sir ARCHIBALD ALISON, Bart., D.C.L. In 9 vols., £6, 7s. 6d. Uniform with the Library Edition of the previous work.

Containing 109 Maps and Plans of Countries, Battles, Sieges, and Sea-Fights. Constructed by A. Keith Johnston, F.R.S.E. With Vocabulary of Military and Marine Terms. Demy 4to. Library Edition, £3, 3s.; People's Edition, crown 4to, 1, 11s. 6d.

Second and Third Marquesses of Londonderry. From the Original Papers of the Family, and other sources. By Sir ARCHIBALD ALISON, Bart., D.C.L. In 3 vols. 8vo, £2, 5s.

By Capt. THOMAS HAMILTON. A New Edition. Edited by F. Hardman, Esq. 8vo, 16s.; and Atlas of Maps to illustrate the Campaigns, 12s.

By JAMES SIMPSON, Advocate. A Revised Edition. With Two Coloured Plans of the Battle. Crown 8vo, 5s.

A Military and Political Summary. By Lieut.-Col. E. BRUCE HAMLEY, Professor of Military History and Art at the Staff College. Crown 8vo, 2s.

Written in the Camp. By Lieut.-Col. E. BRUCE HAMLEY. With Illustrations drawn in Camp by the Author. 8vo, 21s.

"We strongly recommend this 'Story of the Campaign' to all who would gain a just comprehension of this tremendous struggle. Of this we are perfectly sure, it is a book unlikely to be ever superseded. Its truth is of that simple and startling character which is sure of an immortal existence; nor is it paying the gallant author too high a complement to class this masterpiece of military history with the most precious of those classic records which have been bequeathed to us by the great writers of antiquity who took part in the wars they have described."–The Press.

Its Origin, and Account of its Progress down to the Death of Lord Raglan. By ALEXANDER WILLIAM KINGLAKE, M.P. Vols. I. and II., bringing the Events down to the Close of the Battle of the Alma. Fourth Edition. Price 32s.

"There has not been published for many a day a more remarkable book on France than this, which professes to be the impressions of a Flaneur.... It has all the liveliness and sparkle of a work written only for amusement; it has all the solidity and weight of a State paper; and we expect for it not a little political influence as a fair, full, and masterly statement of the Imperial policy–the first and only good account that has been given to Europe of the Napoleonic system now in force."–Times.

By Captain CHARLES HAMLEY, R.M. Originally published in 'Blackwood's Magazine.' Crown 8vo, 6s.

Greece Under the Romans. b.c. 146 to a.d. 717. A Historical View of the Condition of the Greek Nation from its Conquest by the Romans until the Extinction of the Roman Power in the East. Second Edition, 16s.

History of the Byzantine Empire, a.d. 716 to 1204; and of the Greek Empire of Nicæa and Constantinople, a.d. 1204 to 1453. 2 vols., £1, 7s. 6d.

Medieval Greece and Trebizond. The History of Greece, from its Conquest by the Crusaders to its Conquest by the Turks, a.d. 1204 to 1566; and the History of the Empire of Trebizond, a.d. 1204 to 1461. 12s.

"His book is worthy to take its place among the remarkable works on Greek history, which form one of the chief glories of English scholarship. The history of Greece is but half told without it."–London Guardian.

By JOHN BROWN PATTERSON. Edited from the Author's revision, by Professor PILLANS, of the University of Edinburgh. With a Sketch of his Life. Crown 8vo, 4s. 6d.

With Comparative Views of the Laws of France, England, and Scotland. By Lord MACKENZIE, one of the Judges of the Court of Session in Scotland. 8vo, 12s. Second Edition.

"We know not in the English language where else to look for a history of the Roman law so clear, and, at the same time, so short.... More improving reading, both for the general student and for the lawyer, we cannot well imagine; and there are few, even among learned professional men, who will not gather some novel information from Lord Mackenzie's simple pages."–London Review.

By the Rev. JAMES WHITE. Fourth Edition, with an Analytical Table of Contents, and a Copious Index. Post 8vo, 7s. 6d.

From St Benedict to St Bernard. By the COUNT DE MONTALEMBERT. Authorised Translation. 5 vols. 8vo, £2 12s. 6d.

From the Earliest Period to the Year 1848. By the Rev. JAMES WHITE, Author of 'The Eighteen Christian Centuries.' School Edition. Post 8vo, 6s.

"An excellent and comprehensive compendium of French history, quite above the standard of a school-book, and particularly well adapted for the libraries of literary institutions."–National Review.

