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The Book of Ballads.

Edited by Bon Gaultier. Eleventh Edition, with numerous Illustrations by DOYLE, LEECH, and CROWQUILL. Gilt edges, post octavo, 8s. 6d.

Family Records of the Bruces and the Cumyns.

With an Historical Introduction and Appendix from authentic Public and Private Documents. By M. E. Cumming Bruce. Quarto, cloth, £2, IOS. LARGE-PAPER EDITION, medium quarto, cloth, £3, 10S.

Jessie Cameron: A Highland Story.

By the Lady Rachel Butler. Second Edition. Small octavo, with a
Frontispiece, 2s. 6d.

Handy Book of Meteorology.

By Alexander Buchan, M. A., F.R.S. E., Secretary of the Scottish Meteorological Society, &c. A New Edition, being the Third. [In the press.

In this EDITION the Charts of the Distribution of Atmospheric Pressure and of Terrestrial Temperature will be revised; the Relations of Temperature to Atmospheric Pressure and Winds will, with the aid of Illustrative Charts, be more fully discussed, and the principle will be applied in explanation of unusually Hot and Cold Seasons, as well as Seasons of excessive Drought or excessive Rainfall; Charts will be given showing the Distribution of Rain over the Continents of the Globe, and its connection with the distribution of atmospheric pressure and temperature, and with prevailing winds, will be pointed out; the Prevailing Winds over the Globe will be represented on Charts; and otherwise the book will be revised throughout.

Introductory Text-Book of Meteorology.

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By Alexander Buchan, M.A., F.R.S.E., Author of 'Handy Book of Meteorology,' &c. Crown 8vo, with 8 Coloured Charts and other Engravings, pp. 218. 4s. 6d.

A handy compendium of Meteorology by one of the most competent authorities on this branch of science."-Petermann's Geographische Mittheil

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We can recommend it as a handy, clear, and scientific introduction to the theory of Meteorology, written by a man who has evidently mastered his subject."-Lancet. "An exceedingly useful volume."-Athenæum.

Memoir of the Political Life of the Right Hon

ourable Edmund Burke, with Extracts from his Writings. By the Rev. George Croly, D.D. 2 vols. post 8vo, 18s.

Handbook of the Mechanical Arts

Concerned in the Construction and Arrangement of Dwelling-Houses and other Buildings; with Practical Hints on Road-making and the Enclosing of Land. By Robert Scott Burn, Engineer. Second edition, crown 8vo, 6s. 6d.

Practical Ventilation,

As applied to Public, Domestic, and Agricultural Structures; with Remarks on Heating, Construction of Fire-Places, Cure of Smoky Chimneys, and an Appendix on the Ventilation of Ships, Steamboats, and Railway Carriages. By Robert Scott Burn, Engineer. Crown 8vo, 6s.

The History of Scotland:

From Agricola's Invasion to the Extinction of the last Jacobite Insurrection. By John Hill Burton, Historiographer-Royal for Scotland. New and Enlarged Edition, in 8 vols. crown 8vo. To be published monthly.

The Book-Hunter.

By John Hill Burton. In crown 8vo. Second Edition, 7s. 6d.

"A book pleasant to look at and pleasant to read-pleasant from its rich store of anecdote, its geniality, and its humour, even to persons who care little for the subjects of which it treats, but beyond measure delightful to those who are in any degree members of the above-mentioned fraternity."-Saturday Review.

The Scot Abroad,

AND THE ANCIENT LEAGUE WITH FRANCE. By John Hill Burton. 2 vols. crown 8vo, in Roxburghe binding, 155.

"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.

"A charming book."-Spectator.

The Cairngorm Mountains.

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By John Hill Burton. In Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d.

'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.

Sermons.

By John Caird, D.D., Professor of Divinity in the University of Glasgow. Thirteenth Thousand. Fcap. 8vo, 5s.

