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Title: Catalogue of Messrs Blackwood and Sons' Publications Author: William Blackwood and Sons Release date: April 4, 2013 [eBook #42468] Language: English Credits: Produced by Julia Miller, Nirupma and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CATALOGUE OF MESSRS BLACKWOOD AND SONS' PUBLICATIONS *** Produced by Julia Miller, Nirupma and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Transcriber's Note: A book catalogue published in 1868 as a part of The Handy Horse-Book by Maurice Hartland Mahon. The sections have been re-ordered to place the main catalogue first. CATALOGUE OF MESSRS BLACKWOOD AND SONS' _PUBLICATIONS_. _HISTORY OF EUROPE_, 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. ANOTHER EDITION, in Crown 8vo, 20 vols., £6. 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._ _CONTINUATION OF ALISON'S HISTORY OF EUROPE_, 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. A PEOPLE'S EDITION, in 8 vols., closely printed in double columns, £1, 14s. _EPITOME OF ALISON'S HISTORY OF EUROPE._ For the Use of Schools and Young Persons. Fifteenth Edition, 7s. 6d., bound. _ATLAS TO ALISON'S HISTORY OF EUROPE_; 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. _LIVES OF LORD CASTLEREAGH AND SIR CHARLES STEWART_, 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. _ANNALS OF THE PENINSULAR CAMPAIGNS._ By CAPT. THOMAS HAMILTON. A New Edition. Edited by F. HARDMAN, Esq. 8vo, 16s.; and Atlas of Maps to illustrate the Campaigns, 12s. _A VISIT TO FLANDERS AND THE FIELD OF WATERLOO._ By JAMES SIMPSON, Advocate. A Revised Edition. With Two Coloured Plans of the Battle. Crown 8vo, 5s. _WELLINGTON'S CAREER_: A Military and Political Summary. By LIEUT.-COL. E. BRUCE HAMLEY, Professor of Military History and Art at the Staff College. Crown 8vo, 2s. _THE STORY OF THE CAMPAIGN OF SEBASTOPOL._ 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._ _THE INVASION OF THE CRIMEA_: 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. _TEN YEARS OF IMPERIALISM IN FRANCE._ Impressions of a "Flâneur." Second Edition. In 8vo, price 9s. "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._ _FLEETS AND NAVIES._ By CAPTAIN CHARLES HAMLEY, R.M. Originally published in 'Blackwood's Magazine.' Crown 8vo, 6s. _HISTORY OF GREECE UNDER FOREIGN DOMINATION._ By GEORGE FINLAY, LL.D., Athens--viz.: 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. GREECE UNDER OTHOMAN AND VENETIAN DOMINATION. A.D. 1453 to 1821. 10s. 6d. HISTORY OF THE GREEK REVOLUTION. 2 vols. 8vo, £1, 4s. "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._ _THE NATIONAL CHARACTER OF THE ATHENIANS._ 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. _STUDIES IN ROMAN LAW._ 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._ _THE EIGHTEEN CHRISTIAN CENTURIES._ By the REV. JAMES WHITE. Fourth Edition, with an Analytical Table of Contents, and a Copious Index. Post 8vo, 7s. 6d. _THE MONKS OF THE WEST_, From St Benedict to St Bernard. By the COUNT DE MONTALEMBERT. Authorised Translation. 5 vols. 8vo, £2 12s. 6d. _HISTORY OF FRANCE_, 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._ _LEADERS OF THE REFORMATION_: 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. _ENGLISH PURITANISM AND ITS LEADERS_: CROMWELL, MILTON, BAXTER, and BUNYAN. By the REV. JOHN TULLOCH, D.D. Uniform with the 'Leaders of the Reformation.' 7s. 6d. _HISTORY OF THE FRENCH PROTESTANT REFUGEES._ By CHARLES WEISS, Professor of History at the Lycée Buonaparte. Translated by F. HARDMAN, Esq. 8vo, 14s. _HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND_, 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. _HISTORY OF SCOTLAND FROM THE REVOLUTION_ To the Extinction of the last Jacobite Insurrection, 1689-1748. By JOHN HILL BURTON, Esq., Advocate. 