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Books just published by Lackington and Co. Finsbury-square.

I.

CHESHIRE HISTORY.

Elegantly printed in three volumes folio, with One Hundred and Ninety-four fine Engravings on copper and wood; and Three Hundred and Fifty-seven Armorial Subjects attached to the Pedigrees, price 261. 5s.,

THE HISTORY of the COUNTY PALATINE and CITY of CHESTER; compiled from original Evidences in Public Offices, the Harleian and Cottonian MSS., Parochial Registers, Private Muniments, unpublished MS. Collections of successive Cheshire Antiquaries, and a personal Survey of every Township in the County. By GEORGE ORMEROD, LL.D. F. R. S. and F. S. A.

II.

A GERMAN TRAVELLER IN ENGLAND.

In two volumes 12mo. price 14s. in boards,

TRAVELS in ENGLAND, WALES, and SCOTLAND, in the Year 1816. By DR. SPIKER, Librarian to his Majesty the King of Prussia. From the German.

III.

AMERICAN VOYAGE.

In two 8vo. volumes, price 17. 4s. in boards,

A VOYAGE to SOUTH AMERICA, performed, by Order of the American Government, in, the Years 1817 and 1818, in the United States' Frigate Congress. By H. M. BRACKENBRIDGE, Esq. Secretary to the Mission.

IV.

A SUMMER EXCURSION TO THE LAKES.

Elegantly printed, in 8vo. price 15s. boards,

A GUIDE to the LAKES in CUMBERLAND, WESTMORLAND, and LANCASHIRE. Illustrated with Twenty beautiful Copper-plate Views of Local Scenery and a coloured Map; intended as a Companion for the Tourist in an Excursion through the Lakes. By J. ROBINSON, LL.D., Rector of Clifton, Lancashire.

V.

BRITISH COINAGE.

In five volumes 8vo. and one 4to., containing a Series of Coins, through a period of 1800 years, including the Sovereigns and Crown Pieces, price 6l. 6s. boards, ANNALS of the COINAGE of BRITAIN and its Dependencies, from the earliest Period of authentic History to the present Time. By the Rev. ROGERS RUDING, B. D. Vicar of Maldon, in Surrey, F. S. A.

VI.

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

In 8vo. price 7s. boards,

METROLOGY; or, An EXPOSITION of WEIGHTS and MEASURES; chiefly those of Great Britain, Ireland, and France; containing Tables of Comparison, and Views of various Standards; an Account of Laws and Local Customs relating to the Subject; Parliamentary Reports, Documents, &c. By P. KELLY, LL. D.

In this Publication the three French Systems of Metrology are explained; namely, the Ancient System; the Metrical or Decimal System of 1795; and the Systéme usuel of 1812. This last method is now published for the first time in English.

VII.

TO SPORTSMEN.

Elegantly printed in a pocket volume, with a beautiful Frontispiece and Vignette, engraved by SCOTT, price 5s. 6d. boards,

A TREATISE on GREYHOUNDS; with Observations on the Treatment and Disorders of them. By AN OLD SPORTSMAN. Second Edition.

"Nec tibi cura Canum fuerit postrema."-VIRGIL.

Books just published by Lackington and Co. Finsbury-square.

MEMOIRS OF COUNT GRAMMONT.

Elegantly printed, in two pocket volumes, with two fine Portraits, price 14s. in boards, MEMOIRS of COUNT GRAMMONT. By COUNT HAMILTON. Translated from the French, with Notes, Illustrations, and a Sketch of the Life of the Author.

These highly distinguished Memoirs owe their celebrity as much to the picquant graces of the narrative, as to the rich store of secret anecdote which they contain, of distinguished characters during that important period of our History, the Usurpation, and the Reigns of Charles and James II. Hitherto they have been only offered to the public in a form too expensive to admit of general circulation—they are now presented at a price calculated to obviate that objection.

IX.
GHOSTS!!!

Very neatly printed in a pocket volume, price 5s. in boards, APPARITIONS; or, The MYSTERY of GHOSTS, HOBGOBLINS, and HAUNTED HOUSES, developed. By JOSEPH TAYLOR.

A large impression of this popular work having been sold within a few months, it is now republished, with the addition of many curious and interesting stories. The opinions of the various critical Journalists have been highly commendatory;—that of the Monthly Reviewer is as follows:

"This Collection of Stories is well chosen, and offers a fund of amusement that is cheap at the price of Five Shillings. By putting such a book as this into the hands of children, parents will more effectually guard their minds against weak credulity than by grave philosophic admonition."

