THE GREAT GOVERNING, FAMILIES OF ENGLAND. BY J. LANGTON SANFORD & MEREDITH TOWNSEND. Author of 'The New Revolution; or, the Napoleonic Policy in Europe,' &c. In Crown Octavo. THE CONFEDERATE SECESSION. BY THE MARQUESS OF LOTHIAN. Crown Octavo, 7s. 6d. [Now ready. THE SCOT ABROAD, AND THE ANCIENT LEAGUE WITH FRANCE. BY JOHN HILL BURTON, Author of the Book-Hunter.' EXTRACTS FROM REVIEWS. "The historian of Scotland has written an excellent book on the wanderings of his countrymen in foreign lands-a book that will interest Englishmen and fascinate Scotchmen."-The Times. "There are many more illustrations of this subject, but we leave it, to notice Mr Burton's able and handy volumes generally. As far as they go, they are perfect."-Athenæum. "No amount of selections, detached at random, can give an adequate idea of the varied and copious results of reading which are stored up in the compact and pithy pages of the 'Scot Abroad.'” —Saturday Review. "This is a charming book, written in the lightest and most conversational of styles, but as full of 'meat' as if its author had been a worshipper of the dignity of history. The pleasant author of the 'Bookhunter,' it appears, either passes his leisure, or did once pass it, in an effort to reconstruct the History of Scotland, and has used the knowledge he has acquired and the collections he has made to illustrate the career of the Scot out of his own country. The result is a series of sketches, all readable, most of them full of information which, to a Southron at least, is original, and one or two containing generalisations which display a thorough comprehension of the great points' of European history."-Spectator. "We close the book with regret; for whether regarded from a romantic or a purely antiquarian point of view, it possesses great attractions."— Daily News. "It is true that the interest of the Scot Abroad' is not of the same quality as the delightfully discursive and sarcastically humorous 'Bookhunter.' On the whole, however, the interest of these two volumes is more solid and serious; for they deal more with men and things, and less directly with authors and books. They are not, however, less readable on that account, but will be thoroughly enjoyed by all who appreciated their prototype. They display a like acquaintance with a thousand odd nooks and corners of literature, the result not merely of multifarious reading, but of close and systematic research into littleexplored recesses of great libraries, public and private; a similar keen appreciation of the value of every ascertainable circumstance, however minute, that happens to be in any way illustrative of the matter in hand; the same sharp insight into the character of men; the same full and ready knowledge of their deeds; the same catholic contempt for mere tradition, however venerable; the same sound common-sense applied to historical problems-proving potent to solve not a few of them."Scotsman. WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS, EDINBURGH AND LONDON. Second Edition, in Crown Octavo, 7s. 6d. ESSAYS ON SOCIAL SUBJECTS, FROM THE SATURDAY REVIEW.' "In their own way of simple, straightforward reflection upon life, the present century has produced no essays better than these."-Examiner. "If the peculiarity of these latter days, or at least of their literature, is, as is often asserted, its excessive subjectivity, then this volume is their outcome, their sample production. No man ever traced the working of the less predominant tendencies of our common human nature with so subtle a discrimination and so searching a detective power except by a habit of self-introspection."-The Spectator. 66 Very agreeable, and not unprofitable reading to people who observe a good deal and think a little. People who think much, and to the purpose, will also be entertained by the general cleverness, acute sense, and good feeling of the essays."-The Globe. "We have not had as pleasant a book for some time. The felicity of the style, the purity of the English, in which it happens to be written, would alone justify the fulness of our extracts, but all of them exemplify the manner of the Essay, suggestive rather than exhaustive, performing some thinking for us, but provoking and leading to more."-Daily Review. In Crown Octavo, 3s. 6d. THE CAIRNGORM MOUNTAINS. BY JOHN HILL BURTON. "It is a real pleasure, therefore, to come across a tourist who spurns the vulgar restraints of fashion, and in his first bound sets himself free from the fetters of convention; whose freer soul turns to regions which the guide-compiler has not yet mapped out and tabulated, who can find and appreciate in home enterprises and native scenery a loveliness and a charm which have of late been attached to none but exotic marvels and far-off adventures. One of the most complete as well as most lively and intelligent bits of reading that the lover of works of travel has seen for many a day."