A Sketch of Assam

Works in the Press

The Rev. Dr. Croly

THE PATRIARCHS—THE PROPHETS—THE APOSTLES.

Their characters and influence on the ages in which they lived, considered in connection with the Christian dispensation. To form a series of three separate and independent volumes. The first, treating of the Patriarchs, is in preparation.

NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF “THE NOVITIATE.”

THE JESUIT IN THE FAMILY.

(nearly ready.)

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A NEGRO SLAVE.

THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ZAMBA,

(nearly ready.)

MR. G. P. R. JAMES.

THE CASTLE OF EHRENSTEIN,

(just ready.)

MR. LEIGH HUNT.

MEN, WOMEN, AND BOOKS:

(very shortly.)

NEW NOVEL.

A WHIM AND ITS CONSEQUENCES,

(just ready.)

SIR JOHN HERSCHEL’S

OBSERVATIONS IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE.

Made during a recent residence at the Cape of Good Hope. In one volume, royal 4to. Illustrated by numerous Plates.

SAVAGE LIFE AND SCENES IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND.

“These are two volumes of good artistical description, with much of finer staple than the title-page promises. Mr. Angas observed nature in the Southern hemisphere with a painter’s eye, and has thrown much poetical feeling into his impressions of it.”—Morning Chronicle.

“He has not the bias or coarseness of many who have gone out to the antipodes; he has a better taste, in some sense a more cultivated mind, and is lifted above the atmosphere of Colonial partizanship.”—Spectator.

“Already favourably known to the public, both as an artist and an author, Mr. Angas has fully confirmed every expectancy by his new publication. Generally speaking, we might say it was artistical and descriptive, picturesque and poetical, did we not fear that these epithets might mislead the reader into an impression that it was not at the same time curious in actual observation and faithful in details.”—Literary Gazette.

“Mr. Angas has produced a very interesting work, and illustrated it with sketches which do much credit to his ability in his profession.”—The Britannia.

“After a careful reading of these two volumes, we pronounce them, without any hesitation, to afford on the whole the most faithful pictures of savage life in Australia and New Zealand yet published.”—Weekly Chronicle.

LEIGH HUNT’S SELECTIONS FROM THE ENGLISH POETS,

EXEMPLIFYING

I. IMAGINATION AND FANCY.

II. WIT AND HUMOUR.

Each volume is complete in itself, and preceded by an Essay illustrative of the qualities respectively exemplified in the selections; the best passages are marked and commented upon by Mr. Leigh Hunt, who also characterizes each author. Bound in cloth, with gilt edges, price 10s. 6d. each.

Opinions of the Press, on Wit and Humour.

“The design of this delightful series extends beyond a collection of elegant extracts, while it combines the best features of such collections. The two volumes already published are precisely the books one would wish to carry for companionship on a journey, or to have at hand when tired of work, or at a loss what to do for want of it. They are selections of some of the best things some of our best authors have said, accompanied with short but delicate expositions and enforcements of their beauties. They are truly most genial, agreeable, and social books.”—Examiner.

“This is really a delightful volume, forming a proper complement and companion to its predecessor on ‘Imagination and Fancy.’ Each of them gives us the best passages of the best writers, in their respective kinds, illustrated by one who will himself leave no mean remembrance to posterity, in the spirit of genial criticism, informed by a delicate faculty of discrimination. What more could literary epicures desire?”—Morning Chronicle.

“If we were to choose the subject and the author of a fireside book for the long winter evenings, we should certainly call some such volume as this into existence. The reader will look for exquisite things in this book, and he will find a great deal more than he looks for in the prodigal resources opened up in its pages. It is the very essence of the sunniest qualities from English poets.”—Atlas.

“There is something genial in the very title of this volume; and it does not belie its title. ‘Wit and Humour,’ forms a pendant to ‘Imagination and Fancy,’ by the same author. A like design is embodied in both works. The book is at once exhilarating and suggestive: it may charm frivolous minds into wisdom, and austere ones into mirth.”—Athenæum.

A NARRATIVE OF THE RECOVERY OF H. M. S. GORGON.

(Charles Hotham, Esq., Captain), Stranded in the Bay of Monte Video, May 10, 1844. By Astley Cooper Key, Commander, R.N., (late Lieut, of H. M. S. Gorgon). 1 vol. 8vo. with numerous Plates. Price 7s. 6d. cloth.

“MODERN PAINTERS.”

Volume the First. By A Graduate of Oxford. A New Edition, revised by the Author, being the Third. In imperial 8vo., uniform with Vol. II.

SECOND VOLUME OF “MODERN PAINTERS.”

Treating of the Imaginative and Theoretic Faculties. By a Graduate of Oxford. In one volume, imperial 8vo., price 10s. 6d. cloth.

“We are prepared emphatically to declare, that this work is the most valuable contribution towards a proper view of painting, its purpose and means, that has come within our knowledge.”—Foreign Quarterly Review.

“A work distinguished by an enlightened style of criticism, new to English readers, and by the profound observation of nature displayed by the author.”—Dublin University Magazine.

“This is the production of a highly gifted mind, one who has evidently bestowed time and labour to obtain a practical knowledge of the fine arts, and who writes eloquently, feelingly, and fearlessly.”—Polytechnic Review.

“It has seldom been our lot to take up a work more admirably conceived and written than this beautiful and elaborate essay. To a perfect idea of the scope of the inquiry, and a mastery of all the technicalities required for its due treatment, the Graduate unites considerable metaphysical power, extent of philosophical and scientific knowledge, a clear and manly style of expression, and no inconsiderable command of humour and satire.”—Atlas.

“The Oxford Graduate is a bold revolutionist in art.... A very Luther in art-criticism.... He has asserted and established the claims of Landscape painting to a much higher rank than it hitherto enjoyed.... The second volume of this remarkable work rises above the first. Indeed, we question if any but a high order of mind will embrace the full grandeur of its design, or follow the masterly analysis by which its propositions are elucidated.”—English Gentleman.

