BOOKS OF TRAVEL. South by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe. By G. F. RODWELL, Science Master in Marlborough College. 102 Fullpage Original and other Illustrations. 4to, cloth extra. Price 21/-. "He is able to give freshness to his chapters by faithfully recording the ideas and impressions of a cultivated observer. Descriptive passages that are admirable in their way."-Daily News. Interesting and instructive volume abounding with evidences of intelligent study, profound appreciation, refined taste, and general cultivation."-Illustrated London News. "His descriptions of scenery, life, and manners are excellent."-Spectator. "A very welcome addition to this season's best hand-books of travel."—Standard. Heroes of North African Discovery. By N. D'ANVERS. Post octavo, cloth extra. Price 5/-. Map and numerous Illustrations. China, Historical and Descriptive. By C. H. EDEN. With an Appendix on COREA. Numerous Illustrations, Map, and Coloured Frontispiece by a Native Artist. Crown octavo, cloth extra. Price 5/-. Japan, Historical and Descriptive. A comprehensive account of Japanese History, Life, Character, and Manners. By C. H. EDEN, Author of "India, Historical and Descriptive," &c. 75 Illustrations, Map, and Coloured Frontispiece. Crown octavo, cloth extra. Price 3/6. "A very clear and comprehensive view of Japanese life, character, and manners."— Morning Advertiser. "There have been few books at once so valuable and so accessible. Another right good work to the many rare issues of the Belfast Press."-Art Journal. "A clever, cheerful book."--Morning Post. "A complete history of the growth of Japan. profoundly interesting book."-Times A good, valuable, and "Written in good, easy style, and very well illustrated."-Scotsman. 66 India, Historical and Descriptive. With an Account of the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857-58, by C. H. EDEN, Author of Ralph Somerville," &c. Sixty-six Illustrations, Map, and Coloured Frontispiece. Crown octavo, cloth extra. Price 3/6. "The illustrations are well executed."-Standard. "A clever little book, containing an excellent and most readable account of our greatest dependency."--Daily Telegraph. "An interesting volume."-Graphic. Notes of Travel in Egypt and Nubia. By J. L. STEPHENS. Revised and enlarged, with an account of the Suez Canal. Seventyone Illustrations, Map, and Coloured Frontispiece. Crown octavo, cloth extra. Price 3/6. "A very entertaining, well-written little volume."-Graphic. The little volume is unexceptionable."-Daily Telegraph. Books for Boys.—Tales, Travel, and Adventure. Stirring Tales of the Sea, by S. Whitchurch Sadler, R.N. The Flag-Lieutenant: a Story of the Slave Squadron. With Coloured Frontispiece and Illuminated Title-page, and numerous Original Illustrations. Post octavo, cloth extra. Price 5/-. Last Cruise of the Ariadne. With Coloured Frontispiece and Illuminated Title-page, and numerous Original Illustrations. Post octavo, cloth extra. Price 5/-. "A stirring story of the sea."-Academy. "A narrative of adventure that will delight any reader."-Lloyd's Weekly News. "A pleasant and spirited tale."-Spectator. Perilous Seas, and how Oriana sailed them. With Coloured Frontispiece and Illuminated Title-page, and numerous Original Illustrations. Post octavo, cloth extra. Price 5/-. "All through 'Perilous Seas' there is enough stirring incident to arouse, and enough good writing to sustain, the interest of its youthful readers."-Hour. The Ship of Ice: a Strange Story of the Polar Seas. With Coloured Frontispiece and Illuminated Title-page, and numerous Original Illustrations. Post octavo, cloth extra. Price 3/6. "Not only a 'Strange Story,' but one full of exciting interest. The author writes in a vigorous, manly style, and the book is one which most English boys, with their love of daring and adventure, are likely heartily to relish." -Pall Mall Gazette. "A capital book of adventure."-Manchester Guardian. By C. H. Eden. Coralie; or, the Wreck of the Sybille. With Coloured Frontispiece and Illuminated Title-page, and numerous Original Illustrations. Post Octavo, cloth extra. Price 5/-. Ralph Somerville; or, a Midshipman's Adventures in the Pacific Ocean. With Coloured Frontispiece and Illuminated Title-page, and numerous Original Illustrations. Post 8vo, cloth extra. Price 5/-. "There is always an air of reality about Mr. Eden's descriptive passages which makes one feel that they are the result of actual experience."