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HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, & TRAVELS.

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Kingsley (Canon).—ON THE ANCIEN REGIME as it Existed on the Continent before the FRENCH REVOLUTION. Three Lectures delivered at the Royal Institution. By the Rev. C. KINGSLEY, M.A., formerly Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge. Crown 8vo. 6s.

These three lectures discuss severally (1) Caste, (2) Centralization, (3) The Explosive Forces by which the Revolution was superinduced. The Preface deals at some length with certain political questions of the present day.

THE ROMAN AND THE TEUTON. A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge. By Rev. C KINGSLEY, M.A. Svo. 125.

CONTENTS:-Inaugural Lecture; The Forest Children; The Dying Empire; The Human Deluge; The Gothic Civilizer; Dietrich's End; The Nemesis of the Goths; Paulus Diaconus; The Clergy and the Heathen : The Monk a Civilizer; The Lombard Laws; The Popes and the Lombards; The Strategy of Providence.

Kingsley (Henry, F.R.G.S.).-TALES OF OLD TRAVEL. Re-narrated by HENRY KINGSLEY, F.R.G.S. With Eight Illustrations by HUARD. Crown 8vo. 65.

CONTENTS:-Marco Polo; The Shipwreck of Pelsart; The Wonderful Adventures of Andrew Battel; The Wanderings of a Capuchin; Peter Carder; The Preservation of the “Terra Nova ;" Spitzbergen; D'Erme nonville's Acclimatization Adventure; The Old Slave Trade; Miles Philips; The Sufferings of Robert Everard; John Fox; Alvaro Nunez; The Foun dation of an Empire.

Latham. BLACK AND WHITE: A Journal of a Three Months' Tour in the United States. By HENRY LATHAM, M. A., Barristerat-Law. Svo. 10s. 6d.

“The spirit in which Mr. Latham has written about our brethren in America is com nendable in high degree."—ATHENÆUM.

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Law. THE ALPS OF HANNIBAL. By WILLIAM JOHN Law, M.A., formerly Student of Christ Church, Oxford. Two vols. 8vo. 21S.

"No one can read the work and not acquire a conviction that, in addition to a thorough grasp of a particular topic, its writer has at command a large store of reading and thought upon many cognate points of ancient history and geography.”—Quarterly Review. Liverpool.-THE LIFE AND ADMINISTRATION OF

ROBERT BANKS, SECOND EARL OF LIVERPOOL, K.G.
Compiled from Original Family Documents by CHARLES DUKE
YONGE, Regius Professor of History and English Literature in
Queen's College, Belfast; and Author of "The History of the
British Navy," "The History of France under the Bourbons," etc.
Three vols. 8vo. 42s.

Since the time of Lord Burleigh no one, except the second Pitt, ever enjoyed so long a tenure of power; with the same exception, no one ever held office at so critical a time. . . . Lord Liverpool is the very last minister who has been able fully to carry out his own political views; who has been so strong that in matters of general policy the Opposition could extort no concessions from him which were not sanctioned by his own deliberate judgment. The present work is founded almost entirely on the correspondence left behind him by Lord Liverpool, and now in the possession of Colonel and Lady Catherine Harcourt.

"Full of information and instruction.”—FORTNIGHtly Review. Maclear. See Section, "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY."

Macmillan (Rev. Hugh).— HOLIDAYS ON HIGH

LANDS; or, Rambles and Incidents in search of Alpine Plants.
By the Rev. HUGH MACMILLAN, Author of Bible Teachings in
Nature," etc. Crown Svo, cloth. 6s.

"Botanical knowledge is blended with a love of nature, a pious enthusiasm, and a rich felicity of diction not to be met with in any works of kindred character, if we except those of Hugh Miller."-DAILY TELEGRAPH.

HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, & TRAVELS.

Macmillan (Rev. Hugh), (continued)—

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FOOT-NOTES FROM THE PAGE OF NATURE. With numerous Illustrations. Fcap. 8vo. 55.

"Those who have derived pleasure ana profit from the study of flowers and ferns-subjects, it is pleasing to find, now everywhere popular-by descending lower into the arcana of the vegetable kingdom, will find a still more interesting and delightful field of research in the objects brought under review in the following pages."—PREface.

BIBLE TEACHINGS IN NATURE. Fourth Edition. Fcap Svo. 65.-See also "SCIENTIFIC SECTION,"

Martin (Frederick).—THE STATESMAN'S YEAR-BOOK :

A Statistical and Historical Account of the States of the Civilised
World. Manual for Politician and Merchants for the year 1870.
BY FREDERICK MARTIN. Seventh Annual Publication. Crown
Svo.