Luther, Calvin, Latimer, and Knox. By the Rev. JOHN TULLOCH, D.D., Principal, and Primarius Professor of Theology, St Mary's College, St Andrews. Second Edition, crown 8vo, 6s. 6d.

Cromwell, Milton, Baxter, and Bunyan. By the Rev. JOHN TULLOCH, D.D. Uniform with the 'Leaders of the Reformation.' 7s. 6d.

By CHARLES WEISS, Professor of History at the Lycée Buonaparte. Translated by F. Hardman, Esq. 8vo, 14s.

From the Reformation to the Revolution Settlement. By the Very Rev. JOHN LEE, D.D., LL.D., Principal of the University of Edinburgh. Edited by the Rev. William Lee. 2 vols. 8vo, 21s.

To the Extinction of the last Jacobite Insurrection, 1689-1748. By JOHN HILL BURTON, Esq., Advocate. 2 vols. 8vo, reduced to 15s.

And English Princesses connected with the Regal Succession of Great Britain. By AGNES STRICKLAND. With Portraits and Historical Vignettes. Post 8vo, £4, 4s.

"Every step in Scotland is historical: the shades of the dead arise on every side; the very rocks breathe. Miss Strickland's talents as a writer, and turn of mind as an individual, in a peculiar manner fit her for painting a historical gallery of the most illustrious or dignified female characters in that land of chivalry and song."–Blackwood's Magazine.

Governor of the Castle of Edinburgh for Mary Queen of Scots. By JAMES GRANT, Esq. Post 8vo, 10s. 6d.

A New and Uniform Edition. Edited by Professor M'Crie. 4 vols. crown 8vo, 24s. Sold separately–viz.:

Life of John Knox. Containing Illustrations of the History of the Reformation in Scotland. Crown 8vo, 6s.

Life of Andrew Melville. Containing Illustrations of the Ecclesiastical and Literary History of Scotland in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Crown 8vo, 6s.

History of the Progress and Suppression of the Reformation in Italy in the Sixteenth Century. Crown 8vo, 4s.

History of the Progress and Suppression of the Reformation in Spain in the Sixteenth Century. Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d.

Relating to the Escape of Charles the Second after the Battle of Worcester, and his subsequent Adventures. Edited by J. Hughes, Esq., A.M. A New Edition, with additional Notes and Illustrations, including Communications from the Rev. R. H. Barham, Author of the 'Ingoldsby Legends.' In 8vo, with Engravings, 16s.

"'The Boscobel Tracts' is a very curious book, and about as good an example of single subject historical collections as may be found. Originally undertaken, or at least completed, at the suggestion of the late Bishop Copplestone, in 1827, it was carried out with a degree of judgment and taste not always found in works of a similar character."–Spectator.

With some Account of his Contemporaries, and of the War of the Succession. By Sir ARCHIBALD ALISON, Bart., D.C.L. Third Edition. 2 vols. 8vo, Portraits and Maps, 30s.

Or, An Inquiry into the Evidence of certain Passages in 'Macaulay's History of England' concerning–THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH–THE MASSACRE OF GLENCOE–THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND–VISCOUNT DUNDEE–WILLIAM PENN. By John Paget, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. In crown 8vo, 6s.

"We certainly never saw a more damaging exposure, and it is something worth notice that much of it appeared in 'Blackwood's Magazine' during the lifetime of Lord Macaulay, but he never attempted to make any reply. The charges are so direct, and urged in such unmistakable language, that no writer who valued his character for either accuracy of fact or fairness in comment would let them remain unanswered if he had any reason to give."–Gentleman's Magazine.

Minister of Inveresk. Containing Memorials of the Men and Events of his Time. Edited by John Hill Burton. In 8vo. Third Edition, with Portrait, 14s.

"This book contains by far the most vivid picture of Scottish life and manners that has been given to the public since the days of Sir Walter Scott. In bestowing upon it this high praise, we make no exception, not even in favour of Lord Cockburn's 'Memorials'–the book which resembles it most, and which ranks next to it in interest."–Edinburgh Review.

With Extracts from his Writings. By the Rev. GEORGE CROLY, D.D. 2 vols. post 8vo, 18s.

"Certainly one of the most extraordinary pieces of biography ever produced.... No library should be without it."–Lord Brougham.

"Never, perhaps, was there a more curious collection of portraits crowded before into the same canvass."–Times.

