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Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 7s.

Horne's Orion: An Epic Poem, in Three Books, By Richard Hengist Horne, Tenth Edition. "Orion will be admitted, by every man of genius, to be one of the noblest, if not the very noblest, poetical work of the age. It's defects are trivial and conventional, its 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's he has performed the duty of taster with care and judgment; he has bestowed many stolen or strayed bons-mots to their rightful owners : and he has exercised his editorial functions delicately and sparingly."—Daily Telegraph,


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

Josephus's Complete Works.

Translated by Whitston. Containing both "The Antiquities of the Jews," and "The Wars of the Jews."


Small 8vo, cloth, full gilt, gilt edges, with Illustrations, 6s,

Kavanaghs: Pearl Fountain,

And other Fairy Stories. By Brifget and Julia Kavanagh, With Thirty Illustrations by . Moyr Smith,

"Genuine new fairy stories of the old type, some of them as delightful as the best of Grimm's German Popular Stories. . . . For the most part, the stories are downright, thorough going fairy stories of the most admirable kind. . . . . Mr. Moyr Smith's illustrations, too, ate admirable, Look at that? white rabbit, Anyone would see at the first glance that he is a rabbit with a mind, and a very uncommon mind too—that he is a fairy rabbit, and that he is posing as chief adviser to some one—without reading even a word of the story. Again, notice the fairy-like effect of the little picture of the fairy-bird 'Don't forget-me', flying away back into fairyland, A more perfectly dream-like impression of fairyland has hardly been given in any illustration of fairy tales within our knowledge,"—Spectator.



Small 8vo, cloth extra, 5s.

Lamb's Poetry for Children, and Prince

Dorus. Carefully reprinted from unique copies,

"The guaint and delightful little book, over the recovery of which all the hearts of his levers are yet warm with rejoicing."—Mr, Swinburne, in the Athenaeum


Crown 8vo, cloth, full gilt, 6s. (uniform with "Boudoir Rallads."}

Leigh's A Town Garland.

By Henry S. Leigh, Author of "Carols of Cockayne."