2 vols. 8vo, reduced to 15s. _LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF SCOTLAND_, 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._ _MEMORIALS OF THE CASTLE OF EDINBURGH._ By JAMES GRANT, Esq. A New Edition. In Crown 8vo, with 12 Engravings, 3s. 6d. _MEMOIRS OF SIR WILLIAM KIRKALDY OF GRANGE_, Governor of the Castle of Edinburgh for Mary Queen of Scots. By JAMES GRANT, Esq. Post 8vo, 10s. 6d. _MEMOIRS OF SIR JOHN HEPBURN_, Marshal of France under Louis XIII., &c. By JAMES GRANT, Esq. Post 8vo, 8s. _WORKS OF THE REV. THOMAS M'CRIE, D.D._ 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. _THE BOSCOBEL TRACTS_; 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._ _LIFE OF JOHN DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH._ 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. _THE NEW 'EXAMEN;'_ 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._ _AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE REV. DR CARLYLE_, 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._ _MEMOIR OF THE POLITICAL LIFE OF EDMUND BURKE._ With Extracts from his Writings. By the REV. GEORGE CROLY, D.D. 2 vols. post 8vo, 18s. _CURRAN AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES._ By CHARLES PHILLIPS, Esq., A.B. A New Edition. Crown 8vo, 7s. 6d. "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._ _MEMOIR OF MRS HEMANS._ By her SISTER. With a Portrait. Fcap. 8vo, 5s. _LIFE OF THE LATE REV. JAMES ROBERTSON, D.D., F.R.S.E._, 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. _ESSAYS; HISTORICAL, POLITICAL, AND MISCELLANEOUS._ By SIR ARCHIBALD ALISON, Bart. 3 vols. demy 8vo, 45s. _ESSAYS IN HISTORY AND ART._ By R. H. PATTERSON. Viz.: COLOUR IN NATURE AND ART--REAL AND IDEAL BEAUTY--SCULPTURE--ETHNOLOGY OF EUROPE--UTOPIAS--OUR INDIAN EMPIRE--THE NATIONAL LIFE OF CHINA--AN IDEAL ART-CONGRESS--BATTLE OF THE STYLES--GENIUS AND LIBERTY--YOUTH AND SUMMER--RECORDS OF THE PAST: NINEVEH AND BABYLON--INDIA: ITS CASTES AND CREEDS--"CHRISTOPHER NORTH:" IN MEMORIAM. In 1 vol. 8vo, 12s. _NORMAN SINCLAIR._ By W. E. AYTOUN, D.C.L., Author of 'Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers,' &c. In 3 vols. post 8vo, 31s. 6d. _THE OLD BACHELOR IN THE OLD SCOTTISH VILLAGE._ By THOMAS AIRD. Fcap. 8vo, 4s. _SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON'S NOVELS._ Library Edition. Printed from a large and readable type. In Volumes of a convenient and handsome form. 8vo, 5s. each--viz.: THE CAXTON NOVELS, 10 Volumes: The Caxton Family. 2 vols. My Novel. 4 vols. What will he do with it? 4 vols. HISTORICAL ROMANCES, 11 Volumes: Devereux. 2 vols. The Last Days of Pompeii. 2 vols. Rienzi. 2 vols. The Siege of Grenada. 1 vol. The Last of the Barons. 2 vols. Harold. 2 vols. ROMANCES, 5 Volumes: The Pilgrims of the Rhine. 1 vol. Eugene Aram. 2 vols. Zanoni. 2 vols. NOVELS OF LIFE AND MANNERS, 15 Volumes: Pelham. 2 vols. The Disowned. 2 vols. Paul Clifford. 2 vols. Godolphin 1 vol. Ernest Maltravers--First Part. 2 vols. Ernest Maltravers--Second Part (_i.e._ Alice.) 2 vols. Night and Morning. 2 vols. Lucretia. 2 vols. "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._ _JESSIE CAMERON: A HIGHLAND STORY._ By the LADY RACHEL BUTLER. Second Edition. Small 8vo, with a Frontispiece, 2s. 6d. _SOME PASSAGES IN THE LIFE OF ADAM BLAIR_, And History of Matthew Wald. By the Author of 'Valerius.' Fcap. 8vo, 4s. cloth. _CAPTAIN CLUTTERBUCK'S CHAMPAGNE_: A West Indian Reminiscence. Post 8vo, 12s. _SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE._ The Sad Fortunes of Amos Barton--Mr Gilfil's Love-Story--Janet's Repentance. By GEORGE ELIOT. 2 vols. Fcap. 8vo, 12s. _ADAM BEDE._ By GEORGE ELIOT. 2 vols. Fcap. 8vo, 12s. _THE MILL ON THE FLOSS._ By GEORGE ELIOT. 2 vols. Fcap. 8vo, 12s. _SILAS MARNER: THE WEAVER OF RAVELOE._ By GEORGE ELIOT. Fcap. 8vo, 6s. _THE NOVELS OF GEORGE ELIOT._ Cheap Edition, complete in 3 vols., price 6s. each--viz.: ADAM BEDE. THE MILL ON THE FLOSS. SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE, and SILAS MARNER. _ANNALS OF THE PARISH, AND AYRSHIRE LEGATEES._ By JOHN GALT. Fcap. 8vo, 4s. cloth. _SIR ANDREW WYLIE._ By JOHN GALT. Fcap. 8vo, 4s. cloth. _THE PROVOST, AND OTHER TALES._ By JOHN GALT. Fcap. 8vo, 4s. cloth. _THE ENTAIL._ By JOHN GALT. Fcap. 8vo, 4s. cloth. _THE YOUTH AND MANHOOD OF CYRIL THORNTON._ By CAPTAIN HAMILTON. Fcap. 8vo, 4s. cloth. _LADY LEE'S WIDOWHOOD._ By LIEUT.