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COUNTERPARTS; OR, THE CROSS OF LOVE. BY THE AUTHOR OF "CHARLES AUCHESTER." Three Volumes, post 8vo.

"Counterparts' rivets the attention of the thoughtful reader by the true perception of nature and man which its pages disclose. We can promise the reader an abundantly pleasing and intellectual repast. The incidents of the story are numerous and remarkable, and some of them are distinguished by a rare originality. The book will be read with great interest by novel readers of almost every class."-Morning Advertiser. "A work which the novel reader will welcome for a certain animation and variety of flavour. We are fairly in for some hours of pleasant reading. The characters that most interest are kept in the foreground; there are animated and clever conversations, sparkling descriptions, and a genial appreciation of the beautiful in nature and art; especially the sea and music."-Globe.

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NANETTE AND HER LOVERS. By TALBOT GWYNNE, Author of "The School for Fathers," "Silas Barnstarke," &c. One Volume, crown 8vo.

"We do not remember to have met with so perfect a work of literary art as 'Nanette' for many a long day; or one in which every character is so thoroughly worked out in so short a space, and the interest concentrated with so much effect and truthfulness."-Britannia.

"A novel which will be read with more satisfaction than many of more pretensions."-Critic.

"A story worth reading."-Athenæum.

"It would be difficult to suppose a more pleasing sketch, or a more interesting heroine than Nanette."-Sun.

"In Nanette's simple faith, affectionate nature, and honest, earnest conduct, there is a very striking and pleasing delineation of character."-Literary Gazette.

"The author of The School for Fathers' is unquestionably in the very foremost rank of prose writers of fiction."—Morning Advertiser.

AMBROSE: THE SCULPTOR. An Autobiography of Artist-Life. By Mrs. ROBERT CARTWRIGHT, Author of "Christabelle," &c. Two Vols., Post 8vo. (Now ready.)

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THE HEIR OF VALLIS. By WILLIAM MATHEWS, Esq. Three Volumes, post 8vo.

"In many respects this is a remarkable novel. It has a singularly vigorous plot, in which the incidents are skilfully concatenated, and much constructive capacity is displayed."- Press.

"This is not an ordinary work; it is out of the usual range of romances, and differs essentially from the stories of the present day. It is arranged with great skill, and the many striking scenes are shadowed forth with most artistic power."--Sun.

"The Heir of Vallis' must win for itself an exalted niche among the novels of the year. The writing is clear and forcible, the characters are worked out with power and distinctness, and the plot is elaborated without detracting from its effect." -Britannia.

"A carefully written, well conceived work. It only just misses being first-rate. It contains the elements of great excellence." -Athenæum.

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THE LAWS OF WAR. AFFECTING COMMERCE AND SHIPPING. By H. BYERLEY THOMSON, Esq., B.A., Barrister at Law. Second Edition, greatly enlarged. 8vo. Price 4s. 6d., boards.

"Mr. Thomson treats of the immediate effects of war; of enemies and hostile property; of prizes and privateers; of licenses, ransom, recapture, and salvage; of neutrality, contraband of war, blockade, right of search, armed neutralities, &c., &c. Such books as this are essentially necessary to tell us what the laws of nations were, and what they are likely to become; and merchants will find Mr. Thomson's book a great help. It is a well-timed and appropriate publication."-Economist.

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MODERN GERMAN MUSIC. By HENRY F. CHORLEY, Esq. Two Volumes, post 8vo.

"Mr. Chorley is a tourist with a purpose; he travels as a pilgrim to the shrines and dwelling places of the art which he loves, and on which he here expatiates. He takes with him a power of appreciating all that is noble in art and worthy in the artist: but his Hero is Mendelssohn, with whom he lived on terms of intimate knowledge."-Athenæum.

"The author ranks as one of the ablest and most expert connoisseurs in music. Very few there are who will not read with interest, and admire for the great ability with which they are written, Mr. Chorley's incidental sketches of the great German composers of the last half century."-Examiner.