“The author now comes forward with additional force, and, we must hope, with still higher effect, on the public taste.... He directs his attention in the present volume from the individual artists to the art itself.”—Britannia.

MR. JAMES’S NEW ROMANCE.

HEIDELBERG:

NEW VOLUMES OF MR JAMES’S WORKS ILLUSTRATED.

Vol. 11, containing

THE KING’S HIGHWAY, Medium 8vo. price 8s. cloth.

Was published on the 12th instant.

Vol. 12,

THE GENTLEMAN OF THE OLD SCHOOL,

Will appear on the 1st April.

CLINICAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE DISEASES OF INDIA: As Exhibited in the Medical History of a body of European Soldiers, for a Series of Years from their Arrival in that Country. By William Geddes, M.D., Member of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, and the Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta, and late Surgeon of the Madras European Regiment. In one vol., 8vo. Price 16s. cloth.

“A more elaborate display of medical statistics has rarely been given to the public. As a vast amount of facts the book is really, we believe, unrivalled.”—Spectator.

“It is hardly possible to conceive a more complete medical history than the one furnished by Dr. Geddes. He has conferred an inestimable benefit upon medical science; and no practitioner who regards either his interest or his duty can be without the book.”—Indian News.

“To the medical officers in India, and especially to those about to proceed thither, this will be found a valuable book of reference, and well merits to be included in the list of works with which officers are required to provide themselves on joining the service.”—British and Foreign Medical Review.

ENGLAND’S COLONIAL EMPIRE.

An Historical, Political, and Statistical Account of the British Empire, its Colonies and Dependencies. By Charles Pridham, Esq., B.A., Member of the Royal Geographical Society, &c.

Volume I.—Comprising

THE MAURITIUS AND ITS DEPENDENCIES.

“The first volume of a work intended to completely exhibit England’s Colonial Empire. The author is Mr. Pridham, who, in a modest preface, apologizes for having at so early an age undertaken so gigantic a task. The first volume, however, shows no lack of either ability, research, or knowledge. It is occupied with an excellent account of the Mauritius, divided into four parts: the first part gives its history from its discovery by the Portuguese to the present time; the second describes its inhabitants, and their institutions and states; the third its physical features and natural productions; and the fourth its industry, commerce, and government. Ample information is given on all these heads, and regarding the extent of the author’s design, and the evidence he gives of the requisite qualification to carry it out satisfactorily, we make no doubt that his work will be a valuable addition to the history and geography of our colonial empire. The present volume is complete in itself.”—Britannia.

“This is the first volume of what promises to be an important national work. The instalment now before us is brimful of valuable and interesting information, making up by far the most complete account of Mauritius which has yet been given to the world. The author has the qualifications necessary to the due fulfilment of the task which he has set himself. He is patient and painstaking, accurate and impartial.”—Atlas.

“This is the first volume of a series, which we hope to see completed in the spirit with which the task has been undertaken. As a whole, we are bound to say that the book is a standard one, and that ‘England’s Colonial Empire’ has met with a chronicler of zeal, industry, and ability.”—Colonial Gazette.

“There is no other such description of the Mauritius extant. The author has not only consulted the best, and perhaps all the authorities, but he has added information of his own, apparently gathered on the spot.”—Economist.

THE INDIAN MEAL BOOK:

Comprising the beat American Receipts for the various Preparations of that excellent Article. By Eliza Leslie, of Philadelphia; Author of “American Domestic Cookery;” “The House Book;” “Seventy-five Receipts;” “French Cookery,” &c. &c. Second edition. Foolscap 8vo. sewed in a wrapper, price 4s. 6d.

“Next to the corn itself, we cannot conceive a more acceptable present to the poor of any neighbourhood, either individually or in parochial libraries, than Miss Leslie’s work. It is very simple, and embraces recipes for every purpose to which maize is put in the United Slates, and therefore cannot but add to the comfort of the too limited table of the labouring man.”—Indian News.

“As the Indian Meal is probably destined to take its place among our standard ‘Bread Stuffs.’ Miss Leslie’s book will be welcomed as a necessary supplement to the usual English instructors in the everywhere important mystery of Cookery.”—Colonial Gazette.

“This little volume contains about sixty receipts for different preparations of Indian Meal, and all of which may be found useful in the threatened dearth. Maize, or Indian Corn, is now admitted to be the best and most available substitute for the potato.”—Economist.

THE HISTORY OF CHARLEMAGNE,

THE CHURCH AND DISSENT.

GLENDEARG COTTAGE.

“A tale as pleasing in its unstudied simplicity as in the correct views which it displays of the principles of the Church.”—British Churchman.

REV. H. MACKENZIE’S COMMENTARY.

COMMENTARY ON THE HOLY GOSPELS,

Arranged according to the Table of Lessons for Daily Service; designed for Family Reading. By the Rev. Henry Mackenzie, M.A., of Pembroke College, Oxford; Incumbent of Great Yarmouth. To be completed in Four Quarterly Parts, price 1s. 3d. each. Part I. appeared on April 1st. Part II. on 1st July.

LIFE IN NORTH WALES.

LLEWELYN’S HEIR;

“It is a real work, with more material and original knowledge than half the manufactured novels that appear in these days.”—Spectator.

“We can most cordially recommend it as a series of Sketches of North Wales well worthy of perusal; so various and so curious as to be as welcome to the library of the antiquary and portfolio of the artist as to the leisure hour of the novel reader.”—Literary Gazette.

SCOTTISH LYRICS.

THE STRATHMORE MELODIST:

MANAGEMENT OF RAILWAYS.

THE RATIONALE OF RAILWAY ADMINISTRATION.

With a view to the greatest possible amount of Accommodation, Cheapness, and Safety. By Thornton Hunt. In 8vo., price 2s. 6d.

“This is the best pamphlet on Railways that we have seen for a long time: informing but not heavy; business-like, suggestive; logical in the analysis; neat in the arrangement; tersely, yet pleasantly written.”—Spectator.

RAILWAY SPECULATION.

