A CHRISTMAS, THE NEXT CHRISTMAS, AND THE CHRISTMAS AFTER THAT: a Tale in Three Tellings. By THEOPHILUS OPER. Small 8vo., price 2s. 6d.

LORIMER LITTLEGOOD, Esq., a Young Gentleman who wished to see Society, and saw it accordingly. By ALFRED W. COLE, Esq., Barrister. With numerous Illustrations by Cruickshank and M'Connell. 8vo. cloth, price '10s. 6d.

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DOGS: their Sagacity, Instinct, and Uses; with Descriptions of their several Varieties. By GEORGE FREDERICK PARDON. With Drawings of upwards of Thirty Dogs, by HARRISON WEIR. Fcap. cloth, 3s. 6d.; gilt edges 4s.

CONTENTS.

Introduction-About Dogs in General-The History and Zoological Classification of the Dog-Various Kinds of Wild Dogs-The Greyhound-The Deerhound, the Wolf-dog, etc.-The Spaniel-The Newfoundland Dog-The Water Spaniel-The Shepherd's Dog and the Drover's Dog-The Esquimaux and the Lapland Dog-The Poodle, the Barbet, and the Cur-King Charles's Spaniels-The Staghound and the Talbot The Foxhound-The Bloodhound-The Setter and the Pointer-The Harrier, the Otter-Hound, and the Beagle-The Mastiff, the Bulldog, and the Bull-Terrier-The English Terrier-The Scotch Terrier, the Shock-Dog, and the Turnspit-Instinct in Dogs-Misceljaneous Anecdotes of Dogs.

"Of all creatures, the dog alone seems capable of ministering to our wants without servility, of receiving reproof without complaint, of displaying for both rich and poor an equal ardour of friendship, and of following us to our graves with real and unselfish regret. In nearly all parts of the world the dog is the servant and friend of man; a collection of anecdotes, therefore, concerning this faithful animal cannot but prove in eresting."-Freface.

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MINSTRELSY OF WAR, and other Poems. By A. B. RICHARDS, Esq. Fcap. 8vo, cloth. Price 3s. 6d.; paper wrappers, 2s. 6d.

“Vigorous, bold, original.”—British Army Despatch.

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WORLD IN LIGHT AND SHADE (The); its Comicalities and Eccentricities. By A. W. COLE Esq. With six Illustrations. Fcap. 8vo, cloth. Price 3s. 6d.; or gilt edges, 4s.

CONTENTS.

Revelations of a Nervous Man
Snowed up, and its Results to
Myself

A Race for an Heiress

Mrs. Tibbutt's "Tea and Muffins "
Money to any Amount
A Suspicious Case

A Warning to Uncles
My Uncle's Will

A Cure for Ennui

A Honeymoon on the Kaffir Fron

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"The Man over the Way"
Confessions of a Middle-aged
Gentleman

The Van to Hampton Court
The Crisis of my Existence
Mrs. Fitzsmythe's "Novel" Pic-
nic and its Consequences
How I came to be Tried by a
Court Martial

A Novel, in Three Chapters
A Month at Boulogne

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LEGENDS IN VERSE-Humorous, Serious, Sarcastic, Sentimental, and Supernatural. By A. W. COLE, Esq. With six Illustrations by Harvey. Fcap. 8vo, cloth. Price 3s. 6d.; gilt edges, 4s.

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CONTENTS.

An Episode in the Life of Mr. Tiggs
The Barber of Avignon

The Gold-Seeker

The Heiress of Rhuddlan

The Ball-room Conquest

The Maiden of Radstock Vale
The Czar and the Sultan
Kalafat and Sinope

The "Latest Intelligence."

EXTRACT FROM THE GHOST OF THE BLACK FRIAR."

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That seem'd to come from out the ground-
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More than a sigh, not quite a groan;
But, spite the wind, and spite the rain,
They heard that sound again-again-
Creeping up and creeping round:
It was a most unearthly sound!

It made their hearts beat loud and quick;
It made their breath come short and thick;
It made their blood appear to freeze;
It made them shake in jaws and knees;
It made their hair to stand upright;
It made their cheeks and lips turn white;
It made them sit, and stare, and quake-
I don't know what it didn't make!

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To mortals on earth, so particular is its
Extreme politeness, that ever before

It enters the chamber it knocks at the door-
Not a hurried rap, as a man's might be,
But a solemn, mystic-one! two! three!"

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TOM THORNTON, or Last Resources. In Three Volumes. Price 31s. 6d.

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The FINANCIER LAW, his SCHEME and TIMES: A graphic description of the Origin, Maturity, and Wreck of the Mississippi Scheme. Fcap. 8vo., cloth, 3s. 6d.

Before the Scheme.

Law.

The Bank.

The Scheme.

CONTENTS:

The Golden Age.
Disenchantment.
Fall of the Scheme.
After the Scheme.

