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Adams (W. Davenport), Works by:


Carr of Carrlyon.

Confidences.


Alexander (Mrs.), Novels by:


The Evolutionist at Large. Second Edition, revised.
Vignettes from Nature.
Colin Clout’s Calendar.


Artemus Ward:


A History of the Chap-Books of the Eighteenth Century. With nearly 400 Illustrations, engraved in facsimile of the originals.

Social Life In the Reign of Queen Anne. From Original Sources. With nearly 100 Illustrations.

Humour, Wit, and Satire of the Seventeenth Century. With nearly 100 Illustrations.


English Surnames: Their Sources and Significations. Third Ed., revised.

Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature.


Bechstein.—As Pretty as Seven, and other German Stories. Collected by Ludwig Bechstein. With Additional Tales by the Brothers Grimm, and 100 Illusts. by Richter. Small 4to, green and gold, 6s. 6d.; gilt edges, 7s. 6d.


Belgravia for 1886.—One Shilling Monthly. Illustrated by P. Macnab.—The first Chapters of Mohawks, a New Novel by M. E. Braddon, Author of “Lady Audley’s Secret,” appeared in the January Number, and the Story will be continued throughout the year. This Number contained also the Opening Chapters of a New Novel entitled That other Person; and several of those short stories for which Belgravia is famous.


A Ballad History of England.

Songs for Sailors.


Ready-Money Mortiboy.
With Harp and Crown.
This Son of Vulcan.
My Little Girl.
The Case of Mr. Lucraft.
The Golden Butterfly.
By Celia’s Arbour.
The Monks of Thelema.
’Twas In Trafalgar’s Bay.
The Seamy Side.
The Ten Years’ Tenant.
The Chaplain of the Fleet.


All Sorts and Conditions of Men: An Impossible Story. With Illustrations by Fred. Barnard.
The Captains’ Room, &c. With Frontispiece by E. J. Wheeler.
All In a Garden Fair. With 6 Illusts. By H. Furniss.
Dorothy Forster. With Frontispiece By Charles Green.
Uncle Jack, and other Stories.


Felicia.

Kitty.


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Academy Notes, separate years, from 1875 to 1885, each 1s.

Academy Notes, 1886. With numerous Illustrations. 1s.

Academy Notes, 1880-84. Complete in One Volume, with about 700 Facsimile Illustrations. Cloth limp, 6s.

Grosvenor Notes, 1877. 6d.
Grosvenor Notes, separate years, from 1878 to 1885, each 1s.
Grosvenor Notes, 1886. With numerous Illustrations. 1s.
Pictures at South Kensington. With 70 Illusts. 1s. [New Edit. preparing.]
The English Pictures at the National Gallery. 114 Illustrations. 1s.
The Old Masters at the National Gallery. 128 Illustrations. 1s. 6d.


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Canters In Crampshire.

Leaves from a Hunting Journal. Colored in facsimile of the originals.


Camp Notes: Stories of Sport and Adventure in Asia, Africa, and America.

Savage Life: Adventures of a Globe-Trotter.


Braddon (M. E.)—Mohawks, a Novel, by Miss Braddon, Author of “Lady Audley’s Secret,” was begun in Belgravia for January, and will be continued throughout the year. Illustrated by P. Macnab. 1s. Monthly.


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The Book of Orm.
White Rose and Red: A Love Story.
Idylls and Legends of Inverburn.
Selected Poems of Robert Buchanan. With a Frontispiece by T. Dalziel.

The Hebrid Isles: Wanderings in the Land of Lorne and the Outer Hebrides. With Frontispiece by William Small.

A Poet’s Sketch-Book: Selections from the Prose Writings of Robert Buchanan.


The Shadow of the Sword.
A Child of Nature. With a Frontispiece.
God and the Man. With Illustrations by Fred. Barnard.
The Martyrdom of Madeline. With Frontispiece by A. W. Cooper.
Love Me for Ever. With a Frontispiece by P. Macnab.
Annan Water.
The New Abelard.
Foxglove Manor.
Matt: A Story of a Caravan.


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Sweet Anne Page.
Transmigration.
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Blacksmith and Scholar.
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You Play Me False.


Sweet and Twenty.

Frances.


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Queen of Hearts. Illustrated by Sir John Gilbert.
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Man and Wife. Illust. by W. Small.
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The Law and the Lady. Illustrated by S. L. Fildes and Sydney Hall.
The Two Destinies.
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The Fallen Leaves.
Jezebel’s Daughter.
The Black Robe.
Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time.
“I Say. No.”