Professor of Divinity and Ecclesiastical History in the University of Edinburgh. By the Rev. A. H. CHARTERIS, M.A., Minister of Newabbey. With a Portrait. 8vo, price 10s. 6d.

By W. E. AYTOUN, D.C.L., Author of 'Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers,' &c. In 3 vols. post 8vo, 31s. 6d.

Library Edition. Printed from a large and readable type. In Volumes of a convenient and handsome form. 8vo, 5s. each–viz.:

"It is of the handiest of sizes; the paper is good; and the type, which seems to be new, is very clear and beautiful. There are no pictures. The whole charm of the presentment of the volume consists in its handiness, and the tempting clearness and beauty of the type, which almost converts into a pleasure the mere act of following the printer's lines, and leaves the author's mind free to exert its unobstructed force upon the reader."–Examiner.

"Nothing could be better as to size, type, paper, and general get-up."–Athenæum.

By the Lady RACHEL BUTLER. Second Edition. Small 8vo, with a Frontispiece, 2s. 6d.

The Sad Fortunes of Amos Barton–Mr Gilfil's Love-Story–Janet's Repentance. By GEORGE ELIOT. 2 vols. fcap. 8vo, 12s.

By Lieut.-Col. E. B. HAMLEY. Crown 8vo, with 13 Illustrations by the Author. 6s.

A New Edition. With Illustrations by Stanfield, Weir, Skelton, Walker, &c., Engraved by Whymper. Crown 8vo, 6s.

"Everybody who has failed to read 'Tom Cringle's Log' should do so at once. The 'Quarterly Review' went so far as to say that the papers composing it, when it first appeared in 'Blackwood,' were the most brilliant series of the time, and that time one unrivalled for the number of famous magazinists existing in it. Coleridge says, in his 'Table Talk,' that the 'Log' is most excellent; and these verdicts have been ratified by generations of men and boys, and by the manifestation of Continental approval which is shown by repeated translations. The engravings illustrating the present issue are excellent."–Standard.

"This story, so fresh, so powerfully written, and so tragic, stands out from among its fellows like a piece of newly-coined gold in a handful of dim commonplace shillings. Tales of pastoral experience and scenes from clerical life we have had in plenty, but the sacred things of the conventicle, the relative position of pastor and flock in a Nonconforming 'connection,' were but guessed at by the world outside, and terrible is the revelation."–Westminster Review.

Complete in 12 vols., bound in cloth, 18s. The Volumes are sold separately, 1s. 6d.; and may be had of most Booksellers, in Six Volumes, handsomely half-bound in red morocco.

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. The 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.

Vol. X. Antonio di Carara.–The Fatal Repast.–The Vision of Cagliostro.–The First and Last Kiss.–The Smuggler's Leap.–The Haunted and the Haunters.–The Duellists.

Vol. XI. The Natolian Story-Teller.–The First and Last Crime.–John Rintoul.–Major Moss.–The Premier and his Wife.

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.

Or, The History of Charles Douglas. By M. FRASER TYTLER, Author of 'Tales of the Great and Brave,' &c. A New Edition. Fcap. 8vo, 3s. 6d.

Edited by his Son-in-law, Professor Ferrier. In 12 vols. crown 8vo, £2, 8s. Illustrated with Portraits on Steel.

By Professor WILSON. Comprising 'The Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life;' 'The Trials of Margaret Lyndsay;' and 'The Foresters.' In 1 vol. crown 8vo, 4s. cloth.

"A book pleasant to look at and pleasant to read–pleasant from its rich store of anecdote, its geniality, and its humour, even to persons who care little for the subjects of which it treats, but beyond measure delightful to those who are in any degree members of the above-mentioned fraternity."–Saturday Review.

"We have not been more amused for a long time: and every reader who takes interest in typography and its consequences will say the same, if he will begin to read; beginning, he will finish, and be sorry when it is over."–Athenæum.

"Mr Burton has now given us a pleasant book, full of quaint anecdote, and of a lively bookish talk. There is a quiet humour in it which is very taking, and there is a curious knowledge of books which is really very sound."–Examiner.

"But of all the criticisms on Homer which I have ever had the good fortune to read, in our own or any language, the most vivid and entirely genial are those found in the 'Essays, Critical and Imaginative,' of the late Professor Wilson."–Mr Gladstone's Studies on Homer.

By the Rev. JOHN EAGLES. Originally published in 'Blackwood's Magazine.' 8vo, 10s. 6d.

