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HISTORY AND TRAVELS.

Rome and the Campagna. A Historical and Topographical Description of the Site, Buildings, and Neighbourhood of ancient Rome. By the Rev. ROBERT BURN, late Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, Cambridge. With eighty engravings by JEWITT, and numerous Maps and Plans, and an Appendix, bringing the Work down to 1876. Demy 4to. £3 38.

Old Rome.

A Handbook of the Ruins of the Ancient City and the Campagna, for the use of Travellers. By R. BURN, M.A. With Ilustrations, Maps, and Plans. Demy 8vo. 10s. 6d.

Ancient Athens; its History, Topography, and Re

MAINS. By Thomas Henry DYER, LL.D., Author of The History of the Kings of
Rome.'
" Super-royal 8vo. Illustrated, cloth. £1 58.

The History of the Kings of Rome.

By Dr. T. H. DYER, Author of the "History of the City of Rome;" "Pompeii: its History, Antiquities," &c., with a Prefatory Dissertation on the Sources and Evidence of Early Roman History. 8vo. 168.

Modern Europe, from the Fall of Constantinople in 1453. BY THOMAS HENRY DYER, LL.D. Second Edition, Revised and Continued. In 5 vols. £2 12s. 6d.

The Decline of the Roman Republic. By the late GEORGE

LONG, M.A., Editor of "Cæsar's Commentaries,'
," "Cicero's Orations," &c. 8vo.
Vol. 1. From the Destruction of Carthage to the End of the Jugurthine War. 148.
Vol. II. To the Death of Sertorius. 148.

Vol. III. Including the third Mithridatic War, the Catiline Conspiracy, and the Con-
sulship of C. Julius Cæsar. 148.

Vol. IV. History of Caesar's Gallic Campaigns and of contemporaneous events. 148.
Vol. V. From the Invasion of Italy by Julius Cæsar to his Death. 148.

A History of England during the Early and Middle

AGES. By C. H. PEARSON, M.A., Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, and late Lecturer in History at Trinity College, Cambridge. Second Edition, revised and enlarged. 8vo. Vol. I. to the Death of Coeur de Lion. 168. Vol. II. to the Death of Edward L. 145.

Historical Maps of England. By C. H. PEARSON, M.A.

Folio. Second Edition, revised. 31s. 6d.

An Atlas containing Five Maps of England at different periods during the Early and Middle Ages.

The Desert of the Exodus. Journeys on Foot in the Wilderness of the Forty Years' Wanderings, undertaken in connection with the Ordnance Survey of Sinai and the Palestine Exploration Fund. By E. H. PALMER, M.A., Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic and Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, Member of the Asiatic Society, and of the Société de Paris. With Maps, and numerous Illustrations from Photographs and Drawings taken on the spot by the Sinai Survey Expedition and C. F. TYRWHITT DRAKE. 2 vols. 8vo. 288.

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STANDARD WORKS.

orpus Poetarum Latinorum. Edited by E. WALKER.

One thick vol. 8vo. Cloth, 188.

Containing :-Catullus, Lucretius, Virgilius, Tibullus, Propertius, Ovidius, Horatius, aedrus, Lucanus, Persius, Juvenalis, Martialis, Sulpicia, Statius, Silius Italicus, Valerius Accus, Calpurnius Siculus, Ausonius, and Claudianus.

ruden's Concordance to the Old and New Testament, or an Alphabetical and Classified Index to the Holy Bible, specially adapted for Sunday School Teachers, containing nearly 54,000 references. Thoroughly revised and condensed by G. H. HANNAY. Fcap. 28.

erowne (Canon).

The Book of Psalms. A New Translation, with Introductions and Notes, Critical and Explanatory. By the Very Rev. J. J. STEWART PEROWNE, Dean of Peterborough. 8vo. Vol. I., Fourth Edition, 188.; Vol. II., Fourth Edition, 168.

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hewell (Dr.). Elements of Morality, including Polity. By W. WHEWELL, D.D., formerly Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. Fourth Edition. In 1 vol. 8vo. 158.

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he Life of Christopher Columbus, the Discoverer of

AMERICA. Fourth Edition.

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ciates in the Conquest of Peru.

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With Some Account of his Asso-
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he Life of Las Casas, the Apostle of the Indies.

Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 68.

he Life and Epistles of St. Paul. By THOMAS LEWIN,

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This is one of those works which demand from critics and from the public, before empting to estimate its merits in detail, an unqualified tribute of admiration. The first nce tells us that the book is one on which the leisure of a busy lifetime and the whole ources of an enthusiastic author have been lavished without stint.. ... This work is a d of British Museum for this period and subject in small compass. It is a series of eries of statues, gems, coins, documents, letters, books, and relics, through which the der may wander at leisure, and which he may animate with his own musings and reflecIt must be remembered throughout that this delightful and instructive collection is result of the devotion of a lifetime, and deserves as much honour and recognition as ny a museum or picture-gallery which has preserved its donor's name for generations." imes.

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Dante's Divine Comedy. Translated by the Rev. HENRY

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THOMAS ROSCOE, and Plates by GEORGE CRUIKSHANK.

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Mrs. Gatty's Parables from Nature.

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Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales and Sketches. Translated by C. C. PEACHEY, H. WARD, A. PLESNER, &c. With 104 Illustrations by OTTO SPECKTER and others. 68.

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This volume contains several tales that are in no other Edition published in this country, and with the above volume it forms the most complete English Edition. Mrs. Alfred Gatty's Presentation Box for Young

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Select Parables from Nature. By Mrs. GATTY. For

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Besides being reprinted in America, selections from Mrs. Gatty's Parables have been translated and published in the German, French, Italian, Russian, Danish, and Swedish languages.

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