"They are noble sermons; and we are not sure but that, with the cultivated reader, they will gain rather than lose by being read, not heard. There is a thoughtfulness and depth about them which can hardly be appreciated, unless when they are studied at leisure; and there are so many sentences so felicitously expressed that we should grudge being hurried away from them by a rapid speaker, without being allowed to enjoy them a second time."-Fraser's Magazine.

Religion in Common Life:

A Sermon preached in Crathie Church, October 14, 1855, before Her Majesty the Queen and Prince Albert. By John Caird, D.D. Published by Her Majesty's Command. Bound in cloth, 8d. Cheap Edition, 3d.

Autobiography of the Rev. Dr Alexander Carlyle,

Minister of Inveresk. Containing Memorials of the Men an Events of

his Time. Edited by John Hill Burton. In 8vo. Third Edition, with Portrait, 145.

"This book contains by far the most vivid picture of Scottish life and manners that has been given to the public since the days of Sir Walter Scott. In bestowing upon it this high praise, we make no exception, not even in favour of Lord Cockburn's Memorials-the book which resembles it most, and which ranks next to it in interest."-Edinburgh Review.

"A more delightful and graphic picture of the everyday life of our ancestors it has never been our good fortune to meet with."—National Review.

A Treasury of the English and German Languages.

Compiled from the best Authors and Lexicographers in both Languages. Adapted to the Use of Schools, Students, Travellers, and Men of Business; and forming a Companion to all German-English Dictionaries. By Joseph Cauvin, LL.D. & Ph.D., of the University of Göttingen, &c. Crown 8vo, 7s. 6d., bound in cloth.

"An excellent English-German Dictionary, which supplies a real want."— Saturday Review.

"The difficulty of translating English into German may be greatly alleviated by the use of this copious and excellent English-German Dictionary, which specifies the different senses of each English word, and gives suitable German equivalents. It also supplies an abundance of idiomatic phraseology, with many passages from Shakespeare and other authors aptly rendered in German. Compared with other dictionaries, it has decidedly the advantage."-Athenæum.

Captain Clutterbuck's Champagne.

A WEST INDIAN REMINISCENCE. Post 8vo, 12s.

"We can conscientiously commend 'Captain Clutterbuck's Chainpagne' to all who like a really original story with no nonsense in it."-Press.

The Punjab and Delhi in 1857:

BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE MEASURES BY WHICH THE PUNJAB WAS SAVED AND DELHI RECOVERED DURING THE INDIAN MUTINY. By the Rev. J. Cave-Brown, Chaplain of the Punjab Movable Column. With Plans of the Chief Stations and of the different Engagements, and Portraits of Sir J. Lawrence, Bart., Sir H. Edwardes, Sir R. Montgomery, and Brig.-Gen. J. Nicholson. 2 vols. post 8vo, 215.

"This is a work which will well repay the trouble of perusal. Written by one who was himself present at many of the scenes he narrates, and who has had free access to the papers of Sir J. Lawrence, Sir R. Montgomery, and Sir H. Edwardes, it comes with all the weight of official authority, and all the vividness of personal narrative."—Press.

Coquet-Dale Fishing Songs.

Now first collected by a North-Country Angler, with the Music of the Airs. 8vo, 5s.

Sporting Days.

By John Colquhoun, Author of 'The Moor and the Loch,' &c. Crown 8vo, 5s.

Rocks and Rivers;

Or, Highland Wanderings over Crag and Correi, "Flood and Fell." By
John Colquhoun, Author of 'Sporting Days.' 8vo, 6s. 6d.

Salmon-Casts and Stray Shots.

Being Fly-leaves from the Note-Book of John Colquhoun, Esq., Author of 'The Moor and the Loch,' &c. Second Edition, fcap. 8vo, 5s.

The Coming Race.

Sixth Edition, crown 8vo, 6s.

"Language, literature, and the arts, all touched on with admirable verisimilitude, are impressed into the service of his thesis; and often, in reading of the delights of this underground Utopia, have we sighed for the refreshing tranquillity of that lamp-lit land."-Athenæum.

