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THE HISTORY OF EUROPE,

FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION IN 1789 TO THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO.

By Sir Archibald Alison, Bart., D.C.L.

Library Edition (the Eighth), Fourteen Volumes Demy Octavo, with Portraits, £10, 10s. Crown Octavo Edition, Twenty Volumes, £6.

THE FIFTH VOLUME OF

THE HISTORY OF EUROPE.

FROM THE FALL OF NAPOLEON TO THE ACCESSION OF LOUIS NAPOLEON.

By Sir Archibald Alison, Bart. D.C.L.

Uniform with the Library Edition of the Author’s “History of Europe,” price 15s.

ATLAS TO ALISON’S HISTORY OF EUROPE.

By A. Keith Johnston, F.R.S.E., &c.

Author of the “Physical Atlas,” &c.

109 Maps and Plans of Countries, Battles, Sieges, and Sea-Fights, Coloured. Demy Quarto, to accompany the Library Edition, and other Editions of the History in Octavo, £3, 3s. Crown Quarto, to accompany the Edition in Crown Octavo, £1, 11s. 6d.

A New Edition, being the Third.

THE LIFE OF MARLBOROUGH.

By Sir Archibald Alison, Bart., D.C.L.

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“Unquestionably the best ‘Life of Marlborough.’”—Morning Post.

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PARIS AFTER WATERLOO.

NOTES TAKEN AT THE TIME, AND HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED; INCLUDING A REVISED EDITION—THE TENTH—OF A

VISIT TO FLANDERS AND THE FIELD.

By James Simpson, Esq., Advocate.

Author of “The Philosophy of Education,” “Lectures to the Working Classes,” &c.

With Two Coloured Plans of the Battle. Crown Octavo, price 5s.

“Numerous as are the accounts of Waterloo that have been published, Mr Simpson’s description may still be read with pleasure, from its freshness; it has the life of vegetation newly gathered—smacking of reality, little of books.”—Spectator.

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CURRAN AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES.

By Charles Phillips, Esq., B.A.

“Certainly one of the most extraordinary pieces of Biography ever produced.... No library should be without it.”—Lord Brougham.

Three Volumes Octavo, price £1, 16s.,

A HISTORY OF MISSIONS.

By the Rev. W. Brown, M.D.

“We know not where else to find, within the same compass, so much well-digested and reliable information on the subject of Missions as in these volumes. The study of them will inspire the reader with new views of the importance, responsibility, and dignity of the Missionary work.”—American Bibliotheca Sacra.

Second Edition, Post Octavo, with Illustrations, price 7s. 6d.

THE ANGLER’S COMPANION TO THE RIVERS AND LOCHS OF SCOTLAND.

By Thomas Tod Stoddart.

Third Edition, in Octavo, with Illustrations, price 12s. 6d.

THE MOOR AND THE LOCH.

CONTAINING MINUTE INSTRUCTIONS IN ALL HIGHLAND SPORTS, WITH WANDERINGS OVER CRAG AND CORREI, FLOOD AND FELL.

By John Colquhoun, Esq.

THE STORY OF THE

CAMPAIGN OF SEBASTOPOL.

WRITTEN IN THE CAMP.

By Lieut.-Col. E. Bruce Hamley, Captain, R.A.

Originally published in Blackwood’s Magazine.

With Illustrations, drawn in Camp by the Author, price 21s.

THE POSITION ON THE ALMA.

A COLOURED PANORAMIC VIEW, DONE ON THE FIELD.

By Lieut.-Col. E. Bruce Hamley, Captain, R.A.

Price Ten Shillings and Sixpence.

“Along with this you will get some sketches of the Alma done on the spot, and worked up since I got my colour-box, &c., which were on board ship.”—Extract, from Lieut.-Col. Hamley’s Letter, Camp before Sebastopol, 29th December 1854.

Two Volumes, price £1, 7s. 6d.

HISTORY OF THE BYZANTINE AND GREEK EMPIRES, 716-1453.

By George Finlay, Esq., Athens.

“It is the most complete and elaborate history of the Byzantine and Greek Empires that has appeared in an English form.”—Leader.

