MESSRS BLACKWOOD AND SONS' RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

THE HISTORY OF SCOTLAND,

FROM AGRICOLA'S INVASION TO THE REVOLUTION OF 1688. By JOHN HILL BURTON. To be completed in 6 vols. demy 8vo. Vols. I. to IV., price 56s.

"The best account that has yet been written of the national life and being of Scotland."–Times.

"One of the completest histories that we ever saw of any country."–Saturday Review.

"Not only the most complete and trustworthy history of Scotland yet written, but it will merit a high place among the historical works of our age."–Daily News.

"A great contribution to historical literature."–Scotsman.

"We do not remember to have read so reticent, so calm and dispassionate a history."–Blackwood's Magazine.

"Une grande et belle histoire."–Revue des Deux Mondes.

"This admirable book."–Morning Herald.

COUNT MONTALEMBERT'S HISTORY OF THE MONKS OF THE WEST.

5 vols. 8vo, £2, 12s. 6d. The volumes just published (III. to V.), contain the History of the Conversion of England by the Monks, and may be had as a complete book, price 31s. 6d.

"On the whole, the intellectual interest of the Count's 'Monks of the West' rests mainly on this, that it is the work of a brilliant and accomplished layman and man of the world, dealing with a class of characters who have generally been left to the arid professional handling of ecclesiastical writers. Montalembert sees their life as a whole, and a human whole; and, with all his zeal as an amateur hagiographer, he cannot but view them with some of the independence of a mind trained to letters and politics."–Pall Mall Gazette.

THE HANDY ROYAL ATLAS.

By ALEX. KEITH JOHNSTON, LL.D. &c., Author of the 'Royal Atlas,' the 'Physical Atlas,' &c. 45 Maps, clearly printed and carefully coloured, with General Index. Imperial quarto, price £2, 12s. 6d., half-bound morocco.

"Is probably the best work of the kind now published."–Times.

"Not only are the present territorial adjustments duly registered in all these maps, but the latest discoveries in Central Asia, in Africa, and America have been delineated with laborious fidelity. Indeed the ample illustration of recent discovery, and of the great groups of dependencies on the British Crown, renders Dr Johnston's the best of all Atlases for English use."–Pall Mall Gazette.

"He has given us in a portable form geography posted to the last discovery and the last Revolution."–Saturday Review.

"This is Mr Keith Johnston's admirable Royal Atlas diminished in bulk and scale so as to be perhaps, fairly entitled to the name of 'handy,' but still not so much diminished but what it constitutes an accurate and useful general Atlas for ordinary households."–Spectator.

"The 'Handy Atlas' is thoroughly deserving of its name. Not only does it contain the latest information, but its size and arrangement render it perfect as a book of reference."–Standard.

THE HANDY HORSE-BOOK;

Or, Practical Instructions in Riding, Driving, and the General Care and Management of Horses. By a CAVALRY OFFICER. A New Edition, with Six Engravings, 4s. 6d.

"As cavalry officer, hunting horseman, coach proprietor, whip, and steeplechase rider, the author has had long and various experience in the management of horses, and he now gives us the cream of his information."–Athenæum.

"He propounds no theories, but embodies in simple untechnical language what he has learned practically."–Sporting Gazette.

PHYSIOLOGY AT THE FARM, IN REARING AND FEEDING THE LIVE STOCK.

By WILLIAM SELLER, M.D. F.R.S.E., and HENRY STEPHENS, F.R.S.E. Octavo, 16s.

CATTLE AND CATTLE-BREEDERS.

By WILLIAM M'COMBIE, Tillyfour. Contents–I. The Feeding of Cattle, &c. II. Reminiscences. III. The Cattle Trade, then and now. IV. Black polled Aberdeen and Angus Cattle and Shorthorns. V. Hints on the Breeding and Care of Cattle. Price 5s.

HANDY BOOK OF METEOROLOGY.

By ALEXANDER BUCHAN, Secretary of the Scottish Meteorological Society. Crown 8vo, 4s. 6d.

"A very handy book this, for in its small compass Mr Buchan has stored more and later information than exists in any volume with which we are acquainted."–Symon's Meteorological Magazine.

GEOLOGY FOR GENERAL READERS.

A SERIES OF POPULAR SKETCHES IN GEOLOGY AND PALÆONTOLOGY. By DAVID PAGE, LL.D. F.R.S.E. F.G.S. Second Edition, containing several New Chapters. Price 6s.

"Few of our handbooks of popular science can be said to have greater or more decisive merit than those of Mr Page on Geology and Palæontology. They are clear and vigorous in style, they never oppress the reader with a pedantic display of learning, nor overwhelm him with a pompous and superfluous terminology; and they have the happy art of taking him straightway to the face of nature herself, instead of leading him by the tortuous and bewildering paths of technical system and artificial classification."–Saturday Review.

"This is one of the best of Mr Page's many good books. It is written in a flowing popular style. Without illustration or any extraneous aid, the narrative must prove attractive to any intelligent reader."–Geological Magazine.