"The Author has gathered his materials from sources so numerous, both from partisans and from opponents, that his sketch of Law and his times may be relied on more safely than works of far greater pretensions. It is certain that Law had a distinct perception of the three most fertile sources of a nation's commercial greatness, maritime commerce, credit, and the spirit of association. M. Cochut has given us the rise and progress, the decline and fall, of the Mississippi scheme in terse and graphic language, and has, throughout his brief narrative, endeavoured to be strictly impartial."-Wesleyan Times.

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-The Atlas.

"We believe that there are but few persons who are the least conversant with history, especially that of France, but possess some knowledge of the celebrated Mississippi scheme, concocted by John Law, a Scotchman, by which some hundreds of persons, possibly thousands, of all ranks of society were ruined, and great was the number of unhappy individuals who committed, in consequence, suicide. In the volume before us we have a well-condensed detail of the whole nefarious transaction from beginning to end, by Mons. Cochut, who tells us that, from numerous authorities whom he mentions, and some we have already alluded to, the result is at least precisive as to economical facts and great picture of events. Some few persons were raised to affluence beyond all conception: and, were it not that the evidence is so strong, we should almost doubt the truth of the statements mentioned by our author; the splendour of modern royal dwellings and banquets even of ancient Rome, are nothing in comparison to some of these at the period we allude. Law, for the time, was almost a species of deity, and as such he was worshipped as the God of Mammon. But the scheme which had caused all this burst, and great was the misery produced throughout the whole of France. We could have wished to quote the different particulars of the Mississippi scheme, and the companies, the banks, the stock-jobbing transactions, &c., connected with it, but our limits forbid it."-Sunday Times.

"The range of authorities is wide, and presents the financial ideas of Law from many opposite points of view. The story appears to have been industriously put together, and the style is uncommonly picturesque. Not a paragraph is dull; the anecdotes are abundant and cleverly arranged; and the description of the origin, maturity, and wreck of the Mississippi scheme is, as M. Cochut, or his translator, pleasantly says it is, 'graphic.' The company, soberly created, became the property of desperadoes, money was carried away in countless millions, lands and houses were purchased at unheard-of prices, and Law, as Comptroller-General of Finance, had to contend against jealousy, insanity, and confusion in the public mind."-Leader.

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PERIPATETIC PAPERS; being a Volume of Miscellanies. By the Members of a Literary Society. Edited by JOHN M'GILCHRIST, author of "A History of the Turks." Crown 8vo., cloth. Price, 7s. 6d.

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WEEDS from the ISIS: A Miscellany of Prose and Verse. By a few Oxonians; edited by VAUGHAN DAYRELL. With a Frontispiece by G. L. HALL. Fcap., cloth, price 3s. 6d.

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HISTORY of the TURKS from the EARLIEST PERIOD to

the PRESENT TIME; including the Siege of Sebastopol and the War in Asia. By J. M'GILCHRIST. Illustrated. Fcap. 8vo., cloth 3s. 6d.; gilt edges, 4s.

"The care and research which have been bestowed upon it, the ability and conciseness with which the devious course of Turkish history has been traced, and the elegant and nervous style in which it is written, render it a work or permanent interest and value. There is a considerable degree of conciseness and power in Mr. M'Gilchrist's rapid descriptions, in which he seems somewhat to take after Mr. Macaulay." -Literary Spectator.

"This is a neatly executed compilation. Mr. M'Gilchrist tells his story with energy, and prophesies for the Ottoman empire a happy era of peace."-The Athenæum. "In the execution of this design he has been quite successful, and has produced just such a book as may be expected to be popular. The decay of the Byzantine empire, and the rapid rise of the Turkish power, the brilliant series of conquests by which the early sultans established that power in Europe, and all the more important events in the subsequent history of the Ottoman empire, are sketched in a correct as well as a lively style. As an historical abridgment, a popular history of Turkey and the Turks, it is worthy of commendation, and will, no doubt, be received by the public as it deserves to be."-Scottish Press.

"The present is an eminently seasonable volume. We have many histories of Turkey, of various magnitudes, but even the least is too large for popular purposes. The present volume, however, every way meets the case. There is little that Englishmen are concerned to know which it does not tell them. It is the most compact, complete, and comprehensive narrative of the great subject that has yet been given. The illustrations, too, are well done, and add considerably to the interest of the work.”— British Banner.

"This volume gives a copious but concise history of them from the latest times to the conclusion of the late Russian war. It would be found very suitable to those who desire a brief statement of interesting facts, along with an outline of the various wars in which Turkey has played an active part, and a general estimate of the position which it has held amongst European nations. The style is clear, the facts systematically arranged, and the general execution of the book tasteful. We could not recommend a better and more convenient compendium of Turkish history."-Montrose, Arbroath, and Brechin Review.

"It is an intelligent epitome of the most interesting events of Turkish history, from the decay of the Byzantine empire to the fall of Kars. As a school book, it is preferable to any irregular abridgment of Von Hammer."-Leader.

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