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LONDON.-WILKINSON'S LONDINA ILLUSTRATA; or, Graphic and Historical Illustrations of the most Interesting and Curious Architectural Monuments of the City and Suburbs of London and Westminster (now mostly destroyed). Two Vols. imperial 4to, containing 207 Copperplate Engravings, with historical and descriptive Letterpress, half-bound morocco, top edges gilt, £5 55.

*** An enumeration of a few of the Plates will give some idea of the scope of the Work: St. Bartholomew's Church, Cloisters, and Priory, in 1393; St. Michael's, Cornhill, in 1421; St. Paul's Cathedral and Cross, in 1616 and 1656; St. John's of Jerusalem, Clerkenwell, 1660; Bunyan's Meeting House, in 1687; Guildhall, in 1517; Cheapside and its Cross, in 1547, 1585, and 1641; Cornhill, in 1599; Merchant Taylors' Hall, in 1599; Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, in 1612 and 1647; Alleyne's Bear Garden, in 1614 and 1647; Drury Lane, in 1792 and 1814; Covent Garden, in 1732, 1794, and 1809; Whitehall, in 1638 and 1697; York House, with Inigo Jones's Water Gate, circa 1626; Somerset House, previous to its alteration by Inigo Jones, circa 1600: St James's Palace, 1660; Montagu House (now the British Museum) before 1685, and in 1804.

LONGFELLOW'S PROSE WORKS, Complete. Including "Outre Mer," "Hyperion," "Kavanagh," "The Poets and Poetry of Europe,' and "Driftwood." With Portrait and Illustrations by Valentine Bromley. 800 pages, crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 7s. 6d.

LONGFELLOW'S POETICAL WORKS. With numerous fine Illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, 75. 6d.

"Longfellow, in the 'Golden Legend,' has entered more closely into the temper of the Monk, for good and for evil, than ever yet theological writer or historian, though they may have given their life's labour to the analysis."-Ruskin.

"We shall only say that he is the most popular of American poets, and that this popularity may safely be assumed to contain in itself the elements of permanence, since it has been fairly earned, without any of that subservience to the baser tastes of the public which characterises the quack of letters. His are laurels honourably gained and gently worn. Without comparing him with others, it is enough if we declare our conviction that he has composed poems which will live as long as the language in which they are written."-JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.

ACLISE'S GALLERY OF ILLUSTRIOUS LITERARY CHARACTERS. (THE FAmous Fraser PORTRAITS.) With Notes by the late WILLIAM MAGINN, LL.D. Edited, with copious Additional Notes, by WILLIAM BATES, B.A. The volume contains 83 CHARAC TERISTIC PORTRAITS, now first issued in a complete form. Demy 4to, cloth gilt and gilt edges, 315. 6d.

"One of the most interesting volumes of this year's literature."-Times.

"Deserves a place on every drawing-room table, and may not unfitly be removed from the drawing-room to the library."-Spectator.

MADRE NATURA versus THE MOLOCH OF FASHION. By LUKE LIMNER. With 32 Illustrations by the Author. Fourth Edition, revised and enlarged. Crown 8vo, cloth, extra gilt, 2s. 6d.

"Agreeably written and amusingly illustrated. Common sense and erudition are brought to bear on the subjects discussed in it."-Lancet.

MAGNA CHARTA. An exact Facsimile of the Original Document in the British Museum, printed on fine plate paper, nearly 3 feet long by 2 feet wide, with the Arms and Seals of the Barons emblazoned in Gold and Colours. Price 5s. A full Translation, with Notes, on a large sheet, 6d. MARK TWAIN'S CHOICE WORKS. Revised and Corrected throughout by the Author. With Life, Portrait, and numerous Illustrations. 700 pages, cloth extra, gilt, 7s. 6d.

MARK TWAIN'S PLEASURE TRIP on the CONTINENT of EUROPE. Post 8vo, illustrated boards, 25.

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MARSTON'S (Dr. Westland) DRAMATIC and POETICAL WORKS. Collected Library Edition, in Two Vols. crown 8vo, 18s.

"The Patrician's Daughter' is an oasis in the desert of modern dramatic literature, a real emanation of mind. We do not recollect any modern work in which states of thought are so freely developed, except the 'Torquato Tasso' of Goethe. The play is a work of art in the same sense that a play of Sophocles is a work of art; it is one simple idea in a state of gradual development.”—Times.

MARSTON'S (Philip Bourke) SONG TIDE, and other Poems. Second Edition. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 8s.

"This is a first work of extraordinary performance and of still more extraordinary promise. The youngest school of English poetry has received an important accession to its ranks in Philip Bourke Marston."-Examiner.

MARSTON'S (P. B.) ALL IN ALL: Poems and Sonnets. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 8s.

"Many of these poems are leavened with the leaven of genuine poetical sentiment, and expressed with grace and beauty of language. A tender melancholy, as well as a penetrating pathos, gives character to much of their sentiment, and lends it an irresistible interest to all who can feel."-Standard.

