The Art Of A Musing

A Collection of Graceful Arts, Games, Tricks, Puzzles, and Charades. By Frank Bellew. 300 Illustrations.

Hanky-Panky

Very Easy Tricks, Very Difficult Tricks, White Magic. Sleight of Hand. Edited by W. H. Cremer. 200 Illustrations.

Magician's Own Book

Performances with Cups and Balls, Eggs, Hats, Handkerchiefs, etc. All from Actual Experience. Edited by W. H. Cremer. 200 Illustrations.

Magic No Mystery

Tricks with Cards, Dice, Balls, &C with fully descriptive Directions ; the Art of Secret Writing; the Training of Performing Animals, etc With Coloured Frontispiece and many Illustrations.

The Merry Circle

A Book of New Intellectual Games and Amusements. By Clara Bellew. Many Illustrations.

The Secret Out

One Thousand Tricks with Cards, and other Recreations ; with Entertaining Experiments in Drawing-room or "White Magic." By W. H. Cremer. 300 Engravings.

In reduced facsimile, small 8vo, half Roxburghe, 10s. 6d.

The First Folio Shakespeare

Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Originall Copies. London, Printed by Isaac Laggard and Ed. Blount, 1623. - An exact Reproduction. of the extremely rare original, in reduced facsimile by a photographic process - ensuring the strictest accuracy in every detail. A full Prospectus will be sent upon application*

"To Messrs. Chatto and Windus belongs the merit of having done more to facilitate the critical study 0/ the text of our great dramatist than all the Shakespeare clubs and societies Put together. A complete facsimile of the celebrated First Folio edition of 1623 for halfa-guinea is at once a miracle of cheapness and enterprise. Being in a reduced form, the type is necessarily rather diminutive, but it is as distinct as in a genuine copy of the original, and will be found to be as useful and far more handy to the student than the latter." - AthenAeum.

Two Vols, crown 8vo, cloth extra, 18s.

The School Of Shakspere

Including "The Life and Death of Captain Thomas Stukeley," .with a New Life of Stucley, from Unpublished Sources; " Nobody and Somebody," " Histriomastix," "The Prodigal Son," "Jack Drum's Entertainement," "A Warning for Fair Women," with Reprints of the Accounts of the Murder; and "Faire Em." Edited, with Introductions and Notes, and an Account of Robert Green and his Quarrels with Shakspere, by Richard Simpson, B. A., Author of " The Philosophy of Shakspere's Sonnets," " The Life of Campion," etc. With an Introduction by F. J. Furnivall.

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

Signboards; Their History

With Anecdotes of Famous Taverns and Remarkable Characters. By Jacob Larwood and John Camden Hotten. With nearly 100 Illustrations.

"Even if we were ever so maliciously inclined, we could not pick out all Messrs. Larwood and Hotten's plums, because the good things are so numerous as to defy the most wholesale depredation." - Times.

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

The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical, And Anecdotal

An Entirely New Edition, revised throughout, and considerably Enlarged.

"We are glad to see the Slang Dictionary reprinted and enlarged. From a high scientific Point of view this book is not to be despised. Of course it cannot fail to be amusing also. It contains the very vocabulary of unrestrained humour, and oddity, andgrotesqueness. In a word, it provides valuable material both for the student of language and the student of human nature." - Academy.

Exquisitely printed in miniature, cloth extra, gilt edges, 2s. 6d.

The Smoker's Text-Book

By J. Hamer, F.R.S.L.

Crown 8to, cloth extra, gilt, with 10 fall-page Tinted Illustrations, 7s. 6d.

Sheridan's Complete Works

With Life and Anecdotes. Including his Dramatic Writings, printed from the Original Editions, his Works in Prose and Poetry, Translations, Speeches, Jokes, Pons, etc. ; with a Collection of Sheridaniana.

"The editor has broueht together within a manageable comfass mat only the stren flays by which Sheridan it best hnomm, hut a collection, also af kit foeticet pieces tvhtch are less familiar to the public, shechhes of an finished dramas, selections from his reported witticisms, and extracts/rem his principal speeches. To these is prefixed a short hut well-written memoir, giving the chief fact* in Sheridan's literary and political career ; so that, with this volume in his hand, the student may consider himself tolerably well furnished with all that is necessary for a renewal comprehension of the subject of it."- Pall Mall Gazbttk.

Crown 4to, uniform with " Chaucer for Children," with Coloured Illustrations, cloth gilt, 10s. 6d.

Spenser For Children

By M. H. Towry. With Illustrations in Colours by Walter J. Morgan.

"Spenser has simply been transferred into plain prose, with here and there a line or stanza quoted, where the meaning and the diction are within a child's comprehension, and additional point is thus given to the narrative without the cost of obscurity. . . . Altogether the work has been well and carefully done." - ThE TIMES.

Imperial Ato, containing 150 beautifully-finished full-page Engravings and Nine Vignettes, all tinted, and some illuminated in gold and colours, half-morocco, £9 9s.

Stothard's Monumental Effigies Of Great Britain

With Historical Description and Introduction by John Kemfe, F. S. A. A New Edition, with a large body of Additional Notes by John Hewitt.

A few Large Paper copies, royal folio, with the arms illuminated in gold and colours, and the plates very carefully finished in body-colours, brightened with £old in the very finest style, half-morocco. £,15 15s.

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Stedman's Victorian Poets: Critical Essays

By Edmund Clarence Stedman.

"We ought to be thankful to those who do critical w»rk with competent skill and understanding, with honesty of purpose, and with diligence and thoroughness of execution. And Mr. .Stedman, having chosen to work in this line, deserves the thanhs of English scholars by these qualities and by something more ; . he is faithful, studious, and discerning." - SatURDAY REVIEW.