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Mackenzie's Educational Books.

ALREADY PUBLISHED.

Mackenzie's Tables.

Commercial, Arithmetical, Miscellaneous, and Artificers'. Calculations in Bricklaying, Carpentery, Lathing, Masonry, Paper-hanging, Paving, Planting, Plastering, Slating, Tiling, Well-sinking, Digging, &c. &c. Fractions and Decimals. Forms of Receipts and Bills. Calculations on Man, Steam, Railways, Power, Light, Wind, &c. Language and Alphabets. Calendar of the Church. Scripture Money. Principal Foreign Moneys and Measures. Geographical and Astronomical Tables, &c. &c. Complete, price 2d., Cloth 6d.

Murray's English Grammar.

Complete, word for word with the Shilling Editions. Price 2d,, Cloth 4d.

Mavor's Spelling.

With numerous Cuts. Price 4d., or 2 parts 2d. each.

Walkinghame's Arithmetic.

Same as the Half-crown Edition. Price 4d., or 2 parts 2d. each., Cloth 6d. Short-Hand.

With Phrases and Exercises, to gain facility in the use of all the characters, by which perfection may soon be attained. Complete, price 2d.

Phrenology

Explained and Exemplified. Complete, price 2d.

Bookkeeping

By Single Entry, with explanations of Subsidiary Books, being a useful system for the Wholesale and Retail Shopkeeper. Complete, price 2d.

Limp cloth, 1s.; Bound in Leather, with coloured Maps, 1s. 6d. ; in paper, without Maps, 6d.

A Manual of Geography.

Being a Description of the Natural Features, Climate, and Productions of the various regions of the Earth. By FRANCIS MORTON, C.E.

Crown 8vo., cloth, price 68.

Holiday Papers.

By HARRY JONES, M.A., Incumbent of St. Luke's, Berwick-street,
Soho. Thirty-s
y-seven papers.

"Full of deep-toned feeling."-Bell's Messenger.

"His a necdotes would have delighted White of Selborne."-London Review. "Easy and smart, sparkling and forcible, yet perfectly natural and sensible."

Patriot.

Curiosities of Civilization.

Being Essays from the Quarterly and Edinburgh Reviews. By
DR. ANDREW WYNTER.

The London Commissariat.
Food and its Adulterations.
Advertisements.

The Zoological Gardens.
Rats.

Woolwich Arsenal.
Shipwrecks.

CONTENTS.

Lodging, Food, and Dress of
Soldiers.

The Electric Telegraph.

Fires and Fire Insurance.
The Police and the Thieves.
Mortality in Trades and Profes-
sions.
Lunatic Asylums.

"We shall look in vain, for example, two centuries back, for anything like an equivalent to the volume before us. Some of the articies are mainly derived from observations made in the course of professional studies; others are at least cognate to the subjects which occupy a physician's hourly thoughts; all are more or less instructive as to certain phases of our civilization, and the strange elements it holds in suspension. Some of the incidents are of unparalleled magnitude, quite as striking as anything contained in the wonder-books of our ancestors."-Times.

Crown 8vo. price 6s., Eighth Edition,

Our Social Bees.

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Pictures of Town and Country, and other Papers.
ANDREW WYNTER, M.D. Containing articles amongst which will
be found,-Mock Auctions-Hyde Park-Our Peck of Dirt-
Commercial Grief-Orchards in Cheapside-Needle-making-Pre-
served Meats-London Stout-Wenham Lake Ice-Candle Making
-Woman's Work-The Turkish Bath-Who is Mr. Reuter?-A
Suburban Fair-The Englishman Abroad-A Gossip about the
Lakes-Physical Antipathies-Brain Difficulties.

Also, uniform in size and price,

Our Social Bees. New series.

Containing, amongst other articles,-Hedging against Fate-
London Omnibuses-Water Supply of London-Buried History—
Our Furniture-Our once Fat Friend-My First Deal in Horse-
flesh-Horses and Horse Copers-Our Great Iron-workers-
Machine Tool-makers-The School of Cookery-Sweets for the
Million-Death in the Match-box-Human Wasters-The City
Companies-Photo-Sculpture—“ Old Clo' ”—Longevity—A Word

about Wines.

"These papers are characterized by the same breadth of view, the same felicity of language, the same acuteness of thought, which distinguished the 'Curiosities of Civilization.' So long as Dr. Wynter continues to write papers similar to those in the volume before us, and in Curiosities of Civilization,' so long will the republication of those papers be welcomed by the public."-Standard.

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Subtle Brains and Lissom Fingers;

Being some of the Chisel-marks of our Industrial and Scientific
Progress, and other Papers. By A. WYNTER, M.D., M.R.C.P.
Lond. Containing 39 Articles; amongst which will be found:

Fraudulent Trade Marks
A Day with the Coroner
Undersea Railroad

Vivisection

Restoration of our Soil
Railways the great Civilizers

Physical Education
Clerk of the Weather

Village Hospitals
Air Traction
Illuminations

Boat-building by Machinery
Doctors' Stuff

Small-Pox in London
Excursion Trains

Early Warnings, &c. &c.