THE LIABILITIES INCURRED BY THE PROJECTORS, MANAGERS, & SHAREHOLDERS OF RAILWAY

“Projectors, and provisional and managing committee-men will find matter of startling interest in Mr. Lewis’s sensible little tract. It contains also some curious intimation of the responsibility incurred by the sale of Letters of Allotment, and Banker’s receipts before the issue of scrip, and of scrip itself before the company is completely registered. It is, in short, a very useful and timely publication.”—Examiner.

THE JESUITS IN ENGLAND.

THE NOVITIATE:

“This is a remarkable book—a revealer of secrets, and full of materials for thought.... It is written with every appearance of strict and honourable truthfulness. It describes, with a welcome minuteness, the daily, nightly, hourly occupations of the Jesuit Novitiates at Stonyhurst, their religious exercises and manners, in private and together; and depicts, with considerable acuteness and power, the conflicts of an intelligent, susceptible, honest-purposed spirit, while passing through such a process. If our readers should be disposed to possess themselves of this volume, it will be their own fault if the reading of it be profitless.”—British Quarterly Review.

“This is as singular a book of its kind as has appeared since Blanco White’s ‘Letters of Doblado,’ with the advantage of dealing with the Jesuits in England instead of Popery in Spain. * * * It will be found a very curious work.”—Spectator.

“If it be desirable to know what is that mode of training by which the Jesuit system prepares its novices for their duties, this is the book to inform us, for it is a chronicle of actual experience.... The work of Mr. Steinmetz is throughout marked by great fairness,... he neither conceals nor exaggerates: a spirit of candour pervades the whole narrative.... Could we know the experience of other novices, we should find that all have undergone, with more or less of intensity, the process so vividly described in this volume.... It is written in an extremely animated style. The author’s thoughts are original, and the passages relating to his personal history and feelings are agreeably introduced, and add to the interest of his narrative. It is a sufficient proof of his accuracy that, though the Jesuits have many pens in this country, not one has been hardy enough to impugn a sentence of his statements.”—Britannia.

“Mr. Steinmetz writes a most singular and interesting account of the Jesuit seminary, and his way of life there.... He seems to be a perfectly honest and credible informer, and his testimony may serve to enlighten many a young devotional aspirant who is meditating ’submission’ to Rome, and the chain and scourge systems. There is nothing in the least resembling invective in the volume.”—Morning Chronicle.

“At a time when Jesuitism seems to be rising once more, any work on this subject comes very opportunely. How the writer became a member of this mysterious body gives a key to the character of the man himself and the spirit of his book.... This narrative is well written, and as interesting as we expected.”—Weekly Chronicle.

“An unvarnished account of the Jesuits’ College at Stonyhurst, its discipline and routine of observances and customs,—of these we have the most minute details, and the whole is a faithful picture of a remarkable condition of life.... From this curious book you may form some idea of the Jesuits and their course of proceeding.”—Literary Gazette.

“This is a curious volume, of no little interest and eloquence, written by a scholar and an enthusiast.”—Atlas.

“There is internal evidence that this is a genuine narrative, and a very singular one it is; full of very curious and striking matter.... The ‘Essay on the Constitutions, Confessional Morality, and History of the Jesuits,’ will amply reward the task of perusal.”—Globe.

“The work has all the interest of a romance, and yet we do not believe that any portion of it is fictitious.... The author writes well, and evinces a strong and disciplined mind. The picture he draws of Jesuitism is a fearful one. The reader will find abundant matter for grave consideration in this most singular and striking volume.”—John Bull.

“A more remarkable work it has seldom been our fortune to peruse. We hear and read much of the Quietism and Passive obedience inculcated amongst the Jesuit body; but here we become personal spectators of these principles in action.... Mr. Steinmetz appears to be a most remarkable character. He may be received as an unbiassed witness.... We repeat it, Mr. Steinmetz’s book is most valuable; earnest and truthful in its tone, and extremely interesting in its detail.”—New Quarterly Review.

“The volume presents a true and valuable picture of Jesuit education in England, and on that ground every Protestant will find the volume worthy of an attentive perusal.”—British Churchman.

FIRST SERIES OF TALES OF THE COLONIES.

TALES OF THE COLONIES; OR, THE ADVENTURES OF AN EMIGRANT.

“‘Tales of the Colonies’ is an able and interesting book. The author has the first great requisite in fiction—a knowledge of the life he undertakes to describe; and his matter is solid and real.”—Spectator.

“This is a book, as distinguished from one of the bundles of waste paper in three divisions, calling themselves ‘novels.’”—Athenæum.

“The narration has a deep and exciting interest. No mere romance, no mere fiction, however skilfully imagined or powerfully executed, can surpass it. The work to which it bears the nearest similitude is Robinson Crusoe, and it is scarcely, if at all inferior to that extraordinary history.”—John Bull.

“Since the time of Robinson Crusoe, literature has produced nothing like these ‘Tales of the Colonies.’”—Metropolitan Magazine.

”... Romantic literature does not supply instances of wonderful escape more marvellous.... The book is manifestly a mixture of fact and fiction, yet it gives, we have every reason to believe, a true picture of a settler’s life in that country; and is thickly interspersed with genuine and useful information.”—Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal.

“The contents of the first volume surpass in interest many of the novels of Sir Walter Scott.”—Westminster Review.

“An exceedingly lively and interesting narrative, which affords a more striking view of the habits of emigrant colonial life than all the regular treatises, statistical returns, and even exploratory tours which we have read.... It combines the fidelity of truth with the spirit of a romance, and has altogether so much of De Foe in its character and composition, that whilst we run we learn, and, led along by the variety of the incidents, become real ideal settlers in Van Diemen’s Land.”—Literary Gazette.

SECOND SERIES OF TALES OF THE COLONIES.

THE BUSHRANGER OF VAN DIEMEN’S LAND.

“These volumes have the same qualities that gained so much popularity for the Author’s previous work ‘Tales of the Colonies.’ No one has depicted colonial life, as manifested in the settlements of Australia, with so much vigour and truth as Mr Rowcroft. He rather seems to be a narrator of actual occurrences than an inventor of imaginary ones. His characters, his manners, and his scenes are all real. He has been compared to De Foe, and the comparison is just.”—Britannia.