X.

ANTIDOTE TO INFIDELITY.

In a large duodecimo volume, price 6s. neatly bound,

THE BIBLE CLASS BOOK; or, SCRIPTURE READINGS for EVERY DAY in the YEAR; a Selection of the most impressive Parts of the Sacred Scriptures, in Three Hundred and Sixty-five Lessons. Adapted to the Use of Schools and Families.

A large impression of this work has been sold within twelve months; being recommended by many intelligent and well-disposed persons as a corrective of infidelity, it has been revised throughout with great diligence, and is offered, as a book from which the most beneficial results may be expected, if placed in the hands of the Young, the Unwary, or the Sceptical, and particularly if given to Servants and Mechanics.

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Handsomely and closely printed in columns, in four volumes royal 4to., with complete Indexes, price 157. 15s. boards,

ATHENE OXONIENSES: the History of all the Writers and Bishops who have had their education in the University of Oxford from the Year 1500. To which are added FASTI OXONIENSES: or the Annals of the said University.— First written by ANTHONY A WOOD, M.A. of Merton College; and now very considerably augmented, in Text and Notes, by the Rev. PHILIP BLISS, D.C.L. Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford.

XII.

EDUCATION OF THE FRENCH PRINCES.

Elegantly printed in 8vo., with a beautiful Portrait of the SON OF NAPOLEON, by WRIGHT, from a fine original miniature by ISABEY, price 8s. in boards,

A SYSTEM OF EDUCATION for the INFANT KING of ROME, and other PRINCES of the BLOOD of FRANCE, drawn up by the IMPERIAL COUNCIL of STATE, with the Approbation, and under the personal Superintendence, of the EMPEROR NAPOLEON.

This extraordinary production was found in the cabinet of Napoleon, at St. Cloud. It is published with the strictest fidelity, and the Original Manuscript is deposited at the Publishers, where it may be seen.

PUBLISHED BY

PETER HILL & COMPANY, EDINBURGH.

SCOTCH LAW.

HUTCHESON'S JUSTICE OF PEACE. A TREATISE on the OFFICES of JUSTICE of PEACE, CONSTABLE, COMMISSIONER OF SUPPLY, AND COMMISSIONER UNDER COMPREHENDING ACTS IN SCOTLAND, with occasional observations upon other Municipal Juris dictions. To which are added, APPENDIXES, containing some of the STATUTE FORMS of PROCEEDINGS, and Writs referred to in the Work. By GILBERT HUTCHESON, Esq. Advocate, The THIRD EDITION, in 4 large volumes, royal 8vo. price £4. 48.

"We beg to refer those who may wish to study well-written treatise on the management of the poor, this important subject minutely, to an excellent and lately published by the reverend Robert Burns, one of the ministers of Paisley :--a work which well deserves the attention of the public;---and the more so, that the subject of it derives more than ordinary imtry."-Ayr and Wigtonshire Courier.---January, 20, portance from the present circumstances of the coun1820.

"Burns on the poor laws of Scotland,"-" a work presence of research, correct judgment, and right of very great merit; and evincing, in every part, the feeling. As this work is but lately published, we recommend it, in the most unqualified manner, to the attention of those who may be in any way interested

TITHES AND STIPENDS OF THE about the subject it discusses." Edinburgh Annual PAROCHIAL CLERGY.

A TREATISE on the LAW of SCOTLAND, respecting TITHES, and the STIPENDS of the PAROCHIAL CLERGY, with an APPENDIX, containing various Illustrative Documents not before published.

By Sir JOHN CONNELL, Advocate,
Procurator for the Church of Scotland.
In 5 volumes, 8vo. Price £2. 2s.

LAW OF PARISHES.

A TREATISE on 'the LAW of SCOTLAND, respecting the ELECTION, UNION, and DISJUNCTION of PARISHES; The MANSES and GLEBES of the PAROCHIAL CLERGY, and the PATRONAGE of CHURCHES, with anAPPENDIX.

By Sir JOHN CONNELL, Advocate,
Procurator for the Church of Scotland.
In one thick volume, 8vo. Price 16s.