MEYRICK'S PAINTED ILLUSTRATIONS OF ANCIENT ARMS AND ARMOUR: A Critical Inquiry into Ancient Armour as it existed in Europe, but particularly in England, from the Norman Conquest to the Reign of Charles II.; with a Glossary, by Sir S. R. MEYRICK. New and greatly improved Edition, corrected throughout by the Author, with the assistance of ALBERT WAY and others. Illustrated by more than 100 Plates, splendidly Illuminated in gold and silver; also an additional Plate of the Tournament of Locks and Keys. Three Vols. imperial 4to, half-morocco extra, gilt edges, £10 105.

"While the splendour of the decorations of this work is well calculated to excite curiosity, the novel character of its contents, the very curious extracts from the rare MSS. in which it abounds, and the pleasing manner in which the author's antiquarian researches are prosecuted, will tempt many who take up the book in idleness, to peruse it with care. No previous work can be compared, in point of extent, arrangement, science, or utility, with the one now in question. 1st. It for the first time supplies, to our schools of art, correct and ascertained data for costume, in its noblest and most important branch-historical painting. 2nd. It affords a simple, clear, and most conclusive elucidation of a great number of passages in our great dramatic poets-ay, and in the works of those of Greece and Rome--against which commentators and scholiasts have been trying their wits for centuries. 3rd. It throws a flood of light upon the manners, usages, and sports of our ancestors, from the time of the Anglo-Saxons down to the reign of Charles the Second. And lastly, it at once removes a vast number of idle traditions and ingenious fables, which one compiler of history, copying from another, has succeeded in transmitting through the lapse of four or five hundred years.

MEYRICK'S ENGRAVED ILLUSTRATIONS OF ANCIENT ARMS AND ARMOUR. 154 highly finished Etchings of the Collection at Goodrich Court, Herefordshire, engraved by JOSEPH SKELTON, with Historical and Critical Disquisitions by Sir S. R. MEYRICK. Two Vols. imperial 4to, with Portrait, half-morocco extra, gilt edges, £4 145. 6d.

"We should imagine that the possessors of Dr. Meyrick's former great work would eagerly add Mr. Skelton's as a suitable illustration. In the first they have the history of Arms and Armour; in the second work, beautiful engravings of all the details, made out with sufficient minuteness to serve hereafter as patterns for artists or workmen.”—Gentleman's Magazine.

MUSES OF MAYFAIR: Vers de Société of the Nineteenth Century. Including Selections from TENNYSON, BROWNING, SWINBURNE, ROSSETTI, JEAN INGELOW, LOCKER, INGOLDSBY, HOOD, LYTTON, C.S.C., Landor, AUSTIN DOBSON, HENRY LEIGH, &c. &c. Edited by H. CHOLMONDELEY-PENNELL. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, gilt edges, 78. 6d.

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LD DRAMATISTS. Portraits, price 6s. per vol. Ben Jonson's Works. With Notes, Critical and Explanatory, and a Biographical Memoir by WILLIAM GIFFORD. Edited by Lieut. Col. F. CUNNINGHAM. Three Vols. Chapman's (George) Complete Works. Now first Collected. Three Vols. Vol I. contains the Plays complete, including the doubtful ones; Vol. II. the Poems and Minor Translations, with an Introductory Essay by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE;

Vol. III. the Translations of the Iliad and Odyssey.

Marlowe's Works.

Including

his Translations. Edited, with Notes and Introduction, by Col. CUNNING HAM. One Vol.

Massinger's Plays. From the Text of WILLIAM GIFFord. With the addition of the Tragedy of "Believe as You List." Edited by Col. CUNNINGHAM. One Vol.

O'SHAUGHNESSY'S (Arthur) AN EPIC OF WOMEN, other Poems. Second Edition. Fcap. 8vo, cloth extra, 6s.

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O'SHAUGHNESSY'S LAYS OF FRANCE. (Founded on the 'Lays of Marie.") Second Edition. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 10s. 6d. O'SHAUGHNESSY'S MUSIC AND MOONLIGHT: Poems and Songs. Fcap. 8vo, cloth extra, 7s. 6d.

"It is difficult to say which is more exquisite, the technical perfection of structure and melody, or the delicate pathos of thought. Mr. O'Shaughnessy will enrich our literature with some of the very best songs written in our generation."-Academy.

LUTARCH'S LIVES, Complete. Translated by the LANG-
HORNES. New Edition, with Medallion Portraits.

cloth extra, 10s. 6d.

In Two Vols. 8vo,

"When I write, I care not to have books about me; but I can hardly be without a 'Plutarch.'"-MONTAIGNE.

POE'S (Edgar Allan) CHOICE PROSE AND POETICAL WORKS. With BAUDELAIRE'S "Essay." 750 pages, crown 8vo, Portrait and Illustrations, cloth extra, 7s. 6d.

"Poe's great power lay in writing tales, which rank in a class by themselves, and have their characteristics strongly defined."-Fraser's Magazine.

"Poe stands as much alone among verse-writers as Salvator Rosa among painters." -Spectator.

