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GILBART'S History, Principles, and Practice of Banking. Revised to 1881 by A. S. Michie, of the Royal Bank of Scotland. Portrait of Gilbart. 2 vols. 105. RICARDO on the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation. Edited by E. C. K. Gonner, M.A., Lecturer, University College, Liverpool. 5s.

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Price Is. in paper covers, and Is. 6d. in cloth.

1. BACON'S ESSAYS. With Introduction and Notes.

2. LESSING'S LAOKOON. Beasley's Translation, revised, with Introduction, Notes, &c., by Edward Bell, M.A. With Frontispiece.

3. DANTE'S INFERNO. Translated, with Notes, by Rev. H. F. Cary. 4. GOETHE'S FAUST. Part I. Translated, with Introduction, by

Anna Swanwick.

5. GOETHE'S BOYHOOD. Being Part I. of the Autobiography Translated by J. Oxenford.

6. SCHILLER'S MARY STUART and THE MAID OF ORLEANS. Translated by J. Mellish and Anna Swanwick.

7. THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH. By the late Dean Alford.

8. LIFE AND LABOURS OF THE LATE THOMAS BRASSEY.

A. Helps, K.C.B.

By Sir

9. PLATO'S DIALOGUES: The Apology-Crito-Phaedo--Protagoras. With Introductions.

10. MOLIÈRE'S PLAYS: The Miser-Tartuffe The Shopkeeper turned Gentleman. Translated by C. H. Walt, M.A. With brief Memoir.

II. GOETHE'S REINEKE FOX, in English Hexameters. By A. Rogers. 12. OLIVER GOLDSMITH'S PLAYS.

13. LESSING'S PLAYS: Nathan the Wise-Minna von Barnhelm. 14. PLAUTUS'S COMEDIES: Trinummus Menaechmi - Aulularia

Captivi.

15. WATERLOO DAYS. By C. A. Eaton. With Preface and Notes by

Edward Bell.

16. DEMOSTHENES-ON THE CROWN.

Kennedy.

17. THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD.

Translated by C. Rann

18. OLIVER CROMWELL. By Dr. Reinhold Pauli.

19. THE PERFECT LIFE. By Dr. Channing. Edited by his nephew,

Rev. W. H. Channing.

20. LADIES IN PARLIAMENT, HORACE AT ATHENS, and other pieces, by Sir George Otto Trevelyan, Bart.

21. DEFOE'S THE PLAGUE IN LONDON.

22. IRVING'S LIFE OF MAHOMET.

23. HORACE'S ODES, by various hands.

[Out of Print.

24. BURKE'S ESSAY ON 'THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL.' With

Short Memoir.

25. HAUFF'S CARAVAN.

26. SHERIDAN'S PLAYS.

27. DANTE'S PURGATORIO. Translated by Cary.

28. HARVEY'S TREATISE ON THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD

29. CICERO'S FRIENDSHIP AND OLD AGE.

30. DANTE'S PARADISO. Translated by Cary.

31. CHRONICLE OF HENRY VIII. Translated by Major M. A. S.

Hume.

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