"This volume, called by the appropriate name of 'The Sketcher,' is one that ought to be found in the studio of every English landscape-painter.... More instructive and suggestive readings for young artists, especially landscape-painters, can scarcely be found."–The Globe.

By the Rev. JOHN EAGLES, A.M. Oxon. Originally published in 'Blackwood's Magazine.' Post 8vo, 10s. 6d.

Contents:–Church Music, and other Parochials.–Medical Attendance, and other Parochials.–A few Hours at Hampton Court.–Grandfathers and Grandchildren.–Sitting for a Portrait.–Are there not Great Boasters among us?–Temperance and Teetotal Societies.–Thackeray's Lectures: Swift.–The Crystal Palace.–Civilisation: The Census.–The Beggar's Legacy.

"A wonderful performance–better than anything we as yet have in our own language."–Quarterly Review.

And the distinctive Character of his Sacred Compositions. Two Lectures. Delivered to the Members of the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution. By the Very Rev. DEAN RAMSAY, Author of 'Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character.' In crown 8vo, 3s. 6d.

From Commencement in 1817 to December 1861. Numbers 1 to 554, forming 90 Volumes. £31, 10s.

And other Poems. By W. EDMONDSTOUNE AYTOUN, D.C.L., Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh. Eighteenth Edition. Fcap. 8vo, 7s. 6d.

"Professor Aytoun's 'Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers'–a volume of verse which shows that Scotland has yet a poet. Full of the true fire, it now stirs and swells like a trumpet-note–now sinks in cadences sad and wild as the wail of a Highland dirge."–Quarterly Review.

"Professor Aytoun has produced a fine poem and an able argument, and 'Bothwell' will assuredly take its stand among the classics of Scottish literature."–The Press.

"No country can boast of a richer collection of Ballads than Scotland, and no Editor for these Ballads could be found more accomplished than Professor Aytoun. He has sent forth two beautiful volumes which range with 'Percy's Reliques'–which, for completeness and accuracy, leave little to be desired–which must henceforth be considered as the standard edition of the Scottish Ballads, and which we commend as a model to any among ourselves who may think of doing like service to the English Ballads."–Times.

Translated by Professor Aytoun and Theodore Martin. Second Edition. Fcap. 8vo, 6s.

"There is no doubt that these are the best translations of Goethe's marvellously-cut gems which have yet been published."–Times.

Edited by Bon Gaultier. Ninth Edition, with numerous Illustrations by Doyle, Leech, and Crowquill. Gilt edges, post 8vo, 8s. 6d.

"Humour of a kind most rare at all times, and especially in the present day, runs through every page, and passages of true poetry and delicious versification prevent the continual play of sarcasm from becoming tedious."–Literary Gazette.

By the Lady FLORA HASTINGS. Edited by her Sister. Second Edition, with a Portrait. Fcap., 7s. 6d.

Complete in 1 vol. royal 8vo, with Portrait by Finden. Cheap Edition, 12s. 6d. Another Edition, with MEMOIR by her Sister. Seven vols. fcap., 35s. Another Edition, in 6 vols., cloth, gilt edges, 24s.

The following Works of Mrs Hemans are sold separately, bound in cloth, gilt edges, 4s. each:–

Records of Woman. Forest Sanctuary. Songs of the Affections. Dramatic Works. Tales and Historic Scenes. Moral and Religious Poems.

Translated into English Verse in the Spenserian Stanza. By PHILIP STANHOPE WORSLEY, M.A., Scholar of Corpus Christi College. 2 vols. crown 8vo, 18s.

"Mr Worsley,–applying the Spenserian stanza, that beautiful romantic measure, to the most romantic poem of the ancient world–making the stanza yield him, too (what it never yielded to Byron), its treasures of fluidity and sweet ease–above all, bringing to his task a truly poetical sense and skill,–has produced a version of the 'Odyssey' much the most pleasing of those hitherto produced, and which is delightful to read."–Professor Arnold on Translating Homer.

By PHILIP STANHOPE WORSLEY, M.A., Scholar of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Fcap. 8vo, 5s.

With Portrait, and Memoir by Thomas Aird. Second Edition. 2 vols. fcap. 8vo, 12s.

"Of deep and hallowed impress, full of noble thoughts and graphic conceptions–the production of a mind alive to the great relations of being, and the sublime simplicity of our religion."–Blackwood's Magazine.