POOR LAWS OF SCOTLAND. HISTORICAL DISSERTATIONS on the LAW and PRACTICE of GREAT BRITAIN, and particularly of SCOTLAND, with regard to the POOR; On the MODES of CHARITY; and the MEANS of PROMOTING the IMPROVEMENT of THE PEOPLE; together with a Selection of Facts and Documents, and Miscellaneous Inquiries, illustrative of the Management of the Poor in Scotland, and in various Parts of the Continent of Europe, &c.

By the REVEREND ROBERT BURNS, Minister of St. George's Church, Paisley. Second Edition, enlarged, pp. 530. Price 12s.--8vo. boards.

Register. Vol. ix. p. 238.

Those who wish more full information on the subject of the poor laws, both in England and Scotland, may consult a late publication, by the reverend Robert Burns of Paisley; a work which, though I differ from him in some particulars, contains many excellent views, and much curious and important information." Professor M'Gill's Discourses and Essays on subjects of Public Interest, &c.

LAW OF ARBITRATION.

NOTES on the LAW of ARBITRATION, being chiefly intended as a Guide to MERCHANTS, FARMERS, TRADESMEN, and others desirous of adopting that excellent Method of Terminating differences, and to ARBITERS, who may be chosen by them for that purpose. With an APPENDIX of FORMS.

By JOHN PARKER, Solicitor, Supreme Courts. 8vo. Price 68. boards.

SCOTTISH HISTORY. HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION IN SCOTLAND,

With an Introductory Book, and an Appendix. Minister of Laurencekirk, and Author of an IllustraBy GEORGE COOK, D. D. tion of the General Evidence Establishing the Reality of Chirst's Resurrection.

In 3 volumes, 8vo. Price £1. 16s.

THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND, From the Establishment of the REFORMATION, to the REVOLUTION. Illustrating a most interesting period of the Political History of Britain.

To this Work the following testimonies, among others,
have been exhibited in different Publications.
"The history of mendicity, and the rise and pro-
gress of the poor laws in Scotland and England,
have been very ably and extensively reviewed by the
reverend Robert Burns of Paisley, in the second A
edition of his work, on the management of the poor,
just published. In this elaborate and valuable work,
the author has displayed deep research, and a thorough
knowledge of the subject.-Cleland's Rise and Pro-
gress of the City of Glasgow.-P. 138.

By GEORGE COOK, D. D. Minister of Laurencekirk,

3 volumes, 8vo. Price £1. 16s.

VIEW of the CONSTITUTION of the CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.

By GEORGE HILL, D. D. Principal of St. Mary's College, St. Andrew's. SECOND EDITION, 8vo. Price 78.

THE STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE POWER OF EMETIC TARTAR,

SCOTLAND.

Drawn up from the communications of the Ministers In the Cure of FEVER, INFLAMMATION, and
of the different Parishes.
ASTHMA, and in preventing CONSUMPTION and
APOPLEXY.

By Sir JOHN SINCLAIR, Baronet, PETER HILL and COMPANY, having contracted with the SOCIETY for the SONS

of the CLERGY for the remaining vo

lumes of the above VALUABLE NATIONAL WORK, in order to accommodate those who wish to possess complete copies, have resolved to publish it in half volumes, price 6s. each.

The first Part will appear in January 1821, and a part will be published on the first day of every succeeding month, until the whole is complete.

**The Clergy of Scotland will hear with pleasure, that the exertions they made in collecting materials for the Statistical Account of Scotland, are now appreciated on the Continent, by the ablest men in it.

Cet ouvrage est certainment un des plus riches qui existent, en renseignemens positifs, en observations judicieuses; et je la crois d'une assez grande utilite non seulement a l'agriculture d'Ecosse, et aux professions industrielles qui establissent leur calculs ou exercent leur activete sur ses produits; mais encore a "Haul'agriculture et a l'industrie de tous les pays. terive Elemens d'Economie Politique, page 366." TOPOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF

SCOTLAND.

A TOPOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY of SCOT LAND, containing a general description of that KINGDOM, with a particular account of the COUNTIES, PARISHES, ISLANDS, LAKES, RIVERS, MOUNTAINS, VALLEYS, CITIES, TOWNS, VILLAGES, OBJECTS of NATURAL HISTORY, SCENERY of the COUNTRY, MINERALOGY,

ANTIQUITIES, &c. &c.; together with an account of the WEIGHTS and MEASURES of each COUNTY. The Revenues of Towns, and of all the Religious Houses, at the time of the Reformation, &c. By DAVID WEBSTER,

In one thick volume, 8vo. Price 14s.