-Saturday Review. "These and all other blessings of a holiday among the Cairngorm Mountains Mr Burton pleasantly sets forth, taking the tourist into his company at Braemar, and leading him out of beaten tracks into a glorious pleasure-ground."-Examiner. WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS, EDINBURGH AND LONDON. ADVANCED TEXT-BOOK OF PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. BY DAVID PAGE, F.R.S.E., F.G.S. Author of 'Introductory and Advanced Text-Books of Geology,' &c. Crown Octavo, with a Glossary of Terms and numerous Illustrations, price 5s. "The Author has endeavoured to produce an Introductory and an Advanced Text-Book of Physical Geography, in accordance with the requirements of modern education, and the advancing state of the natural sciences. As the Introductory is not a mere narration of dry facts, to be irksomely committed to memory, but an outline of phenomena and principles to be read and reasoned; so the Advanced, avoiding the argumentative character of a scientific essay, aims at something more than a bulky compilation of disjointed descriptions, and not unfrequently contradictory statements. In both instances a systematic treatment has been strictly adhered to; and while the Introductory may meet the requirements of junior students, and those who cannot command time for an extended course, the Advanced, it is hoped, will satisfy the wants of senior students, as well as of those who seek a general acquaintance with the natural phenomena of our planet. The explanation of principles, rather than a detail of facts, has been a main object throughout, that the student may be enabled to apply them to his own observations and readings-readings that become every year more extensive, from the increasing facilities for travel in remote and imperfectly known regions."-Author's Preface. "Mr Page's volume is aptly entitled, and meets the wants of earnest and systematic students. This publication holds the same rank in relation to its science as Mr Page's other Advanced TextBook' holds in relation to geology. The plan and arrangement of both are similar, and as we commended the one so we can fairly commend the other. 'The explanation of principles, rather than a detail of facts, has been a main object throughout, that the student may be enabled to apply them to his own observations and readings.' So speaks the author of his own object, and he certainly carries it out, so that his 'Text-Book' becomes really such, and by his good arrangement and careful digestion of materials the reader is enabled to see at once the plan proposed and the principles illustrated."-The Athenæum. "This is a text-book which we can commend warmly to the notice of teachers. In teaching from the mere common text-books of geography, it is of importance that the teacher should consult some of the larger works devoted to the same subject. In dealing with physical geography, he will find a convenient guide in Mr Page's work."- Museum. "Admirable both for arrangement and style, this work will be invaluable to such as wish to master the principles of physical geography. The author has the faculty not only of making his explanations clear, but interesting, and the utility of the book is enhanced by an excellent glossary and an index at the end."- Weekly Dispatch. "Mr Page's previous text-books are so well known to most students of the physical structure of the earth that we need say little more of the present volume than that it is constructed on the same plan. It has the same orderly arrangement of matter, and fulness of detail and explanation, which have rendered his geological text-books so deservedly popular."-Scotsman. WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS, EDINBURGH AND LONDON. CATALOGUE OF MESSRS BLACKWOOD AND SONS' PUBLICATIONS. HISTORY OF EUROPE, From the Commencement of the French Revolution in 1789 to the Battle of History and A NEW LIBRARY EDITION (being the Tenth), in 14 vols. demy 8vo, with Biography. ANOTHER EDITION, in crown 8vo, 20 vols., £6. A PEOPLE'S EDITION, 12 vols., closely printed in double columns, £2, 8s., "An extraordinary work, which has earned for itself a lasting place in the literature of the country, By SIR CONTINUATION OF ALISON'S HISTORY OF EUROPE, EPITOME OF ALISON'S HISTORY OF EUROPE. For the Use of Schools and Young Persons. Fifteenth Edition, 7s. 6d., bound. ATLAS TO ALISON'S HISTORY OF EUROPE; Containing 109 Maps and Plans of Countries, Battles, Sieges, and Sea-Fights. LIVES OF LORD CASTLEREAGH AND SIR CHARLES ANNALS OF THE PENINSULAR CAMPAIGNS. By CAPT. THOMAS HAMILTON. A New Edition. Edited by F. HARD- A VISIT TO FLANDERS AND THE FIELD OF WATERLOO. WELLINGTON'S CAREER: A Military and Political Summary. By LIEUT.-COL. E. BRUCE HAMLEY, |