"There has been no modern poem in the English language, of the class to which the 'Course of Time' belongs, since Milton wrote, that can be compared to it. In the present instance the artistic talents of Messrs Foster, Clayton, Tenniel, Evans, Dalziel, Green, and Woods, have been employed in giving expression to the sublimity of the language, by equally exquisite illustrations, all of which are of the highest class."–Bell's Messenger.

Or, Illustrations of Parliamentary Oratory. A Poem. Comprising–Pym– Vane–Strafford–Halifax–Shaftesbury–St John–Sir R. Walpole–Chesterfield–Carteret–Chatham–Pitt–Fox–Burke–Sheridan–Wilberforce–Wyndham–Conway–Castlereagh–William Lamb (Lord Melbourne)–Tierney–Lord Grey–O'Connell–Plunkett–Shiel–Follett–Macaulay–Peel. Second Edition. Crown 8vo, 5s.

By WILLIAM STENHOUSE. Originally compiled to accompany the 'Scots Musical Museum,' and now published separately, with Additional Notes and Illustrations. 8vo, 7s. 6d.

Containing the 'Isle of Palms,' the 'City of the Plague,' 'Unimore,' and other Poems. Complete Edition. Crown 8vo, 4s.

"We are delighted to welcome into the brotherhood of real poets a countryman of Burns, and whose verse will go far to render the rougher Border Scottish a classic dialect in our literature."–John Bull.

By ALEXANDER KEITH JOHNSTON, F.R.S.E., &c., Geographer to the Queen for Scotland. A New and Enlarged Edition, consisting of 35 Folio Plates, and 27 smaller ones, printed in Colours, with 135 pages of Letterpress, and Index. Imperial folio, half-bound morocco, £8, 8s.

By ALEXANDER KEITH JOHNSTON, F.R.S.E., &c. Reduced from the Imperial Folio. This Edition contains Twenty-five Maps, including a Palæontological and Geological Map of the British Islands, with Descriptive Letterpress, and a very copious Index. In imperial 4to, half-bound morocco, £2, 12s. 6d.

"Executed with remarkable care, and is as accurate, and, for all educational purposes, as valuable, as the splendid large work (by the same author) which has now a European reputation."–Eclectic Review.

By Sir R. I. MURCHISON, D.C.L., F.R.S., &c., Director-General of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and Ireland; and JAMES NICOL, F.R.S.E., F.G.S., Professor of Natural History in the University of Aberdeen. Constructed by Alexander Keith Johnston, F.R.S.E., &c. Four Sheets imperial, beautifully printed in Colours. In Sheets, £3, 3s.; in a Cloth Case, 4to, £3, 10s.

including Tables of the Fossils of the different Epochs, &c. &c., from the Sketches and Notes of Professor Edward Forbes. With Illustrative and Explanatory Letterpress. 21s.

By JAMES NICOL, F.R.S.E., &c., Professor of Natural History in the University of Aberdeen. With Explanatory Notes. The Topography by Alexander Keith Johnston, F.R.S.E., &c. Scale, 10 miles to an inch. In Cloth Case, 21s.

By DAVID PAGE, F.R.S.E., &c. With Illustrations and a Glossarial Index. Crown 8vo, 2s.

By DAVID PAGE, F.R.S.E., F.G.S. With Engravings on Wood and Glossarial Index. Seventh Edition, 2s.

"It has not often been our good fortune to examine a text-book on science of which we could express an opinion so entirely favourable as we are enabled to do of Mr Page's little work."–Athenæum.

Descriptive and Industrial. By DAVID PAGE, F.R.S E., F.G.S. With Engravings and Glossary of Scientific Terms. Fourth Edition, revised and enlarged, 7s. 6d.

"It is therefore with unfeigned pleasure that we record our appreciation of his 'Advanced Text-Book of Geology.' We have carefully read this truly satisfactory book, and do not hesitate to say that it is an excellent compendium of the great facts of Geology, and written in a truthful and philosophic spirit."–Edinburgh Philosophical Journal.

Being a Sketch in Outline of the World's Life-System. By DAVID PAGE, F.R.S.E., F.G.S. Crown 8vo, 6s. With Fifty Illustrations, drawn and engraved expressly for this Work.

"Mr Page, whose admirable text-books of geology have already secured him a position of importance in the scientific world, will add considerably to his reputation by the present sketch, as he modestly terms it, of the Life-System, or gradual evolution of the vitality of our globe. In no manual that we are aware of have the facts and phenomena of biology been presented in at once so systematic and succinct a form, the successive manifestations of life on the earth set forth in so clear an order, or traced so vividly from the earliest organisms deep-buried in its stratified crust, to the familiar forms that now adorn and people its surface."–Literary Gazette.

