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NORFOLK BROADS AND RIVERS; OR, THE WATERWAYS, LAGOONS, AND DECOYS OF EAST ANGLIA. By G. CHRISTOPHER DAVIES. Illustrated with Seven full-page Plates. New Edition.

Crown 8vo, 6s.

"A charming description of the inland seas of Norfolk and their inhabitants, human and other.......The author describes his yachting adventures with such piquancy and verve, that we find ourselves mentally resolving to devote our next autumn holidays to sailing the Broads instead of climbing the Alps."Westminster Review.

"The most interesting of all descriptions of the Broads, and will preserve the memory of a paradise for naturalists and sportsmen."-Land and Water. "Every page teems with interest and amusement."- Whitehall Review.

OUR HOME IN AVEYRON. WITH STUDIES OF PEASANT LIFE AND CUSTOMS IN AVEYRON AND THE LOT. By G. CHRISTOPHER DAVIES and MRS BROUGHALL. 8vo, with numerous full-page Illustrations, 15s.

"The adventures of our authors are pleasantly and unpretendingly described, and they convey a very kindly impression of the villages and country people in that romantic region."-Daily News.

"A simple and pleasant book of studies of French peasant life and customs. The photographs by which it is illustrated are admirable, and bring South-central France excellently before the reader."-Athenæum.

THE MOOR AND THE LOCH. CONTAINING MINUTE INSTRUCTIONS IN ALL HIGHLAND SPORTS, WITH WANDERINGS OVER CRAG AND CORRIE, FLOOD AND FELL. By JOHN COLQUHOUN. Seventh Edition. With Illustrations. 8vo, 21s.

"The book abounds with anecdote and incident, as well as instruction....... The most experienced will derive both pleasure and profit from comparing notes and digesting the conclusions of one of the most successful sportsmen of the century."-Pall Mall Gazette.

SPORT IN THE HIGHLANDS AND LOWLANDS OF SCOTLAND WITH ROD AND GUN. By TOM SPEEDY. With Illustrations by Lieut.-Gen. HOPE CREALOCKE, C.B., C. M.G., and others. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. 8vo, 15s.

"An admirable handbook to Scottish wild sports."-Times.

"One of the best books on sporting subjects extant.......It is a delightful book, and one of genuine usefulness."-Scotsman.

ANGLING SONGS. By THOMAS TOD STODDART.

MEMOIR. By ANNA M. STODDART. 7s. 6d.

With a

Crown 8vo, with a Portrait,

"It is a book of which a man should have two copies-one to keep with his fly-book in the pocket of his coat, and to lie in the boat with the landing-net and the creel; another copy to bind in morocco and place among the honoured volumes on his shelves."-Saturday Review.

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LIFE, LETTERS, AND DIARIES OF SIR STAFFORD NORTHCOTE, FIRST EARL OF IDDESLEIGH. By ANDREW LANG. With Three Portraits, and a View of Pynes. In Two Volumes, post 8vo, 31s. 6d.

"A very delightful book....... Both for the excellence of the writing, and delicacy of the character drawing, surpasses anything of the kind that we have recently read."-Saturday Review.

"With the exception of the memoirs of Lord Beaconsfield and Mr Gladstone themselves, no more interesting political biography is likely to be published in the present generation."-Pall Mall Gazette.

"A most skilful, most attractive, most eloquent portrayal of Sir Stafford Northcote's amiable character. Biography has never presented a frontispiece more pleasing, and, it may be added, more delightful."-Academy.

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TALES FROM BLACKWOOD,' THIRD SERIES. In Six Volumes. Handsomely bound in Cloth, price 15s.; Roxburgh, 21s.; Halfcalf, 25s.; and Half-morocco, 28s.

"The best material in literary instruction and amusement, put together in the most artistic and attractive manner."- Whitehall Review.

"There is hardly to be found more entertaining reading in a handy form." -Manchester Examiner.

UNIFORM WITH TALES FROM BLACKWOOD.'

TRAVEL, ADVENTURE, AND SPORT. FROM 'BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE.' Complete in Six Volumes. Handsomely bound in Cloth, price 15s.; and Half-calf, 25s.

"A capital collection of stirring narratives of travel by land and sea."Saturday Review.

"It is hardly possible to rival this new series in the happy mixture of exciting adventure, humorous description, and singular experience, the wide world over."-North British Daily Mail.

GEORGE ELIOT'S LIFE AND WORKS. CABINET EDITION. Printed from a New and Legible Type. Complete in 24 Volumes of a convenient size. Price £6.

The Volumes, price 5s. each, may be had separately.