“These volumes form a second series of ‘Tales of the Colonies,’ and the pages are marked by the same vigorous and graphic pen which procured such celebrity for the first series. The interest, generally well sustained throughout, is occasionally of the most absorbing and thrilling kind. Altogether, there is a freshness about these volumes which brings them out in strong contrast to the vapid productions with which the press is teeming.”—Globe.

“The story contains all the merits of the ‘Tales or the Colonies’ as regards style; being simple and Crusoite, if we might use the term, in its narrative. Mr. Rowcroft possesses invention to an extraordinary degree, in the manner in which he manages the escapes of the bushranger,—and he produces, by the simplest incidents, most interesting scenes;—pictures of nature and of a society totally different from anything to be found elsewhere.”—Weekly Chronicle.

FANNY THE LITTLE MILLINER; OR, THE RICH AND THE POOR.

MR. JAMES’S RECENT NOVELS.

THE STEP-MOTHER.

Lately published by the same Author,

THE SMUGGLER, a Novel. Three vols., price 1l. 11s. 6d.

NEW & ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF MR. JAMES’S WORKS.

THE WORKS OF G. P. R. JAMES, ESQ.

Now publishing in Quarterly Volumes, medium 8vo. cloth, with engraved Frontispieces, each volume containing a complete novel, price 8s.

This handsome series of Mr. James’s Works has been carefully revised by the Author; and is “got up in that superior style, and agreeable size of type, which renders it fit for every age and every library.”

Contents:	—Vol.	1.	The Gipsy.			—	5.	Philip Augustus.
	—	2.	Mary of Burgundy.			—	6.	Henry of Guise.
	—	3.	The Huguenots.			—	7.	Morley Ernstein.
	—	4.	One in a Thousand.			—	8.	The Robber.

Vol. 9, containing Darnley; or, The Field of Cloth of Gold, on the 1st of July.

Vol. 10, containing Corse de Leon, on the 1st of October.

“Messrs. Smith, Elder and Co., of Cornhill, have just published the first volume of a New Edition of the Works of this gentleman, which has the advantage of the latest revisions and corrections of the author. The writings of James are so well known to the readers of fiction, that it is unnecessary to call their attention to them, or to say anything which previous criticism may have left unsaid. The present edition is well got up, the type is clear, sharp, and legible, and the size of the volume convenient for the reader, and appropriate for the shelves of a bookcase. The book, as it is, will form a pleasing addition to the collections of readers of modern literature, of the class to which it belongs.”—Times.

“We are glad to see our prognostication respecting the New Edition of Mr. James’s Works, more than fulfilled by the rapid absorption of a very large first edition, and a second in the course of speedy disappearance. This is as it should be, with a writer whose vraisemblance is always so perfect; and even what he invents so like truth, that we can never fancy we are reading fiction: nor, indeed, are we, in the historical portions of his publications,—and these form the far greater division,—which are all drawn from diligent research, deep study, and elaborate comparison.”—Literary Gazette.

“Mr. James is a pure and pleasing writer, and we are glad to see that his Works are now to be thrown into a handy, handsome, and accessible shape.”—Scotsman.

“This is a most admirable edition of the Works of this popular author, convenient in size, and handsome in appearance. It, moreover, possesses the advantage of being revised and corrected by the author,—no small recommendations, since, the generality of Mr. James’s Works being connected with history, a careful perusal of his productions increases their value, and renders them a source of amusement, through the medium of instruction.”—Atlas.

“We are glad to perceive that such volumes are being published at a price which will place them within the reach of the middle classes, and we shall find, as the result of this movement, that tradesmen and others will furnish their book-shelves with good and select works, instead of subscribing to circulating libraries. We learn it is the publishers’ intention to continue the volumes until all the author’s works are republished in this style.”—Plymouth Herald.

LEIGH HUNT’S SELECTIONS OF POETRY.

IMAGINATION AND FANCY;

“This volume is handsomely printed, and beautifully bound in a new style of exquisite delicacy and richness. In external beauty ‘Imagination and Fancy’ equals any gift-books that have appeared; and it will form a more enduring memorial than any other volume that might he selected as a gift for the coming season.”—Spectator.

“This is a Christmas gift, worth half a dozen of the Annuals put together, and at half the cost of one of them. We have often wished for such a book, and in our aspiration, the name of Leigh Hunt has ever presented itself as that of the man above all others qualified to do justice to so charming a subject.”—Morning Chronicle.

“The volume is, we trust, the precursor of many more, which will complete and do justice to the plan. The series so completed would be the best ‘elegant extracts’ in the language.”—Examiner.

“This is a charming volume, both externally and internally it is most attractive.”—Atlas.

“It is a book that every one who has a taste must have, and every one who has not should have in order to acquire one.”—Jerrold’s Magazine.

“This book is tastefully got up, and we should think better of the house where we saw a well read copy of it lying about.”—Tait’s Magazine.

“These illustrations of ‘Imagination and Fancy’ are distinguished by great critical sagacity, and a remarkable appreciation of those qualities.”—Herald.

“This elegant volume contains the most exquisite passages of the best English Poets, selected and commented upon by Leigh Hunt, and for this task there is, in our opinion, no author living so well qualified.”—Indian News.

⁂ The Second Volume of this series, “WIT AND HUMOUR,” is in the press, uniform with “Imagination and Fancy.”

MRS. ELLIS’S MORAL FICTIONS.

PICTURES OF PRIVATE LIFE.

Vol. I. “Observations on Fictitious Narrative,” “The Hall and the Cottage,” “Ellen Eskdale,” “The Curate’s Widow,” and “Marriage as it May Be.”

Vol. II. “Misanthropy,” and “The Pains of Pleasing.”

Vol. III. “Pretension; or, the Fallacies of Female Education.”

“I could give abundant evidence, gratuitously offered to the writer, that these simple stories were not sent forth to the world without some degree of adaptation to its wants and its condition.”—Author’s Introduction.

