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Fools' Paradise; with the Many Wonderful Adventures there, as seen in the strange, surprising Peep-Show of Professor Wolley Cobble. Crown 4to, with nearly 350 very funny Coloured Pictures, cloth extra, gilt, 7s. 6d.

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Genial Showman; or, Show Life in the

New World. Adventures with Artemus Ward, and the Story of his Life. By E. P. HINGSTON. Third Edition. Crown 8vo, Illustrated by BRUNTON, cloth extra, 7s. 6d.

RUSKIN AND CRUIKSHANK.

German Popular Stories. Collected by

the Brothers GRIMM, and Translated by EDGAR TAYLOR. Edited, with an Introduction, by JOHN RUSKIN. With 22 Illustrations after the inimitable designs of GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. Both Series complete. Square crown 8vo, 6s. 6d.; gilt leaves, 7s. 6d.

"The illustrations of this volume. are of quite sterling and admirable art, in a class precisely parallel in elevation to the character of the tales which they illustrate; and the original etchings, as I have before said in the Appendix to my 'Elements of Drawing, were unrivalled in masterfulness of touch since Rembrandt (in some qualities of delineation, unrivalled even by him). . To make some

what enlarged copies of them, looking at them through a magnifying glass, and never putting two lines where Cruikshank has put only one, would be an exercise in decision and severe drawing which would leave afterwards little to be learnt in schools."-Extract from Introduction by JOHN RUSKIN.

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Dickens: The Story of his Life. By

THEODORE TAYLOR. Uniform with the "Charles Dickens Edition," and forming a Supplementary Volume to that Issue. Crown 8vo, crimson cloth, 3s. 6d.

Dickens' Speeches, Social and Literary, now first collected. Uniform with, and forming a Supplemen tary Volume to, the "Charles Dickens Edition." Crown Svo, crimson cloth, 35. 6d.

Dickens' Life and Speeches. In One

Volume, 16mo, cloth extra, 2s. 6d.

"DON QUIXOTE” IN THE ORIGINAL SPANISH.

El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha. Nueva Edicion, corregida y revisada. Por MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA. Complete in one volume, post 8vo, nearly 700 pages, cloth extra, price 4s. 6d.

GIL BLAS IN SPANISH.

Historia de Gil Blas de Santillana. Por LE SAGE. Traducida al Castellano por el PADRE ISLA. Nueva Edicion, corregida y revisada. Complete in One Volume. Post Svo, cloth extra, nearly 600 pages, price 4s. 6d.

Earthward Pilgrimage, from the Next

World to that which now is. By MONCURE D. CONWAY. Crow: 8vo, beautifully printed and bound, 7s. 6d.

Ellis's (Mrs.) Mothers of Great Men.

A New Edition, with Illustrations by VALENTINE W. BROMLEY. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, over 500 pages, 6s.

"Mrs. Ellis believes, as most of us do, that the character of the mother goes long way; and, in illustration of this doctrine, she has given us several lives writ in her charming, yet earnest, style. We especially commend the life of Byres and Napoleon's mothers. . . . The volume has some solid merits."-Echo.

"This is a book which ought to be in the libraries of all who interest themsel in the education of women."-Victoria Magazine. and its value is not a i

"An extremely agreeable and readable book, enhanced by Mr. Bromley's illustrations.”—Illustrated Dramatis News.

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Fools' Paradise; with the Many Wonderful Adventures there, as seen in the strange, surprising Peep-Show of Professor Wolley Cobble. Crown 4to, with nearly 350 very funny Coloured Pictures, cloth extra, gilt, 7s. 6d.

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Genial Showman; or, Show Life in the

New World. Adventures with Artemus Ward, and the Story of his Life. By E. P. HINGSTON. Third Edition. Crown 8vo, Illustrated by BRUNTON, cloth extra, 7s. 6d.

RUSKIN AND CRUIKSHANK.

German Popular Stories. Collected by

the Brothers GRIMM, and Translated by EDGAR TAYLOR. Edited, with an Introduction, by JOHN RUSKIN. With 22 Illustrations after the inimitable designs of GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. Both Series complete. Square crown 8vo, 6s. 6d.; gilt leaves, 7s. 6d.

"The illustrations of this volume. are of quite sterling and admirable art, in a class precisely parallel in elevation to the character of the tales which they illustrate; and the original etchings, as I have before said in the Appendix to my 'Elements of Drawing, were unrivalled in masterfulness of touch since Rembrandt (in some qualities of delineation, unrivalled even by him). . . . . To make somewhat enlarged copies of them, looking at them through a magnifying glass, and never putting two lines where Cruikshank has put only one, would be an exercise in decision and severe drawing which would leave afterwards little to be learnt in schools."-Extract from Introduction by JOHN RUSKIN.

74 & 75, PICCADILLY, LONDON, W.

THE GOLDEN LIBRARY.

Square 16mo (Tauchnitz size), cloth, extra gilt, price 25. per vol. Holmes's Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. With an Introduction by GEORGE Augustus Sala.

Holmes's Professor at the Breakfast

Table. With the STORY OF IRIS.

Hood's Whims and Oddities.

Both

Series complete in One Volume, with all the original Illustrations.

Lamb's Essays of Elia. Both Series com

plete in One Volume.

Leigh Hunt's Essays: A Tale for a Chimney Corner, and other Pieces. With Portrait, and Introduction by

EDMUND OLLIER.

Shelley's Early Poems: Queen Mab, &c.

Reprinted from the Author's Original Editions. With Essay by LEIGH HUNT. (First Series of his Works.)

Shelley's Later Poems: Laon and Cythna, the Cenci, and other Pieces. Reprinted from the Author's Original Editions. With an Introductory Essay. (Second Series of his Works.)

Shelley's Miscellaneous Poems and

Prose Works. The Third and Fourth Series, These Two Volumes will include the Posthumous Poems, published by Mrs. SHELLEY in 1824; the Shelley Papers, published in 1833; the Six Weeks' Tour (1816); the Notes to "Queen Mab," &c.; the Marlow and Dublin Pamphlets; "The Wandering Jew," a Poem; and the two Novels," Zastrozzi” and “St. Irvyne.” The three last now first included in any edition of Shelley. [Nearly ready.

Golden Treasury of Thought. The Best

Encyclopædia of Quotations and Elegant Extracts, from Writers of all Times and all Countries, ever formed. Selected and Edited by THEODORE TAYLOR. Crown 8vo, very handsomely bound, cloth gilt, and gilt edges, 7s. 6d.

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Great Condé (The), and the Period of

the Fronde: An Historical Sketch. By WALTER FITZPATRICK. Second Edition, in 2 vols. 8vo, cloth extra, 15s.

Greenwood's

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London: Being Descriptive Sketches, from the Personal Observations and Experiences of the Writer, of Remarkable Scenes, People, and Places in London. By JAMES GREENWOOD, the "Lambeth Casual." With Twelve full-page Illustrations by ALFRED CONCANEN. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, 75. 6d.

Hall's (Mrs. S. C.) Sketches of Irish

Character. "WOOING AND WEDDING," "JACK THE SHRIMP," "PETER THE PROPHET," "GOOD AND BAD SPIRITS," "MABEL O'NEIL'S CURSE," &c., &c. With numerous Illustrations on Steel and Wood, by DANIEL MACLISE, R. A., Sir JOHN GILBERT, W. HARVEY, and G. CRUIKSHANK. 8vo, pp. 450, cloth extra, 75. 6d.

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"The Irish sketches of this lady resemble Miss Mitford's beautiful English Sketches in Our Village,' but they are far more vigorous and picturesque and bright."-Blackwood's Magazine.

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