What and how to Read: A Guide to Recent English Literature, Containing a Minutely Classified List of the Best Books Published in England and America During the Past Five Years, with Critical Remarks and Suggestions, and an Introduction, Volume 1 |
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Page 171 - ANIMAL MECHANISM : a Treatise on Terrestrial and Aerial Locomotion. By Professor EJ Marey. With 117 Illustrations. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. price 5*.
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Page 21 - EVENINGS AT THE MICROSCOPE ; or, Researches among the Minuter Organs and Forms of Animal Life.
Page 149 - BIOGRAPHIES BY THE LATE SIR ARTHUR HELPS, KCB The Life of Hernando Cortes, and the Conquest of MEXICO. Dedicated to Thomas Carlyle. 2 vote.
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Page xii - Leibnitz's ; and the old boots would make almost as good a library, for a good many " gentlemen," as either of them. This is Southey's list : Bible, Shakespeare, Spenser's Faerie Queene, Sidney's Arcadia, Works of Sir Thos. Browne, Works of Rev. Cyril Jackson, Walton's Complete Angler, Clarendon's History, Milton, Chaucer, Jeremy Taylor, South's Sermon's, Fuller's Church History. Nearly all those are good books, no doubt ; but it is a fitter list for a superannuated clergyman than for a man engaged...
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Page 7 - A THOUSAND MILES' WALK ACROSS SOUTH AMERICA, Over the Pampas and the Andes By NATHANIEL H. BISHOP.