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By WILLIAM BALFOUR, M. D.
Second Edition. Price 6s.

Management of Infants and Children.

HINTS on the TREATMENT of the PRINCIPAL

DISEASES of INFANCY and CHILDHOOD; adapted to the use of Parents.

By JAMES HAMILTON, M. D. Professor of Midwifery in the University, and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Second Edition, 8vo.

Price 7s.

FEMORAL HERNIA.

MEMOIR of the Formation and Connexions of the CRURAL ARCH, and other parts concerned in INGUINAL and FEMORAL HERNIA.

By ROBERT LISTON,

Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of London and Edinburgh, Lecturer on Anatomy and Surgery, &c. &c. &c.

4to. Price 7s. boards.

EDUCATION.

Scott's Beauties of Eminent Writers, Selected and arranged for the Instruction of Youth in the proper reading and reciting of the English language; calculated also to instil into the mind principles of wisdom and virtue, and to give it an early taste for the acquisition of useful knowledge. In 2 volumes, for the use of Schools and Private Classes. Volume first, fifteenth edition, revised, and having the rhetorical pauses marked in select pieces.

By WILLIAM ANGUS, A. M. Teacher, Glasgow. Neatly printed on fine wove paper, price 2s. 6d. bound.

The publishers of these volumes have spared neither trouble nor expense in rendering them worthy of the flattering reception they have already met with. The first volume, after having been examined with

the most scrupulous accuracy by Mr Angus, has been cast in stereotype plates, so that no error can occur in any future edition. In this respect, therefore, as well as in others, it may challenge comparison with any similar Publication; and, at the same time, it acquires a decided superiority from the marks denoting the rhetorical pauses and inflexions of the voice introduced into it by Mr Angus, which tend considerably to abridge the labour of the teacher, and to facilitate the progress of the scholar.

VOLUME SECOND

Of the same Work, also revised, and having the rhetorical pauses marked in select pieces, by Mr Angus, neatly printed on fine wove paper, with a new type. Price 2s. or both volumes bound together, price 4s.

In compliance with the wishes of several Eminent Teachers, the Publishers have omitted the Compen dium of English Grammar in this edition, and have substituted elegant Selections, chiefly from SCOTT, BYRON, CAMPBELL, and other MODERN POETS, in short sentences, calculated for recital at Examinations, or for introducing Youth to an ac quaintance with the Poetry of the present age.

A General Pronouncing and Explanatory
DICTIONARY

OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
To which is added, a Vocabulary of Scripture
Proper Names, &c.

By G. FULTON and G. KNIGHT, Carefully revised and improved by the Authors. Fifth edition, stereotyped. Square 12mno. Price 4s. 6d. bound.

From numerous flattering recommendations of this work from the most respectable quarters, the proprietors select the following; and while they have every reason to believe it to be the most useful Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language yet published, they have also rendered it superior to all others in point of typographical execution.

"In point of notation, quantity, and syllabication, Mr Fulton's system is, in our opinion, decidedly su perior to any which has yet been adopted in Dictionaries; for it combines the principles of etymology and orthoepy, which were unfolded by Sheridan, with all the real improvements of Walker, reduced to a degree of simplicity and practical facility, which neither the one nor the other ever attained.--British Critic.

The principal merit of Mr Fulton's System of Orthoepy consists in its simplicity, a property, it will be acknowledged, paramount to every other in a book designed for the use of schools."--Anti-Jacobin Review.

+ The reviewers, in a comparative view of the different methods of marking the Orthoepy of the English Language, adverting to Mr Fulton's method, thus express themselves: To this last we give, without hesitation, the preference, on account of its simplicity; and we think the work before us more likely to be useful than any other work of the kind we have seen."--British Critic.

A VOCABULARY
Of Scripture Proper Names.
By G. FULTON and G. KNIGHT.

Price 6d.

The Tyro's Guide to Wisdom & Wealth, Designed for the moral instruction of Youth; with Exercises in Spelling, containing above five thousand words, having the Parts of Speech pointed out; to which are subjoined, the Principles of English Gram

mar.

By ALEXANDER BARRIE,

Teacher of English.

Tenth edition, stereotyped, and printed on fine wove paper. Price 2s. bound.

EXTRACTS

For the Use of Parish Schools,

Collected by the late Thomas S.Hardie, D.D. Minister of Ashkirk. Seventh edition, 12mo. Price 2s. 6d. bound.