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“Mr Finlay’s work deserves warm praise as a careful and conscientious performance. General readers might desire that their taste for ‘interesting’ details should have been provided for by the author. But the judicious and the scholarly will admire the severe abstinence that imparts a Doric severity to this manly and most creditable historical performance, which must confer no small distinction on its author’s name.”—Press.

By the same Author.

I. GREECE UNDER THE ROMANS, B.C. 146 TO A.D. 717. Octavo, 16s. II. MEDIÆVAL GREECE, 1204-1461. Octavo, 12s.

MISS STRICKLAND’S LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF SCOTLAND.

EMBELLISHED WITH PORTRAITS AND HISTORICAL VIGNETTES.

Volumes 1 to 6 are published, price 10s. 6d. each.

“In no part of the voluminous and charming writings of Miss Strickland does she more forcibly recommend herself to the reader of history than in the interesting volume before us. Embracing a period in the annals of Scotland remarkable for the deeds of violence that were perpetrated in it, and presenting a picture of life and morality strongly contrasting with the results of modern civilisation, she has had a noble field within which to exercise her extraordinary talents for research, and has produced an historical narrative, unsurpassed, in point of interest and intrinsic merit, by any of those which have earned for her the high literary reputation she so deservedly enjoys.”—Morning Advertiser.

THE POEMS OF FELICIA HEMANS.

Complete in One Volume Large Octavo, with Portrait engraved by Finden, 21s.

Another Edition in Six Volumes Foolscap Octavo, 24s.

Another Edition, with Life, by her Sister, Seven Volumes, 35s.

“Of no modern writer can it be affirmed, with less hesitation, that she has become an English Classic, nor, until human nature becomes very different from what it now is, can we imagine the least probability that the music of her lays will cease to soothe the ear, or the beauty of her sentiment to charm the gentle heart.”—Blackwood’s Magazine.

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THE COURSE OF TIME.

A POEM IN TEN BOOKS.

By Robert Pollok, A.M.

“Of deep and hallowed impress, full of noble thoughts and graphic conceptions—the production of a mind alive to the great relations of being, and the sublime simplicity of our religion.”—Blackwood’s Magazine.

LAYS OF THE SCOTTISH CAVALIERS, AND OTHER POEMS.

By W. Edmondstoune Aytoun,

Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in the University of Edinburgh.

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“Finer ballads than these, we are bold to say, are not to be found in the language.”—Times.

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Elegantly printed in Small Octavo, price 5s.

FIRMILIAN; OR, THE STUDENT OF BADAJOZ.

A SPASMODIC TRAGEDY.

By T. Percy Jones.

“Humour of a kind most rare at all times, and especially in the present day, runs through every page, and passages of true poetry and delicious versification prevent the continual play of sarcasm from becoming tedious.”—Literary Gazette.

“But we must leave our readers to unravel this mystery for themselves. Enough has been said and sung to make them acquainted with the claims of ‘Firmilian,’ to be deemed ‘the finest poem of the age.’”—Dublin University Magazine.

BOTHWELL: A POEM

By W. Edmondstoune Aytoun, D.C.L.,

Author of “Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers,” &c.

Second Edition.

In Crown Octavo, price 12s.

“A work which, for genius, originality of conception, and poetic brilliancy of execution has no rival in modern times. It not only sustains, but will enhance the deservedly high reputation of the author. The notes are peculiarly interesting, as containing a judicial collation and summary of the evidences which have induced the Sheriff of Orkney to record a verdict of acquittal in favour of Mary Stuart, and of reprobation of her self-interested accusers.”—Miss Strickland’s Lives of the Queens of Scotland, Vol. VI.

BON GAULTIER’S BOOK OF BALLADS.

Illustrated by Doyle, Leech, and Crowquill.

New Edition, square 12mo, price 8s. 6d.

An ILLUSTRATED EDITION of

THE COURSE OF TIME.

A POEM.

By Robert Pollok, A.M.

The Designs by Birket Foster, John Tenniel, and John R. Clayton.

Engraved by Edmund Evans, Dalziel Brothers, Green, &c.