PROUT, FATHER.—THE FINAL RELIQUES OF FATHER PROUT. Collected and edited, from MSS. supplied by the family of the Rev. FRANCIS MAHONY, by BLANCHARD JERROLD. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, with Portrait and Facsimiles, 12s. 6d.

"We heartily commend this handsome volume to all lovers of sound wit, genuine humour, and manly sense."-Spectator.

"Sparkles all over, and is full of interest. Mahony, like Sydney Smith, could write on no subject without being brilliant and witty."-British Quarterly Review.

A delightful collection of humour, scholarship, and vigorous political writing. It brings before us many of the 'Fraser 'set-Maginn, Dickens, Jerrold, and Thackeray. Maginn described himself better than any critic could do, when he wrote of himself as an Irish potato seasoned with Attic salt.""-Edinburgh Daily Review.

"It is well that the present long delayed volume should remind a younger generation of his fame. . . . The charming letters from Paris, Florence, and Rome are the most perfect specimens of what a foreign correspondence ought to be."Academy.

ICCADILLY NOVELS (The): Popular Stories by the Best Authors. Crown 8vo, carefully printed on creamy paper, and tastefully bound in cloth for the Library, price 6s. each.

WILKIE COLLINS.

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MAN AND WIFE. Illustrated
by WILLIAM SMALL.
POOR MISS FINCH. Illus-
trated by G. DU MAURIER and ED-
WARD HUGHES.

MISS OR MRS. ? Illustrated
by S. L. FILDES and HENRY WOODS.
THE NEW MAGDALEN.
Illustrated by DU MAURIER and
C. S. R.

THE FROZEN DEEP. Illus-
trated by Du MAURIER and M. F.
MAHONEY.

MY MISCELLANIES. With
Steel Portrait, and Illustrations by
CONCANEN.

THE LAW and THE LADY.
Illustrated by S. L. FILDES and S.
HALL.

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"Like all the author's works, full of a certain power and ingenuity. is upon such suggestions of crime that the fascination of the story depends. The reader feels it his duty to serve to the end upon the inquest on which he has been called by the author."-Times, in review of "The Law and the Lady." "The greatest master the sensational novel has ever known."-World.

E. LYNN LINTON.

PATRICIA KEMBALL. With Frontispiece by DU MAURIER. "A very clever and well-constructed story, original and striking, and interesting all through. A novel abounding in thought and power and interest.' "-Times. "Displays genuine humour, as well as keen social observation. Enough graphic portraiture and witty observation to furnish materials for half-a-dozen novels of the ordinary kind."-Saturday Review,

KATHARINE S. MACQUOID.

THE EVIL EYE, AND OTHER STORIES.
THOMAS R. MACQUOID and PERCY MACQUOID.

Illustrated by

"For Norman country life what the Johnny Ludlow' stories are for English rural delineation, that is, cameos delicately, if not very minutely or vividly wrought, and quite finished enough to give a pleasurable sense of artistic ease and faculty. A word of commendation is merited by the illustrations.”—Academy.

HENRY KINGSLEY.

NUMBER SEVENTEEN.

"Quite suficient plot and enough originality to form a charming story."-Echo.

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OPEN! SESAME! Illustrated by F. A. FRASER.

"A story which arouses and sustains the reader's interest to a higher degree than, perhaps, any of its author's former works. .. A very excellent story.' Graphic.

PICCADILLY NOVELS, continued.

MRS. OLIPHANT.

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THE BEST OF HUSBANDS.
Illustrated by J. MOYR SMITH.

WALTER'S WORD.
trated by J. MOYR SMITH.

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"His novels are always commendable in the sense of art. They also possess another distinct claim to our liking the girls in them are remarkably charming and true to nature, as most people, we believe, have the good fortune to observe nature represented by girls."--Spectator.

ANTHONY TROLLOPE.

THE WAY WE LIVE NOW. With Illustrations.

"Mr. Trollope has a true artist's idea of tone, of colour, of harmony; his pictures are one, and seldom out of drawing; he never strains after effect, is fidelity itself in expressing English life, is never guilty of caricature."-Fortnightly Review.

T. A. TROLLOPE.

DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND; and other Stories.

"The indefinable charm of Tuscan and Venetian life breathes in his pages."Times.

When

"Full of life, of interest, of close observation, and sympathy. Mr. Trollope paints a scene, it is sure to be a scene worth painting.”—Saturday Review.

JOHN SAUNDERS, Author of "Abel Drake's Wife."
ONE AGAINST THE
WORLD; or, Reuben's War.

BOUND TO THE WHEEL.
GUY WATERMAN.

Authors of "Gideon's Rock" and "Abel Drake's Wife." THE LION IN THE PATH: An Historical Romance.

"A carefully written and beautiful story-a story of goodness and truth, which is yet as interesting as though it dealt with the opposite qualities. The author of this really clever story has been at great pains to work out all its details with elaborate conscientiousness, and the result is a very vivid picture of the ways of life and habits of thought of a hundred and fifty years ago. Certainly a very interesting book."-Times.

OUIDA.

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"Keen poetic insight, an intense love of nature, a deep admiration of the beauti

ful in form and colour, are the gifts of Ouida."-Morning Post.

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