A Progressive Series of Questions adapted to the Introductory and Advanced Text-Books of Geology. Prepared to assist Teachers in framing their Examinations, and Students in testing their own Progress and Proficiency. By DAVID PAGE, F.R.S.E., F.G.S. Third Edition, 1s.

A Government Survey; with a General View of the Geology of the United States, Essays on the Coal Formation and its Fossils, and a Description of the Coal-Fields of North America and Great Britain. By Professor HENRY DARWIN ROGERS, F.R.S., F.G.S., Professor of Natural History in the University of Glasgow. With Seven large Maps, and numerous Illustrations engraved on Copper and on Wood. In 3 vols. royal 4to, £8, 8s.

By GEORGE HENRY LEWES. Second Edition. Crown 8vo, with Illustrations, and a Glossary of Technical Terms, 6s. 6d.

By GEORGE HENRY LEWES, Author of 'Sea-side Studies,' &c. Illustrated with numerous Engravings. 2 vols., 12s.

By Professor J. F. W. JOHNSTON. A New Edition. Edited by G. H. LEWES. With 113 Illustrations on Wood, and a Copious Index. 2 vols. crown 8vo, 11s. 6d.

Applicable to the Arts and Natural Sciences, to Manufactures, and other Purposes of General Utility. By D. R. HAY, F.R.S.E. 228 Examples of Colours, Hues, Tints, and Shades. 8vo, £3, 3s.

By LAURENCE OLIPHANT, Private Secretary to Lord Elgin. Illustrated with numerous Engravings in Chromo-Lithography, Maps, and Engravings on Wood, from Original Drawings and Photographs. Second Edition. In 2 vols. 8vo, 21s.

"The volumes in which Mr Oliphant has related those transactions will be read with the strongest interest now, and deserve to retain a permanent place in the literary and historical annals of our time."–Edinburgh Review.

In the Autumn of 1852. With a Voyage down the Volga and a Tour through the Country of the Don Cossacks. By LAURENCE OLIPHANT, Esq. 8vo, with Map and other Illustrations. Fourth Edition, 14s.

With Explorations from Khartoum on the White Nile to the Regions of the Equator. By JOHN PETHERICK, F.R.G.S., Her Britannic Majesty's Consul for the Soudan. In 8vo, with a Map, 16s.

Agricultural, Economical, and Social. By Professor J. F. W. JOHNSTON. 2 vols. post 8vo, 21s.

"Professor Johnston's admirable Notes.... The very best manual for intelligent emigrants whilst to the British agriculturist and general reader it conveys a more complete conception of the condition of these prosperous regions than all that has hitherto been written."–Economist.

In a Series of entirely Original and Authentic Maps. By A. KEITH JOHNSTON, F.R.S.E., F.R.G.S., Author of the 'Physical Atlas,' &c. With a complete Index of easy reference to each Map, comprising nearly 150,000 Places contained in this Atlas. Imperial folio, half-bound in russia or morocco, £5, 15s. 6d. (Dedicated by permission to Her Majesty.)

"No one can look through Mr Keith Johnston's new Atlas without seeing that it is the best which has ever been published in this country."–The Times.

"Of the many noble atlases prepared by Mr Johnston and published by Messrs Blackwood & Sons, this Royal Atlas will be the most useful to the public, and will deserve to be the most popular."–Athenæum.

"We know no series of maps which we can more warmly recommend. The accuracy, wherever we have attempted to put it to the test, is really astonishing."–Saturday Review.

"The culmination of all attempts to depict the face of the world appears in the Royal Atlas, than which it is impossible to conceive anything more perfect."–Monday Herald.

"This is, beyond question, the most splendid and luxurious, as well as the most useful and complete, of all existing atlases."–Guardian.

"There has not, we believe, been produced for general public use a body of maps equal in beauty and completeness to the Royal Atlas just issued by Mr A. K. Johnston."–Examiner.

"An almost daily reference to, and comparison of it with others, since the publication of the first part some two years ago until now, enables us to say, without the slightest hesitation, that this is by far the most complete and authentic atlas that has yet been issued."–Scotsman.

Being an Index to nearly One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Names Of Places, &c.; with their Latitudes and Longitudes as given in Keith Johnston's 'Royal Atlas;' together with the Countries and Subdivisions of the Countries in which they are situated. In 1 vol. large 8vo., 21s.

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