WAR WITH THE SIKHS.

THE PUNJAUB:

Being a brief account of the Country of the Sikhs, its Extent, History, Commerce, productions, Government, Manufactures, Laws, Religion, &c. By Lieut-Col. Steinbach, late of the Lahore Service. A new edition, revised, with additions, including an account of the recent events in the Punjaub. In post 8vo. price 5s. cloth, with Map. The Map may be had separately, price 1s. coloured, and 1s. 6d. in case.

“There is much in formation in this volume, condensed into brief space, about a people to whom late occurrences have given a common interest.”—Examiner.

THE HAND-BOOK OF USEFUL AND ORNAMENTAL AMUSEMENTS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

“A prettier and more useful present could scarcely be selected for an ingenious young lady.”—Atlas.

“Any lady desirous of filling up her leisure hours by following the occupations described will be able to do so without the aid of any other instruction.”—Weekly Chronicle.

THE DUTIES OF JUDGE ADVOCATES,

“Captain Hughes’s little volume on this important subject will well supply the absence of that full and particular information which officers suddenly appointed to act as ‘Deputy Judge Advocates’ must have felt the want of, even though tolerably well versed in military law.”—Spectator.

“A professional vade-mecum, relating to most important duties, and executed in the ablest manner. We consider this, the only complete separate treatise on the subject, to be one of great value, and deserving the study of every British officer.”—Lit. Gazette.

“This book is a digest as well as a compilation, and may be emphatically called ‘The Hand-Book of Military Justice.’”—Atlas.

“We recommend the work to every British officer.”—Army and Navy Register.

THE NOTE-BOOK OF A NATURALIST.

“The author of this modestly-styled ‘Note-Book’ not only possesses and communicates scientific intelligence, but he has travelled far and near, and from very infancy been devoted to natural history.... We rely on the quotations to support our opinion of the very agreeable and various character of this volume.”—Literary Gazette.

“In all that relates to original observation the ‘Note-Book of a Naturalist’ is agreeable, interesting, and fresh.... The more original and numerous passages may vie with the observations of Jesse. In fact, there is a considerable resemblance between the two authors. Anecdote is substantially the character of the better part.”—Spectator.

FINANCE AND COLONIES.

By Publius. In royal 8vo., price 4s. 6d. cloth.

PRYINGS OF A POSTMAN.

THE LIGHT OF MENTAL SCIENCE;

“One of the most philosophical books we have seen for a long time.”—Observer.

SCENES IN THE LIFE OF A SOLDIER OF FORTUNE.

“This tale has a strange personal history. It purports to be the autobiography of an Italian soldier, who fought under the banners of the French Republic; and who, later in life, when become a teacher, told his story to an English traveller, his pupil, who has here set it down.”—Tait’s Magazine.

COMMENTARY ON THE HINDU SYSTEM OF MEDICINE.

By T. A. Wise, M.D., Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, and of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, Corresponding Member of the Zoological Society of London, and of the Philomathic Society of Paris; Bengal Medical Service. In one vol. 8vo., price 12s. cloth.

Miscellaneous

A NEW SPIRIT OF THE AGE.

Containing Critical Essays, and Biographical Sketches of Literary and other Eminent Characters of the Present Time. Edited by R. H. Horne, Esq., Author of “Orion,” “Gregory the Seventh,” &c. &c. These volumes are illustrated with Engravings on steel, from new and original Portraits of Dickens, Tennyson, Carlyle, Wordsworth, Talfourd, Browning, Southwood Smith, and Miss Martineau. Second Edition, Revised by the Editor, with “Introductory Comments.” In 2 vols. post 8vo., price 24s. cloth.

“In the biographical sketches, the Editor has carefully excluded all disagreeable personalities and all unwarrantable anecdotes. The criticisms are entirely upon abstract grounds. He may be often wrong, but it is with a clear conscience.”—Editor’s Preface.

“We have two volumes of clever and subtile dissertation on the merits of almost every living writer of any pretension, written in a very animated and pleasant style. The author will at least gain the praise of versatility of talent, and of a quick and generous appreciation of contemporary merit, as well as (what his publisher will think quite as much to the purpose) have the satisfaction of having produced a book that people will be inclined, as the phrase is, ‘to run after.’”—Morning Herald, March 25, 1844.

“As we have said before, Mr. Horne’s admirations appear to us to be well placed and his sympathies generous and noble.”—Morning Chronicle.

OUR ACTRESSES;

“Handsome volumes, adorned with several portraits, and the biographies are full of amusing anecdotes.”—Atlas.

“So attractive are the stage and its denizens that considerable amusement will derived from the perusal of these pages.”—Literary Gazette.

CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES: TALES, SKETCHES, AND CHARACTERS.

“A capital book for the season.”—Britannia.

CROSBY PLACE,

Described in a Lecture on its Antiquities and Reminiscences, delivered in the Great Hall, on the Evening of Friday, August 5th, 1842. By the Rev. Charles Mackenzie, A.M., Vicar of St. Helen’s, Bishopsgate, and Head Master of Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, St. Olave’s, Southwark. Price 2s. 6d. bound in cloth.

THE HOME BOOK; OR, YOUNG HOUSEKEEPER’S ASSISTANT.

THE HOME ACCOUNT-BOOK; OR, HOUSEKEEPER’S REGISTER OF FAMILY EXPENSES.

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THE WINE-MERCHANT’S MANUAL.

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A COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY OF THE WOOLLEN TRADE.

From the earliest Records to the present Period, comprising the Woollen and Worsted Manufactures, and the Natural and Commercial History of Sheep, with the various Breeds and Modes of Management in different Countries. By James Bischoff, Esq. In two large volumes, 8vo., illustrated with Plates, price 1l. 6s. cloth.

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A COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY OF THE IRON TRADE

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THE BRITISH MERCHANT’S ASSISTANT.

