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FIELDING'S WORKS.

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Tom Jones.
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SMOLLETT'S WORKS.

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"He had the keenest perceptive faculty, and described what he saw with wonder. ful relish and delightful broad humour. I think Uncle Bowling in Roderick Random' is as good a character as Squire Western himself; and Mr. Morgan, the Welsh apothecary, is as pleasant as Dr. Caius. The novel of Humphrey Clinker' is, I do think, the most laughable story that has ever been written since the goodly art of novel-writing began. Winifred Jenkins and Tabitha Bramble must keep Englishmen on the grin for ages yet to come, and in their letters and the story of their loves there is a perpetual fount of sparkling laughter as inexhaustible Bladud's well."-W. M. Thackeray.

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UNCLE TOM'S CABIN; or, Life Amongst the Lowly.

By Mrs. STOWE. With Two Illustrations, and a Preface written expressly for this Edition by the Earl of Carlisle.

Also, price 38. 6d. cloth gilt, an Illustrated Edition, with Twelve Engravings from designs by John Gilbert, W. Harvey, &c.

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"This great romance is the most extraordinary and thrilling tale of modern times."

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TWEBB.

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HE GARIES AND THEIR FRIENDS. By F. J. With Preface by Mrs. SrowE, and an Introduction by Lord BROUGHAM.

"I take pleasure in recommending this simple and truthfully-told story to the attention and interest of the friends of progress and humanity in England."-H. B. Stowe.

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WIDE, WIDE WORLD (The). By Miss WETHERELL.

With Eight Illustrations by W. Harvey. The Tenth Thousand. "As far as we know the early history of the Wide, Wide World,' it was first bought to be presented to nice little girls; elder sisters were soon found poring over the volumes; next, mothers wondered at the spell that could so enchain the more volatile spirits of the household. After this, papas were not very difficult to con vert; for papas like to feel their eyes moisten sometimes with emotions more generous than those excited at the Stock Exchange or in the counting-house."-North American Review for January.

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LOTTERY. By Mrs. JONES, of Pantglas.

"The terseness of dialogue, keen insight into character, and ability to weave a charming story, would task the powers of the most experienced professional literary labourer."-Court Journal.

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DAY WITH THE BROOKSIDE HARRIERS.
By Sir RICHARD LEVINGE, Bart., M.P.

"The author has a gossiping, familiar, agreeable, and natural style of jotting down his thoughts, without committing the dreadful sin of amateurs, that of straining after fun, and eternally poking jokes at their readers."-Court Journal.

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TRAVELS, VOYAGES, &c.

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UTRAM AND HAVELOCK'S PERSIAN CAMPAIGN. By Capt. G. H. HUNT, 78th Highlanders; to which is prefixed a Summary of Persian History. With Eight Tinted Lithographs, from designs by the Author.

"The gallant narrator of the Persian Campaign lived to take his part in the glorious advance on Cawnpore, where he perished of cholera. But his name will survive among those who deserve well of their country.”—Athenæum.

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LATEST BOOK ON CHINA.

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By G. WINGROVE COOKE.

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HINA IN 1857-58. printed (by permission) from The Times, with great additions and corrections by the Author. Illustrated with Maps, Plans, and Portra of Yeh.

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WAYSIDE

WAYSIDE PICTURES-through France, Holland
Belgium, and Up the Rhine. By ROBERT BELL. With numerous

Illustrations and Frontispiece by Birket Foster.

"The whole of this work has been thoroughly revised, some part entirely r written, and the local information respecting the places visited brought down to the present moment, so that on the lines of route traversed it will be found of the highest value to the tourist. The whole of that section relating to the Rhine, and embracing the ascent of the Drachenfels, the river to Mayence, Wiesbaden, Ems, Schlaugenba &c., has been added to the original work, and is now published for the first time.”

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TURKEY, RUSSIA, the BLACK SEA, and CIRCASSIA. By Capt. SPENCER. Containing many Illustrations, ir cluding Views of Odessa, Sebastopol, and Four Portraits in Colours of the Sultan, the Czar, Schamyl, and a Circassian Lady. With a Map of the Seat of War.

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TURKEY. BY THE ROVING ENGLISHMAN. Being Sketches
from Life, partly reprinted from "Household Words."
The Eighth
Thousand.

"This work possesses an especial interest, and will be read with great interest and advantage to all who either intend visiting Turkey, or would like to becomi better acquainted with the East."

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LANDS OF THE SLAVE AND THE FREE; or,

Cuba, the United States, and America. By the Hon. CHARLES MURRAY. With many Illustrations.

"There is a racy, life-warm humour about the author, which makes the current of is narrative merry and musical as a hill-side brook. We would only advise the reader of a good book to take it down with him to rural or sea-side retreats. And as for the author, we will say of him, as Falstaff of good Master Brook, 'I do desire of thee a better acquaintance.'"-Illustrated London News.

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KANSAS; or, Squatter Life and Border Warfare in the

Far West. By T. H. GLADSTONE. Reprinted from The Times, with Additions and Corrections. With Two Illustrations and a Map From original sources.

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LIFE IN CHINA. By Rev. W. C. MILNE, M.A., for

many years Missionary among the Chinese. With Illustrations and original Maps of Ningpo, Shanghai, China Proper, Inland Trip from Ningpo to Canton, from Sketches by the Author. The Third Thousand. With additions.

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5. Hochelaga, or England in the New World. Edited by Elis Warburton.

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GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY, considered with

reference to Natural Theology. By the late Very Rev. WILLIAN BUCKLAND, D.D., F.R.S. A New Edition, with additions by Professo: Owen, F.R.S., Professor Phillips, M.A., M.D., Mr. Robert Brown, F.R.S., &c. Edited by Francis T. Buckland, M.A. With a Memoir of the Author, Steel Portrait, and Ninety Full-Page Engravings.

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"That the Heavens declare the glory of God,' is a declaration of Scripture which the telescope of the astronomer has confirmed with proofs beyond the remotest views of Him who uttered it: That the Earth showeth His handywork,' is a truth, the display of which has been reserved for the later investigation of the scientific geologist. He has shown that what ignorance and presumption had pronounced to be only disorder and confusion, are eminent examples of design and contrivance; that what the Atheist declared to proceed from an eternal succession, had once a begin ning; and that in those successive changes in the creation, in which various energies or powers might be presumed to prevail, there is throughout such an unity of plan, such a continuity of design, such a harmonious connexion of contrivance, as evidently show that they are all parts of a creation proceeding from one and the self-same Will.' "-Gentleman's Magazine.

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