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25 copies on Japanese paper. 21s. net. Fully Illustrated. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s. 'An important contribution to scientific study. Scotsman. 'A history written in the spirit of scientific precision so worthily represented by Dr. Petrie and his school cannot but promote sound and accurate study, and supply a vacant place in the English literature of Egyptology. Times.
The amplifications of the Scripture narrative are often conceived with high poetic insight, and this "Dream of the World's Tragedy" is, despite some trifling incongruities, a lofty and not inadequate paraphrase of the supreme climax of the inspired narrative. Dublin Review. Sixth Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s. 'Ruston is drawn with extraordinary skill, and Maggie Dennison with many subtle strokes.
Crown 8vo. 6s. Of Mr. Benson's second novel the 'Birmingham Post' says it is 'well written, stimulating, unconventional, and, in a word, characteristic'; the 'National Observer congratulates Mr. Benson upon 'an exceptional achievement, and calls the book 'a notable advance on his previous work. M.M. DOWIE. GALLIA. By MÉNIE MURIEL DOWIE, Author of 'A Girl in the Carpathians. Second Edition.
Illustrated by FREDERIC REMINGTON. Post 8vo, Cloth, $1 50. This powerful story may well be ranked among the wonder books. No story-reader should miss it, for it is different from anything he has ever read. Christian at Work, N.Y. THE UNCLE OF AN ANGEL, and Other Stories. Post 8vo, Cloth, $1 25; Paper, 50 cents.
By James Grant, with an illustration by Gilbert. Foolscap 8vo., with gilt back, 2s. 6d.
Translated and edited by BRIGADIER-GENERAL GEORGE W. CULLUM, Chief of Staff of the General-in-Chief of the Armies of the United States. 8vo. New York: D. Van Nostrand. War has its science and its art. There is a domain of general principles, which have their application in all the active operations of war; and military science is but the sum of these principles in their theory and practice.
Since that they have been twice republished; once with dissertations and notes. Pennant's Tour to Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides. 3 vols. 4to. 1774. Dr. Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. 1775. 8vo. Account of the present State of the Hebrides and Western Coast of Scotland. By John Anderson. Edin. 1785. Written expressly to point out means of improvement.
"These beautiful plates will be found a suitable companion to the much admired Series, by the same Artist, illustrative of Bunyan's 'Pilgrim's Progress, which were issued by the Art-Union of London." Second Edition, in post 8vo. cloth, price 10s. with Portraits, With MEMOIR, Edited by his Daughter. Twenty-fifth Edition, fcp. 8vo. price 5s. cloth gilt; 10s. morocco extra, And other Poems.
The Ecclesiastical and political History of the Popes of Rome, during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. By LEOPOLD RANKE, Professor in the University of Berlin: Translated from the German, by SARAH AUSTIN. 3 vols. 8vo. London: 1840. It is hardly necessary for us to say that this is an excellent book excellently translated.
These travels, which have been translated into French, are very full on the agriculture of Sicily, and on its internal and external commerce. Fred. Snedorfs Samlede Skrivter. Copenh. 1794. 4 vols. 8vo. Of this work only the first volume relates to our present subject, containing letters from Germany, Switzerland, France and England.
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