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THE NEW "PUNIANA SERIES" OF CHOICE ILLUSTRATED WORKS OF

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Elegantly printed on toned paper, full gilt, gilt edges, for the
Drawing Room, price 6s. each :-

1. Carols of Cockayne. By Henry S. Leigh. Vers de Société, and charming Verses descriptive of London Life. With numerous exquisite little designs by ALFRED CONCANEN and the late JOHN LEECH. Small 4to, elegant, uniform with "Puniana," 6s.

2. The "Bab Ballads" New Illustrated Book of Hu. MOUR; OR, A GREAT DEAL OF RHYME WITH VERY LITTLE REASON. By W. S. GILBERT. WITH A MOST LAUGHABLE ILLUSTRATION ON NEARLY EVERY PAGE, DRAWN BY THE AUTHOR. Un toned paper, gilt edges, price 68.

"An awfully Jolly Book for Parties."

3. Puniana. Best Book of Riddles and Purs ever formed. Thoughts Wise and Otherwise. With nearly 100 exquisitely fanciful drawings. Contains nearly 3,000 of the best Riddles and 10,000 most outrageous Puns, and is one of the most popular books ever issued. New edition, uniform with the "Bab Ballads," price 68.

Why did Du Chaillu get so angry when he was chaffed about the Gorilla? Why? we ask.

Why is a chrysalis like a hot roll? You will doubtless remark, "Be cause it's the grub that makes the butter fly! But see "Puniana."

Why is a wide-awake hat so called? Because it never had a nap, and

never wants one.

The Saturday Review says of this most amusing work-" Enormous burlesque-unapproachable and pre-eminent. We venture to think that this very queer volume will be a favourite. It deserves to be so: and we should suggest that, to a dull person desirous to get credit with the young holiday people, it would be good policy to invest in the book, aud dole it out by instalments."

John Camden Hotten, 74 and 75, Piccadilly, W.

VERY IMPORTANT NEW BOOKS.

POPULAR EDITION OF MR. DISRAELI'S SPEECHES. Disraeli's (The Right Hon. B.) Speeches on the Constitutional Policy of the Last 30 Years. Royal 16mo, 1s. 4d.; in cloth, Is. Iod.

***Selected and edited, with the approval of the late First Minister of the Crown, by J. F Bulley, Esq. The text is mainly founded on a careful comparison of the Times newspaper and Hansard's Debates, as corrected by Mr. Disraeli, and of which the publisher has obtained special licence to avail himself.

Artemus Ward's Lecture at the Egyptian Hall, with the Panorama, 6s. Edited by T. W. ROBERTSON (Author of "Caste," "Ours," Society," &c.), and E. P. HINGSTON. Small 4to, exquisitely printed green and gold, WITH NUMEROUS TINTED ILLUSTRATIONS, price 68.

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"Mr. Hotten has conceived the happy idea of printing Artemus Ward's Lecture' in such a way as to afford the reader an accurate notion of the emphasis, by-play, &c., with which it was delivered. We have no hesitation in saying that Mr. Hotten has almost restored the great humorist to the flesh."-Daily Telegraph.

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"It actually reproduces Ward's Lecture, which was brimful of first-class wit and humour."— -Daily News.

"It keeps you in fits of laughter."-Leader.

'One of the choice and curious volumes for the issue of which Mr. Hotten has become famous."City Press.

"The Lecture is not alone droll; it is full of information."-Examiner.

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Full of amusing stories of eminent Literary and other Celebrities of the present century. The work is a fund of anecdote..

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Seymour's Sketches. A Companion Volume to "Leech's Pictures." The Book of Cockney Sports, Whims and Oddities. Nearly 200 highly amusing Illustrations. Oblong 4to, a handsome volume, half morocco, price 128.

A re-issue of the famous pictorial comicalities which were so popular thirty years ago. The volume is admirably adapted for a table-book, and the pictures will doubtless again meet with that ularity which was extended towards them when the artist projected with Mr. Dickens the famous Pickwick Papers."

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2. In Search of Consolation.

