Bancroft

THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, FROM THE DISCOVERY OF THE CON-TINENT. By George Bancroft. New and thoroughly Revised Edition. Six Vols. Crown 8vo. 54s.

Barker (Lady)

Works by Lady Barker:-

A YEAR'S HOUSEKEEPING IN SOUTH AFRICA. With Illustrations. New and Cheaper Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s.

"We have to thank Lady Barker for a very amusing book, over which we have spent many a delightful hour, and of which we will not take leave without alluding to the ineffably droll illustrations which add so very much to the enjoyment of her clear and sparkling descriptions.," - Morning Post.

Beesly

STORIES FROM THE HISTORY OF ROME. By Mrs. Beesly. Extra fcap. 8vo. 2s. 6d. "A little book for which every cultivated and intelligent mother will be grateful for." - Examiner.

Bismarck_IN THE FRANCO-GERMAN WAR. An Authorized Translation from the German of Dr. Moritz Busch, Two Vols. Crown 8vo. 18s. The Times says: - "The publication of Bismarck's after-dinner talk, whether discreet or not, will be of priceless biographical value, and Englishmen, at least, will not be disposed to quarrel with Dr. Busch for giving a picture as true to life as Boswell 's ' Johnson ' of the foremost practical genius that Germany has produced since Frederick the Great."

Blackburne

BIOGRAPHY OF THE RIGHT HON. FRANCIS BLACKBURNE, Late Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Chiefly in connexion with his Public and Political Career. By his Son, Edward Blackburne, Q.C. With Portrait Engraved by Jeens. 8vo. 12s.

Blanford (W. T.)

GEOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY OF ABYSSINIA. By W. T. Blanford. 8vo. 21s.

Bronte

CHARLOTTE BRONTE. A Monograph. By T. Wemyss Reid. With Illustrations. Third Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s.

Mr. Reid's little volume, which is based largely on letters, hitherto unpublished, from Charlotte Bronte to her schoolfellow and life-long friend, Miss Ellen Nussey, is meant to be a companion, and not a rival, to Mrs. Gaskell's well-known "Life? To speak of the advantage of making biography autobiographical by the liberal use of correspondence has she was by nature {as Mr. Reid puts it) "a happy and high-spirited girl, and that even to the very last she had the faculty of overcoming her sorrows by means of that steadfast courage which was her most precious Possession, and to which she was indebted for her successive victories over trials and disappointments of no ordinary character."

The book is illustrated by a Portrait of the Rev. Patrick Bronte, several Views of Haworth and its neighbourhood, and a facsimile of one of the most characteristic of Charlotte's letters.

Brooke

THE RAJA OF SARAWAK: an Account of Sir James Brooke, K.C.B., LL.D. Given chiefly through Letters or Journals. By Gertrude L. Jacob. With Portrait and Maps. Two Vols. 8vo. 25s.

"They who read Miss Jacob's book - and all should read it: all who are under the delusion that in our time there is no scope for heroism, and no place for romantic adventure, ond no place for enterprise and ambition - will see how incident is crowded upon incident, and struggle upon struggle, till in the very abundance of materials that come to her hand the authoress can scarcely stop to give sufficient distinctness to her wonderful narrative." - Academy.