“This volume, as a whole, is admirable, each chapter being
characterised by thoroughness, impartiality, fine critical
discernment, an always manly literary ability, and, above all, a
moral healthiness of tone. In fact, we are not acquainted with any
English work, or, for that matter, with any Continental or American
work, which we could place with so much confidence in the hands of a
young student of modern German literature as the volume under review,
and as special proof of our assertion we would select the essay on
Goethe. . . . For this work we must express sincere gratitude to the
author.”—_Spectator_.
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THE HUMAN VOICE AND THE CONNECTED PARTS: A Popular Guide for Speakers and
Singers. By Dr. J. FARRAR. With Thirty-nine Illustrations. Crown 8vo.
cloth extra. 3s. 6d.
“A very careful and minute exposition of vocal phenomena. Its
utility is enhanced by a large number of diagrams.”—_The Scotsman_.
“A work that is sure to be found of real practical value.”—_British
Quarterly Review_.
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THE ROMAN STUDENTS; or, On Wings of the Morning. A Tale of the
Renaissance. By the Author of “The Spanish Brothers,” &c. With
Illustrations by G. P. JACOMB HOOD. Cheaper edition. Imperial 8vo.,
cloth extra. 4s. 6d.
“A thoroughly good historical tale. From its opening scenes in sunny
Venice to its close in a German village, the interest is absorbing,
while the reader feels invigorated by the healthy type of
Christianity displayed, as well as enriched by much knowledge
concerning the ways of men who have long since passed
away.”—_Christian_.
“One of the best stories of the year.”—_British Quarterly Review_.
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AMERICAN DISHES, and How to Cook Them. From the Recipe-book of an
American Lady. Crown 8vo., cloth extra. 2s. 6d.
“A smart little tome . . . Fisheries and fish being at present in
the ascendant, I should recommend all culinary students to turn to
the section of the lady’s book devoted to fish recipes and general
instructions how to choose and prepare the denizens of the deep for
the table . . . She is great also in fish-balls . . . Consult her
pages likewise for baked beans, hominy, potato puffs, rye meal,
squash biscuits, and minced cabbage. In soups she is strong.”—G. A.
S., in _Illustrated London News_.
“The author has done a really good service to the public. All who
want to know what American cookery is, will possess themselves of
this book, and they will be sure to meet with their
reward.”—_Scotsman_.
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DICK’S HOLIDAYS, and What He Did with Them. A Picture Story Book of
Country Life. By JAMES WESTON. Profusely Illustrated. Imperial 4to.
Cheaper edition, cloth extra. 3s. 6d.
“This is precisely the book that sensible parents must often have
been wanting. . . . This delightful book.”—_Academy_.
“A delightful collection.”—_Graphic_.
“Mr. Weston has been successful in introducing a new type
picture-book of the liveliest and most instructive kind.”—_Manchester
Guardian_.
“A new departure . . . all the more acceptable on account of its
originality.”—_Edinburgh Daily Review_.
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I’VE BEEN A-GIPSYING: or Rambles among our Gipsies and their Children in
their Tents and Vans. By GEORGE SMITH, of Coalville, Author of “Gipsy
Life,” “Canal Adventures by Moonlight,” &c. _With an Appendix showing
the Author’s plans for the Compulsory Registration of Gipsy Vans_, _and
the Education of Gipsy Children_. New and Revised and Popular Edition.
12 Illustrations. 3s. 6d.
_Her Majesty the Queen_ has been graciously pleased to accept, and to
thank Mr. Smith for, a copy of the above work.
_The Rt. Hon. Sir Stafford Northcote_, _M.P._, thus writes to the
author:—“Accept my best thanks for your book, which cannot fail to be
most interesting, both on account of the subject and of the author.
Your good works will indeed live after you.”
“Mr. Smith’s sketches of his visits to the gipsies are graphic and
varied, and will, we trust, serve to excite a wider interest in the
perplexing question of their amelioration, to which the author has
already given yeoman’s service.”—_Contemporary Review_, September,
1883.
“The author of ‘Gipsy Life’ has so far made the characteristics and
social condition of this race the study of his life, that nothing
from his pen is likely to be otherwise than instructive. ‘I’ve been
a-Gipsying’ will fully answer the expectations of its readers.”—_The
Record_.