-COL. E. B. HAMLEY. Crown 8vo, with 13 Illustrations by the Author. 6s. _THE LIFE OF MANSIE WAUCH_, Tailor in Dalkeith. By D. M. MOIR. Fcap. 8vo, 3s. cloth. _NIGHTS AT MESS, SIR FRIZZLE PUMPKIN, AND OTHER TALES._ Fcap. 8vo, 3s. cloth. _KATIE STEWART: A TRUE STORY._ By MRS OLIPHANT. Fcap. 8vo, with Frontispiece and Vignette. 4s. _PEN OWEN._ Fcap. 8vo, 4s. cloth. _PENINSULAR SCENES AND SKETCHES._ Fcap. 8vo, 3s. cloth. _REGINALD DALTON._ By the Author of 'Valerius.' Fcap. 8vo, 4s. cloth. _LIFE IN THE FAR WEST._ By G. F. RUXTON, Esq. Second Edition. Fcap. 8vo, 4s. _TOM CRINGLE'S LOG._ 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._ _TOM CRINGLE'S LOG._ Fcap. 8vo, 4s. cloth. _THE CRUISE OF THE MIDGE._ By the Author of 'Tom Cringle's Log.' Fcap. 8vo, 4s. cloth. _CHAPTERS ON CHURCHYARDS._ By MRS SOUTHEY. Fcap. 8vo, 7s. 6d. _THE SUBALTERN._ By the Author of the 'The Chelsea Pensioners.' Fcap. 8vo, 3s. cloth. _CHRONICLES OF CARLINGFORD: SALEM CHAPEL._ Second Edition. Complete in 1 vol., price 5s. "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._ _CHRONICLES OF CARLINGFORD: THE RECTOR, AND THE DOCTOR'S FAMILY._ Post 8vo, price 4s. _THE PERPETUAL CURATE._ Complete in one vol. 8vo, price 6s. _TALES FROM BLACKWOOD._ 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. CONTENTS. 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. _THE WONDER-SEEKER_; 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. _VALERIUS: A ROMAN STORY._ Fcap. 8vo, 3s. cloth. _THE DIARY OF A LATE PHYSICIAN._ By SAMUEL WARREN, D.C.L. 1 vol. Crown 8vo, 5s. 6d. _TEN THOUSAND A-YEAR._ By SAMUEL WARREN, D.C.L. 2 vols. Crown 8vo, 9s. _NOW AND THEN._ By SAMUEL WARREN, D.C.L. Crown 8vo, 2s. 6d. _THE LILY AND THE BEE._ By SAMUEL WARREN, D.C.L. Crown 8vo, 2s. _MISCELLANIES._ By SAMUEL WARREN, D.C.L. Crown 8vo, 5s. _WORKS OF SAMUEL WARREN, D.C.L._ Uniform Edition. 5 vols. Crown 8vo, 24s. _WORKS OF PROFESSOR WILSON._ Edited by his Son-in-law, Professor FERRIER. In 12 vols. Crown 8vo, £2, 8s. Illustrated with Portraits on Steel. _RECREATIONS OF CHRISTOPHER NORTH._ By PROFESSOR WILSON. In 2 vols. Crown 8vo, 8s. _THE NOCTES AMBROSIANÆ._ By PROFESSOR WILSON. With Notes and a Glossary. In 4 vols. Crown 8vo, 16s. _LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF SCOTTISH LIFE._ By PROFESSOR WILSON. Fcap. 8vo, 3s. cloth. _THE TRIALS OF MARGARET LYNDSAY._ By PROFESSOR WILSON. Fcap. 8vo, 3s. cloth. _THE FORESTERS._ By PROFESSOR WILSON. Fcap. 8vo, 3s. cloth. _TALES._ 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. _ESSAYS, CRITICAL AND IMAGINATIVE._ By PROFESSOR WILSON. 4 vols. Crown 8vo, 16s. _TONY BUTLER._ Originally published in 'Blackwood's Magazine.' 3 vols. post 8vo, £1, 11s. 6d. _THE BOOK-HUNTER, ETC._ By JOHN HILL BURTON. New Edition. In Crown 8vo, 7s. 6d. "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._ _HOMER AND HIS TRANSLATORS_, And the Greek Drama. By PROFESSOR WILSON. Crown 8vo, 6s. "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._ _THE SKETCHER._ 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._ _ESSAYS._ 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. _ESSAYS; HISTORICAL, POLITICAL, AND MISCELLANEOUS._ By SIR ARCHIBALD ALISON, Bart., D.C.L. Three vols., demy 8vo, 45s. _LECTURES ON THE POETICAL LITERATURE OF THE PAST HALF-CENTURY._ By D. M. MOIR. Third Edition. Fcap. 8vo, 5s. "Exquisite in its taste and generous in its criticisms."--_Hugh Miller._ _LECTURES ON THE HISTORY OF LITERATURE_, Ancient and Modern. From the German of F. SCHLEGEL. Fcap., 5s. "A wonderful performance--better than anything we as yet have in our own language."--_Quarterly Review._ _THE GENIUS OF HANDEL_, And the distinctive Character of his Sacred Compositions. Two Lectures. 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