"Its kindly satire, its gentle moralisings, its healthy humour, and its extensive knowledge well applied, combine to separate it from the mass of ephemeral publications, and give evidence of literary skill very rarely to be met with in books written for the circulating libraries."-Examiner.

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The book is well written, and ingeniously worked out."-Saturday Review.

Venus and Psyche,

WITH OTHER POEMS. By Richard Crawley. Fcap. 8vo, 5s.

"Mr Crawley writes verses through which there runs an abundant vein of genuine poetry. Much, very much, of Mr Crawley's poetry is perfectly original-the creation of his own fancy-which is eminently near akin to the vision and the faculty divine, and is equally powerful in painting scenes of terror and tenderness. His minor poems are most of them beautiful, and some of them exquisite pieces of piercing satire."-Evening Standard.

The Genesis of the Church.

By the Right Rev. Henry Cotterill, D.D., Bishop of Edinburgh. Demy 8vo, 16s.

"The book is strikingly original, and this originality is one of its great charms-the views of an able and cultivated man whom long study has made fully master of his subject."-Scottish Guardian.

"In Dr Cotterill's volume a book of great ability has been presented to the world."-Edinburgh Courant.

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His book breathes the spirit and is stamped with the character of the present age. It requires, and will amply repay, the most careful and attentive reading; and it is likely to carry conviction to many a mind which has been merely repelled by the ordinary quoting of texts or appeals to Church History to prove the existence of the three Orders, and the necessity of the apostolical succession."-Literary Churchman.

Chronicles of Carlingford.

Salem Chapel. 25. in boards, or 2s. 6d. in cloth.

The Rector, and the Doctor's Family. Is. in boards, or is. 6d. in cloth.
The Perpetual Curate. 25. in boards, or 2s. 6d. in cloth.
Miss Marjoribanks. 2s. in boards, or 2s. 6d. in cloth.

Cornelius O'Dowd upon Men and Women,

AND OTHER THINGS IN GENERAL. 3 vols. crown 8vo, 10s. 6d. each.

"The flashes of the author's wit must not blind us to the ripeness of his wisdom, nor the general playfulness of his O'Dowderies allow us to forget the ample evidence that underneath them lurks one of the most earnest and observant spirits of the present time."—Daily Review.

The Fatherhood of God:

Considered in its General and Special Aspects, and particularly in relation to the Atonement; with a Review of Recent Speculations on the Subject. By Thomas J. Crawford, D.D. Third Edition, revised and enlarged, with a Reply to the Strictures of Dr Candlish. 9s.

"The plan of this work is comprehensive and yet definite. It embodies much original thought, and the author's habits of searching inquiry and careful arrangement stand him in good stead. Whatever difference of opinion there may be on sundry topics, it would be idle to question the great ability shown by the learned Professor. As the subjects treated of have been and are so much discussed, it will be satisfactory to many to receive a book which expounds so fully, and maintains so forcibly, and on a Scriptural basis, the views of one so well qualified to speak."―Journal of Sacred Literature.

The Doctrine of Holy Scripture respecting the

Atonement. By Thomas J. Crawford, D.D., Professor of Divinity in the
University of Edinburgh. 8vo, 12s.

"This addition to the latest contributions to the elucidation of the doctrine of the atonement must inevitably take a high rank among them. It collates and analyses the teachings, not only of the apostles, but of all Scriptural authors on the subject. The work is done in a critical, thorough, exhaustive manner, and gives us an exhaustive thesaurus of Scriptural doctrine on the subject.”—Princeton Review.

Sketches of the South and West;

Or, Ten Months' Residence in the United States. By Henry Deedes.
Fcap. 8vo, 5s.

Descartes

On the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, and Seeking Truth in the Sciences, and his Meditations, and Selections from his Principles of Philosophy. In One vol. post 8vo, 4s. 6d.

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