AN ABRIDGEMENT OF THE

HISTORY OF IRELAND, From the earliest accounts to the present time, on the plan of Dr Goldsmith's History of England, for the Use of Schools and private Education, with Exercises at the end of each chapter, and Recapitulations at the end of each book, and a Chronological Table.

Second Edition, 12mo. Price 4s. bound. The Exercises at the end of each Chapter of this work have been arranged in a similar manner with those in Mr Simpson's Histories of England and Scotland; thereby forming in conjunction with these works, a complete series of the History of the united Kingdom, for the Use of Schools.

ARITHMETIC.

THE SCHOLAR'S COMPANION.

CONTAINING,

Method of taking Dimensions of Artificers' Work. Rules for working on the Carpenters' Sliding Rule, on Gunter's Scale, and on the Sector. Practical Mensuration. A Table of Interest. A Table of Time, A Calendar and a Perpetual Almanack. A Table for Planting. A Collection of Miscellaneous Questions. Epistolary and Commercial Correspondence, Cards of Compli ment, a few forms of Petitions and Advertisements. Directions and Addresses, Titles, Trades, and With an Appendix, containing Answers to the QuesOccupations, Names of Men and Women. tions, and the Method of solving those which are the most intricate.

By JAMES GRAY, Master of the English School of Peebles, (late of Dundee), Author of the Concise Spelling Book, for the Use of Children, and an Introduction to Arithmetic.

Price 3s. 6d. bound.

BOOK-KEEPING.

An Introduction to Book-keeping. Comprising a Course of Mercantile Transactions, as they have occurred in Inland and Foreign Trade. The former arranged by Single Entry, Italian Method of Double Entry; and both Inland and Foreign by the Present Practice of the Counting House. Illustrated with Engraved Forms of the various Accounts which occur in Business; designed for Schools and Counting-houses. Second edition, entirely new-modelled, and greatly improved.

By C. MORRISON, Glasgow.

Price 8s. neatly half-bound."

The distinguished reception which the former Edition of this Work met with from the Publie, has

induced the Proprietors to bring forward the present Edition, on which neither trouble nor expense have been spared, to render it still more worthy of their notice. Among other important alterations and additions, it will contain,

1. A LEDGER by the Italian Method, at the request of several Teachers.

2. The QUERIES and ANSWERS have been greatly augmented, and are now arranged upon a plan at once concise, comprehensive, and perspicuous. Those on the Principles and Practice of Book-keeping embrace such a variety of cases, as will enable the Students easily to state and solve whatever cases may occur in business.

3. ENGRAVED FORMS of Receipts, Inland and Foreign Bills---Bills of Parcels, Invoices, Accounts Sales, Accounts Current, and Letters on Business, written in an easy Mercantile style.

4. A SERIES of LETTERS connected with the

Subjects in the Work, &c.

5. An EXPLANATION of COMMERCIAL TERMS; and,

6. A SET of COMPANY ACCOUNTS on Foreign Agency not arranged, designed as an Exercise to the Learner; for whose assistance, the Stock and Partners' Accounts, with the Profit and Loss, and Balance Accounts are exhibited.

GEOGRAPHY.

A New Compendium of Geography.

Containing its general Principles, and an Account of all the Countries of the Earth, their Divisions, Towns, Rivers, Lakes, Mountains, Bays, Straits, Capes, Islands, &c. with an Appendix, consisting of Tables of Latitude and Longitude, Population of Countries, Towns, &c. intended chiefly for the Use of Schools,

By WILLIAM SCOTT, Teacher of Elocution and Geography. Seventh Edition, improved by an entire set of new Maps, and other important particulars. 12mo, price, bound and lettered, 5s. with coloured Maps, Gs. 6d.

For the convenience of those Schools where an Atlas is used, this work may be had without Maps,

Rules for Writing; with a Selection of Copies in price 3s. 6d. bound.
Prose and Verse.

A Compendious System of Practical Arithmetic.
Bills of Parcels, Bills on Book Debts, Invoices.
Forms of Bills, Promissory Notes, Bills of Exchange,
and Receipts.

Extraction of the Square and of the Cube Root,
Exchange,

***In this edition the late important political changes which have occurred with regard to France, and other parts of Europe, are mentioned in their proper places, and numerous other improvements, have been introduced, throughout the work, by the Author, the late Mr William Scott, long a distinguish ed teacher of Elocution and Geography in Edinburgh.

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