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VOYAGES AND TRAVEL.

SCANDINAVIAN SKETCHES, Being Notes of Travel in the North of Europe. By Mark Antony Lower. I vol., crown 8vo. [Preparing.

ON THE ROAD TO KHIVA. By David Ker, late Khivan Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. Illustrated with characteristic Photographs of the Country and its Inhabitants, and a copy of the Official Map in use during the Campaign, from the Survey of CAPTAIN LEUSILIN. I vol. Post 8vo., 10s. 6d.

ROUGH NOTES OF A VISIT TO BELGIUM, SEDAN, AND PARIS, In September, 1870-71. By John Ashton. Crown 8vo, bevelled boards. Price 3s. 6d.

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THE ALPS OF ARABIA; or, Travels through Egypt, Sinai, Arabia, and the Holy Land. By William Charles Maughan. I vol. Demy 8vo,

with Map. Price 12s.

"Deeply interesting and valuable."— Edinburgh Review.

"A pleasant and agreeable book which will be read with much pleasure and profit." -Civil Service Gazette.

"Very readable and instructive. .

A work far above the average of such
publications."--John Bull.

"He writes freshly and with competent

knowledge."-Standard.

"We can safely recommend 'The Alps of Arabia' to our readers. It is easily and pleasantly written, and conveys a good deal of valuable information on various subjects connected with the localities passed through. Much sensible advice is given to intending travellers, who would find its perusal a beneficial preliminary to a tour in the East."-Glasgow News.

THE MISHMEE HILLS: an Account of a Journey made in an Attempt to Penetrate Tibet from Assam, to open New Routes for Commerce. By T. T. Cooper, author of "The Travels of a Pioneer of Commerce." Demy 8vo. With Four Illustrations and Map. Price 10s. 6d.

"The volume, which will be of great use in India and among Indian merchants here, contains a good deal of matter that

GOODMAN'S CUBA, THE PEARL
Walter Goodman. Crown 8vo.
"A good-sized volume, delightfully vivid
and picturesque.
Several chapters
devoted to the characteristics of the people
are exceedingly interesting and remarkable.
The whole book deserves the heartiest
commendation sparkling and amusing
from beginning to end. Reading it is like
rambling about with a companion who is
content to loiter, observing everything,
commenting upon everything, turning

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will interest ordinary readers. It is especially rich in sporting incidents."Standard.

OF THE ANTILLES. By 7s. 6d.

everything into a picture, with a cheerful flow of spirits, full of fun, but far above frivolity."-Spectator.

"He writes very lightly and pleasantly and brightens his pages with a good deal of humour. His experiences were varied enough, and his book contains a series or vivid and miscellaneous sketches. We can recommend his whole volume as very amusing reading."-Pall Mall Gazette.

65, Cornhill; & 12, Paternoster Row, London.

VOYAGES AND TRAVEL-continued.

FIELD AND FOREST RAMBLES OF A NATURALIST IN NEW BRUNSWICK. With Notes and Observations on the Natural History of Eastern Canada. By A. Leith Adams, M.A., &c., Author of "Wanderings of a Naturalist in India," &c., &c. In 8vo, cloth. Illustrated.

145.

"Will be found interesting by those who take a pleasure either in sport or natural history."-Athenæum.

"To the naturalist the book will be most valuable. To the general reader the book will prove most interesting, for the style is pleasant and chatty, and the infor mation given is so graphic and full, that

those who care nothing for natural history as a pursuit will yet read these descriptions with great interest."-Evening Standard.

"Both sportsmen and naturalists will find this work replete with anecdote and carefully-recorded observation, which will entertain them."-Nature.

TENT LIFE WITH ENGLISH GIPSIES IN NORWAY. By Hubert Smith. In 8vo, cloth. Five full-page Engravings, and 31 smaller Illustrations, with Map of the Country showing Routes. Second Edition. Revised and Corrected. Price 21s.

"If any of our readers think of scraping an acquaintance with Norway, let them read this book. The gypsies, always an interesting study, become doubly interesting, when we are, as in these pages, introduced to them in their daily walk and conversation."—Examiner.

FAYOUM; OR, ARTISTS IN EGYPT.
By J. Lenoir. Crown 8vo, cloth.
66 A pleasantly written and very readable
book."-Examiner.

"The book is very amusing. . . . Who

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"Written in a very lively style, and has throughout a smack of dry humour and satiric reflection which shows the writer to be a keen observer of men and things. We hope that many will read it and find in it the same amusement as ourselves."— Times.