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Demonology and Devil-Lore. Two Vols., royal 8vo, with 65 Illusts., 28s.


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Nights at the Play: A View of the English Stage.


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In the Hebrides. With Autotype Facsimile and numerous full-page Illustrations.

In the Himalayas and on the Indian Plains. With numerous Illustrations.


One Thousand Medical Maxims.

Nursery Hints: A Mother’s Guide.


Our Lady of Tears.

Circe’s Lovers.


Sketches by Boz.
Pickwick Papers.
Nicholas Nickleby.
Oliver Twist.


Dictionaries:


Literary Frivolities, Fancies, Follies, and Frolics.

Poetical Ingenuities and Eccentricities.


Ben Jonson’s Works. With Notes Critical and Explanatory, and a Biographical Memoir by Wm. Gifford. Edit. by Col. Cunningham. 3 Vols.

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Marlowe’s Works. Including his Translations. Edited, with Notes and Introduction, by Col. Cunningham. One Vol.

Massinger’s Plays. From the Text of William Gifford. Edited by Col. Cunningham. One Vol.


Fletcher’s (Giles, B.D.) Complete Poems. One Vol.
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Herrick’s (Robert) Complete Collected Poems. Three Vols.
Sidney’s (Sir Philip) Complete Poetical Works. Three Vols.


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The Chemical History of a Candle: Lectures delivered before a Juvenile Audience at the Royal Institution. Edited by William Crookes, F.C.S. With numerous Illustrations.

On the Various Forces of Nature, and their Relations to each other: Lectures delivered before a Juvenile Audience at the Royal Institution. Edited by William Crookes, F.C.S. With numerous Illustrations.


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Bella Donna.
Never Forgotten.
The Second Mrs. Tillotson.
Polly.
Seventy-five Brooke Street.
The Lady of Brantome.


One by One.
Queen Cophetua.
A Real Queen.


Circus Life and Circus Celebrities.
The Lives of the Conjurers.
The Old Showmen and the Old London Fairs.


A Year’s Work In Garden and Greenhouse: Practical Advice to Amateur Gardeners as to the Management of the Flower, Fruit, and Frame Garden. By George Glenny.

Our Kitchen Garden: The Plants we Grow, and How we Cook Them. By Tom Jerrold.

Household Horticulture: A Gossip about Flowers. By Tom and Jane Jerrold. Illustrated.

The Garden that Paid the Rent. By Tom Jerrold.


Gentleman’s Magazine (The) for 1886. One Shilling Monthly. In addition to the Articles upon subjects in Literature, Science, and Art, for which this Magazine has so high a reputation, “Science Notes,” by W. Mattieu Williams, F.R.A.S., and “Table Talk,” by Sylvanus Urban, appear monthly.


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For Lack of Gold.
What will the World Say?
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Queen of the Meadow.
Braes of Yarrow.
The Flower of the Forest.
A Heart’s Problem.
The Golden Shaft.
Of High Degree.
Fancy Free.


For the King.
In Pastures Green.
In Love and War.
By Mead and Stream.
Heart’s Delight.[Preparing.]


Loving a Dream.

A Hard Knot.


Dr. Austin’s Guests.
The Wizard of the Mountain.
James Duke, Costermonger.


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Bayard Taylor’s Diversions of the Echo Club.
Bennett’s (Dr. W. C.) Ballad History of England.
Bennett’s (Dr.) Songs for Sailors.
Byron’s Don Juan.
Godwin’s (William) Lives of the Necromancers.
Holmes’s Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. Introduction by Sala.
Holmes’s Professor at the Breakfast Table.
Hood’s Whims and Oddities. Complete. All the original Illustrations.
Irving’s (Washington) Tales of a Traveller.
Jesse’s (Edward) Scenes and Occupations of a Country Life.
Lamb’s Essays of Ella. Both Series Complete in One Vol.

Leigh Hunt’s Essays: A Tale for a Chimney Corner, and other Pieces. With Portrait, and Introduction by Edmund Ollier.

Mallory’s (Sir Thomas) Mort d’Arthur: The Stories of King Arthur and of the Knights of the Round Table. Edited by B. Montgomerie Ranking.

Pascal’s Provincial Letters. A New Translation, with Historical Introduction and Notes, by T. M’Crie, D.D.

Pope’s Poetical Works. Complete.