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ASSURANCES UPON LIVES,

A Familiar Explanation of the Nature, Advantages, and Importance arising therefrom, and the various Purposes to which they may be usefully applied: including also a particular Account of the routine required for Effecting a Policy; and of the different systems of Life Assurance now in use, the Principles, Terms, and Tables of Seventy London Assurance Offices, &c. By Lewis Pocock, F.S.A. In post 8vo., price 7s. cloth.

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AN INQUIRY INTO THE CAUSES AND MODES OF THE WEALTH OF INDIVIDUALS;

“Mr. Corbet deserves our best thanks for laying down so clearly and methodically his ideas on a subject of such vast importance.”—New Monthly Magazine.

OUTLINES OF NAVAL ROUTINE;

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ESSAY ON THE LIFE AND INSTITUTIONS OF OFFA, KING OF MERCIA,

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THE OBLIGATIONS OF LITERATURE TO THE MOTHERS OF ENGLAND.

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THE LIFE OF MARGARET BEAUFORT,

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THE LAST OF THE PLANTAGENETS:

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ANGLO-SAXON LITERATURE.

ANALECTA ANGLO-SAXONICA.

THE ANGLO-SAXON VERSION OF THE STORY OF APPOLLONIUS OF TYRE,

A GRAMMAR OF THE ANGLO-SAXON TONGUE,

With a Praxis. By Erasmus Rask, Professor of Literary History in, and Librarian to, the University of Copenhagen, &c. &c. A New Edition, enlarged and improved by the Author. Translated from the Danish, by B. Thorpe, Honorary Member of the Icelandic Literary Society of Copenhagen. 8vo., price 12s.

Scientific Works Illustrated

UNDER THE AUSPICES OF H. M. GOVERNMENT, AND OF THE HON. THE COURT OF DIRECTORS OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY.

FAUNA ANTIQUA SIVALENSIS,

The Fossil Zoology of the Sewalik Hills, in the North of India. By Hugh Falconer, M.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S., Member of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, and of the Royal Asiatic Society of the Bengal Medical Service, and late Superintendent of the H.E.I.C. Botanic Garden at Saharunpoor: and Proby T. Cautley, F.G.S., Major in the Bengal Artillery, Member of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, &c. Edited by Hugh Falconer.

Plan of Publication.—The work will appear in about Twelve Parts, to be published at intervals of four months; each Part containing from Twelve to Fifteen folio Plates. The descriptive Letterpress will be printed in royal octavo. Price of each Part, one Guinea.—Part I. contains Proboscidea.—Parts II. and III., containing the continuation of Proboscidea, will be published shortly. Prospectuses of the Work may be obtained of the Publishers.

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RESEARCHES, PHYSIOLOGICAL AND ANATOMICAL.

By John Davy, M.D., F.R.SS., L. & E., &c. The principal subjects treated of are—Animal Electricity—Animal Heat—the Temperature of different Animals—Pneumothorax in connexion with the Absorption of Gases by Serous and Mucous Membranes—the properties of the Blood in Health and disease—the Properties of different Animal Textures—the Putrefactive Process—the Preservation of Anatomical Preparations—the Effects of the Poison of certain Serpents—the Structure of the Heart of Batrachian Animals, &c. &c. In 2 vols. 8vo., price 30s. bound in cloth, illustrated by numerous Engravings.

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“This work is written with a clearness and simplicity which renders its scientific details readily comprehensible.”—Herald.

Works recently Published and in progress under this authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.

⁂ In order to secure to science the full advantage of Discoveries in Natural History, the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury have been pleased to make a liberal grant of money towards defraying part of the expenses of the following important publications. They have, in consequence, been undertaken on a scale worthy of the high patronage thus received, and are offered to the public at a much lower price than would otherwise have been possible.

I.

THE ZOOLOGY OF THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. SULPHUR,

Under the Command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, R.N., C.B., F.R.G.S., &c. Edited and Superintended by Richard Brinsley Hinds, Esq., Surgeon R.N., attached to the Expedition.—The extensive and protracted voyage of Her Majesty’s Ship “Sulphur,” having been productive of many new and valuable additions to Natural History, a number of which are of considerable scientific interest, it has been determined to publish them in a collected form, with illustrations of such as are hitherto new or unfigured. The collection has been assembled from a variety of countries, embraced within the limits of a voyage prosecuted along the shores of North and South America, among the islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and in the circumnavigation of the globe. In many of these, no doubt, the industry and research of previous navigators may have left no very prominent objects unobserved, yet in others there will for some time remain abundant scope for the Naturalist. Among the countries visited by the “Sulphur,” and which in the present state of science are invested with more particular interest, may be mentioned the Californias, Columbia River, the North-west coast of America, the Feejee Group (a portion of the Friendly Islands), New Zealand, New Ireland, New Guinea, China, and Madagascar. Published in Royal Quarto Parts, price 10s. each, with beautifully coloured Plates.

This Work is now Complete, and may be had in sewed Parts, price 5l., or in half-russia, or cloth binding, at a small addition to the price.—Parts I. and II. contain Mammalia, by J. E. Gray, Esq., F.R.S.—Parts III. and IV. Birds, by J. Gould, Esq., F.L.S.—Parts V., IX., and X. Fish, by J. Richardson, M.D., F.R.S.—Parts VI., VII., and VIII. Shells, by R. B. Hinds, Esq.

II.

THE BOTANY OF THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. SULPHUR,

Under the Command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, R.N., C.B., F.R.G.S., &c, during the years 1836–42. Edited and Superintended by Richard Brinsley Hinds, Esq., Surgeon, R.N., attached to the Expedition. The Botanical Descriptions by George Bentham, Esq.

This Work is now Complete, and may be had in six sewed Parts, price 3l., or in half-russia, or cloth binding, at a small addition to the price.

THE ONLY COMPLETE AND UNIFORM EDITION OF THE WORKS OF SIR HUMPHRY DAVY.

THE LIFE AND COLLECTED WORKS OF SIR HUMPHRY DAVY, BART.

⁂ This new and uniform edition of the Writings of Sir Humphry Davy embraces the whole of his Works during the space of thirty years (1799 to 1829), a period memorable in the History of Chemistry, and made so, in no small degree, by his own discoveries.

