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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.

It is but rarely that a school-book appears
which is at once so novel in plan, so suc-
cessful 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. Her work is an outgrowth of

the most recent scientific views, and has
been practically tested by careful trial with
juvenile classes, and it has been everywhere
welcomed as a timely and invaluable con-
tribution to the improvement of primary

education.

THE HISTORY OF THE NATURAL CREA-
TION; being a Series of Popular Scientific Lectures on the General
Theory of Progression of Species; with a Dissertation on the Theories
of Darwin, Goethe, and Lamarck: 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.

AN ARABIC AND ENGLISH

DICTIONARY
OF THE KORAN. By MAJOR J. PENRICE, B.A. 4to.
Price 21s.

MODERN GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE.

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T. G. JACKSON. Crown 8vo. Price 5s.

Worthy of the perusal of all who are interested in art or architecture."-Standard.

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A LEGAL HANDBOOK FOR ARCHITECTS.
By EDWARD JENKINS and JOHN RAYMOND.
8vo. Price 5s.

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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.

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various Writers. Edited by JAMES HINTON. With 50 Illus-
trations.

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HEALTH AND DISEASE, as influenced by the Daily, Seasonal and other Cyclical Changes in the Human System. By DR. EDWARD SMITH, F.R.S. A New Edition. 7s. 6d.

PRACTICAL DIETARY FOR FAMILIES, SCHOOLS, AND THE LABOURING CLASSES. BY DR. EDWARD SMITH, F.R.S. A New Edition. Price 3s. 6d.

CONSUMPTION IN ITS EARLY & REMEDIABLE STAGES. By DR. EDWARD SMITH, F.R.S. A New Edition.

7s. 6d.

A TREATISE ON RELAPSING FEVER. By R. T. LYONS, Assistant-Surgeon, Bengal Army.

8vo. 7s. 6d.

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

IN QUEST OF COOLIES.

By JAMES L. A. HOPE.

A South Sea Sketch. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. With Price 6s.

"Lively and clever sketches."-Athe

15 Illustrations from Sketches by the Author. "Mr. Hope's description of the natives is graphic and amusing, and the book is altogether well worthy of perusal."Standard.

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THE NILE WITHOUT A DRAGOMAN. 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.

"We have in these pages the most minute description of life as it appeared on the banks of the Nile; all that could be

seen or was worth seeing in nature or in
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down.
It is a book to read during

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upon the most interesting features of nature and the most interesting characteristics of man, and all for its own sake."-Spectator.

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

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Military Works.

THE FRONTAL ATTACK OF INFANTRY. By Capt. LAYMANN, Instructor of Tactics at the Military College, Neisse. Translated by Colonel EDWARD NEWDIGATE. Crown 8vo, limp cloth. Price 2s. 6d.

"This work has met with special attention in our army."-Militarin Wochenblatt.

THE FIRST BAVARIAN ARMY CORPS IN THE WAR OF 1870-71, UNDER VON DER TANN. Compiled from the Official Records by Capt. HUGO HELVIG. Translated by Capt. G. SALIS SCHWABE. Demy 8vo. With 5 large Maps.

History of the Organisation, Equipment, and War Services of THE REGIMENT OF BENGAL ARTILLERY. Compiled from Published Official and other Records, and various private sources, by Major FRANCIS W. STUBBS, Royal (late Bengal) Artillery. Vol. I. will contain WAR SERVICES. The Second Volume will be published separately, and will contain the HISTORY of the ORGANISATION and EQUIPMENT of the REGIMENT. In 2 vols. 8vo. With Maps and Plans. [Preparing.

THE ABOLITION OF PURCHASE AND THE ARMY REGULATION BILL OF 1871. By Lieut.-Col. the Hon. A. ANSON, V.C., M. P. Crown 8vo. Price One Shilling.

THE STORY OF THE SUPERSESSIONS. By
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Price Sixpence.

ARMY RESERVES AND MILITIA REFORMS.
By Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. C. ANSON.
Price One Shilling.

Crown 8vo. Sewed.

An Attempt to

An Officer's Manual.

VICTORIES AND DEFEATS.
explain the Causes which have led to them.
By Col. R. P. ANDERSON. Demy 8vo. 145.

"A delightful military classic, and what is more a most useful one. The young officer should have it always at hand to open anywhere and read a bit, and we

warrant him that let that bit be ever so small it will give him material for an hours' thinking."—United Service Gazette.

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MILITARY WORKS-continued.

ELEMENTARY

MILITARY

GEOGRAPHY, RECONNOITRING, AND SKETCHING. Compiled for NonCommissioned Officers and Soldiers of all Arms. By Lieut. C. E. H. VINCENT, Royal Welsh Fusileers. Small crown 8vo. 2s. 6d. "An admirable little manual full of facts and teachings."-United Service Gazette. STUDIES

IN THE

NEW

INFANTRY

TACTICS. Parts I. & II. By Major W. VON SCHEREFF.
Translated from the German by Col. LUMLEY GRAHAM.