Rochefoucauld’s Maxims and Moral Reflections. With Notes, and Introductory Essay by Sainte-Beuve.

St. Pierre’s Paul and Virginia, and The Indian Cottage. Edited, with Life, by the Rev. E. Clarke.

Shelley’s Early Poems, and Queen Mab. With Essay by Leigh Hunt.
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Greenaway (Kate) and Bret Harte.—The Queen of the Pirate Isle. By Bret Harte. With 25 original Drawings by Kate Greenaway, Reproduced in Colours by E. Evans. Sm. 4to, bds., 5s. [Shortly.]


The Wilds of London.

Low-Life Deeps: An Account of the Strange Fish to be Found There.


New Symbols.
Legends of the Morrow.
The Serpent Play.


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Animals and their Masters.

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The Garden that Paid the Rent.
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Crowns and Coronations: A History of Regalia in all Times and Countries. With One Hundred Illustrations.


A Drawn Game.

“The Wearing of the Green.”


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Forensic Anecdotes.

Theatrical Anecdotes.


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Witch Stories.
The True Story of Joshua Davidson.
Ourselves: Essays on Women.


Patricia Kemball.
The Atonement of Leam Dundas.
The World Well Lost.
Under which Lord?
With a Silken Thread.
The Rebel of the Family.
“My Love!”
Ione.


Longfellow’s Complete Prose Works. Including “Outre Mer,” “Hyperion,” “Kavanagh,” “The Poets and Poetry of Europe,” and “Driftwood.” With Portrait and Illustrations by Valentine Bromley.

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Miss Misanthrope.
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The Comet of a Season.
Maid of Athens.


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Through Brittany. With numerous Illustrations by T. R. Macquoid.


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Lost Rose.


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Open! Sesame!

Written In Fire.


A Harvest of Wild Oats.
A Little Stepson.
Fighting the Air.


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A Journey Round My Room. By Xavier de Maistre. Translated by Henry Attwell.
Latter-Day Lyrics. Edited by W. Davenport Adams.
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The Agony Column of “The Times,” from 1800 to 1870. Edited, with an Introduction, by Alice Clay.

Melancholy Anatomised: A Popular Abridgment of “Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy.”
Gastronomy as a Fine Art. By Brillat-Savarin.
The Speeches of Charles Dickens.
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Poetical Ingenuities and Eccentricities. Selected and Edited by W. T. Dobson.
The Cupboard Papers. By Fin-Bec.

Original Plays by W. S. Gilbert, First Series. Containing: The Wicked World—Pygmalion and Galatea—Charity—The Princess—The Palace of Truth—Trial by Jury.

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Songs of Irish Wit and Humour. Collected and Edited by A. Perceval Graves.
Animals and their Masters. By Sir Arthur Helps.
Social Pressure. By Sir A. Helps.
Curiosities of Criticism. By Henry J. Jennings.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. By Oliver Wendell Holmes. Illustrated by J. Gordon Thomson.
Pencil and Palette. By Robert Kempt.

Little Essays: Sketches and Characters. By Chas. Lamb. Selected from his Letters by Percy Fitzgerald.

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Theatrical Anecdotes. By Jacob Larwood.
Jeux d’Esprit. Edited by Henry S. Leigh.
True History of Joshua Davidson. By E. Lynn Linton.
Witch Stories. By E. Lynn Linton.
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Pastimes and Players. By Robert Macgregor.
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Muses of Mayfair. Edited by H. Cholmondeley-Pennell.
Thoreau: His Life and Aims. By H. A. Page.
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The Bath In Diseases of the Skin.

The Laws of Life, and their Relation to Diseases of the Skin.


A Life’s Atonement.
A Model Father.
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Coals of Fire.
By the Gate of the Sea.
Val Strange.
Hearts.
The Way of the World.
A Bit of Human Nature.


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Cynic Fortune: A Tale of a Man with a Conscience. With a Frontispiece by R. Caton Woodville.


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The Primrose Path.

The Greatest Heiress In England.


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Held In Bondage.
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Moths.
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Bimbi.
In Maremma.
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Frescoes.
Princess Napraxine.


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Paul Ferroll: A Novel.

Why Paul Ferroll Killed his Wife.