-Morning Post. Three Years at Wolverton: a Public School Story. By a Wolvertonian. With Coloured Frontispiece and Illuminated Titlepage, and numerous Original Illustrations. Post octavo, cloth extra. Price 5/-. "The best purely boy's book we have seen since 'Tom Brown.'"-Saturday Review. "Well conceived and worked out."-Athenæum. "Written throughout with a high tone and manly spirit."-Academy. "The book is manly, and has but little of the unreal sentiment which is so apt to disfigure public school stories. Bertram is a well-conceived and natural character; and school boys can get nothing but good from reading of his failures and successes. We can recommend the book."-Guardian. B New Editions of Standard Works. Robinson Crusoe. By DANIEL DEFOE. Crown octavo, cloth extra. With Coloured Frontispiece and Title-page, and numerous Illustrations. Price 3/6. "Remarkable as possessing the very best illustrations with which any popular editionhas been issued."-Sunday Times. Swiss Family Robinson. A New Translation from the German, with numerous Illustrations and Coloured Frontispiece. Crown octavo, cloth extra. Price 3/6. The Vicar of Wakefield. By OLIVER GOLDSMITH. Crown octavo, cloth extra. With Coloured Frontispiece and Title-page and numerous Illustrations. Price 3/6. "A charming edition."-Morning Post. "A really pretty and cheap edition."-The Nonconformist. Novels and Novelettes. Em; or, Spells and Counter-Spells. By M. BRAMSTON, Author of "The Panelled House." One volume, post octavo, cloth extra. Price 10/6. "It is long since we read a story more satisfactory from every point of view.”John Bull. "Containing in one volume a good deal more than the ordinary value of three. Miss Bramston has given to us one of the freshest and healthiest tales of the year.' Nonconformist. "It is the merit of the author that, without much resort to incidental subjects of interest, she manages to make all her characters distinct, if not ambitious in their proportions. The best of them is Em, a by no means faultless though very winning heroine, who learns much in the period of suspicion and humbled pride which separates her for a time from happiness."-Athenæum. 66 Agreeably told, and Em herself is a pleasant sketch."-Daily News. "The character of the heroine is cleverly conceived, and very consistently worked out."-Academy. "Pleasantly written."-Standard. "Em is a good story, told with much spirit and humour."-Spectator. Country Maidens: a Story of the Present Day. By M. BRAMSTON, Author of "The Panelled House," &c. With Full-page Original Illustrations, Coloured Frontispiece, and Illuminated Titlepage. Post octavo, cloth, gold and black. Price 3/6. A charming fresh little story, which must give pleasure to both old and young deserves to be heartily commended."-Morning Post. "As charming a tale of home life as we have often met."-Standard. A Very Young Couple. By the Author of "Mrs. Jerningham's Journal." With Original Full-page Illustrations. Post octavo, cloth extra. Price 3/6. "Affords some excellent sketches of private life in pursuit of comfort under difficulties."-Morning Post. "A simple story of true love, told with much grace and naiveté.”—Sunday Times. "A very lively and pleasant little tale."-Spectator. "The young wife relates her own distress so touchingly that she quite wins our sympathy."-Athenæum. "We must thank the author for having given us an hour or two of genuine pleasure, and cordially recommend the book to all readers."-Graphic. NOVELS AND NOVELETTES.-Continued. Miss Hitchcock's Wedding Dress. By the Author of “Mrs. Jerningham's Journal," &c. Post octavo, cloth extra. Price 5/-. "One of those pleasant stories, in an attractive dress, which are becoming almost a specialty of Marcus Ward & Co."-Morning Advertiser. Myrtle and Cypress: a Tale of Chequered Life. By ANNETTE CALTHROP. With Original Full-page Illustrations. Post octavo, cloth extra. Price 5/-. "The tale is altogether above the average, healthy in tone, and worked out with no little ability."