“No imaginary picture is drawn of distant sufferers on a dark
continent, for the evil, vice, wretchedness, and misery may be seen
any day at our very doors.”—_Daily Chronicle_.
“A rugged book by a rugged man in real earnest about his life work .
. . These graphic sketches cannot fail to do good service by calling
public attention to a crying evil, and so helping to hasten the day
when an awakened Parliament shall wipe away this reproach from the
nation.”—_Christian_.
“Those who deliberately and carefully go over Mr. Smith’s book will
be able to see this is not exactly the sort of philanthropical work
which is habitually dismissed with a careless wave of the
hand.”—_Modern Review_.
“The earnestness, the enthusiasm, the high moral purpose of the man
everywhere shine through, dominate the book, and enforce respect
alike for the author and his design.”—_Christian World_.
“More interesting than any novel, and holds the reader spellbound . .
. The revelations contained in this book are very startling and
painful.”—_Sheffield Independent_.
“Will do considerable good, and it throws a flood of light on a
subject of which most men know scarcely anything.”—_Christian
Leader_.
“Merits a wide circulation, both on its literary merits, and the
importance of its purpose.”—_Liverpool Daily Post_.
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THE “LIVES WORTH LIVING” SERIES OF POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES. Illustrated
Crown 8vo., cloth extra. Per vol. 3s. 6d.
1. Leaders of Men. 3. Master Missionaries.
2. Wise Words and Loving Deeds. 4. Labour and Victory.
5. Heroic Adventure.
1. LEADERS OF MEN: A Book of Biographies specially written for Young
Men. By H. A. PAGE, author of “Golden Lives.” Crown 8vo., cloth extra,
with Portraits. Fourth edition. 3s. 6d.
The Prince Consort. Samuel Greg.
Commodore Goodenough. Andrew Reed.
Robert Dick. John Duncan.
George Moore. Dr. John Wilson.
Lord Lawrence.
“Mr. Page thoroughly brings out the disinterestedness and devotion to
high aims which characterise the men of whom he writes. He has done
his work with care and good taste.”—_Spectator_.
“No one knows better than Mr. Page how to put within moderate compass
the outstanding features of a life that has blessed the world so as
to present a striking and impressive picture. This is just the
volume to enlarge the views and to ennoble the aims of young men, and
to such we specially commend it.”—_Literary World_.
“Here is a book which should be in the hands of every boy in the
kingdom in whose mind it is desirable to implant a true ideal of
life, and a just notion of the proper objects of ambition; and we may
congratulate Mr. Page upon having carried out his task with all
possible care and skill. ‘Leaders of Men’ is every way an admirable
volume.”—_Court Circular_.
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2. WISE WORDS & LOVING DEEDS: A Book of Biographies for Girls. By E.
CONDER GRAY. Crown 8vo., cloth extra, with Portraits. Fifth edition.
3s. 6d.
Mary Somerville. Madame Feller.
Lady Duff Gordon. Baroness Bunsen.
Sarah Martin. Amelia Sieveking.
Ann Taylor. Mary Carpenter.
Charlotte Elliott Catherine Tait.
“A series of brightly-written sketches of lives of remarkable women.
The subjects are well chosen and well treated.”—_Saturday Review_.
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3. MASTER MISSIONARIES: Studies in Heroic Pioneer Work. By ALEXANDER H.
JAPP, LL.D., F.R.S.E. With Portraits and Illustrations. Crown 8vo.
Third edition. 3s. 6d.
“An extremely interesting book. The reader need not be afraid of
falling into beaten tracks here.”—_The Guardian_.
“A collection of sketches from the practised pen of Dr. Japp, of men
who have rendered good service to their race. All are graphic and
very interesting.”—_Nonconformist_.
“It brings before the reader a vivid conception of all the grandest
chapters in pioneer effort throughout the world. There are many who
must have felt the want of just such a handy book as this, and these
will be grateful to Dr. Japp.”—_Glasgow Mail_.
“A really excellent and readable book.”—_Literary Churchman_.
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4. LABOUR AND VICTORY. By A. H. JAPP, LL.D. Memoirs of Those who
Deserved Success and Won it. Third edition, Crown 8vo., cloth extra.