Lost Sir Massingberd.
The Best of Husbands.
Walter’s Word.
Halves.
What He Cost Her.
Less Black than we’re Painted.
By Proxy.
Under One Roof.
High Spirits.
Carlyon’s Year.
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Murphy’s Master.
Fallen Fortunes.
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At Her Mercy.
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Cecil’s Tryst.
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The Family Scapegrace.
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Found Dead.
Gwendoline’s Harvest.
Humorous Stories.
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A Marine Residence.
Married Beneath Him.
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Not Wooed, but Won.
Two Hundred Pounds Reward.


Puck on Pegasus. With Illustrations.
Pegasus Re-Saddled. With Ten full-page Illusts. by G. Du Maurier.
The Muses of Mayfair. Vers de Société, Selected and Edited by H. C. Pennell.


Beyond the Gates. By the Author of “The Gates Ajar.”
An Old Maid’s Paradise.
Burglars In Paradise. [Shortly.]


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Valentina.
The Foreigners.
Mrs. Lancaster’s Rival.


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Peg Woffington. Illustrated by S. L. Fildes, A.R.A.
Christie Johnstone. Illustrated by William Small.
It Is Never Too Late to Mend. Illustrated by G. J. Pinwell.
The Course of True Love Never did run Smooth. Illustrated by Helen Paterson.

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Love me Little, Love me Long. Illustrated by M. Ellen Edwards.
The Double Marriage. Illust. by Sir John Gilbert, R.A., and C. Keene.
The Cloister and the Hearth. Illustrated by Charles Keene.
Hard Cash. Illust. by F. W. Lawson.
Griffith Gaunt. Illustrated by S. L. Fildes, A.R.A., and Wm. Small.
Foul Play. Illust. by Du Maurier.
Put Yourself In His Place. Illustrated by Robert Barnes.
A Terrible Temptation. Illustrated by Edw. Hughes and A. W. Cooper.

The Wandering Heir. Illustrated by H. Paterson, S. L. Fildes, A.R.A., C. Green, and H. Woods, A.R.A.

A Simpleton. Illustrated by Kate Crauford.
A Woman-Hater. Illustrated by Thos. Couldery.
Singleheart and Doubleface: A Matter-of-fact Romance. Illustrated by P. Macnab.

Good Stories of Men and other Animals. Illustrated by E. A. Abbey, Percy Macquoid, and Joseph Nash.

The Jilt, and other Stories. Illustrated by Joseph Nash.

Readiana. With a Steel-plate Portrait of Charles Reade.


Her Mother’s Darling.
The Prince of Wales’s Garden Party.
Weird Stories.


The Uninhabited House.
Fairy Water.
The Mystery In Palace Gardens.


Our Old Country Towns. With over 50 Illustrations.
Rambles Round Eton and Harrow. With 50 Illustrations.
About England with Dickens. With 58 Illustrations by Alfred Rimmer and C. A. Vanderhoof.


Women are Strange.

The Hands of Justice.


The Poets’ Birds.
The Poets’ Beasts.
Poets’ Natural History. [Preparing.]


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Puniana: Riddles and Jokes. With numerous Illustrations.

More Puniana. Profusely Illustrated.


Skippers and Shellbacke.

Grace Balmaign’s Sweetheart.


Round the Galley-Fire.

On the Fo’k’sle Head: A Collection of Yarns and Sea Descriptions.


In the Middle Watch.

A Voyage to the Cape.


Bound to the Wheel.
One Against the World.
Guy Waterman.
The Lion In the Path.
The Two Dreamers.


Joan Merryweather.
Margaret and Elizabeth.
The High Mills.


Heart Salvage.
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Mrs. Gainsborough’s Diamonds. By Julian Hawthorne.
Kathleen Mavourneen. By Author of “That Lass o’ Lowrie’s.”
Lindsay’s Luck. By the Author of “That Lass o’ Lowrie’s.”
Pretty Polly Pemberton. By the Author of “That Lass o’ Lowrie’s.”
Trooping with Crows. By Mrs. Pirkis.
The Professor’s Wife. By Leonard Graham.
A Double Bond. By Linda Villari.
Esther’s Glove. By R. E. Francillon.
The Garden that Paid the Rent. By Tom Jerrold.
Curly. By John Coleman. Illustrated by J. C. Dollman.
Beyond the Gates. By E. S. Phelps.
An Old Maid’s Paradise. By E. S. Phelps.
Burglars In Paradise. By E. S. Phelps.
Doom: An Atlantic Episode. By Justin H. MacCarthy, M.P.
Our Sensation Novel. Edited by Justin H. MacCarthy, M.P.
A Barren Title. By T. W. Speight.
The Silverado Squatters. By R. Louis Stevenson.

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