Tour with M. Gérôme and others.
Illustrated. 7s. 6d.

ever may take it up will find he has with
him a bright and pleasant companion."-
Spectator.

SPITZBERGEN THE GATEWAY TO THE POLYNIA; or, A VOYAGE TO SPITZBERGEN. By Captain John C. Wells, R.N. In 8vo, cloth. Profusely Illustrated.

"Straightforward and clear in style, securing our confidence by its unaffected simplicity and good sense."—Saturday Review.

"A charming book, remarkably well written and well illustrated."-Standard.

AN AUTUMN TOUR IN THE

Price 21s.

"Blends pleasantly science with adventure, picturesque sketches of a summer cruise among the wild sports and fantastic scenery of Spitzbergen, with earnest advocacy of Arctic Exploration."-Graphic.

UNITED STATES AND

CANADA. By Lieut.-Colonel Julius George Medley. Crown

8vo. Price 5s.

"Colonel Medley's little volume is a pleasantly written account of a two-months' visit to America."-Hour.

"May be recommended as manly, sensible, and pleasantly written."-Globe.

THE NILE WITHOUT A DRAGOMAN.

By Frederic Eden.

Second Edition. In one vol. Crown 8vo, cloth. 7s. 6d.
"Should any of our readers care to
imitate Mr. Eden's example, and wish to
see things with their own eyes, and shift
for themselves, next winter in Upper Egypt,
they will find this book a very agreeable
guide."-Times.

"It is a book to read during an autumn holiday."-Spectator.

"Gives, within moderate compass, a suggestive description of the charms, curiosities, dangers, and discomforts of the Nile voyage."-Saturday Review.

65, Cornhill; & 12, Paternoster Row, London.

VOYAGES AND TRAVEL-continued.

ROUND THE WORLD IN 1870. A Volume of Travels, with Maps. By A. D. Carlisle, B.A., Trin. Coll., Camb. Demy 8vo. 165.

"Makes one understand how going round the world is to be done in the quickest and pleasantest manner."-Spectator.

"We can only commend, which we do very heartily, an eminently sensible and readable book."-British Quarterly Review.

IRELAND IN 1872. A Tour of Observation, with Remarks on Irish Public Questions. By Dr. James Macaulay. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d.

"A careful and instructive book. Full of facts, full of information, and full of interest."-Literary Churchman.

"We have rarely met a book on Ireland which for impartiality of criticism and general accuracy of information could be

so well recommended to the fair-minded Irish reader."- Evening Standard.

"A deeply interesting account of what is called a tour of observation, and some noteworthy remarks on Irish public questions."-Illustrated London News.

By J. S. Shepard, Author of "A Crown 8vo. Illustrated. Price 4s. 6d.

OVER THE DOVREFJELDS.
Ramble through Norway," &c.
"We have read many books of Nor-
wegian travel, but
we have seen
none so pleasantly narrative in its style,
and so varied in its subject."-Spectator.

"Is a well-timed book."-Echo.

"As interesting a little volume as could be written on the subject. So interesting and shortly written that it will commend itself to all intending tourists."-Examiner.

A WINTER IN MOROCCO. By Amelia Perrier. Large crown 8vo. Illustrated. Price 10s. 6d.

"Well worth reading, and contains
several excellent illustrations."-Hour.
"Miss Perrier is a very amusing writer.
She has a good deal of humour, sees the

oddity and quaintness of Oriental life with a quick observant eye, and evidently turned her opportunities of sarcastic examination to account."-Daily News.

SCIENCE.

THE QUESTIONS OF AURAL SURGERY. By James Hinton, Aural Surgeon to Guy's Hospital. Post 8vo.

[Preparing.

AN ATLAS OF DISEASES OF THE MEMBRANA TYMPANI.
With Descriptive Text. By James Hinton, Aural Surgeon to Guy's
Hospital. Post 8vo.
[Preparing.

PHYSIOLOGY FOR PRACTICAL USE. By various Writers. Edited by James Hinton. 2 vols. Crown 8vo.

These Papers have been prepared at great pains, and their endeavour is to familiarize the popular mind with those physio

With 50 illustrations.

logical truths which are needful to all who desire to keep the body in a state of health.

[In the Press.

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SCIENCE-continued.

THE PLACE OF THE PHYSICIAN. Being the Introductory Lecture at Guy's Hospital, 1873-4; to which is added

ESSAYS ON THE LAW OF HUMAN LIFE AND ON THE RELATION

BETWEEN ORGANIC AND INORGANIC WORLDS.

