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BOOKS ON INDIAN SUBJECTS-continued.

WESTERN INDIA BEFORE AND DURING THE MUTINIES.

PICTURES DRAWN FROM LIFE.

BY MAJOR-GEN. SIR GEORGE LE GRAND JACOB, K.C.S.I., C.B. In 1 vol. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d.

"The most important contribution to the history of Western India during the Mutinies which has yet, in a popular form, been made public."-Athenæum.

"The legacy of a wise veteran, intent on the benefit of his countrymen rather

than on the acquisition of fame."-London and China Express.

"Few men more competent than himself to speak authoritatively concerning Indian affairs."-Standard.

EXCHANGE TABLES OF STERLING AND INDIAN RUPEE CURRENCY,

UPON A NEW AND EXTENDED SYSTEM,

EMBRACING VALUES FROM ONE FARTHING TO ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS, AND AT RATES PROGRESSING, IN SIXTEENTHS OF A PENNY,

FROM IS. 9d. TO 25. 3d. PER RUPEE.

BY DONALD FRASER,

Accountant to the British Indian Steam Navigation Co., Limited.

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Published by order of Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council.

Royal 8vo, sewed. IS.

A continuation of the above, sewed, price 6d., is now ready.

Messrs. Henry S. King & Co. are the authorised agents by the Government for the sale of the whole of the Maps enumerated in this Catalogue.

65, Cornhill; & 12, Paternoster Row, London.

Juvenile Books.

BRAVE MEN'S FOOTSTEPS. A Book of Example and Anecdote for Young People. By the Editor of "MEN WHO HAVE RISEN." With Four Illustrations. By C. DOYLE.

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3s. 6d.

"A readable and instructive volume.”— Examiner.

"No more welcome book for the schoolboy could be imagined."- Birmingham Daily Gazette.

WONDER-HORN.

INGELOW. A Second Series Fifteen Illustrations. Cloth, gilt. "Full of fresh and vigorous fancy: it is worthy of the author of some of the best of our modern verse."-Standard.

BY JEAN

of "Stories told to a Child." 3s. 6d.

"We like all the contents of the 'Little Wonder-Horn' very much."-Athenæum. "We recommend it with confidence."Pall-Mall Gazette.

STORIES IN PRECIOUS STONES.

ZIMMERN. With Six Illustrations.

"A series of pretty tales which are half fantastic, half natural, and pleasantly quaint, as befits stories intended for the young."-Daily Telegraph.

BY HELEN

Crown 8vo. 55.

Certainly the book is well worth a perusal, and will not be soon laid down when once taken up."-Daily Bristol Times.

GUTTA-PERCHA WILLIE, THE WORKING

GENIUS. BY GEORGE MACDONALD.
By ARTHUR HUGHES. Crown 8vo. 35. 6d.

THE

With Illustrations.

By

TRAVELLING MENAGERIE. CHARLES CAMDEN, Author of "Hoity Toity." Illustrated by J. MAHONEY. Crown 8vo. 35. 6d.

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Atlantic. By CUPPLES HOWE, Master Mariner.
by TOWNLEY GREEN. Crown 8vo.

65, Cornhill; & 12, Paternoster Row, London.

Illustrated

3s. 6d.

JUVENILE BOOKS-continued.

GOOD WORDS FOR THE YOUNG. The Volume for 1872, gilt cloth and gilt edges, 7s. 6d. Containing numerous Contributions by popular authors, and about One Hundred and Fifty Illustrations by the best artists.

JEAN JAROUSSEAU, THE PASTOR OF THE

DESERT. Translated from the French of EUGENE PELLETAN.
By Colonel E. P. DE L'HOSTE. In fcap. 8vo, with an Engraved
Frontispiece. Price 5s.

"There is a poetical simplicity and pic-
turesqueness; the noblest heroism; unpre-
tentious religion; pure love, and the
spectacle of a household brought up in the
fear of the Lord.
The whole

story has an air of quaint antiquity similar to that which invests with a charm more easily felt than described the site of

some splendid ruin."-Illustrated London News.

"This charming specimen of Eugène Pelletan's tender grace, humour, and hightoned morality."-Notes and Queries.

"A touching record of the struggles in the cause of religious liberty of a real man."-Graphic.

