2 MR. HOW'S LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. Mr. & Mrs. Hall's Month in the Scottish Highlands. month" in visiting a country unsurpassed in picturesque attractions, where Nature assumes the most graceful or most majestic forms, where primitive character even yet lingers, and where every hill and glen receive augmented interest from "old tradition" and history akin to romance. The authors were accompanied during their tour in the Highlands, western and northern, by an artist, who, born among the people, and understanding their language, is familiar also with the peculiar scenery of the several districts described, and the various events inseparably associated with them. The work will be extensively embellished by his pencil; the pictorial illustrations will embrace all matters of interest exhibited in the route of the tourist ;-the ruins of the castles and abbeys, the fertile glens, the wild mountain passes, the rugged or wooded lakes, the cataracts, the rivers,-in short, all the picturesque objects which excite admiration and demand attention, together with characteristic portraits of the peasantry, and matters explanatory of their habitations and occupations. Maps of the various routes-recommended to the tourist as results of extensive inquiry, as well as of personal experience and examination-will be introduced into the pages of the work; and careful efforts will be exerted to obtain and communicate information upon all subjects in which the traveller is interested,—upon a knowledge of which, indeed, much of his enjoyment must, at all times, and in all places, greatly depend. MR. HOW'S LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. 3 On the 25th of October, LAYS AND LEGENDS OF FANCY AND FABLE. A Collection of Original Tales, ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE IMAGINATIVE CHARACTER OF DIFFERENT AGES AND NATIONS, Designed to elucidate the philosophy of fiction as well as to afford specimens of those marvels which have entered into popular belief, and taken a permanent place in literature. The classical inventions of the Greeks, the romantic fables of the middle ages, the gorgeous and sometimes gloomy conceptions of the orientals, and our own pleasing superstitions of fairy lore, will be exemplified by specimens and the influence of fancy on belief will be illustrated by a variety of legends most of which have not hitherto been brought before the English public. ADORNED WITH TWENTY BEAUTIFUL LINE ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL, FROM PICTURES BY BRITISH ARTISTS, AND SEVERAL WOODCUTS. Elegantly printed in demy 4to, and richly bound in gilt, Price 21s. LAYS Lately published, AND LEGENDS, Ellustrative of English Life. BY CAMILLA TOULMIN. "This is, in appearance, an elegant volume, such a one as people like to see on a drawing-room table; for there must be books for show as well as for use, especially in the height of the season.' The contents do not belie the promise of the exterior. We have a number of prettily executed engravings, new and old, the subjects as various as form the exhibition of the Royal Academy; on one leaf a pageant of chivalry, by Stephanoff; on another a rural solitude, by Creswick; on another a storm over a harvest-field, by Westall; on others, a cottage girl by Gainsborough, portraits of beauties by Uwins and Chalon, landscapes by Turner, and so on, to the concluding plate, from one of Collins's charming forest scenes with village children, whose very rags are picturesque, and whose smiles are the ideal of rustic joy. Miss Toulmin has constructed a pretty, feeling tale, which embraces all those subjects-a task an author less ingenious might have given up in despair, but which she has happily accomplished. The course of the story is varied by romantic episodes and poetic legends. The object Miss Toulmin proposed to herself she has effectively worked out, and connected recollections of the romance of the past with a tale illustrative of the incidents of the present."-Britannia. In Demy Quarto, tastefully bound in gilt, 21s. The above Volume may also be had handsomely bound in morocco, Price 31s. 6d. MR. HOW'S LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. 5 On the 1st of November, Part 1., Price Half-a-crown, to be continued Monthly, and completed in Ten Parts, WANDERINGS OF A PEN AND PENCIL, BEING THE RESULTS OF AN ANTIQUARIAN AND PICTURESQUE TOUR THROUGH THE MIDLAND COUNTIES OF ENGLAND, BY F. P. PALMER & ALFRED CROWQUILL. THE ILLUSTRATIONS WILL BE DRAWN ON WOOD BY THE LATTER, AND ENGRAVED The Book will present something of interest for those readers who cherish the affection for antiquity, or an appreciation of manners, customs, and legends which abound in the nooks of 'Merry England.' Charity begins at home.'-The beggar'd Gentleman. The Man who brought his ninepence to nought. The Antiquary; and how he found out the 'noose-larning.' In small 8vo. In November, THE HONEY STEW OF THE COUNTESS BERTHA. A Fairy Tale. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF ALEXANDER DUMAS BY MARIANNE TAYLOR. EVERY ONE ILLUSTRATED BY AN ENGRAVING ON WOOD, OF WHICH THE VOLUME WILL CONTAIN AT LEAST FOUR HUNDRED. In foolscap octavo, tastefully bound in emblematical cover, Price 4s. |