105. 6d.

The new issue has been entirely re-written, revised, and corrected, on the basis of official reports received direct from the heads of the leading Governments of the World, in reply to letters sent to them by the Editor.

“Everybody who knows this work is aware that it is a book that is indispensable to writers, financiers, politicians, statesmen, and all who are directly or indirectly interested in the political, social, industrial, com mercial, and financial condition of their fellow-creatures at home and abroad. Mr. Martin deserves waim commendation for the care he takes in making * The Statesman's Year Book' complete and correct,”

Martineau.-BIOGRAPHICAL

STANDARD.

SKETCHES, 1852-1868. By HARRIET MARTINEAU, Third Edition, with New Preface. Crown Svo. Ss. 6d.

A Collection of Memoirs under these several sections —(1) Royal, (2) Politicians, (3) Professional, (4) Scientific, (5) Social, (6) Literary. These Memoirs appeared originally in the columns of the "Dy News."

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Masson (Professor).—ESSAYS, BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL. See Section headed" POETRY And Belles Lettres.”

LIFE OF JOHN MILTON. Narrated in connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of his Time. By DAVID MASSON, M.A., LL.D., Professor of Rhetoric at Edinburgh. Vol. I. with Portraits. 8vo. 18s. Vol. II. in the Press. It is intended to exhibit Milton's life in its connexions with all the more notable phenomena of the period of British history in which it was cast— its state politics, its ecclesiastical variations, its literature and speculative thought. Commencing in 1608, the Life of Milton proceeds through the last sixteen years of the reign of James I., includes the whole of the reign of Charles I. ana the subsequent years of the Commonwealth and the Protectorate, and then, passing the Restoration, extends itself to 1674, or through fourteen years of the new state of things under Charles II. The first volume deals with the life of Milton as extending from 1608 to 1640, which was the period of his education and of his minor poems.

Morison.-THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SAINT BERNARD,

Abbot of Clairvaux. By JAMES COTTER MORISON, M.A. New
Edition, revised. Crown 8vo. 75. 6d.

"One of the best contributions in our literature towards a vivid, intelligent, and worthy knowledge of European interests and thoughts and feelings during the twelfth century. A delightful and instructive volume, and one of the best products of the modern historic spirit.”

PALL MALL GAZETTE.

Morley (John).—EDMUND BURKE, a Historical Study. By JOHN MORLEY, B. A. Oxon. Crown 8vo. 75. 6d.

The style is terse and incisive, and brilliant with epigram and point. It contains pithy aphoristic sentences which Burke himself would not have disowned. But these are not its best features: its sustained power of reasoning, its wide sweep of observation and reflection, its elevated ethical and social tone, stamp it as a work of high excellence, and as such we cordially recommend it to our readers.”—SATURDAY Review.

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Mullinger.-CAMBRIDGE CHARACTERISTICS IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. By J. B. MULLINGER, B. A. Crown 8vo. 45. 6d.

"It is a very entertaining and readable book.”—SATURDAY REVIEW.

"The chapters on the Cartesian Philosophy and the Cambridge Platonists are admirable."—ATHENÆUM.

Palgrave.-IIISTORY OF NORMANDY AND OF ENG. LAND. By Sir FRANCIS PALGRAVE, Deputy Keeper of Her Majesty's Public Records. Completing the History to the Death of William Rufus. Four vols. 8vo. £4 45.

Volume I. General Relations of Mediæval Europe-The Carlovingian Empire-The Danish Expeditions in the Gauls—And the Establishment of Rollo. Volume II. The Three First Dukes of Normandy; Rollo, Guillaume Longue-Épée, and Richard Sans-Peur-The Carlovingian line supplanted by the Capets. Volume III. Richard Sans-PeurRichard Le-Bon-Richard III-Robert Le Diable-William the Conqueror. Volume IV. William Kufus-Accession of Henry Beauclerc.

Palgrave (W. G.).—A NARRATIVE OF A YEAR'S JOURNEY THROUGH CENTRAL AND EASTERN ARABIA, 1862-3. By WILLIAM GIFFORD PALGRAVE, late of the Eighth Regiment Bombay N. I. Fifth and cheaper Edition. With Maps, Plans, and Portrait of Author, engraved on steel by Jeens. Crown 8vo. 65.

"Considering the extent of our previous ignorance, the amount of his achievements, and the importance of his contributions to our knowledge, we cannot say less of him than was once said of a far greater disererer. Mr. Palgrave has indee I given a new world to Europe.”—Pall Mai 1.GazettL

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