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VOYAGES AND TRAVEL.

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

Price 3s. 6d.

This little volume derives its chief interest from the accurate descriptions of the scenes visited during the recent struggle on the Continent.

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 10s. 6d.

A volume of simple "impressions de voyage' "-but written in pleasant and interesting style. 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. Illustrated.

THE PEARL OF THE ANTILLES; THE ARTIST IN CUBA. By Walter Goodman. Crown 8vo. 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 of vivid and miscellaneous sketches. We can recommend his whole volume as very amusing reading."-Pall Mall Gazette.

"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 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.

"The descriptions are clear and full of interest, while the book is prevented from degenerating into a mere scientific catalogue by many graphic sketches of the rambles."-John Bull.

"To the naturalist the book will be most valuable. . . . To the general reader the TENT LIFE WITH ENGLISH Hubert Smith. In 8vo, cloth. smaller Illustrations, with Map of the

"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.

book will prove most interesting, for the style is pleasant and chatty, and the information 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. GIPSIES IN NORWAY. By Five full-page Engravings, and 31 Country showing Routes. Price 215.

"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.

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

VOYAGES AND TRAVEL-continued.

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

"The book is very amusing. . . . Who

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

SPITZBERGEN THE GATEWAY

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

TO THE POLYNIA; OR, A VOYAGE TO SPITZBERGEN. By Captain John C. Wells, R.N.

In 8vo, cloth. Profusely Illustrated.

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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.

By Frederic Eden. 7s. 6d. "It is a book to read during an autumn holiday."-Spectator.

THE NILE WITHOUT A DRAGOMAN.
Second Edition. In one vol. Crown 8vo, cloth.
"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.

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

ROUND THE WORLD IN 1870.
By A. D. Carlisle, B.A., Trin. Coll., Camb. Demy 8vo.
"Makes one understand how going
round the world is to be done in the
quickest and pleasantest manner."-Spec-
tator.

A Volume of Travels, with Maps.

16s.

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

view.

IRELAND IN 1872. A Tour of Observation,
Questions. By Dr. James Macaulay.
"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 OVER THE DOVREFJELDS. Ramble through Norway," &c.

with Remarks on Irish Public
Crown 8vo.
7s. 6d.

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.

"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.

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

SCIENCE.

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. [Immediately.

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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. [Shortly.

STUDIES OF BLAST FURNACE PHENOMENA. By M. L. Gruner, President of the General Council of Mines of France. Translated by L. D. B. Gordon, F.R.S.E., F.G.S., &c. Demy 8vo. Price 7s. 6d.

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These are some important practical studies by one of the most eminent metallurgical authorities of the Continent.

LEGAL

HANDBOOK

FOR

ARCHITECTS.

By Edward

Jenkins and John Raymond, Esqrs., Barristers-at-Law. In I vol.
Price 6s.

The Publishers are assured that this book will constitute an invaluable and necessary companion for every architect's and builder's table, as well as a useful in

troduction for architects' pupils to the practical law of their profession.

Dedicated by special permission to the Royal Institution of British Architects.

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.

PHYSIOLOGY FOR PRACTICAL USE. By various Eminent writers.

Edited by James Hinton. 2 vols.

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

Crown 8vo. With 50 illustrations. logical truths which are needful to all who desire to keep the body in a state of health.

[In the Press.

THE PLACE OF THE PHYSICIAN. 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. Limp cloth.

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SCIENCE-continued.

THE HISTORY OF THE NATURAL CREATION, Being a Series of Popular Scientific Lectures on the General Theory of Progression of Species; with a Dissertation on the Theories of Darwin and Goethe; more especially applying them to the Origin of Man, and to other Fundamental Questions of Natural Science connected therewith. By Professor Ernst Hæckel, of the University of Jena. 8vo. With Woodcuts and Plates. [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 9s.

"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. 5s.

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AN ARABIC AND ENGLISH DICTIONARY OF THE KORAN. By Major J. Penrice, B.A. 4to. Price 21s.

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.

A TREATISE ON RELAPSING FEVER. By R. T. Lyons, Assistant-Surgeon, Bengal Army. Small post 8vo. 7s. 6d.

"A practical work thoroughly supported in its views by a series of remarkable cases."-Standard.

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SCIENCE-continued.

FOUR WORKS BY DR. EDWARD SMITH.

I. HEALTH AND DISEASE, as influenced by the Daily, Seasonal and other Cyclical Changes in the Human System. A New Edit. 7s. 6d.

II. FOODS. Second Edition, Profusely Illustrated. Price 5s.

III. PRACTICAL DIETARY FOR FAMILIES, SCHOOLS, AND THE LABOURING CLASSES: A New Edit. Price 3s. 6d.

IV. CONSUMPTION IN ITS EARLY AND REMEDIABLE STAGES. A New Edit. 7s. 6d.

THE PORT OF REFUGE; or, CounSEL AND AID TO SHIPMASTERS IN DIFFICULTY, DOUBT, OR DISTRESS. By Manley Hopkins, Author of "A Handbook of Average,' ," "A Manual of Insurance," &c. Cr. 8vo.

Price 6s.

SUBJECTS:-The Shipmaster's Position and Duties.-Agents and Agency.-Average.Bottomry, and other Means of Raising Money.-The Charter-Party, and Bill-of-Lading. Stoppage in Transitu; and the Shipowner's Lien.-Collision.

"Combines in quite a marvellous manner a fullness of information which will make it perfectly indispensable in the captain's bookcase, and equally suitable to the gentleman's library. This synopsis of the law of shipping in all its multifarious ramifications and the hints he gives on a variety of topics must be invaluable to the master

mariner whenever he is in doubt, difficulty, and danger."-Mercantile Marine Magazine.

"A truly excellent contribution to the literature of our marine commerce. "-Echo.

"Those immediately concerned will find it well worth while to avail themselves of its teachings."-Colburn's U.S. Magazine.

LOMBARD STREET. A Description of the Money Market. By Walter

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TREAT IT.

CHOLERA: HOW TO AVOID AND Popular and Practical Notes by Henry Blanc, M.D. Crown 8vo. 4s. 6d.

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

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