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BRET HARTE'S WORKS-continued.

Bret Harte's Luck of Roaring Camp,

and other Stories. Fcap. 8vo, illustrated cover, Is.

Bret Harte's That Heathen Chinee, and other Humorous Poems. Fcap. 8vo, illustrated cover, Is. 6d.

Bret Harte's Sensation Novels Con. densed. Fcap. 8vo, illustrated cover, Is. 6d.

** A most enjoyable book, only surpassed, in its special class, by Thackeray': Burlesque Novels.

Bret Harte's Lothaw; or, The Adventures of a Young Gentleman in Search of a Religion. By Mr. BENJAMINS (Bret Harte). Price 6d. Curiously Illustrated.

Bret Harte's East and West. Fcap.

8vo, illustrated cover, Is.

Bret Harte's Stories of the Sierras, and other Sketches. With a Wild Story of Western Life by JOAQUIN MILLER, Author of "Songs of the Sierras." Illustrated cover, Is.

NEW EDITIONS OF SIR DAVID RREWSTER'S WORKS.

Brewster's More Worlds than One, the Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian. Eleventh Edition. Crown 8vo, cloth, very neat, 4s. 6d.

Brewster's

Martyrs of Science :

Galileo, Tycho Brahe, Kepler. Crown 8vo, cloth, very neat, 4s. 6d.

Brewster's The Kaleidoscope Practically Described. Crown 8vo, with numerous Illustrations, cloth, very neat, 4s. 6d.

Brewster's The Stereoscope PracCrown 8vo, numerous Illustrations, cloth

tically Described.

neat, 4s. 6d.

This was the great philosopher's last contribution to practical science.

74 & 75, PICCADILLY, LONDON, W.

Bright's (Rt. Hon. J., M.P.) Speeches

on Public Affairs of the last Twenty Years. Collated with the best Public Reports. Royal 16mo, 370 pages, cloth extra, Is.

A book of special interest at the present time, and wonderfully cheap.

COLMAN'S HUMOROUS WORKS.

Broad Grins. My Nightgown and Slippers,

and other Humorous Works, Prose and Poetical, of GEORGE COLMAN the Younger. Now first collected, with Life and Anecdotes of the Author, by GEORGE B. BUCKSTONE. Crown 8vo, 500 pp., 7s. 6d. **Admirers of genuine English wit and humour will be delighted with this edition of George Colman's humorous works. As a wit, he has had no equal in our time; and a man with a tithe of his ability could, at the present day, make the fortune of any one of our so-called "comic journals," and bankrupt the rest.

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The Conquest of the Sea: A History

of Divers and Diving, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. By HENRY SIEBE. Profusely Illustrated with fine Wood Engravings. Small crown 8vo, cloth extra, 4s. 6d.

74 & 75, PICCADILLY, LONDON, W.

UNIFORM WITH THE 25. EDITION OF HIS WORKS.

Carlyle (T.) on the Choice of Books,

With a New Life and Anecdotes of the Author. Brown cloth Is. 6d. ; paper cover, Is.

Chips from a Rough Log.

illustrated cover, Is.

Fcap. Sve

Christmas Songs and Ballads. Selecte

and Edited by JOSHUA SYLVESTER. A New Edition, beautif printed and bound in cloth, extra gilt, gilt edges, 3s. 6d.

Clerical Anecdotes and Pulpit Eccen tricities. An entirely New Gathering. Square 16mo, in illustrat paper wrapper, Is. 4d.; or cloth neat, Is. Iod.

The Country of the Dwarfs. By PA DU CHAILLU. A Book of Startling Interest. Fcap. 8vo, trated with full-page Engravings, in fancy wrapper, Is.

Cruikshank's Comic Almanack FIRST SERIES, 1835-43. A Gathering of the BEST HUMOUR, WITTIEST SAYINGS, the Drollest Quips, and the Best Things THACKERAY, HOOD, MAYHEW, ALBERT SMITH, A'BECKET ROBERT BROUGH, &c. With about One Thousand Woodcuts and St Engravings by the inimitable CRUIKSHANK, HINE, LANDELLS, &. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, a very thick volume, price 7s. 6d.

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Cruikshank's Comic Almanack. SECOND SERIES, 1844-53, Completing the work. Uniform with the FIRST SERIES, and written and illustrated by the same humorists. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, a very thick volume, price 7s. 6d.

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The two volumes (each sold separately) form a most extraordinary gathering of the best wit and humour of the past half-century. The work forms a Comic History of England" for twenty years.

THE BEST GUIDE TO HERALDRY.

Cussans' Handbook of Heraldry; with Instructions for Tracing Pedigrees and Deciphering Ancient MSS.; also, Rules for the Appointment of Liveries, &c., &c. By JOHN E. CUSSANS. Illustrated with 360 Plates and Woodcuts. Cr. 8vo, cloth extra, gilt and emblazoned, 75.6d.

This volume, beautifully printed on toned paper, contains not only the ordinary matter to be found in the best books on the science of Armory, but several other subjects hitherto unnoticed. Amongst these may be mentioned:-1. DIRECTIONS FOR TRACING PEDIGREES. 2. DECIPHERING ANCIENT MSS., ILLUSTRATED BY ALPHABETS AND FACSIMILES. 3. THE APPOINTMENT OF LIVERIES. 4. CONTINENTAL AND AMERICAN HERALDRY, &c.

74 & 75, PICCADILLY, LONDON, W.

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Also Published:

THE "BEST EDITION" of the above Work, illustrated by Photographic Frontispiece of "Dickens as Captain Bobadil," Portraits, Facsimiles, &c. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 7s. 6d.

THE "CHEAP EDITION," in 16mo, paper wrapper, with Frontispiece and Vignette, 25.

74 & 75, PICCADILLY, LONDON, W.

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