In square 8vo, elegantly bound in cloth, price 21s.; or in morocco, price 32s.

“This sumptuously-printed book, with its vellum-like paper, its exquisite wood-engravings, rivalling in light and shadow, in softness of aerial perspective, in translucence of water, and in truth of foliage, the most highly-finished steel plates of the annuals and books of beauty of by-past years, is an unique and worthy issue of the great poem of Pollok, a bard who has now safely assumed a pedestal in the temple of poetic fame.”—Morning Advertiser.

Second Edition.

In small 8vo, with a Frontispiece, price 5s.

JESSIE CAMERON: A HIGHLAND STORY.

By the Lady Rachel Butler.

“Those who read ‘Jessie Cameron’ will desire at once that Lady Butler should continue to write Highland stories. It is a sweet and tender tale, and proves, on the part of the writer, a knowledge of humble life and character which can scarcely exist without a heartfelt sympathy with the joys and sorrows of the poor. This sympathy is abundantly manifested in the romance of Jessie Cameron’s loves and griefs and heroism—the heroism, the grief, the love, all equally touching, refined, unaffected.... No one can take up this very agreeable volume without becoming interested, and following its graceful drama to the end.”—Athenæum.

THE SKETCHER.

By the Rev. John Eagles, M.A. Oxon.

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN BLACKWOOD’S MAGAZINE.

Handsomely printed in 8vo, 10s. 6d.

“This volume, called by the appropriate name of ‘The Sketcher,’ is one that ought to be found in the studio of every English landscape-painter.... More instructive and suggestive readings for young artists, especially landscape-painters, can scarcely be found.”—The Globe.

ESSAYS; HISTORICAL, POLITICAL, AND MISCELLANEOUS.

By Sir Archibald Alison, Bart., D.C.L.

Three Volumes Demy Octavo, 45s.

“They stamp him as one of the most learned, able, and accomplished writers of the age.... His Essays are a splendid supplement to his History, and the two combined exhibit his intellect in all its breadth and beauty.”—Dublin University Magazine.

Foolscap Octavo, 5s.

LECTURES ON THE POETICAL LITERATURE

OF THE PAST HALF-CENTURY.

By D. M. Moir (Δ).

“A delightful volume.”—Morning Chronicle.

“Exquisite in its taste and generous in its criticisms.”—Hugh Miller.

POETICAL WORKS OF D. M. MOIR (Δ).

With Portrait, and Memoir by THOMAS AIRD.

Two Volumes Foolscap Octavo, 14s.

“These are volumes to be placed on the favourite shelf, in the familiar nook that holds the books we love, which we take up with pleasure and lay down with regret”—Edinburgh Courant.

POETICAL WORKS OF THOMAS AIRD.

A New Edition, complete in One Volume, Small Octavo.

Price 6s.

Second Edition, Crown Octavo, 10s. 6d.

THE POEMS AND BALLADS OF SCHILLER.

Translated by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart.

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LADY LEE’S WIDOWHOOD.

By Lieut.-Col. E. B. Hamley,

Captain, R.A.

A New Edition, complete in One Volume, price 6s.

ZAIDEE: A ROMANCE.

By Mrs. Oliphant.

In Three Volumes, Post Octavo, price £1, 11s. 6d.

KATIE STEWART: A TRUE STORY.

Second Edition, in Foolscap Octavo, with Frontispiece and Vignette, 6s.

“A singularly characteristic Scottish story, most agreeable to read and pleasant to recollect. The charm lies in the faithful and life-like pictures it presents of Scottish character and customs, and manners, and modes of life.”—Tait’s Magazine.

Second Edition, Post Octavo, price 10s. 6d.

THE QUIET HEART.

By the Author of “Katie Stewart.”

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THE MOTHER’S LEGACIE TO HER UNBORNE CHILDE.

By Elizabeth Joceline.

Edited by the Very Rev. PRINCIPAL LEE.

32mo, 4s. 6d.

“This beautiful and touching legacie.”—Athenæum.

“A delightful monument of the piety and high feeling of a truly noble mother.”—Morning Advertiser.