3. In Search of a Wife.

The three series complete and unabridged from the original editions in one handsome volume, with a Life of this industrious Author-ue English Le Sage-now first written by John Camden Hutten.

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It is not a little surprising that the most voluminous and popular English writer since the days of Defoe should never before have received the small honour of a biography. This Edition contains the whole of the original, hitherto sold for £1 118. 6d., but which is now published at 7s. 6d. only.

A VERY USEFUL BOOK. In folio, half morocco, cloth sides, 78. 6d. Literary Scraps, Cuttings from Newspapers, Extracts, Miscellanea, &c. A FOLIO SCRAP-BOOK OF 340 COLUMNS, formed for the reception of Cuttings, &c., with guards.

book.

Authors and literary men have thanked the publisher for this useful

A most useful volume, and one of the cheapest ever sold. The book is sure to be appreciated and to become popular.

From

Hone's Scrap Book. A Supplementary Volume to the "Every-Day Book," the "Year Book," and the "Table-Book." the MSS. of the late WILLIAM HONE, with upwards of One Hundred and Fifty engravings of curious or eccentric objects. Thick 8vo, uniform with "Year-Book," pp. 800. [In preparation.

John Camden Hotten, 74 and 75. Piccadilly, W.

VERY IMPORTANT NEW BOOKS.

More Yankee Drolleries. A Second Series of celebrated Works by the best American Humorists. ARTEMUS WARD'S TRAVELS; HANS BREITMANN; PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST-TABLE; BIGLOW PAPERS, Part. II.; JOSH BILLINGS. With an Introduction by George Augustus Sala. Crown 8vo, 700 pages, cloth extra, 3s. 6d. An entirely new gathering of Transatlantie humour. Twelve thousand copies of the First series have been sold.

UNIFORM WITH DR. SYNTAX.

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***One of the most popular books ever issued. It was an immense favourite with George IV. and as a picture of London life 50 years ago was often quoted by Thackeray, who devotes one of his "Roundabout Papers" to a description of it. Clean second-hand copies of this work always realise from £1 to £2.

Pierce Egan's "Finish" to "Life In and Out of London," 8vo, cloth extra, WITH SPIRITED COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS BY CRUIKSHANK, 18s.

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MR. JORROCK'S JAUNTS AND JOLLITIES.

LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF JACK MYTTON.
ANALYSIS OF THE HUNTING FIELD.

LIFE OF A SPORTSMAN. BY NIMROD.
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Mark Twain's New Pilgrim's Progress. A delightfully fresh and amusing Volume of Travel. Companion to the popular "INNOCENTS ABROAD." 35. 6d. ; paper, 1S.

Readers who approved of this Author's quaint story of "The Jumping Frog," will be very well satisfied with the "New Pilgrim's Progress:" there has been no work like it issued here for years.

Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad. THE VOYAGE OUT. Price 3s. 6d. cloth extra; a paper edition, Is.

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A delightful, fresh, and amusing volume of travels. Readers who appreciate true wit and humour will be well satisfied with "The Innocents Abroad."

The Luck of Roaring Camp, and other Stories.

By BRET HARTE. Crown 8vo, toned paper, 3s. 6d.; a paper edition, 18. The Work of a new candidate to literary honour. The Publisher of a book is not perhaps always the most unbiassed person to give an opinion about it; but in the present instance the writer has no hesitation in saying that English readers will be charmed with these inimitable stories of strange life in the Far West-away on the Pacific slope. The fun, the very humour of the thing, has a May freshness about it, which smacks not of the Old World.

Champagne: its History, Manufacture, Properties,

&c. By CHARLES TOVEY, Author of "Wine and Wine Countries," "British and Foreign Spirits," &c. Crown 8vo, with numerous illustrations, 53.

*** A practical work, by one of the largest champagne merchants in London. Acrostics. An Entirely New and Original Work, constituting the FIFTH SERIES of the popular A. E. H. Acrostics. 12no, cloth elegant, 4s. 6d.

*The authoress is a lady of high position in the North of England, and her books are very popular amongst the best Families in the country.

John Camden Hotten, 74 and 75, Piccadilly, W.

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