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The Black Country and its Green Border Land; or, Expeditions and Explorations round Birmingham, Wolverhampton, &c. By Elihu Burritt. 8vo. cloth, price 12s.

A Walk from London to John O'Groats, and from London to the Land's End and Back. With Notes by the Way. By Elihu Burritt. Two vols. price 6s. each, with Illustrations.

"No one can take up this book without reading it through. We had thought that Elihu Burritt's Walk to John O'Groat's House' was the most perfect specimen of its kind that had ever seen the light, so genial, lively, and practical were the details he had brought together; but he has beaten his former literary production out of the field by this additional evidence of acuteness, impartiality, and good sound sense.”—Bell's Weekly Messenger.

The Voyage Alone; a Sail in the " Yawl, Rob Roy." By John M'Gregor, Author of " A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe." With Illustrations. Price 5s.

A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe, on Rivers and Lakes of Europe. By John M'Gregor, M.A. Fifth edition. With a Map, and numerous Illustrations. Fcap. 8vo. cloth. Price 5s.

The Rob Roy on the Baltic. A Canoe Voyage in Norway, Sweden, &c. By John Macgregor, M.A. With a Map and numerous Illustrations. Fcap. 8vo. Price 5s.

NEW BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.

TORIES of the Gorilla Country, narrated for Young People, by Paul Du Chaillu, author of "Discoveries in Equatorial Africa," &c. Small post 8vo. with 36 original Illustrations, 6s.

"It would be hard to find a more interesting book for boys than this.”—

Times.

"Young people will obtain from it a very considerable amount of information touching the manners and customs, ways and means of Africans, and of course great amusement in the accounts of the Gorilla. The book is really a meritorious work, and is elegantly got up."-Athenæum.

Life amongst the North and South American Indians. By George Catlin. And Last Rambles amongst the Indians beyond the Rocky Mountains and the Andes. With numerous Illustrations by the Author. 2 vols. small post 8vo. 5s. each, cloth extra.

"An admirable book, full of useful information, wrapt up in stories peculiarly adapted to rouse the imagination and stimulate the curiosity of boys and girls. To compare a book with Robinson Crusoe,' and to say that it sustains such comparison, is to give it high praise indeed."Athenæum.

The Marvels of Optics. By F. Marion. Translated and edited by C. W. Quin. With 60 Illustrations. Cloth extra. 5s.

"A most instructive and entertaining volume, comprising not only a carefully-written and popular account of the phenomena of vision and the laws of light, as illustrated by the latest discoveries and experiments of our wise men, but a history of Natural Magic" from its earliest to its latest wonders."-Observer.

Thunder and Lightning.

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From the French of De Fonvielle, by D. T. L. Phipson. With 38 full-page Woodcuts. 5s.

Alwyn Morton; his School and his Schoolfellows.

A Story of

St. Nicholas' Grammar School. Illustrated. Fcap. 8vo. 5s. The Silver Skates; a Story of Holland Life. Edited by W. H. G. Kingston. Illustrated, small post 8vo. cloth extra, 3s. 6d.

The Voyage of the Constance; a tale of the Polar Seas. By Mary Gillies. New Edition, with 8 Illustrations by Charles Keene. Feap.

3s. 6d.

The Boy's Own Book of Boats. A Description of every Craft that sails upon the waters; and how to Make, Rig, and Sail Model Boats, by W. H. G. Kingston, with numerous Illustrations by E. Weedon. Second edition, enlarged. Feap. 8vo. 3s. 6d.

"This well-written, well-wrought book."-Athenæum.

Also by the same Author,

Ernest Bracebridge; or, Boy's Own Book of Sports. 3s. 6d.
The Fire Ships. A Story of the Days of Lord Cochrane. 5s.
The Cruise of the Frolic. 5s.

Jack Buntline: the Life of a Sailor Boy. 28.

The True History of Dame Perkins and her Grey Mare, and their run with the Hounds. Told for the Countryside and the Fireside. By Linden Meadows. With Fight Coloured Illustrations by Phiz. Small 4to. cloth, 5s.

Great Fun Stories. Told by Thomas Hood and Thomas Archer to 48 coloured pictures of Edward Wehnert. Beautifully printed in colours, 10s. 6d. Plain, 6s. well bound in cloth, gilt edges.