ILLUSTRATED WORKS ON NATURAL HISTORY BY CAPTAIN THOMAS BROWN.

ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE RECENT CONCHOLOGY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.

With the Description and Localities of all the Species,—Marine, Land, and Fresh Water. Drawn and Coloured from Nature, by Captain Thomas Brown, F.L.S., M.W.S., M.K.S., Member of the Manchester Geological Society. In one vol. royal 4to., illustrated with fifty-nine beautifully coloured Plates, price 63s. cloth.

ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE FOSSIL CONCHOLOGY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.

By Captain Thomas Brown, F.L.S. To be completed in about Thirty Numbers, each containing four Plates. Royal 4to., price 3s. coloured, and 2s. plain. Twenty-eight Numbers have appeared, and the work will soon be completed.

ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE GENERA OF BIRDS.

Embracing their Generic Characters, with Sketches of their Habits. By Captain Thomas Brown, F.L.S. Now publishing in Numbers, royal 4to., each containing four Plates, price 3s. coloured.

THE ELEMENTS OF FOSSIL CONCHOLOGY;

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE SHELLS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND;

Embracing the Nomenclature of Lamarck, Gray, Turton, and Brown, for the purpose of effecting exchanges and naming collections. On a sheet, price 1s.

Oriental and Colonial

NEW ZEALAND AND ITS ABORIGINES:

“A very intelligent and useful book.”—Times.

AN ACCOUNT OF THE SETTLEMENTS OF THE NEW ZEALAND COMPANY,

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NEW ZEALAND, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, AND NEW SOUTH WALES.

“Mr. Jameson is an intelligent and unprejudiced observer, and has made good use of his faculties.”—Spectator.

SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE;

CALIFORNIA: A HISTORY OF UPPER AND LOWER CALIFORNIA,

From their first Discovery to the present Time; comprising an Account of the Climate, Soil, Natural Productions, Agriculture, Commerce, &c. A full view of the Missionary Establishments, and Condition of the Free and domesticated Indians. With an Appendix, relating to Steam Navigation in the Pacific. Illustrated with a new Map, Plans of the Harbours, and numerous Engravings. By Alexander Forbes, Esq. 8vo., price 14s. cloth.

A SKETCH OF NEW SOUTH WALES.

“To emigrants to the quarter of which it treats it must be a valuable guide.”—Literary Gazette.

SUGGESTIONS FOR A GENERAL PLAN OF RAPID COMMUNICATION BY STEAM NAVIGATION AND RAILWAYS,

And Applying it to the Shortening the Time of Communication between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres. By Edward McGeachy, Esq., Crown Surveyor, Jamaica. With 2 maps, 8vo. price 3s. bds.

CHINA OPENED;

“We obtain from these volumes more information of a practical kind than from any other publication; a closer view of the Domestic life of the Chinese—of the public institutions—the manufactures—natural resources—and literature. The work in fact is full of information, gathered with diligence, and fairly leaves the English reader without any excuse for ignorance on the subject.”—Atlas.

“This is by far the most interesting, complete, and valuable account of the Chinese Empire that has yet been published.”—Sun.

A HISTORY OF THE CHINESE EMPIRE, ANCIENT AND MODERN.

“We cordially recommend this exceedingly interesting account of this very interesting country.”—London Review.

“Mr. Gutzlaff has evidently combined industry with talent in producing this work, which far exceeds in information, research, and apparent veracity, anything we have before seen concerning this curious and singular nation.”—London News.

HAND-BOOK FOR INDIA AND EGYPT:

Comprising Travels from Calcutta, through India, to the Himalaya Mountains, and a Voyage down the Sutlege and Indus Rivers; a Visit to the City of Hyderabad, in Scinde; and a Journey to England by the Red Sea and Mediterranean: with Descriptions of the Three Presidencies of India; and the fullest details for parties proceeding to any part of India, either by the Overland Route, or by the way of the Cape of Good Hope. By George Parbury, Esq., M.R.A.S. Second Edition, one vol. post 8vo., with an entirely new Map, price 12s. cloth.

⁂ The press, both of Great Britain and India, have combined in eulogizing the value of this work, but it may only here be needful to quote the following remarks from the editorial columns of the Standard of the 10th of April, 1843:—“We have elsewhere copied from Mr. Parbury’s Hand-Book to India and Egypt, an interesting account of the City of Hyderabad. Let us, in acknowledgment of the means afforded to us to inform and gratify our readers, say of Mr. Parbury’s work, as we may with truth, that it is the best Topographical Guide to the countries to which it refers we have ever seen, a most interesting book, independently of its topographical utility, and an almost indispensable key to the late transactions in Central Asia.”

THE MODERN HISTORY AND CONDITION OF EGYPT.

Its Climate, Diseases, and Capabilities; exhibited in a Personal Narrative of Travels in that Country, with an Account of the Proceedings of Mahommed Ali Pascha, from 1801 to 1843, interspersed with Illustrations of Scripture History, the Fulfilment of Prophecy, and the Progress of Civilization in the East. By W. Holt Yates, M.D., &c. In two thick volumes, demy 8vo., with numerous Illustrations, price 34s. cloth.

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THE INVALID’S GUIDE TO MADEIRA.

“There has recently been published a small work by Mr. Cooper, which may be consulted with advantage.”—Sir James Clark on Climate.

NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS ON THE IONIAN ISLANDS AND MALTA;

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“There probably is not another work in our language in which so ample and substantially useful an account is given of the Ionian Islands as is here to be found. There can be little doubt that to these volumes will be assigned an honourable place amongst the recognised master-works of the class to which they belong.”—Morning Herald.

THE NATURE AND PROPERTIES OF THE SUGAR CANE;

With Practical Directions for the Improvement of its Culture, and the Manufacture of its Products. To which is added an additional Chapter on the Manufacture of Sugar from Beet-root. By George Richardson Porter, F.R.S., Corresponding Member of the Institute of France. New Edition, demy 8vo., price 12s. cloth, revised throughout, with many additions and corrections by the Author, and illustrated with Plates.

