THE FAMOUS PARKS AND GARDENS OF THE WORLD, Described, and Illustrated. With upwards of Eighty Fine Engravings. Imperial 4to, handsomely bound in cloth, full gilt. Price 15s.

A popular description of Remarkable Parks and Gardens, public and private, ancient and modern, interspersed with illustrative anecdotes and notes on the history of Gardening. Beginning with the Gardens of Antiquity, those of Rome and Greece and the Eastern World, we pass on to the Medieval Gardens, the Gardens of the Renaissance, the Modern Gardens of Europe and Great Britain, and those which are now most celebrated abroad and at home.

THE ARCTIC WORLD ILLUSTRATED: Its People, Plants, Animals, and Natural Phenomena. With a Historical Sketch of Arctic Discovery, and a Narrative of the British Expedition of 1875-76. By the Author of "The Mediterranean Illustrated." With Twenty-five Full-page and One Hundred and Twenty other Engravings, and Map of the Polar Regions. Royal folio, cloth extra, gilt edges. Price 15s.

A volume of picturesque rather than scientific descriptions of Arctic scenery, with its "wonders of sky and sea and land;" intended to "place before the reader, with bold touches, a picture of that Polar World which is so awful and yet so fascinating."

THE MEDITERRANEAN ILLUSTRATED. Picturesque Views and Descriptions of its Cities, Shores, and Islands. By the Author of "Pompeii and Herculaneum," "Catacombs of Rome," &c. The Illustrations in this Beautiful Volume comprise Thirty Full-page, and upwards of One Hundred and Forty other Engravings, &c.; and also a Tinted Map. Royal folio, cloth extra, full gilt. Price 15s.

It has been the writer's aim to record the events that have had the greatest influence on the world's history, and not to gather up every local detail; to recall those recollections which are of a picturesque or chivalrous character, and not to imitate the copiousness of the chronicler. He has not sought to be exhaustive, for that would be impossible; but rather to touch upon such points as necessarily become conspicuous in any boldly-painted picture.