"The subject, so generally fascinating, the author's extensive information, and exciting style, will procure him many admiring readers."-Economist.

"Mr. Chorley's volumes will be read with interest and pleasure, independently of their merit as art expositors, for the numerous personal anecdotes and social daguerreotypes with which they abound."-Sunday Times.

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DOINE; or, the National Songs and Legends of Roumania. Translated from the Originals, with an Introduction, and Specimens of the Music. By E. C. GRENVILLE MURRAY, Esq. One Volume, crown 8vo.

“The Doine are national songs of Roumania, which have been collected in Wallachia, and are now offered to the public in an elegant English dress. They are extremely pretty and characteristic; and no one can glance at them without feeling a deep interest in a people who can feel so tenderly and nobly. The volume is tastefully executed." Athenæum.

most characteristic collections of These songs throw a strong light civilized Europe has scarcely any

"This is the most poetical, and one of the national legends that we have seen of late years. upon the manners and customs of a people of whom accurate knowledge. Some of them have a wild pathos scarcely surpassed in any national literature."-Daily News.

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THE RUSSO-TURKISH CAMPAIGNS OF 1828-9: With an account of the present state of the Eastern Question. By COLONEL CHESNEY, R.A., D.C.L., F.R.S., Author of "The Expedition to the Euphrates and Tigris." Third Edition. One thick Volume, post 8vo, with Maps. Price 12s. cloth.

"Colonel Chesney supplies us with full information respecting this important period of European History, and with an accurate description, from a military point of view, of the countries which form, at the present moment, the theatre of war."Examiner.

"Colonel Chesney personally explored, with a military eye, the theatre of war in Wallachia and Bulgaria; and in reviewing the past gives instructive indications for the future."-Globe.

"Colonel Chesney's work is one of great interest. It contains the whole of the details necessary to be known of one of the most heroical struggles of modern times; and is the best military account of these campaigns that we have."-Daily News.

"The Military Memoir of Colonel Chesney is full and clear; occasionally presenting the active struggles of combat, but more generally exhibiting the strategy→→ the moves of the game. In this consists the principal value of the work.". Spectator.

"The best historical companion the reader can possess during the campaigns about to open."-Athenæum.

"The only work on the subject suited to the military reader."-United Service Gazette.

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THE BHILSA TOPES; or, Buddhist Monuments of Central India. By MAJOR CUNNINGHAM. One Volume, 8vo, with Thirty-three Plates, price 30s. cloth.

"Major Cunningham's most valuable and instructive book ought to help to awaken a popular interest in Indian antiquities, as the study of the Buddhist monuments leads directly to the elimination of historical truths of the most interesting kind. Of the Topes opened in various parts of India, none have yielded so rich a harvest of important information as these of Bhilsa, opened by Major Cunningham and Lieut. Maisey; and which are described, with an abundance of highly curious graphic illustrations, in this most interesting book."—Examiner.

"The work of Major Cunningham contains much that is original, and preserves the results of very important investigations. The variety of representations in basreliefs is unusually large. Not only are religious and military pageants, ceremonies, and battles depicted, but domestic scenes of a highly interesting character."Athenæum.

"Major Cunningham's book abounds with plates, the correct delineations of Buddhist Antiquities, which, like the Nineveh and Egyptian Marbles, are unfailing teachers of remote history; we trust to see Major Cunningham's book in every library in the kingdom."-Indian News.

"This work and Mr. Layard's 'Nineveh' are on kindred subjects."--Illustrated News.

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BALDER. A POEM. By the Author of "The Roman." One Volume, crown 8vo, price 7s. 6d. cloth.

"Balder' is a tragic representation of genius without faith. The story of genius vanquished by misery where it sinned-in the little world of home. With the burning utterance of Balder's colossal but distempered nature, alternates the lament of Amy, mourning his lost love; some of her songs breathe an exquisite pathos."-North British Review.

"The writer has fine qualities; his level of thought is lofty, and his passion for the beautiful has the truth of an instinct."-Athenæum.