- John Bull. Mildred's Mistake. A Still-Life Study. By F. LEVIEN, Author of "Maggie's Pictures," &c. With Coloured Frontispiece, Illuminated Title, and Full-page Original Illustrations. Small octavo, cloth extra. Price 2/6. Eldergowan; or, Twelve Months of my Life, and Other Tales. By ROSA MULHOLLAND, Author of "Puck and Blossom," "The Little Flower-Seekers," &c. Full-page Original Illustrations, Coloured Frontispiece, and Illuminated Title-page. Small octavo, cloth, gold and black. Price 2/6. "One of the pleasantest little books we have met for some time; charmingly illustrated."-Illustrated Review. Where the Rail Runs Now: a Story of the Coaching Days. By F. FRANKFORT MOORE. With Illustrations. Small octavo, cloth extra. Price 2/6. "There is no lack of sensational incidents, but the story is told in very simple language, and will serve to create no other than a healthy excitement."-The Times. Capitally written, and full of spirit. The interest never once flags."-Irish Times. "A clever little novel."-Saturday Review. "We can strongly recommend this little book."-Spectator. "Sensational, but altogether unobjectionable in character."-Pall Mall Gazette. "The author's descriptions of English scenery are picturesque and unaffected."— Daily News. Told by the Sea: Tales of the Coast. By F. FRANKFORT MOORE. With Illustrations. Small octavo, cloth extra. Price 2/6. "Few readers having once begun, will care to lay down the book till they have finished."-Belfast Northern Whig. Books of Fairy Stories. Fairyland Tales of Dwarfs, Fairies, Water-Sprites, &c. "A genuine book of fairy tales."-Spectator. "Possesses all the artistic attributes for which Marcus Ward's publications are justly celebrated."-Morning Advertiser. "The translator's style is pure and graceful."-Daily News. 46 Very quaint and graceful, and very well translated."-Times. "A nicely executed and pleasantly illustrated translation.”—Saturday Review. "A capital little volume."-Athenæum. "Will prove a welcome offering."-Academy. Fairy Circles: Tales and Legends of Dwarfs, Fairies, and Water-Sprites. From the German of Villamaria. A Sequel to "Fairyland Tales." Numerous Illustrations and Coloured Frontispiece. Crown octavo, cloth extra. Price 3/6. Books for Young People. By Sarah Tytler. Childhood a Hundred Years Ago. By the Author of "Papers for Thoughtful Girls." With Six Chromographs, after Paintings by SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. Small quarto, cloth elegant, gilt edges, 10/6. "A very fascinating account of juvenile doings a century back.”—Graphic Landseer's Dogs and their Stories. By the Author of "Citoyenne Jacquelline," &c. With Six Chromographs, after Paintings by Sir Edwin Landseer. Small quarto, cloth elegant, gilt edges, 10/6. Charming stories."-Spectator. 66 Thoughtful and sensible essays.”—Saturday Review. The Good Old Days; or, Christmas under Queen Elizabeth. By ESME STUART. With Five Coloured Illustrations, from Drawings by H. STACY MARKS, A.R.A. Foolscap quarto, cloth extra, bevelled boards. Price 5/-. "Not only will interest be derived from the story, but instruction as to the manners and habits of the people in the days of good Queen Bess."-City Press. Melcomb Manor: a Family Chronicle. By F. SCARLETT POTTER. Six Illustrations, in Gold and Colours. Foolscap quarto, cloth extra, bevelled boards. Price 5/-. "Altogether a very pretty book, whether as regards the pictures or the story." -Saturday Review. Chronicles of Cosy Nook: a Book of Stories for Boys and Girls. By Mrs. S. C. HALL. With Full-page Original Illustrations, Coloured Frontispiece, and Illuminated Title-page. Post octavo, cloth, gold and black. Price 3/6. Mrs. Hall never in her best days wrote a better story for youngsters.”— Morning Advertiser. BOOKS AT FIVE SHILLINGS FOR CHILDREN. Chromograph Series. Puck and Blossom: a Fairy Tale. By ROSA MULHOLLAND, 66 Six Foolscap quarto, cloth extra, [New Edition. The narratives are "Pretty stories, beautifully illustrated in gold and colours."-Daily News. "The fairy pictures are full of life and drollery. miracles of wonder and invention."-Daily Albion. The Little Flower-Seekers; or, the Adventures of Trot and Daisy in a Wonderful Garden by Moonlight. By ROSA MULHOLLAND, Author of "Puck and Blossom," "Eldergowan, With Twelve Chromographs of Flowers, by various Artists. Foolscap quarto, cloth extra, bevelled boards. "A charming volume."-Daily News. " &c. "Contains some of the finest coloured plates of flowers ever published, and the story is in itself telling and fresh."-Standard. "A prettier book for young children we have not seen for a long while."-Pall Mall Gazette. |