Or in Eight separate books, 1s. each, coloured. 6d. plain.

The Cherry-coloured Cat. The Live Rocking-Horse. Master Mischief. Cousin Nellie. Harry High-Stepper. Grandmamma's Spectacles. How the House was Built. Dog Toby.

Great Fun and More Fun for our Little Friends. By Harriet Myrtle. With Edward Wehnert's Pictures. 2 vols. each 5s.

A Book of Laughter for Young and Old.

Including the

A Bushel of Merry-Thoughts, by Wilhelm Busch.
Naughty Boys of Corinth, the Children that took the Sugar Cake, Ice
Peter, &c. Annotated and Ornamented by Harry Rogers, plain 2s 6d. ;
coloured 3s. 6d.

Under the Waves; or the Hermit Crab in Society. By Annie E. Ridley. Impl. 16mo. cloth extra, with coloured illustration. 4s.; gilt edges, 4s. 6d.

Also beautifully Illustrated:

Little Bird Red and Little Bird Blue. Coloured, 5s.

Cloth,

Snow-Flakes, and what they told the Children. Coloured, 5s.
Child's Book of the Sagacity of Animals. 5s.; or coloured, 7s. 6d.
Child's Picture Fable Book. 5s.; or coloured, 7s. 6d.

Child's Treasury of Story Books. 5s.; or coloured, 7s. 6d.

The Nursery Playmate. 200 Pictures. 5s. ; or coloured, 9s.

Golden Hour; a Story for Young People. By Sir Lascelles Wraxall, Bart. With Eight full page Illustrations, 5s.

Also, same price, full of Illustrations:

Black Panther; a Boy's Adventures among the Red Skins.

Stanton Grange; or, Boy Life at a Private Tutor's. By the Rev. C. J.
Atkinson.

Paul Duncan's Little by Little; a Tale for Boys. Frank Freeman. With an Illustration by Charles Keene. cloth 2s.; gilt edges, 2s. 6d: Also, same price,

Edited by
Fcap. 8vo.

Boy Missionary; a Tale for Young People. By Mrs. J. M. Parker.
Difficulties Overcome. By Miss Brightwell.

The Babes in the Basket: a Tale in the West Indian Insurrection.
Jack Buntline; the Life of a Sailor Boy. By W. H. G. Kingston.

The Swiss Family Robinson; or, the Adventures of a Father and
Mother and Four Sons on a Desert Island. With Explanatory Notes and
Illustrations. First and Second Series. New Edition, complete in one
volume, 3s. 6d.

Geography for my Children. By Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," &c. Arranged and Edited by an English Lady, under the Direction of the Authoress. With upwards of Fifty Illustrations. Cloth extra, 4s. 6d.

Stories of the Woods; or, the Adventures of Leather-Stocking: A Book for Boys, compiled from Cooper's Series of "Leather-Stocking Tales." Fcap. cloth, Illustrated, 5s.

Child's Play. Illustrated with Sixteen Coloured Drawings by E. V. B., printed in fac-simile by W. Dickes' process, and ornamented with Initial Letters. New edition, with India paper tints, royal 8vo. cloth extra, bevelled cloth, 7s. 6d. The Original Edition of this work was published at One Guinea.

BELLES LETTRES, FICTION, &c.

AVID GRAY; and other Essays, chiefly on Poetry.
By Robert Buchanan, author of London Poems," "North
Coast," &c. In one vol. fcap. 8vo. price 6s.

"The book is one to possess as well as read, not only for the biographical essay on David Gray,—an essay of much more than deep interest, of rare power, and a strange unimpassioned pathos,but also for certain passages of fine original criticism, occurring in essaysthickly sprinkled, we admit, with foreign substances-on poetry, and the religion and aims which modern poets should put before them."-Spectator. The Book of the Sonnet; being Selections, with an Essay on Sonnets and Sonneteers. By the late Leigh Hunt. Edited, from the original MS. with Additions, by S. Adams Lee. 2 vols. price 18s. "Reading a book of this sort should make us feel proud of our language and of our literature, and proud also of that cultivated common nature which can raise so many noble thoughts and images out of this hard, sullen world into a thousand enduring forms of beauty. The Book of the Sonnet' should be a classic, and the professor as well as the student of English will find it a work of deep interest and completeness."-London Review. English and Scotch Ballads, &c. An extensive Collection. Designed as a Complement to the Works of the British Poets, and embracing nearly all the Ancient and Traditionary Ballads both of England and Scotland, in all the important varieties of form in which they are extant, with Notices of the kindred Ballads of other Nations. Edited by F. J. Child, new Edition, revised by the Editor. 8 vols. fcap. cloth, 3s. 6d. each. The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. By Oliver Wendell Holmes, LL.D. Popular Edition, 1s. Illustrated Edition, choicely printed, cloth extra, 6s.

