MESSRS BLACKWOOD AND SONS'
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.
The Parisians.
By Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton. Author of 'The Coming Race,' &c. To be completed in Four Volumes. With Illustrations by Sydney Hall. Vols. I. and II. are published, 6s. each.
Kenelm Chillingly, his Adventures and Opinions.
By Lord Lytton. Third Edition. 2 vols. crown 8vo, 10s.
French Home Life.
By "an English Looker-on, who has lived for a quarter of a century in France amidst ties and affections which have made that country his second home."—Preface.
Contents:—SERVANTS.—CHILDREN.—FURNITURE.—FOOD.—MANNERS.—LANGUAGE.—DRESS.—MARRIAGE. In Octavo, 10s. 6d.
"The present book of essays, which might in justice be called a guide-book to the French mind, will tell the reader all that he ought to know by this time, and certainly does not know, about French ways. Less amusing than M. Taine's work on England, it is deeper and in the main truer. The writer, indeed, does not aim at being amusing; he seeks to give philosophical analyses of the customs which constitute home life on the other side of the Channel, and he quite succeeds. . . . If, however, we dissent from some of the optimist conclusions drawn from French customs in this book, we cannot give it too high praise for its force and accuracy as a whole."—Pall Mall Gazette.
A True Reformer.
3 vols. crown 8vo, £1, 5s. 6d. (Originally published in 'Blackwood's Magazine.')
"This will probably prove the most successful political novel that has appeared in England since 'Coningsby,' and it deserves to be so. . . . A carefully-elaborated scheme of national defence is so ingeniously interwoven with stirring accounts of Parliamentary Struggles and triumphs, and so enlivened by amusing sketches of prominent statesmen, that it might well make an army reformer of a girl of eighteen, while the love story on which the debates and arguments are threaded is touching enough to flutter the pulses of a chairman of committee."—Pall Mall Gazette.