THE OPERATIONS OF THE FIRST ARMY TO THE CAPITULATION OF METZ. By Major VON SCHELL, with Maps, including one of Metz and of the country around. Translated by Capt. E. O. HOLLIST. In demy-8vo.

** The most important events described in this work are the battles of Spichern, those before Metz on the 14th and 18th August, and (on this point nothing authentic has yet been published) the history of the investment of Metz (battle of Noisseville).

This work, however, possesses a greater importance than that derived from these points, because it represents for the first

time from the official documents the generalship of Von Steinmetz. Hitherto we have had no exact reports on the deeds and motives of this celebrated general. This work has the special object of unfolding carefully the relations in which the commander of the First Army acted, the plan of operations which he drew up, and the manner in which he carried it out.

THE OPERATIONS OF THE FIRST ARMY
IN NORTHERN FRANCE AGAINST FAIDHERBE. By
Colonel COUNT HERMANN VON WARTENSLEBEN, Chief
of the Staff of the First Army. Translated by Colonel C. H. VON
WRIGHT. In demy 8vo. Uniform with the above.
Price 9s.

THE OPERATIONS OF THE FIRST ARMY,
UNDER GEN. VON GOEBEN. Translated by Col. C. H. VON
WRIGHT. With Maps. Demy 8vo.

TACTICAL DEDUCTIONS FROM THE WAR OF 1870-1. By Captain A. VON BOGUSLAWSKI. Trans-lated by Colonel LUMLEY GRAHAM, late 18th (Royal Irish) Regiment. Demy 8vo. Uniform with the above. Price 75. "Major Boguslawski's tactical deductions from the war are, that infantry still preserve their superiority over cavalry, that open order must henceforth be the main principles of all drill, and that the chassepot is the best of all small arms for precision. We must, without delay, impress brain and forethought into the

British Service; and we cannot commence the good work too soon, or better, than by placing the two books (The Operations of the German Armies' and 'Tactical Deductions') we have here criticised, in every military library, and introducing them as class-books in every tactical school."United Service Gazette.

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MILITARY WORKS-continued.

THE OPERATIONS OF THE GERMAN ARMIES IN FRANCE, FROM SEDAN TO THE END OF THE WAR OF 1870-1. With Large Official Map. From the Journals of the Head-quarters Staff, by Major WM. BLUME. Translated by E. M. JONES, Major 20th Foot, late Professor of Military History, Sandhurst. Demy 8vo. Price 9s. "The book is of absolute necessity to the military student. The work is one of high merit and has the advantage

of being rendered into fluent English, and is accompanied by an excellent military map.' -United Service Gazette.

The work of translation has been well done; the expressive German idioms have been rendered into clear, nervous English without losing any of their original force; and in notes, prefaces, and introductions, much additional information has been given."-Athenæum.

English dress forms the most valuable addition to our stock of works upon the war that our press has put forth. Major Blume writes with a clear conciseness much wanting in many of his country's historians, and Major Jones has done himself and his original alike justice by his vigorous yet correct translation of the excellent volume on which he has laboured. Our space forbids our doing more than commending it earnestly as the most authentic and instructive narrative of the second section of the war that has yet appeared."-Saturday Review.

"The work of Major von Blume in its THE OPERATIONS OF THE SOUTH ARMY IN JANUARY AND FEBRUARY, 1871. Compiled from the Official War Documents of the Head-quarters of the Southern Army. By COUNT HERMANN VON WARTENSLEBEN, Colonel in the Prussian General Staff. Translated by Colonel C. H. VON WRIGHT. Demy 8vo, with Maps. Uniform with the above. Price 6s.

HASTY

INTRENCHMENTS.

BRIALMONT.
EMPSON, RA.

A.

By Colonel A. Translated by Lieutenant CHARLES Demy 8vo. Nine Plates. Price 6s. "A valuable contribution to military to how a position can best be strengthened literature."-Athenæum. by means. of such extemporised intrenchments and batteries as can be thrown up by infantry in the space of four or five hours deserves to become a standard military work."-Standard.

"In seven short chapters it gives plain directions for performing shelter-trenches, with the best method of carrying the necessary tools, and it offers practical illustrations of the use of hasty intrenchments on the field of battle."-United Service Magazine.

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"A clever treatise, short, practical and clear."-Investor's Guardian.

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Clearly and critically written"-Wellington Gazette.

"It supplies that which our own textbooks give but imperfectly, viz., hints as THE ARMY OF THE

NORTH-GERMAN CONFEDERATION. A Brief Description of its Organisation, of the different Branches of the Service and their Rôle' in War, of its Mode of Fighting, &c. By a PRUSSIAN GENERAL. Translated from the German by Col. EDWARD NEWDIGATE. Demy 8vo.

5s.

**The authorship of this book was erroneously ascribed to the renowned General von Moltke, but there can be little doubt that it was written under his immediate inspiration.

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