"We know of few poems evidencing more philosophic grasp and more poetic pith than Balder.""-Critic.

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MAUDE TALBOT. By HOLME LEE. Three Volumes, post 8vo, price 31s. 6d.

"A well-wrought and really admirable work of fiction, of a solid and very thoughtful kind; the thoughtfulness is all thrown into the form of character and incident. The story has been carefully matured; the plot is well managed and extremely interesting; there is abundance and variety of incident; the style is graphic and terse, and the feeling everywhere excellent. Great skill is shown in the development of character; the persons of the tale are very distinct and real.”—Examiner.

"An able and carefully written novel, with an earnest steady purpose that is never lost sight of. The idea of the work is excellent; the characters are all, more or less, involved in the same interest. Maude Talbot' must take rank as a superior novel; and it will excite and reward attention.”—Athenæum.

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AVILLION, AND OTHER TALES. By the Author of "Olive," "The Head of the Family," &c. Three Volumes, post 8vo, price 17. 11s. 6d. cloth.

"Avillion' is a beautiful and fanciful story; and the rest make agreeable reading. There is not one of them unquickened by true feeling, exquisite taste, and a pure and vivid imagination."-Examiner.

"These volumes form altogether as pleasant and fanciful a miscellany as has often been given to the public in these latter days.”—Athenæum.

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THE CROSS AND THE DRAGON; or, The Fortunes of Christianity in China; with notices of the Secret Societies of the Chinese. By J. KESSON. One Volume, post 8vo, price 6s. cloth,

"A painstaking and conscientious book."-Spectator.

"A very readable outline of the subject."-Athenæum.

"A learned and excellent little book."-Glasgow Commonwealth.

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THE INSURRECTION IN CHINA. By Dr. YVAN and M. CALLERY. With a Supplementary Account of the Most Recent Events. By JOHN OXENford. Third Edition, Enlarged.

Post 8vo, with Chinese Map and Portrait, 7s. 6d., cloth. "A curious book, giving a lucid account of the origin and progress of the civil war now raging in China, bringing it down to the present day."- Blackwood's Magazine. "Their narrative is animated by traits of Chinese manners, opinions, and ideas, and by lively reminiscences of the country and some of the actors with whom the authors were personally acquainted."-Spectator.

"The book can scarcely fail to find a curious and interested public."—Athenæum. "An interesting publication, full of curious and valuable matter."-Examiner. "The volume is instructive and attractive in a high degree."-Illustrated News. "The Revolution in China is the greatest revolution the world has yet seen." Times.

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MEMORANDUMS MADE IN IRELAND. By SIR JOHN FORBES, M.D., Author of "The Physician's Holiday." Two Vols., Post 8vo, with Illustrations, price 1. 1s. cloth.

"A complete handbook of the sister island. If there be any, who, knowing nothing of its social and political condition, meditate a tour in Ireland, the pleasure and profit to be derived from the journey will be much enhanced by a careful study of Dr. Forbes's very sensible observations."-New Quarterly Review.

"The book is excellent, and, like all the writings of its author, points to a good purpose. It is honest, thoughtful, liberal, and kindly. By readers of all grades Dr. Forbes's volumes will be read with pleasure."-Examiner.

"Dr. Forbes is evidently possessed of a candid mind, and though he has dealt with polemical matter, he does not write in a sectarian spirit.”—Athenæum.

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JUVENILE DELINQUENCY.

Two Essays which obtained the Prizes offered by Lady Noel Byron. By MICAIAH HILL and C. F, CORNWALLIS. One Volume, post 8vo, price 6s. cloth.

"This volume is the best existing manual of the subject. The first Essay may be said to compass the whole round of the subject, with its statistics presenting a manual of the standing facts and arguments. The other is remarkable for a vigorous portraiture of the general causes of juvenile delinquency; and it has a novelty and force which throw a new light upon the subject."-Spectator.

"We commend this volume to universal attention. In it is compactly yet very fully written the story of that savage horde among the civilized, which has now by a wise discipline to be transformed."-Examiner.