Second Edition. Crown 8vo. cloth, 624pp., price 6s.

The Stream of Life on our Globe.

Its Archives, Traditions, and Laws, as revealed by Modern Discoveries in Geology and Palæontology. A Sketch in Untechnical Language of the Beginning and Growth of Life, and the Physiological Laws which govern its progress and operations. By J. L. MILTON, M.R.C.S.

The Beginning of Life
England, long, long ago
The First Dwellers on Earth
The First Builders

The First Wanderers

CONTENTS.

The First Colonists of Sacred
History

The First Language
The First Alphabet

The Battle of Life

Glances at the Laws of Life
Life in the Blood

Life in the Nerves

Life of a Giant

Life of Men of Genius
Influence of Smoking on Life
and Race

Life in the Stars and Planets; or,
Coloured Stars and their In-
habitants, &c. &c.

"A very agreeably-written record of some of the newest and most remarkable discoveries in geology, language, and physiology. The language is always untechnical and picturesque. It has the merit of inspiring interest in subjects often treated in a manner to repel the ordinary reader."-Lancet.

New Edition, folio, fully illustrated, price 12s.

Country Cottages.

A Series of Designs for an Improved Class of Dwellings for Agricultural Labourers. By JOHN VINCENT, Architect. With numerous Plans, Elevations, &c.

In two splendid Library volumes, price £1. 12s.;
India proofs, £3. 3s.

Researches into the History of the
British Dog.

With

From Ancient Laws, Charters, and Historical Records.
Original Anecdotes and Illustrations of the Nature and Attributes
of the Dog, from the Poets and Prose Writers of Ancient, Mediæval,
and Modern Times. By GEORGE R. JESSE. With 33 engravings,
designed and etched by the Author.

Third Edition, price 1s. 6d., with Illustrations.

A Treatise on Smoky Chimneys,

Their Cure and Prevention. By FREDERICK EDWARDS, Jun. "We cordially recommend this successful attempt to teach a few plain, but too often neglected, rules. The great charm of the treatise is its conciseness and practical usefulness. Attention to the facts Mr. Edwards has indicated in it will save landlords and householders a deal of trouble, expense, and anxiety. The work will serve as an excellent companion to the book, by the same author, on 'Our Domestic Fireplaces,' which we see has also reached a second edition."-Building News.

Second Edition, revised, with Sixteen Plates, price 6s.

Our Domestic Fireplaces.

A Treatise on the Economical Use of Fuel and the Prevention of
Smoke; with Observations on the Patent Laws. By FREDERICK
EDWARDS, Jun.

"On the strength of the aphorism of every man to his trade, we may inquire who should be a more competent person to give us information about fireplaces than a well-informed practical man who has manufactured thousands of them, and made an examination of their respective merits a life-long study? Thus Mr. Edwards has not confined himself to a scale of praises upon the particular grates manufactured by his own firm, but has fairly weighed the merits of many that are patented by their inventors, and are therefore inaccessible to him as a source of profit."-Builder.

The

Published Annually, price 18.

Royal
Charities.

Guide to London

Showing, in Alphabetical Order, the Name, Date of Foundation, Address, Object, Annual Income, Number of People benefited, Mode of Application to and Chief Officers of every Institution in London. By HERBERT FRY.

Hardwicke's Shilling Handy-Book

of London.

An Easy and Comprehensive Guide to Everything worth Seeing and
Hearing.

CONTENTS:-Bazaars.—Ball-rooms.

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Cathedrals. -Dining-rooms. -Exhibitions.-Mansions of Nobility.-Markets.-Money-order Offices. O Monuments and Statues.- Museums. -Music-halls and Concertrooms.-Out-door Amusements. Omnibuses. Palaces. - Parks.— Passport Offices.-Picture Galleries' Regulations.-Popular Entertainments.-Police-courts. - Prisons.-Railway Stations.. - Steamboats.Theatres.-Telegraph Offices, &c.

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Demy 8vo., 860 pages, price 21s.

The Cattle Plague.

With Official Reports of the International Veterinary Congresses, held in Hamburg, 1863, and in Vienna, 1865. By JOHN Gamgee, Principal of Albert Veterinary College.

Fcap. 8vo. cloth, price 3s. 6d.

Horse Warranty.

A Plain and Comprehensive Guide to the various Points to be noted, showing which are Essential and which are Unimportant. With Forms of Warranty. By PETER HOWDEN, V.S.

With Illustrations.

Fcap. 8vo. cloth, price 2s. 6d.

Graceful Riding.

A Pocket Manual for Equestrians. By S. C. WAITE.

"In the school, on the road, on the course, or across country, this little book will be invaluable; and we heartily recommend it."-Morning Post.

Fcap. 8vo. cloth, price 68.

Waste Products and Undeveloped

Substances;

Or, Hints for Enterprise in Neglected Fields. By P. L. SIMMONDS,
Author of "Products of the Vegetable Kingdom," &c.

"As mere reading, the Volume is interesting and instructive; but we must go further, and say there are fortunes to be got out of it by those who rightly work some of its suggestions."-Builder.

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