HISTORICAL RECORDS OF THE HON. E. I. C. FIRST MADRAS EUROPEAN REGIMENT.

THE ANGLO-INDIAN AND COLONIAL ALMANACK.

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Religious and Educational

THE PARENT’S CABINET OF AMUSEMENT AND INSTRUCTION.

A valuable and instructive Present for the Young. Each volume of this useful and instructive little work comprises a variety of information on different subjects:—Natural History, Biography, Travels, &c.; Tales, original and selected; and animated Conversations on the objects that daily surround young people. The various tales and subjects are illustrated with Woodcuts. Each volume is complete in itself, and may be purchased separately. In six neatly bound vols., price 3s. 6d. each.

“Every parent at all interested in his children must have felt the difficulty of providing suitable reading for them in their hours of amusement. This little work presents these advantages in a considerable degree, as it contains just that description of reading which will be beneficial to young children.”—Quarterly Journal of Education.

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INVESTIGATION; OR, TRAVELS IN THE BOUDOIR.

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THE PROGRESS OF CREATION,

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“This beautiful volume forms an instructive collection of striking facts, interspersed with amiable reflections.”—Spectator.

THE JUVENILE MISCELLANY OF AMUSEMENT AND INSTRUCTION.

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TRAVELS OF MINNA AND GODFREY IN MANY LANDS.

From the Journals of the Author.—Holland, one vol. fcap., with Plates, price 7s. cloth.—The Rhine, Nassau, and Baden, with Plates, price 7s. cloth.

LETTERS FROM A MOTHER TO HER DAUGHTER,

At, or Going to School. Pointing out her Duties towards her Maker, her Governess, her Schoolfellows, and herself. By Mrs. J. A. Sargant. Sixth Edition, royal 18mo., price 2s. 6d. handsomely bound in cloth.

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Records of a Good Man’s Life

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II.

MONTAGUE; OR, IS THIS RELIGION?

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III.

A VOLUME OF SERMONS

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IV.

LEGENDS AND RECORDS, CHIEFLY HISTORICAL.

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V.

THE CHILD OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.

Price 2s. neatly half bound.

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SOCIAL EVILS AND THEIR REMEDY.

A Series of Narratives. The First Number, entitled “The Mechanic,” was pronounced to be “One of the most useful and interesting publications that had issued from the press.”

The following are the Contents of the different Numbers, price 1s. 6d. each:—II. “The Lady and the Lady’s Maid.”—III. “The Pastor of Dronfells.”—IV. “The Labourer and his Wife.”—V. “The Country Town.”—VI. “Live and Let Live; or, the Manchester Weavers.”—VII. “The Soldier.”—VIII. “The Leaside Farm.” Every two consecutive Numbers form a Volume, which may be procured, neatly bound, price 4s. each.

“The design of Mr. Taylor is praiseworthy; his object being to counteract, by a series of tales illustrative of the power and necessity of religion in the daily and hourly concerns of life, ‘the confusion of error with truth in Miss Martineau’s Entertaining Stories.’”—Christian Remembrancer.

THE RECTORY OF VALEHEAD;

Or, The Edifice of a Holy Home. By the Rev. Robert Wilson Evans, B.D., Vicar of Heversham. Twelfth Edition, with an illustrative Plate, price 6s. neatly bound in cloth; or 9s. elegantly bound in morocco.

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THE LIFE-BOOK OF A LABOURER.

Practical Lessons for Instruction and Guidance. By A Working Clergyman, Author of the “Bishop’s Daughter,” &c. &c. In one vol. 8vo., price 7s. neatly bound.

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“This volume reminds us forcibly of that most delightful of all biographies, ‘The Doctor,’ to which indeed it is little if at all inferior.”—Britannia.

“It is the pious offering of one who maybe deemed a proper follower in the footsteps of that good man, Legh Richmond.”—Argus.

THE RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF MAN;

In which Religion and Superstition are traced from their source.

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“Curious, industrious, and learned, and well worthy the attention of the public.”—Literary Gazette.

“The plan of this book was both extensive and important—embracing an inquiry into the nature of Revelation, and its influence on the opinions and customs of mankind;” * * * “the writer uses Scripture as an interpreter,” and “sticks to the literal text of the six days.”—Spectator.

THE FAMILY SANCTUARY;

A Form of Domestic Devotion for every Sabbath in the Year: containing the Collect of the Day; a Portion of Scripture; an Original Prayer or Sermon; and the Benediction. Second Edition. One vol. 8vo., price 7s. 6d. half bound in cloth.

MORTAL LIFE; AND THE STATE OF THE SOUL AFTER DEATH;

Conformable to Divine Revelation. By Alexander Copland, Esq., Author of “The Existence of Other Worlds,” &c. In one thick vol. 8vo., price 15s. bound.

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SCRIPTURAL STUDIES:

“This is not a work for ordinary readers. The author thinks for himself; and so writes that his readers must think too, or they will not be able to understand him.—To the sacred volume, as a revelation from God, he pays uniform and entire deference—and the thoughtful and prayerful reader will soon find that he has not the thinkings of a commonplace mind before him.”—Methodist Magazine.

A HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST.

“Although the author is able and earnest, he is not bigoted or intolerant.”—Literary Gazette.

“It is but an octavo, yet within its conveniently compendious pages it contains a review carefully taken of the progress of the Church of Christ, through all the perils of persecution, dissent, and heresy, by which it has been tried as in a furnace, up to its confirmed establishment in this country at the epoch of 1688.”—Herald.

THE CHURCH AND DISSENT,

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CHURCH AND KING:

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“An’ syne whan nichts grew cauld and lang
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—Old Ballad.

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THE PALACE OF FANTASY; OR, THE BARD’S IMAGERY.

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A METRICAL VERSION OF THE SONG OF SOLOMON,

KING RENE’S DAUGHTER.

LAYS OF THE SEA, AND OTHER POEMS.

ISLAFORD, AND OTHER POEMS.

GRISELDA:

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