"Turning over the pages of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, we have come to this conclusion, that it must be a dull child who will not find materials in it for A delightful miscellany, instructive amusing, and of marvellous diversity.'-SATURDAY REVIEW. merry and happy hours.'-GRAPHIC. Harper's Young People is more popular in price and less luxurious in get-up, but it contains more matter, and is so admirably edited and written that it can hold its own against all rivals........ The clever and laughable humorous woodcuts are a special feature, and so is the "Post Office," which enables young readers in all parts of the world to exchange confidences with each other.'-MANCHESTER EXAMINER. London: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE & RIVINGTON, LIMITED, St. Dunstan's House, Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, E.C. HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE. VOLUME FOR 1888. 4to. in handsome cloth cover, 7s. 6d.; gilt edges, 8s. CONTAINING HUNDREDS OF ORIGINAL STORIES, HUNDREDS OF ILLUSTRATIONS, THE IONEERS OF THE LPS A COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAVURE PORTRAITS OF THE LEADING OF SAVOY, AND OF PIEDMONT. By CAPTAIN ABNEY, C.B., R.E., F.R.S., and C. D. CUNNINGHAM. CONTENTS:-I. Growth and Development of Mountaineering-II. The Training of Mountaineers -III. The Portraits-IV. Guides of the Present Day-V. In Memoriam. 'Captain Abney may be cordially congratulated on having succeeded in a by no means easy task......The portraits, as a rule, are both excellent as likenesses and admirable as photographs.'-ATHENAEUM. 'Mr. Cunningham has done well...... in bringing together a series of lives of the great guides of the Alps, written as far as possible each by the amateur in whose company the guide most frequently worked...... The time is propitious for the appearance of such a work......The volume in question would be but half noticed if one omitted to mention the remarkably fine series of portraits and other illustrations with which it is embellished.'-ACADEMY. London: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE & RIVINGTON, LIMITED, St. Dunstan's House, Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, E. C. BIRDS IN NATURE. Text by R. BOWDLER SHARPE, F.L.S., F.Z.S., With 39 Superb Coloured Plates of Birds and other Illustrations by P. ROBERT, as seen Wild in A handsome quarto of very beautiful designs in colour. The drawings are generally faithful and spirited; are admirably reproduced.-SATURDAY REVIEW. London: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE & RIVINGTON, LIMITED, St. Dunstan's House, Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, E. C. POETRY OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN, COMPRISING The Celebrated Political and Satirical Poems, and Jeux-d'Esprit of CANNING, WELLESLEY, J. H. FRERE, ELLIS, GIFFORD, and OTHERS. By CHARLES EDMONDS. ENTIRELY NEW EDITION, WITH ADDITIONAL MATTER, AND SEVEN NEW ETCHINGS BY GILLRAY. Crown 8vo. cloth, 6s. An Edition de Luxe of one hundred copies, printed on hand-made paper, is also in preparation. The QUARTERLY REVIEW said of the original Edition: These sparkling gems of wit have stood the test of more than half a century, and still their brilliancy is undimmed; nor, indeed, is their lustre likely to be tarnished by age. Mr. Edmonds, the Editor, has acquitted himself ably of his task.' London: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE & RIVINGTON, LIMITED, St. Dunstan's House, Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, E. C. |