3s. 6d.
Sir James Outram. Bishop Selwyn.
Thomas Edward. Sir Titus Salt.
Sir James Simpson. Thos. Davidson.
William Ellis. Friedrich Augusti.
“There must assuredly be a large number of readers to whom these
stories of the lives of such men will prove very
acceptable.”—_Spectator_.
“We should be glad to see this volume in the hands of thousands of
boys and young men.”—_Leeds Mercury_.
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5. HEROIC ADVENTURE: Chapters in Recent Exploration and Discovery.
Illustrated. Third edition. Crown 8vo, cloth extra. 3s. 6d.
*** _Containing in a popular form an account of the travels and
adventures of great explorers of modern times_, _including Schweinfurth_,
_Prejevalsky_, _Commander Markham_, _Vambery_, _Serpa Pinto_, _and
Nordenskiöld_.
“Gives freshness to the old inexhaustible story of enterprise and
discovery by selecting some of the very latest of heroes in this
field.”—_Daily News_.
New and Cheaper Editions.
GUDRUN, BEOWULF, and ROLAND. With other Mediæval Tales. By JOHN GIBB.
With 20 Illustrations. Second and cheaper edition. Crown 8vo., cloth
extra. 3s. 6d.
“This volume will be certain to charm youthful readers; and a safer
or more acceptable gift-book it would be difficult to find. . . .
Without some such work these precious prototypes of Anglo-Germanic
romance would have remained sealed volumes for all youthful readers;
they therefore owe a debt of gratitude to him who has translated,
condensed, and put them into a popular prose form for their
perusal.”—_Academy_.
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THE HOUSE BY THE WORKS. By EDWARD GARRETT, Author of “Occupations of a
Retired Life,” &c., &c. With Frontispiece. Third and Cheaper edition.
Crown 8vo., cloth extra. 3s. 6d.
“The girls with their Quaker and Moravian training, the worthy and
benevolent Mrs. Pendlebury, and society generally, rich and poor, in
Perford, are depicted with skill.”—_Daily News_.
“The picture he gives us here of the Enticknapp household, with its
Moravian and Quaker traditions, is one nearly perfect of its kind for
sobriety of taste and freedom from all sentimental
exaggerations.”—_Graphic_.
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THE PRINCE OF THE HUNDRED SOUPS: A Puppet Show in Narrative. Edited,
with a Preface by VERNON LEE, Author of “Belcaro,” “Studies of the
Eighteenth Century in Italy,” &c. With Four Illustrations in Sepia, by
SARAH BIRCH. Cheaper edition. Square 8vo., cloth. 3s. 6d.
“There is more humour in the volume than in half-a-dozen ordinary
pantomimes.”—_Spectator_.
“The preface is really more interesting than the ‘Prince of the
Hundred Soups,’ and that—as we hope our readers will find out for
themselves—is saying a good deal.”—_Academy_.
“For myself, I can say that it had upon me the appetising effect of
that dish in Horace which ‘replaced the sated guest upon his elbow;’
for though, when I took it up, I was utterly weary and dazed with the
number of books I had gone through, yet I devoured it from cover to
cover with a new zest.”—_Truth_.
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INDUSTRIAL CURIOSITIES: Glances Here and There in the World of Labour.
Written and Edited by ALEXANDER HAY JAPP, LL.D., F.R.S.E. Third edition.
Crown 8vo., cloth extra. 3s. 6d.
“Would make an excellent prize or present-book, especially for boys
with a taste for miscellaneous information. Anyone, however, whose
notion of a book is not limited to novels ought to be able to read it
with pleasure, and can hardly do so without profit.”—_Academy_.
“Dr. Japp travels through a variety of subjects, always entertaining
and instructive.”—_Spectator_.
“Nowadays boys are so fed upon story books and books of adventure
that we welcome a book which tells them something about the facts of
the world they live in.”—_Graphic_.
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OLD FAITHS IN NEW LIGHT. By NEWMAN SMYTH, D.D. Crown 8vo., cloth. 3s.
6d.
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PLANT LIFE: Popular Papers on the Phenomena of Botany. By EDWARD STEP.
With 148 Illustrations drawn by the Author. Third edition. Crown 8vo.,
cloth extra. 3s. 6d.