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Contents SECTION I--HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, and TRAVELS Baker (Sir Samuel W.). R. Dudley, M.A. Bernard Blake Bright (John, M.P.) Bryce Clay Cooper Dilke Forbes Freeman French (George Russell) Gladstone (Right. Hon. W.E., M.P.) Guizot--(Author of "_John Halifax, Gentleman_.") Hole Hozier Irving Kingsley (Canon) Latham Law Liverpool Maclear Macmillan (Rev. Hugh) Martin Martineau Masson (Professor) Morison Morley (John) Mullinger Palgrave Palgrave (W.G.) Parkes (Henry) Ralegh Robinson (Crabb) Rogers (James E. Thorold) Smith (Professor Goldwin) Tacitus Taylor (Rev. Isaac) Trench (Archbishop) Trench (Mrs. R) Trench (Capt. F., F.R.G.S.) Trevelyan (G.O., M.P.) Vaughan (late Rev. Dr. Robert, of the British Quarterly) Wallace Ward (Professor) Warren. Wilson. Wilson (Daniel, LL.D.). SECTION II. Allingham. Arnold (Matthew). Barnes (Rev. W.). Bell. Besant. Bradshaw. Brimley. Clough (Arthur Hugh). Dante De Vere Doyle (Sir F.H.). Evans Furnivall. Garnett. Hamerton. Helps Herschel Kennedy Kingsley (Canon). Kingsley (Henry). Lowell. Masson (Professor). Mistral (F.). Myers (Ernest). Myers (F.W.H.) Nettleship Noel Norton Orwell Palgrave (Francis T.). Patmore Rossetti Rossetti (W.M.). Roby Shairp (Principal). Smith Smith Smith (Rev. Walter). Stratford de Redcliffe (Viscount). Trench Turner Vittoria Colonna Webster Woolner GLOBE EDITIONS. Shakespeare Morte D'Arthur Scott Burns Robinson Crusoe Goldsmith Pope Spenser GOLDEN TREASURY SERIES. THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF THE BEST SONGS AND LYRICAL POEMS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. THE CHILDREN'S GARLAND FROM THE BEST POETS. THE BOOK OF PRAISE. THE FAIRY BOOK; THE BALLAD BOOK. THE JEST BOOK. BACON'S ESSAYS AND COLOURS OF GOOD AND EVIL. THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS THE SUNDAY BOOK OF POETRY FOR THE YOUNG. A BOOK OF GOLDEN DEEDS THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS. THE ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE. THE REPUBLIC OF PLATO. TRANSLATED THE SONG BOOK. LA LYRE FRANCAISE. TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS.
__Macmillan & Co.'s General Catalogue_ of Works in the Departments of History, Biography, Travels, and Belles Lettres, with some short Account or Critical Notice concerning each Book_.
SECTION I--HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, and TRAVELS ==========================================
Baker (Sir Samuel W.). ----------------------
THE NILE TRIBUTARIES OF ABYSSINIA, and the Sword-Hunters of the Hamran Arabs. By Sir Samuel W. Baker, M.A., F.R.C.S. With Portraits, Maps, and Illustrations. Third Edition, 8vo. 21_s_.
Sir Samuel Baker here describes twelve months' exploration, during which he examined the rivers that are tributary to the Nile from Abyssinia, including the Atbara, Settite, Royan, Salaam, Angrab, Rahad, Dinder, and the Blue Nile. The interest attached to these portions of Africa differs entirely from that of the White Nile regions, as the whole of Upper Egypt and Abyssinia is capable of development, and is inhabited by races having some degree of civilization; while Central Africa is peopled by a race of savages, whose future is more problematical.
THE ALBERT N'YANZA Great Basin of the Nile, and Exploration of the Nile Sources. New and cheaper Edition, with Portraits, Maps, and Illustrations. Two vols. crown 8vo. 16_s_.
"_Bruce won the source of the Blue Nile; Speke and Grant won the Victoria source of the great White Nile; and I have been permitted to succeed in completing the Nile Sources by the discovery of the great reservoir of the equatorial waters, the Albert N'yanza, from which the river issues as the entire White Nile_."--_Preface_.
CAST UP BY THE SEA; or, The Adventures of Ned Grey. By Sir Samuel W. Baker, M.A., F.R.G.S. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. cloth gilt, 7_s_. 6_d_.
"_A story of adventure by sea and land in the good old style. It appears to us to be the best book of the kind since 'Masterman Ready,' and it runs that established favourite very close._"--_Pall Mall Gazette_.
"_No book written for boys has for a long time created so much interest, or been so successful. Every parent ought to provide his boy with a copy._"--_Daily Telegraph_.
The First Part of this work, originally read before the Statistical Society of London, deals with the Amount of Taxation; the Second Part, which now constitutes the main portion of the work, is almost entirely new, and embraces the important questions of Rating, of the relative Taxation of Land, Personalty, and Industry, and of the direct effect of Taxes upon Prices. The author trusts that the body of facts here collected may be of permanent value as a record of the past progress and present condition of the population of the United Kingdom, independently of the transitory circumstances of its present Taxation.
NATIONAL INCOME. With Coloured Diagrams. 8vo. 3_s_. 6_d_.
_Part I._--_Classification of the Population, Upper, Middle, and Labour Classes_. II.--_Income of the United Kingdom_.
"_A painstaking and certainly most interesting inquiry._"--_Pall Mall Gazette_.
FOUR LECTURES ON SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH DIPLOMACY. By Mountague Bernard, M.A., Chichele Professor of International Law and Diplomacy, Oxford. 8vo. 9_s_.
Four Lectures, dealing with (1) The Congress of Westphalia; (2) Systems of Policy; (3) Diplomacy, Past and Present; (4) The Obligations of Treaties.
