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THE NEW NATION: a Sketch of the Social, Political, and Economic Conditions and Prospects of the Australian Commonwealth. By Percy F. Rowland; late Scholar of Hertford College, &c. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d.

SIR JOHN GORST, K.C., M.P., writes respecting 'THE NEW NATION':—'I cannot say anything which testifies more to the excellence of your book than that I read it through from beginning to end without any flagging of interest.'

A SEARCH FOR THE MASKED TAWAREKS. By W.J. Harding King, M.R.A.S., F.R.G.S. With 38 Full-page Illustrations and a Map. Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d.

*** Records of a journey across the Sahara in search of the most aggressive and most elusive of the desert tribes.

CHOTA NAGPORE: A LITTLE KNOWN PROVINCE OF THE EMPIRE. By F.B. Bradley-Birt, B.A. Oxon., F.R.G.S., Indian Civil Service. With an Introduction by the Right Hon. the Earl of Northbrook, G.C.S.I., sometime Viceroy of India, a Map, and numerous Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d. net.

SIR HENRY WENTWORTH ACLAND, Bart., K.C.B., F.R.S., Regius Professor of Medicine in the University of Oxford. A MEMOIR. By J.B. Atlay, Barrister-at-Law, late Scholar of Oriel College, Oxford, Author of 'Lord Cochrane's Trial before Lord Ellenborough in 1814.' With Portraits and Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 14s. net.

LETTERS OF A DIPLOMAT'S WIFE. By Mary King Waddington. Eighth English Edition. Illustrated with Portraits, Views, &c. 8vo. 10s. 6d. net.

ATHENÆUM.—'A most interesting book of gossip, which, considered from the point of view of the general public, contains not a dull line from the first to the last.'

GERMAN AMBITIONS AS THEY AFFECT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES. Reprinted with Additions and Notes from the Spectator. By Vigilans sed Æquus. With an Introduction by J. St. Loe Strachey. Crown 8vo. 2s. 6d. net.

QUEEN VICTORIA: A BIOGRAPHY. By Sidney Lee, Editor of the 'Dictionary of National Biography.' NEW, REVISED, AND CHEAPER EDITION. With Portraits, Map, and a Facsimile Letter. Large crown 8vo. 6s.

QUARTERLY REVIEW.—'Mr. Sidney Lee has performed, with marked success, a work which required, in no common measure, a combination of assiduous labour, skilful arrangement, and unfailing tact.... Our interest is sustained from the first page to the last.'

*** Also the FOURTH IMPRESSION (SECOND EDITION) of the Original Edition. With Portraits, Maps, and a Facsimile Letter. Large crown 8vo. 10s. 6d.

THE NONJURORS: their Lives, Principles, and Writings. By the late J.H. Overton, D.D., Rector of Gumley and Canon of Lincoln. Author of 'The Church in England,' 'The Anglican Revival,' &c. With a Frontispiece. Demy 8vo. 16s.

TIMES.—'Dr. Overton has done as much as anyone for our knowledge of the seventeenth century Church; and his present book, though we hope it will be very far from his last, will put a crown upon his labours. It has all the finish of a master's work, with no loss of the fresh enthusiasm with which he began his labours.'

A LONDONER'S LOG-BOOK. Reprinted from the Cornhill Magazine. By the Author of 'Collections and Recollections' &c. Second Impression. Small post 8vo. 5s.

TRUTH.—'One of the most entertaining works recently published.'

MANCHESTER GUARDIAN.—'It is long since we read a volume so continuously amusing.'

A WEEK IN A FRENCH COUNTRY HOUSE. By Adelaide Sartoris. With 2 Illustrations by Lord Leighton, P.R.A., and a Portrait of the Author. NEW EDITION, WITH A PREFACE BY MRS. RICHMOND RITCHIE. SECOND IMPRESSION. Large crown 8vo. 7s. 6d.

TIMES.—'The book is, as it were, a reliquary, containing Mrs. Sartoris's qualities; and Mrs. Ritchie has woven a delicate lace covering for it in a pattern of wreathed memories, blossoming, branching, intertwining—and in the midst of them a whole nosegay of impressions which still keep their fragrance.'

London: SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 Waterloo Place, S.W.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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