By James Hinton, Author of "Man and His Dwelling-Place." Crown 8vo, cloth. Price 3s. 6d.

MODERN PARISH CHURCHES; THEIR PLAN, DESIGN, AND FURNITURE. By J. T. Micklethwaite. Crown 8vo. Price 7s. 6d.

LONGEVITY; THE MEANS OF PROLONGING LIFE AFTER MIDDLE AGE. By Dr. John Gardner, Author of “A Handbook of Domestic Medicine," &c. Small Crown 8vo.

LITTLE DINNERS; HOW TO SErve them WITH ELEGANCE AND ECONOMY. By Mary Hooper, Author of "The Handbook of the Breakfast Table." I vol., crown 8vo. Price 5s. [In Press.

THE PRINCIPLES OF MENTAL PHYSIOLOGY. With their Applications to the Training and Discipline of the Mind, and the Study of its Morbid Conditions. By W. B. Carpenter, LL.D., M.D., F.R.S., &c. 8vo. Illustrated. Price 12s.

THE EXPANSE OF HEAVEN. A Series of Essays on the Wonders of the Firmament. By R. A. Proctor, B.A., author of "Other Worlds," &c. Small Crown 8vo. Price 6s.

"Perfectly adapted to their purposenamely, to awaken a love for science, and, at the same time, to convey in a pleasant manner the knowledge of some elementary facts."-Church Herald.

"A very charming work; cannot fail to lift the reader's mind up 'through nature's work to nature's God."-Standard. "Full of thought, readable, and popular." -Brighton Gazette.

STUDIES OF BLAST FURNACE PHENOMENA. By M. L. Gruner, President of the General Council of Mines of France.

Trans

lated by L. D. B. Gordon, F.R.S.E., F.G.S., &c. Demy 8vo. Price 75. 6d.

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SCIENCE-continued.

CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH PSYCHOLOGY. From the French of Professor Th. Ribot. An Analysis of the Views and Opinions of the following Metaphysicians, as expressed in their writings :

:

JAMES MILL, A. BAIN, JOHN STUART MILL, GEORGE H. LEWES, HERBERT SPENCER, SAMUEL BAILEY.

Large post 8vo. Price 9s.

THE HISTORY OF CREATION, a Popular Account of the Development of the Earth and its Inhabitants, according to the theories of Kant, Laplace, Lamarck, and Darwin. By Professor Ernst Hæckel, of the University of Jena. 8vo. With Coloured Plates and Genealogical Trees of the various groups of both plants and animals. [In the Press.

Second Edition.

CHANGE OF AIR AND SCENE. A Physician's Hints about Doctors, Patients, Hygiène, and Society; with Notes of Excursions for health in the Pyrenees, and amongst the Watering-places of France (Inland and Seaward), Switzerland, Corsica, and the Mediterranean. By Dr. Alphonse Donné. Large post 8vo. Price 95.

"6 'A very readable and serviceable book. The real value of it is to be found in the accurate and minute information given with regard to a large number of places which have gained a reputation on the

continent for their mineral waters."-Pall Mall Gazette.

"A singularly pleasant and chatty as well as instructive book about health."— Guardian.

MISS YOUMANS' FIRST BOOK OF BOTANY.

Designed to

cultivate the observing powers of Children. From the Author's latest Stereotyped Edition. New and Enlarged Edition, with 300 Engravings. Crown 8vo. 55.

"It is but rarely that a school-book appears which is at once so novel in plan, so successful in execution, and so suited to the general want, as to command universal and unqualified approbation, but such has been

the case with Miss Youmans' First Book
of Botany.
It has been everywhere
welcomed as a timely and invaluable con-
tribution to the improvement of primary
education."-Pall Mall Gazette.

AN ARABIC AND ENGLISH DICTIONARY OF THE KORAN. By Major J. Penrice, B.A. 4to. Price 215.

MODERN GOTHIC

Crown 8vo. Price 5s.

ARCHITECTURE.

"The reader will find some of the most important doctrines of eminent art teachers practically applied in this little book, which is well written and popular in style."-Manchester Examiner.

"Much clearness, force, wealth of illus

By T. G. Jackson.

tration, and in style of composition, which tends to commend his views."-Edinburgh Daily Review.

"This thoughtful little book is worthy of the perusal of all interested in art or architecture."—Standard.

65, Cornhill; & 12, Paternoster Row, London.

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