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CHATTO & WINDUS, PICCADILLY. 5Imperial 4to, cloth extra, gilt and gilt edges, price 2ls. per volume.BeautifulPictures by British Artists;A Gatheringof Favouritesfrom ourPicture Galleries. In2 Series.<strong>The</strong> First Series including Examples by Wilkie, Constable,Turner, Mulready, Landseer, Maclise, E. M.Ward, Frith, Sir John Gilbert, Leslie, Ansdell, MarcusStone, Sir Noel Paton,Faed, Eyre Crowe, Gavin O'Neil,and MadoxBrown.<strong>The</strong> Second Series containing Pictures by Armytage, Faed,Goodall,Hemsley, Horsley, Marks, Nicholls, Sir NoelPaton, Pickersgill, G. Smith, Marcus Stone, Solomon,Straight, E.M. Ward, and Warren.All engraved on Steelin the highest style of Art. Edited, withNotices of the Artists, by Sydney Armytage, M.A." This book is wellgot up, and good engravings by Jecns, Lumb Stocks, andethers, bring back to us pictures ofRoyal AcademyExhibitions op past years."—Times.Crown 8vo, with Photographic Portrait, cloth extra, 9^.Blanchard's (Laman) Poems.Now first Collected.Edited, with aLife of the Author (includingnumerous hitherto unpublished Letters from LordLytton,Lamb, Dickens, Robert Browning, and others), by BlanchardJerrold.11His humorous verse is much of it admirable — sparkling with genuine'esprit,'and as polishedandpointedasPraed's." — Scotsman.Crown 8vo, cloth extra, ys. 6d.Bret Harte 's Select Works,in Prose and Poetry. With Introductory Essay by"J. M. BeL-LEW,Portrait ofthe Author, and 50 Illustrations." Not ?nany montlis before myfriend's death, he had sent vietwo sketches ofa young American writer (Bret Harte),far away in California /' <strong>The</strong> Outcastsof Poker Flat,' and another),in which he had found such subtle strokesofcharacter as he hadnot anywhere else in late years discovered;the mannerresembling himself, but the matter fresh to a degree that had surprisedhim;— the paintingin all respects masterly, andthe wild rude thingpainteda quitewonderful reality.Ihave rarelyknown himmore honestly moved." Forstbr'sLife of DickensCrown Svo, cloth extra, gilt, ys. 6d.Brand's Observations on Popular Antiquities,chiefly Illustrating the Origin of our Vulgar Customs,Ceremonies, and Superstitions. With the Additions of SirHenry Ellis. Anentirely New and Revised Edition, with finefull-page Illustrations.

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