The Professor at the Breakfast Table. By Oliver Wendell Holmes, Author of "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table." Cheap Edition fcap 3s. 6d.

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A welcome book. It may be taken up again and again, and its pages paused over for the enjoyment of the pleasant touches and suggestive passages which they contain."-Athenæum.

The Guardian Angel: a Romance. By the Author of "The
Autocrat of the Breakfast Table." Second Edition. 2 vols. post 8vo.
Bee-Keeping. By "The Times" Bee-master.
Small post 8vo.
numerous Illustrations, cloth, 5s.

"Our friend the Bee-master has the knack of exposition, and knows how to tell a story well; over and above which, he tells a story so that thousands can take a practical, and not merely a speculative interest in it." -Times.

The Rooks' Garden, and other Papers. By Cuthbert Bede, Author of "The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green." Cheap Edition. Post 8vo. cloth, gilt edges. 3s. 6d.

The White Wife; with other stories, Supernatural, Romantic and Legendary. Collected and Illustrated by Cuthbert Bede. Post 8vo. cloth, 6s. Cheap Edition, fancy boards, 2s. 6d.

Under the Waves; or the Hermit Crab in Society. By Annie E. Ridley. Impl. 16mo. cloth extra, with coloured illustration 4s.; gilt edges, 4s. 6d.

Also beautifully Illustrated:

Little Bird Red and Little Bird Blue. Coloured, 5s.

Cloth,

Snow-Flakes, and what they told the Children. Coloured, 5s.
Child's Book of the Sagacity of Animals. 5s.; or coloured, 7s. 6d.
Child's Picture Fable Book. 5s.; or coloured, 7s. 6d.

Child's Treasury of Story Books. 5s.; or coloured, 7s. 6d.

The Nursery Playmate. 200 Pictures. 5s.; or coloured, 9s.

Golden Hour; a Story for Young People. By Sir Lascelles Wraxall, Bart. With Eight full page Illustrations, 5s.

Also, same price, full of Illustrations:

Black Panther; a Boy's Adventures among the Red Skins.

Stanton Grange; or, Boy Life at a Private Tutor's. By the Rev. C. J.
Atkinson.

Paul Duncan's Little by Little; a Tale for Boys.

Edited by

Frank Freeman. With an Illustration by Charles Keene. Fcap. 8v cloth 2s.; gilt edges, 2s. 6d: Also, same price,

Boy Missionary; a Tale for Young People. By Mrs. J. M. Parker.
Difficulties Overcome. By Miss Brightwell.

The Babes in the Basket: a Tale in the West Indian Insurrection.
Jack Buntline; the Life of a Sailor Boy. By W. H. G. Kingston.

The Swiss Family Robinson; or, the Adventures of a Father
Mother and Four Sons on a Desert Island. With Explanatory Notes su
Illustrations. First and Second Series. New Edition, complete in
volume, 3s. 6d.

Geography for my Children. By Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stow
Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," &c. Arranged and Edited by an i
lish Lady, under the Direction of the Authoress. With upwards of i
Illustrations. Cloth extra, 4s. 6d.

Stories of the Woods; or, the Adventures of Leather-Stocki-
A Book for Boys, compiled from Cooper's Series of "Leather-Ste
Tales." Fcap. cloth, Illustrated, 5s.

Child's Play. Illustrated with Sixteen Coloured Drawing
E. V. B., printed in fac-simile by W. Dickes' process, and orna
with Initial Letters. New edition, with India paper tints, rev
cloth extra, bevelled cloth, 7s. 6d. The Original Edition of th
was published at One Guinea,

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