The House Of Life

Human Physiology, with its Applications to the Preservation of Health. For use in Classes, and Popular Reading. With numerous Illustrations. By Mrs. F. Fenwick Miller.

Three Vols, royal 4to, cloth boards, £6 6s.

Historical Portraits

Upwards of 430 Engravings of Rare Prints. Comprising the Collections of Rodd, Richardson, Caulfirld, etc With Descriptive Text to every Plate, giving a brief outline of the most important Historical and Biographical Facts and Dates connected with each Portrait, and references to original Authorities.

Two Vols, royal 8vo, with Coloured Frontispieces, cloth extra, £2 5s.

Hope's Costume Of The Ancients

Illustrated in upwards of 320 Outline Engravings, containing Representations of Egyptian, Greek, and Roman Habits and Dresses.

"The substance 0/ many expensive works containing all that may be necessary is give to artists, and even to dramatic performers and to others engaged in classical representations, an idea of ancient costumes sufficiently emple to prevent their offending in their performances by gross and obvious blunders.

Crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, 7s. 6d.

Hood's (Thomas) Choice Works, In Prose And Verse

Including the Cream of the Comic Annuals. With Life of the Author, Portrait, and over Two Hundred original Illustrations.

"Not only does the volume include the better-known poems by the author, but also what is happily described as ' the Cream of the Comic Annuals.* Such delicious things as 'Don't you smell Fire !' 'The Parish Revolution,' and 'Muggins and Duggins, will never want readers." - Graphic.

Crown 8vo, cloth extra, with Photographic Portrait, dr.

Hood's (Tom) Poems, Humorous And Pathetic

Edited, with a Memoir, by his Sister, Frances Free-ling Broderip.

"There are many poems in the volume which the very best judge might well. mistake/or his father's work." - Standard.

Square crown 8vo, in a handsome and specially-designed binding, gilt edges, 6s.

Hood's (Tom) From Nowhere To The North Pole

A Noah's Arkceological Narrative. With 25 Illustrations by W. Brunton and E. C. Barnes.

"The amusing letterpress is Profusely interspersed with the jingling rhymes which children love and learn so easily. Messrs. Brunten and Barnes do full justice to the writer's meaning, and a plcasanter result of the harmonious cooperation of author and artist could not be desired." - Times.

Crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, 7s. 6d.

Hook's (Theodore) Choice Humorous Works

Including his Ludicrous Adventures, Bons-mots, Puns, and Hoaxes. With a new Life of the Author, Portraits, Facsimiles, and Illustrations.

Demy 8vo, cloth extra, 12s, 6d.

Hueffer's The Troubadours

A History of Provencal Life and Literature in the Middle Ages. By Francis Hueffer.

"This attractive volume deals in a very fresh and exact way with a most interesting phase of culture and letters. .... Mr. Hueffer claims for his volume the praise of being the first adequate study on so famous a subject as the Troubadours which has appeared in the English language ; and we believe that we must allow that he is right. His book will be found exceedingly interesting and valuable.....It is a grateful task to review a volume where so firm aground of scholarship is under our feet', and where there is so little need to be on the watch for instances of inaccuracy or want of knowledge. . . . Mr. Hueffer is to be congratulated on a very important contribution to literature" - Examiner.

Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 7s. 6d.

Howell's The Conflicts Of Capital And Labour

Historically and Economically considered. Being a History and Review of the Trade Unions of Great Britain, showing their Origin, Progress, Constitution, and Objects, in their Political, Social, Economical, and Industrial Aspects. By George Howell.

"A complete account of trades unions, involving the most candid statement of their objects and aspirations; their virtues and faults, is of great value; and such Mr. Howell's book will be found by those who consult it. . . . Far from being the impassioned utterance of an advocate, it is, on the contrary, a calm, authoritative statement of facts, and the expression of the views of the workmen and their leaders. . . . The book is a storehouse of facts, some of them extremely well arranged. .... His book is of profound interest, we have no hesitation in giving it our hearty praise." - Echo.

"This book is an attempt, and on the whole a successful attempt, to place the work of trade unions in the Past, and their objects in the future, fairly before the public from the workingman's point of view." - Pall Mall. Gazette.

Atlas folio, half morocco, gilt, £5 5s.

The Italian Masters

Autotype Facsimiles of Original Drawings in the British Museum. With Critical and Descriptive Notes, Biographical and Artistic, by J. Comyns Carr.

"This splendid volume. . . Mr. Carr' choice of examples has been dictated by wide knowledge and fine tact. . . The majority have been reproduced with remarkable accuracy. Of the criticism which accompanies the drawings we have not hitherto spoken, but it is this which gives the book its special value." - -Pall Mall Gazette.

Crown 8v, cloth extra, 7s.

Horne's Orion

An Epic Poem, in Three Books. By Richard Hengist Horns. Tenth Edition.

"Orion will be admitted, by retry man of genius, to be one of the noblest, if not the very noblest, partical work of the age. Its defects are trivial and conventional, i's beauties intrinsic and supreme." - EDGAR Allan Poe.

Small 8vo, cloth extra, 6s.

Jeux D'Esprit

Written and Spoken, of the Later Wits and Humourists. Collected and Edited by Henry S. Leigh.

"This thoroughly congenial Piece of work . . . Mr. Leigh's claim to praise is threefold; he has performed the duty of taster with care and Judgment; he has restored many stolen or strayed bens-mots to their rightful ownners; and he has exercised his editoriai functions delicately and sparingly." - Daily Telegraph.

Two Vols. 8vo, with 52 Illustrations and Maps, cloth extra, gilt, 14s.