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What may be called its manipulation is exceedingly able, inasmuch as it is told in an autobiographical form; and yet it exhibits the thoughts, feelings, ideas, andtemptations of a woman of varied and interesting characteristics."- Morning Post. "We congratulate Sydney Mostyn on the production of a deeply interesting work, full of manly thoughts, admirable reflections, and sparkling humour. The work is aptly named, and we can assure its author we shall experience no perplexity when others from his pen lie on our table."-Public Opinion. 66 "Shows much lucidity, much power of portraiture, and no inconsiderable sense of humour."-Examiner. "The literary workmanship is good, and the story forcibly and graphically told."-Daily News. "Written with very considerable power, the plot is original and worked out with great cleverness and sustained interest.” Standard. VII. CRUEL AS THE GRAVE. By the COUNTESS von Bothmer. Three vols., crown 8vo. 66 Jealousy is cruel as the Grave." . "The Wise Man's motto is prefixed to an interesting, though somewhat tragic story, by the Countess von Bothmer. Her German prince, with his chivalrous affection, his disinterested patriotism, and his soldierlike sense of duty, is no unworthy type of a national character which has lately given the world many instances of old-fashioned heroism."-Athenæum. "This graceful story-tender and gay, with the sweetest tenderness and the brightest gaiety,-whether pathetic or satirical, is always natural and never dull."-Morning Post. “An agreeable, unaffected, and eminently readable novel.”—Daily News. VIII. HER TITLE OF HONOUR. By HOLME LEE. One vol., crown 8vo. (Second Edition.) "It is unnecessary to recommend tales of Holme Lee's, for they are well known, and all more or less liked. But this book far exceeds even our favourites, Sylvan Holt's Daughter, Kathie Brande, and Thorney Hall, because with the interest of a pathetic story is united the value of a definite and high purpose."- Spectator. “We need scarcely say of a book of Holme Lee's writing, that it is carefully finished and redolent of a refined and beautiful soul. We have no more accomplished or conscientious literary artist."--British Quarterly. "A most exquisitely written story."-Literary Churchman. 66 65, Cornhill, London. June, 1872. THE INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC SERIES. MESSRS. HENRY S. KING & Co. have the pleasure to announce that under the above title they intend to issue a SERIES of POPULAR TREATISES, embodying the results of the latest investigations in the various departments of Science at present most prominently before the world. The character and scope of the Series will be best indicated by a reference to the names and subjects included in the following List; from which it will be seen that the co-operation of many of the most distinguished Professors in England, America, Germany, and France has been already secured. Although these Works are not specially designed for the instruction of beginners, still, as they are intended to address the non-scientific public, they will be, as far as possible, explanatory in character, and free from technicalities. The object of each author will be to bring his subject as near as he can to the general reader. The Series will also be published simultaneously in New York by Messrs. D. Appleton & Co.; in Paris by M. Germer Baillière; and in Leipzig by Messrs. Brockhaus. The volumes will be crown 8vo size, well printed on good paper, strongly and elegantly bound, and will sell in this country at a price not exceeding Five Shillings. A first List of Authors and Subjects is appended; but several of the titles are provisional. The first volume, by Professor JNO. TYNDALL, F.R.S., entitled "THE FORMS OF WATER IN RAIN AND RIVERS, ICE AND GLACIERS," is now in the Press, and will be published in the Autumn. It is impossible at present to give a definite announcement of the order of publication; but it is expected that besides Professor Tyndall's book the following will be issued during the present year:— THE PRINCIPLES OF PHYSICS AND POLITICS. Professor T. H. HUXLEY, LL.D., F.R.S. BODILY MOTION AND CONSCIOUSNESS. Dr. W. B. CARPENTER, LL.D., F.R.S. THE PRINCIPLES OF MENTAL PHYSIOLOGY. Sir JOHN LUBBOCK, Bart., F.R.S. THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN. Professor RUDOLPH VIRCHOW (of the University of Berlin). Professor ALEXANDER BAIN, LL.D. Professor BALFOUR STEWART, LL.D., F.R.S. WALTER BAGEHOT, Esq. PHYSICS AND POLITICS. Dr. H. CHARLTON BASTIAN, M.D., F.R.S. HERBERT SPENCER, Esq. THE STUDY OF SOCIOLOGY. Professor WILLIAM ODLING, F.R.S. THE NEW CHEMISTRY. Professor W. THISELTON DYER, B.A., B.Sc. FORM AND HABIT IN FLOWERING PLANTS. Dr. EDWARD SMITH, F.R.S. FOOD. Professor W. KINGDON CLIFFORD, M.A. THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF THE EXACT SCIENCES Mr. J. N. LOCKYER, F.R.S. SPECTRUM ANALYSIS. W. LAUDER LINDSAY, M.D., F.R.S.E. Dr. J. B. PETTIGREW, M.D., F.R.S. WALKING, SWIMMING, AND FLYING. Professor A. C. RAMSAY, LL.D., F.R.S. EARTH SCULPTURE: Hills, Valleys, Mountains, Plains, Professor JOHN TYNDALL, LL.D., F.R.S. THE FORMS OF WATER IN RAIN AND RIVERS, ICE Dr. HENRY MAUDSLEY. RESPONSIBILITY IN DISEASE. Professor W. STANLEY JEVONS. PROTOPLASM AND THE CELL THEORY. Rev. M. J. BERKELEY, M.A., F.L.S. FUNGI: their Nature, Influences, and Uses. Professor CLAUDE BERNARD (of the College of France). PHYSICAL AND METAPHYSICAL PHENOMENA OF LIFE. Professor A. QUETELET (of the Brussels Academy of (Sciences). SOCIAL PHYSICS. Professor H. SAINTE CLAIRE DEVILLE. AN INTRODUCTION TO GENERAL CHEMISTRY. Professor WURTZ. ATOMS AND THE ATOMIC THEORY. Professor D. QUATREFAGES. THE NEGRO RACES. Professor LACAZE-DUTHIERS. Professor BERTHELOT. CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS. Professor J. ROSENTHAL (of the University of Berlin). (Subject not yet received). Professor JAMES D. DANA, M.A., LL.D. On CEPHALIZATION; or, Head-Characters in the Gradation and Progress of Life. Professor S. W. JOHNSON, M.A. ON THE NUTRITION OF PLANTS. Professor AUSTIN FLINT, Jr., M.D. THE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND ITS RELATION TO THE Professor W. D. WHITNEY. MODERN LINGUISTIC SCIENCE. |