HOITY TOITY, THE GOOD LITTLE FELLOW. By CHARLES CAMDEN. Illustrated. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d.

LILLIPUT REVELS. By the Author of " LILLIPUT LEVÉE." With Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. [Preparing.

SEEKING HIS FORTUNE, AND OTHER STORIES. Crown 8vo. Illustrated. [Preparing.

THE "ELSIE" SERIES.

ELSIE DINSMORE. By MARTHA FARQUHAR

SON. Crown 8vo. Illustrated.

ELSIE'S GIRLHOOD. A Sequel to "Elsie Dinsmore." By the same Author. Crown 8vo. Illustrated.

ELSIE'S HOLIDAYS AT ROSELANDS. By the same Author. Crown 8vo. Illustrated.

65, Cornhill; & 12, Paternoster Row, London.

IMITATIONS

Poetry.

FROM THE GERMAN OF

SPITTA AND TERSTEGEN. By Lady DURAND. Crown

8vo.

EASTERN

[In the press.

LEGENDS AND STORIES IN ENGLISH VERSE. By Lieutenant NORTON POWLETT, Royal Artillery. Crown 8vo. 5s.

EDITH; or, LOVE AND LIFE IN CHESHIRE. By T. ASHE, Author of the "Sorrows of Hypsipylé," etc. Sewed.

Price 6d.

"A really fine poem, full of tender, subtle touches of feeling."-Manchester News.

"Pregnant from beginning to end with the results of careful observation and imaginative power."-Chester Chronicle.

THE GALLERY OF PIGEONS, AND OTHER POEMS. BY THEOPHILUS MARZIALS. Crown 8vo.

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GOETHE'S FAUST. A New Translation in Rhyme. By the Rev. C. KEGAN PAUL.

WILLIAM

Crown 8vo. 6s.

CULLEN BRYANT'S POEMS. Handsomely bound, with Illustrations. A Cheaper Edition. A Pocket Edition.

[Preparing.

65, Cornhill; & 12, Paternoster Row, London.

CALDERON'S

POETRY-continued.

POEMS. The Purgatory of St. Patrick-The Wonderful Magician-Life is a Dream. Translated from the Spanish. By DENIS. FLORENCE MACCARTHY.

SONGS FOR SAILORS. By Dr. W. C. BENNETT. Dedicated by Special Request to H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh. Crown 8vo. 35. 6d. With Steel Portrait and Illustrations. An Edition in Illustrated paper Covers. Price Is.

DR. W. C. BENNETT'S POEMS will be shortly Re-issued, with additions to each part, in Five Parts, at Is. each.

WALLED IN, AND OTHER POEMS. By the Rev. HENRY J. BULKELY. Crown 8vo. 5s.

THE POETICAL AND PROSE WORKS OF ROBERT BUCHANAN. Preparing for publication, a Collected Edition in 5 vols.

CONTENTS OF VOL. I.-DAUGHTERS OF EVE; UNDERTONES AND ANTIQUES; [In the Press.

COUNTRY AND PASTORAL POEMS.

SONGS OF LIFE AND DEATH. By JOHN PAYNE, Author of "Intaglios," "Sonnets," "The Masque of Shadows," etc. Crown 8vo.

55.

SONGS OF TWO WORLDS.
Fcap. 8vo, cloth, 5s.

"The New Writer' is certainly no tyro. No one after reading the first two poems, almost perfect in rhythm and all the graceful reserve of true lyrical strength, can doubt that this book is the result of lengthened thought and assiduous training in poetical form.

These

poems will assuredly take high rank among the class to which they belong."-British Quarterly Review, April 1st.

"If these poems are the mere preludes of a mind growing in power and in inclination for verse, we have in them the promise of a fine poet. The verse describ

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By a NEW WRITER.

ing Socrates has the highest note of critical poetry."-Spectator, February 17th.

"No extracts could do justice to the exquisite tones, the felicitous phrasing and delicately wrought harmonies of some of these poems." -Nonconformist, March 27th.

"Are we in this book making the acquaintance of a fine and original poet, or of a most artistic imitator? And our deliberate opinion is that the former hypothesis is the right one. It has a purity and delicacy of feeling like morning air." -Graphic, March 16th.

65, Cornhill; & 12, Paternoster Row, London.

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