THE LIFE OF WILLIAM BLAKE, THE ARTIST. By Alexander Gilchrist. With numerous Illustrations from Blake's designs, and Fac-similes of his studies of the "Book of Job." Two vols. medium 8vo. 32_s_.
These volumes contain a Life of Blake; Selections from his Writings, including Poems; Letters; Annotated Catalogue of Pictures and Drawings; List, with occasional notes, of Blake's Engravings and Writings. There are appended Engraved Designs by Blake: (1) The Book of Job, twenty-one photo-lithographs from the originals; (2) Songs of Innocence and Experience, sixteen of the original Plates.
SPEECHES ON QUESTIONS OF PUBLIC POLICY. By John Bright, M.P. Edited by Professor Thorold Rogers. Two Vols. 8vo. 25_s_. Second Edition, with Portrait.
"_I have divided the Speeches contained in these volumes into groups. The materials for selection are so abundant, that I have been constrained to omit many a speech which is worthy of careful perusal. I have naturally given prominence to those subjects with which Mr. Bright has been especially identified, as, for example, India, America, Ireland, and Parliamentary Reform. But nearly every topic of great public interest on which Mr. Bright has spoken is represented in these volumes._"--_Editor's Preface._
AUTHOR'S POPULAR EDITION. Extra fcap. 8vo. cloth. Second Edition. 3_s_. 6_d_.
THE PRISON CHAPLAIN. A Memoir of the Rev. John Clay, B.D., late Chaplain of the Preston Gaol. With Selections from his Reports and Correspondence, and a Sketch of Prison Discipline in England. By his Son, the Rev. W.L. Clay, M.A. 8vo. 15_s_.
_"Few books have appeared of late years better entitled to an attentive perusal.... It presents a complete narrative of all that has been done and attempted by various philanthropists for the amelioration of the condition and the improvement of the morals of the criminal classes in the British dominions."_--_London Review_.
ATHENÆ CANTABRIGIENSES. By Charles Henry Cooper, F.S.A., and Thompson Cooper, F.S.A. Vol. I. 8vo., 1500-85, 18_s_. Vol. II., 1586-1609, 18_s_.
This elaborate work, which is dedicated by permission to Lord Macaulay, contains lives of the eminent men sent forth by Cambridge, after the fashion of Anthony à Wood, in his famous "Athenæ Oxonienses."
GREATER BRITAIN. A Record of Travel in English-speaking Countries during 1866-7. (America, Australia, India.) By Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, M.P. Cheap Edition. Crown 8vo. 6_s_.
_"Mr. Dilke has written a book which is probably as well worth reading as any book of the same aims and character that ever was written. Its merits are that it is written in a lively and agreeable style, that it implies a great deal of physical pluck, that no page of it fails to show an acute and highly intelligent observer, that it stimulates the imagination as well as the judgment of the reader, and that it is on perhaps the most interesting subject that can attract an Englishman who cares about his country."_--_SATURDAY REVIEW_.
EARLY EGYPTIAN HISTORY FOR THE YOUNG. See "_Juvenile Section_."
LIFE OF PROFESSOR EDWARD FORBES, F.R.S. By George Wilson, M.D., F.R.S.E., and Archibald Geikie, F.R.S. 8vo. with Portrait, 14_s_.
_"From the first page to the last the book claims careful reading, as being a full but not overcrowded rehearsal of a most instructive life, and the true picture of a mind that was rare in strength and beauty."_--_EXAMINER_.
HISTORY OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, from the Foundation of the Achaian League to the Disruption of the United States. By Edward A. Freeman, M.A. Vol. I. General Introduction. History of the Greek Federations. 8vo. 21_s_.
_"The task Mr. Freeman has undertaken is one of great magnitude and importance. It is also a task of an almost entirely novel character. No other work professing to give the history of a political principle occurs to us, except the slight contributions to the history of representative government that is contained in a course of M. Guizof's lectures.... The history of the development of a principle is at least as important as the history of a dynasty, or of a race."_--_Saturday Review_.
French (George Russell) -----------------------
SHAKSPEAREANA GENEALOGICA. 8vo. cloth extra, 15_s_. Uniform with the "Cambridge Shakespeare."
Part I.--Identification of the dramatis personæ in the historical plays, from King John to King Henry VIII.; Notes on Characters in Macbeth and Hamlet; Persons and Places belonging to Warwickshire alluded to. Part II.--The Shakspeare and Arden families and their connexions, with Tables of descent. The present is the first attempt to give a detailed description, in consecutive order, of each of the dramatis personæ in Shakspeare's immortal chronicle-histories, and some of the characters have been, it is believed, herein identified for the first time. A clue is furnished which, followed up with ordinary diligence, may enable any one, with a taste for the pursuit, to trace a distinguished Shakspearean worthy to his lineal representative in the present day.
Gladstone (Right. Hon. W.E., M.P.) ----------------------------------
JUVENTUS MUNDI. The Gods and Men of the Heroic Age. Crown 8vo. cloth extra. With Map. 10_s_. 6_d_.
This new work of Mr. Gladstone deals especially with the historic element in Homer, expounding that element, and furnishing by its aid a full account of the Homeric men and the Homeric religion. It starts, after the introductory chapter, with a discussion of the several races then existing in Hellas, including the influence of the Phoenicians and Egyptians. It contains chapters on the Olympian system, with its several deities; on the Ethics and the Polity of the Heroic age; on the geography of Homer; on the characters of the Poems; presenting, in fine, a view of primitive life and primitive society as found in the poems of Homer.
"GLOBE" ATLAS OF EUROPE. Uniform in size with Macmillan's Globe Series, containing 45 Coloured Maps, on a uniform scale and projection; with Plans of London and Paris, and a copious Index. Strongly bound in half-morocco, with flexible back, 9_s_.
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