HANDY BOOK OF THE FLOWER GARDEN,

Being Plain Practical Directions for the Propagation, Culture, And Arrangement of Plants in Flower-Gardens all the Year Round; embracing all classes of Gardens, from the largest to the smallest; with Engraved Plans, illustrative of the various systems of Grouping in Beds and Borders. By DAVID THOMSON, Archerfield Gardens, Author of a 'Practical Treatise on the Culture of the Pine-Apple.' In crown 8vo.

ON THE TREATMENT OF OUR DOMESTICATED DOGS.

By "MAGENTA," Author of the 'Handy Horse Book.'

[In the Press.

Vols. III. and IV. of

MR KINGLAKE'S HISTORY OF THE INVASION OF THE CRIMEA.

With numerous Maps, Plans, and Diagrams.

[In the Press.

LAKE VICTORIA:

A NARRATIVE OF EXPLORATIONS IN SEARCH OF THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. Compiled from the Memoirs of Captains Speke and Grant. By GEORGE C. SWAYNE, M.A., Late Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Crown 8vo, with Engravings, price 7s. 6d.

THE LIFE OF ST COLUMBA,

APOSTLE OF CALEDONIA. Reprinted from the 'Monks of the West.' By the COUNT DE MONTALEMBERT. Crown, 3s. 6d.

MEMOIR OF WILLIAM E. AYTOUN, D.C.L.,

Author of 'Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers,' &c. By THEODORE MARTIN. With Portrait. Post 8vo, 12s.

"This biography is quite a model in its way, and a delightful relief after much that has been done of late years in a similar line. Good taste, right feeling, and a generous but seldom excessive appreciation of the subject, mark the work."–Manchester Guardian.

THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS:

WINCHESTER–WESTMINSTER–SHREWSBURY–HARROW–RUGBY. Notes of their History and Traditions. By the Author of 'Etoniana.' Crown 8vo, 8s. 6d.

ON PRIMARY INSTRUCTION IN RELATION TO EDUCATION.

By SIMON S. LAURIE, A.M., Author of 'Philosophy of Ethics,' &c. Crown 8vo, 4s. 6d.

CAPTAIN SHERARD OSBORN'S WORKS.

Uniform Edition. In 3 vols. Sold separately.

Vol. I. STRAY LEAVES FROM AN ARCTIC JOURNAL; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions in Search of Sir John Franklin, in the Years 1850-51. THE CAREER, LAST VOYAGE, AND FATE OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN. 5s.

Vol. II. THE DISCOVERY OF A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE by H.M.S. Investigator, Captain R. M'Clure, during the Years 1850-54. 5s.

Vol. III. QUEDAH; or, Stray Leaves from a Journal in Malayan Waters. A CRUISE IN JAPANESE WATERS. THE FIGHT OF THE PEIHO IN 1859. 7s. 6d.

MEMOIR OF SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON, BART.

Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh. By Professor VEITCH, of the University of Glasgow.

[In the Press.

LECTURES ON THE EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHY,

AND OTHER PHILOSOPHIC REMAINS OF PROFESSOR FERRIER OF ST ANDREWS. Edited by Sir ALEX. GRANT and Professor LUSHINGTON. 2 vols. post 8vo, 24s.

"These lectures, in so far as they treat of Greek philosophy down to Plato, have been carefully elaborated, and are of much value–of higher value, indeed, than any writings on the same subject in the English language; and in point of clearness, depth, and resolute search after truth, and tenacious hold of it when found, we doubt if they are surpassed in any language.... For our part, we do not know any philosophical writings so fascinating to a young student of philosophy as these early pages."–Scotsman.

THE WORKS OF SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON, BART.,

Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh.

LECTURES ON METAPHYSICS. Edited by the Rev. H. L. MANSEL, B.D. LL.D., Waynflete Professor of Moral and Metaphysical Philosophy, Oxford; and JOHN VEITCH, M.A., Professor of Logic and Rhetoric in the University of Glasgow. Third Edition. 2 vols. 8vo, 24s.

LECTURES ON LOGIC. Edited by the Same. Second Edition. 2 vols. 8vo, 24s.

DISCUSSIONS ON PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE, EDUCATION AND UNIVERSITY REFORM. Third Edition. 8vo, price 21s.

MR WORSLEY'S TRANSLATION OF HOMER INTO ENGLISH VERSE

in the Spenserian Stanza

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ODYSSEY, 2 vols., 18s. ILIAD, Books I.-XII., 10s. 6d.

COMPLETION OF MR WORSLEY'S TRANSLATION OF THE ILIAD. BY PROFESSOR CONINGTON.

THE ILIAD OF HOMER.

Books XIII. to XXIV. Translated into English Verse in the Spenserian Stanza. By JOHN CONINGTON, M.A., Corpus Professor of Latin in the University of Oxford.

FAUST: A DRAMATIC POEM.

By GOETHE. Translated into English Verse by Theodore Martin. Second Edition, post octavo, price 6s.

"The best translation of 'Faust' in verse we have yet had in England."–Spectator.

"Mr Theodore Martin's translation is unquestionably the best in the language, and will give to English readers a fair idea of the greatest of modern poems."–Press.