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GILBART'S History, Principles, and Practice of Banking. Revised to 1881 by A. S. Michie, of the Royal Bank of Scotland. Portrait of Gilbart. 2 vols. RICARDO on the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation. Edited by E. C. K. Gonner, M.A., Lecturer, University College, Liverpool. 5s. SMITH (Adam). The Wealth of Nations. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of. Edited by E. Belfort Bax. 2 vols. 75.

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Index of Dates. the principal Facts in the Chronology and History of the World, from the Earliest to the Present, alphabetically arranged; being a complete Index to the foregoing. J. W. Rosse. 2 vols. 5s. each. BOHN'S Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets. 4th and cheaper Edition. 6s.

BOND'S Handy-book of Rules and Tables for Verifying Dates with the Christian Era. 4th Edition. 5s.

BUCHANAN'S Dictionary of Science and Technical Terms used in Philosophy, Literature, Professions, Commerce, Arts, and Trades. By W. H. Buchanan, with Supplement. Edited by Jas. A. Smith. 6s. CHRONICLES OF THE TOMBS. Select Collection of Epitaphs, with Essay on Epitaphs and Observations on Sepulchral Antiquities. By T. J. Pettigrew, F.R.S., F.S.A. 5s.

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GAMES, Handbook of. Edited by Henry G. Bohn. Numerous Diagrams. 55. (See also page 21.)

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BJÖRNSON'S Arne and the Fisher
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Cecilia. With Introduction and
Notes by A. R. Ellis. 2 vols.

DE STAËL. Corinne or Italy.
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EBERS' Egyptian Princess. Trans.
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History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. Roscoe's Edition. Cruikshank's Illustrations. 2 vols.

GROSSI'S Marco Visconti.
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MANZONI. The Betrothed: being a Translation of 'I Promessi Sposi." Numerous Woodcuts. I vol.

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BELL (Sir Charles). The Anatomy
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LECTURES ON PAINTING by the
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Vol. I.-Cricket, by Hon. and Rev. E. Lyttelton; Lawn Tennis, by H. W. W. Wilberforce; Tennis, Rackets, and Fives, by Julian Marshall, Major Spens, and J. A. Tait; Golf, by W. T. Linskill; Hockey, by F. S. Creswell.

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BOHN'S Handbooks of Games. New Edition, entirely rewritten. 2 volumes. 3s. 6d. each.

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Chess-Player's Companion. Comprising a Treatise on Odds, Collection of Match Games, including the French Match with M. St. Amant, and a Selection of Original Problems. Diagrams and Coloured Frontispiece. 5s.

Chess Tournament of 1851. A Collection of Games played at this celebrated assemblage. With Introduction and Notes. Numerous Diagrams. 5s.

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FRANKLIN (Benjamin). Autobiography. Edited by J. Sparks.

HAWTHORNE (Nathaniel). Twicetold Tales. Two Vols.

Snow Image, and Other Tales.
Scarlet Letter.

House with the Seven Gables. Transformation; or the Marble Fawn. Two Parts.

HAZLITT (W.). Table-talk: Essays on Men and Manners. Three Parts.

Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things. Three Parts.

Lectures on the English Comic Writers.

Lectures on the English Poets. Lectures on the Characters of Shakespeare's Plays.

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Tour on the Prairies. Conquests of Granada and Spain. Two Parts.

Life and Voyages of Columbus. Two Parts.

Companions of Columbus: Their Voyages and Discoveries.

Adventures of Captain Bonneville in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West.

Knickerbocker's History of New York, from the beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty.

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Abbotsford & Newstead Abbey. Salmagundi; or, The Whim-Whams and Opinions of LAUNCELOT LANGSTAFF, Esq.

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Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains.

Wolfert's Roost, and other Tales.

LAMB (Charles). Essays of Elis.
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Last Essays of Elia.
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1. BACON'S ESSAYS. With Introduction and Notes.

2. LESSING'S LAOKOON. Beasley's Translation, revised, with Introduction, Notes, &c., by Edward Bell, M.A. With Frontispiece.

3. DANTE'S INFERNO. Translated, with Notes, by Rev. H. F. Cary. 4. GOETHE'S FAUST. Part I. Translated, with Introduction, by

Anna Swanwick.

5. GOETHE'S BOYHOOD. Being Part I. of the Autobiography Translated by J. Oxenford.

6. SCHILLER'S MARY STUART and THE MAID OF ORLEANS. Translated by J. Mellish and Anna Swanwick.

7. THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH. By the late Dean Alford.

8. LIFE AND LABOURS OF THE LATE THOMAS BRASSEY.

A. Helps, K.C.B.

By Sir

9. PLATO'S DIALOGUES: The Apology-Crito-Phaedo-Protagoras.

With Introductions.

10. MOLIÈRE'S PLAYS: The Miser-Tartuffe-The Shopkeeper turned Gentleman. Translated by C. H. Walt, M.A. With brief Memoir. II. GOETHE'S REINEKE FOX, in English Hexameters. By A. Rogers. 12. OLIVER GOLDSMITH'S PLAYS.

13. LESSING'S PLAYS: Nathan the Wise-Minna von Barnhelm. 14. PLAUTUS'S COMEDIES: Trinummus - - Menaechmi - Aulularia

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18. OLIVER CROMWELL. By Dr. Reinhold Pauli.

19. THE PERFECT LIFE. By Dr. Channing. Edited by his nephew, Rev. W. H. Channing.

20. LADIES IN PARLIAMENT, HORACE AT ATHENS, and other pieces, by Sir George Otto Trevelyan, Bart.

21. DEFOE'S THE PLAGUE IN LONDON.

22. IRVING'S LIFE OF MAHOMET.

23. HORACE'S ODES, by various hands.

[Out of Print.

24. BURKE'S ESSAY ON 'THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL.' With

Short Memoir.

25. HAUFF'S CARAVAN.

26. SHERIDAN'S PLAYS.

27. DANTE'S PURGATORIO. Translated by Cary.

28. HARVEY'S TREATISE ON THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD

29. CICERO'S FRIENDSHIP AND OLD AGE.

30. DANTE'S PARADISO. Translated by Cary.

31. CHRONICLE OF HENRY VIII. Translated by Major M. A. S.

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