NOVELS BY GEORGE ELIOT. Cheap Editions. Crown 8vo, with Illustrations, viz.:-ADAM BEDE, 3s. 6d.; THE MILL ON THE FLOSS, 3s. 6d. ; FELIX HOLT, THE RADICAL, 3s. 6d. ; SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE, 3s.; SILAS MARNER, 2s. 6d.; ROMOLA, 3s. 6d.; DANIEL Deronda, 7s. 6d.; MIDDLEMARCH, 7s. 6d.; GEORGE ELIOT'S LIFE, 7s. 6d.

SCOTTISH SONG: ITS WEALTH, WISDOM, AND SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE. By J. STUART BLACKIE, Author of 'Lays and Legends of Ancient Greece,' 'A Song of Heroes,' &c. With Music. Crown 8vo, 7s. 6d. "A charming book, as useful as it is charming, and one which every lover of letters will sincerely welcome."-Echo.

GOLDEN LIVES: THE STORY OF A WOMAN'S COURAGE. By FREDERICK WICKS. In One Volume, with 120 Illustrations. 8vo,

21s.

"The plot is developed with care, precision, and completeness.......To write a novel, the characters in which act exactly as they might in real life, is an achievement; but to write a story in which, behaving themselves thus, they are constantly entertaining, is a remarkable feat."-Saturday Review.

"An original, unconventional, very striking romance."-Vanity Fair. "Considerable ingenuity is shown in the construction of the plot.......The ball is kept always rolling briskly from one turn of the drama to another."Scotsman.

BIS. SOME TALES RETOLD. By E. GERARD, Author of 'The Land beyond the Forest'; Joint-Author of 'Reata,' 'Beggar my Neighbour,' 'Waters of Hercules.' Crown 8vo, 6s.

"They are excellent short stories, imaginative and romantic, and at the same time exceedingly interesting and instructive.”—Scotsman.

SARACINESCA.

By F. MARION CRAWFORD, Author of 'Mr Isaacs,' 'Dr Claudius,' 'Zoroaster,' &c., &c. Fifth Edition. Crown 8vo, 6s.

RECHA.

A NOVEL. By DOROTHEA GERARD, Author of 'Lady Baby'; Joint-Author of 'Reata,' 'Beggar my Neighbour,' 'Waters of Hercules.' Second Edition. Crown 8vo, 6s.

"Told with remarkable power and dramatic vigour.......' Recha' is the strongest book Miss Dorothea Gerard has given us."-Academy.

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GENERATION.

By L. B. WALFORD,

Author of Mr Smith: A Part of his Life,' &c. Crown 8vo, 6s.

A masterpiece in the way of light and yet serious fiction."-Guardian. "There is much that is unusually clever in the story.......The happiest idea in the entire book is that of bringing out the innate nobility of the discarded lover's nature under the influence of his disappointment. This is done with skill and feeling, and is the master-stroke of a well-written and absorbing story."-Morning Post.

BLACKWOOD'S NEW UNIFORM SERIES OF NOVELS. Crown 8vo. Handsomely bound in Extra Cloth. Price 3s. 6d. each.

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FIFTH EDITION.

AT HOME IN FIJI. With Illustrations and a Map. Post 8vo, 7s. 6d.

"This book has been much praised, but never enough.......The volume tempts one to return to it again and again."- Vanity Fair.

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Beautiful and enchanting."-Daily Telegraph.

NEW EDITION.

A LADY'S CRUISE IN A FRENCH MAN-OF-WAR. With Illustrations and a Map. Post 8vo, 12s. 6d.

"It is impossible to give extracts which will convey an idea of the loveliness of the scenery of these isles. The volume must be read to accomplish this." -Academy.

"The brightness that made Miss Gordon Cumming a universally welcome guest is reflected in every one of her chapters; and her style is as fresh and clear as it is simple and unaffected."—Saturday Review.

NEW AND CHEAPER EDITION.

GRANITE CRAGS. With Illustrations. Post 8vo, 8s. 6d.

"Miss Cumming possesses a rare facility for investing sketches of travels with interest, and it is enough to say of her latest contribution to descriptive literature that it is worthy of her reputation."-Globe.

"In these pages we live a real, vivid life in California, piloted delightfully through the mysteries that throng a new country-new, at any rate, to the civilisation of the present century."—Sunday Times.

THIRD AND CHEAPER EDITION.

WANDERINGS IN CHINA. With Portrait of the Author, and other Illustrations. 8vo, 10s.

"We know of no book of travel which sketches so graphically the 'heathen Chinee' and his surroundings, whether in the sweltering cities of the south, or the dirt-begrimed Pekin."-Athenæum.

"It is one of the most informing books on China that has ever been written in English......A work packed full of interesting facts about actualities' in China, and most readable and entertaining from beginning to end.”—Contemporary Review.

FIRE FOUNTAINS.

THE KINGDOM OF HAWAII. With Map

and numerous Illustrations. Two Volumes. 8vo, 25s.

"We have read nothing heretofore about these great open volcanic displays that brought their main features so vividly before the mind's eye."-Pall Mall Gazette.

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