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Educational Works, and Works in the Press.

New Educational Works.

By EDWARD HUGHES, F.R.A.S.
Assoc. Inst. C.E., &c.;

Head Master of the Royal Naval Lower School,
Greenwich Hospital.

SELECT

Second Edition, corrected and improve, price 3s. 6d. SPECIMENS of ENGLISH POETRY, for the use of Schools and Private Reading. Comprising Poems-1. Historical and Geographical. 2. On the Love of Home and Country. 3. Of Work and Progress. 4. Relating to the Sea and the Sailor. 5. On the Love of Nature. 6. Of the Imagination and Fancy. 7. Religions and Moral.

**The pieces are taken chiefly from the best modern Poets. Every piece is prefaced by a note- generally selected from the works of standard writers-explanatory of the subject of the poem, and followed by notes and questions, historical, grammatical, philological, and critical, calculated to stimulate the thought and guide the taste of the pupil.

Second Edition, greatly enlarged, price 3s. 6d.

OUTLINES of PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY,

designed for the use of Schools.

Just published, in 18mo. (pp. 198), price 1s., 2nd Edition, carefully revised and corrected,

GEOGRAPHY for ELEMENTARY

AN

SCHOOLS.

Price 1s. plain; 1s. 6d. coloured,

ATLAS for ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS; containing 12 Maps, beautifully engraved on Steel by W. HUGHES, F.R.G.S.

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NEW WORKS, just ready.

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SOME THOUGHTS about the SCHOOL of the FUTURE; or, a Sketch of the Solution which Time appears to be preparing for the Educational Questions of the Day. By the Rev. F. B. ZINCKE. Post 8vo. [On February 5.

2.

Mrs. C. L. BALFOUR'S SKETCHES of ENGLISH LITERATURE, from the Fourth to the Present Century. Fcp. 8vo. 7s. [On Feb. 5.

3.

The Rev. J. H. GURNEY'S HISTORICAL SKETCHES, illustrating some Memorable Events and Epochs. Fcp. 8vo.

4.

The RICHES that BRING no SORROW. By the Rev. ERSKINE NEALE, M.A., Author of The Closing Scene, &c. Fcp. 8vo. 6s. [On Feb. 5.

5.

POPISH LEGENDS or BIBLE TRUTHS. Dedicated to her Nieces, by CATHERINE SINCLAIR. Fcp. 8vo.

6.

The PAUPERISM and POOR LAWS of ENGLAND. By ROBERT PASHLEY, Esq., M.A., One of Her Majesty's Counsel. 8vo.

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HIPPOLYTUS and his AGE; or, Doctrine and Practice of the Roman Church under Commodus and Alexander Severus. By C. C. J. BUNSEN, D.C.L. 3 vols. post Svo.

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BRANDE'S DICTIONARY of SCIENCE, LITERATURE, and ART. New Edition, revised and corrected to the Present Time. 8vo. Woodcuts. 9.

THESAURUS of ENGLISH WORDS and PHRASES, classified to facilitate the expression

AN ATLAS of PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. of Ideas and assist in Literary Composition. By Dr.

By W. HUGHES, F.R.G.S. Comprising Maps of the World.

1. Shewing the Distribution of Land and Water. 2. Illustrating the Principal Features of the Land. 3. Illustrating the Divisions and Movements of the Waters of the Globe.

4. Illustrating the Geographical Distribution of some of the Principal Phænomena of Meteorology: :- Rain Map. 5. Shewing the Geographical Distribution and Limits of Cultivation of some of the Principal Plants useful to Mankind. 6. Shewing the Geographical Distribution and Range of some of the Principal Members of the Animal Kingdom:-Distribution of Man. 7. Illustrating the Productive Industry of various Countries, and exhibiting the principal Localities of Commerce and Navigation. 8. Physical Map of the British Islands.

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On the 28th of February will be published, price 1s., the First Monthly Number of

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By CHARLES DICKENS.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY H. K. BROWNE.

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ANNOUNCEMENT.

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Early in February will be published, in 2 vols. 8vo. price One Guinea, with Portrait, now first collected and translated in a complete form,

THE POLITICAL WORKS

OF

PRINCE LOUIS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE:

WITH AN ORIGINAL MEMOIR OF HIS LIFE,

Brought down to the Present Date, drawn from Authentic Sources, Critical Notes, &c.

***These volumes will possess great interest at the present moment. Amongst the most important works of the Prince which they will comprise are his "Political Reveries;" with the Scheme of a Constitu tion, published in 1832; "Ideas of Napoleonism;" "On the Extinction of Pauperism;" "Historical Parallels between 1688 and 1830," &c. &c.

In a few days will be ready, the Second Edition of

THE LIFE OF GENERAL WASHINGTON,

First President of the United States. Written by HIMSELF. Comprising his Memoirs and Correspondence as left by him for publication, including several Original Letters, now first printed. Edited by the Rev. C. W. UPHAM. 2 vols. post 8vo. illustrated with Steel Engravings, 7s. cloth gilt; 14s. elegantly bound in calf half-extra, marble edges.

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OW to STOP and WHEN to STOP: Punctuation reduced to a System. By WILLIAM DAY. Fifth Edition, 1s. 6d.

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WHEELER'S VIRGIL. THE THE WORKS of VIRGIL, translated from the Latin, according to the corrected Text of Wagner and Forbiger. By GEORGE, B. WHEELER, A.B., Ex-Schol. and Sen. Class. Mod., T.C.D., Editor of " Pindar," " Virgil," &c. 1 vol. 12mo. 3s. 6d. roan. (177) William Tegg and Co., 85, Queen Street, Cheapside.

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Footsteps of Our Lord and his Apostles,

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A Succession of Visits to the Scenes of New Testament Narrative.
By W. H. BARTLETT.

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WOMAN: HER MISSION AND HER LIFE.

From the French of MONOD, by Rev. W. G. Barrett.

NINEVEH AND PERSEPOLIS. An THE CELT, THE ROMAN, AND Historical Sketch of Ancient Assyria and Persia; with an Account of the Recent Researches in those Countries. By W. S. W. VAUX, M.A. of the British Museum. Third Edition. In post 8vo. with numerous Illustrations, price 8s. bound in cloth; or 17s. morocco antique.

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THE SAXON. A History of the Early Inha-
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Ancient Remains brought to light by Recent
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[ISTORIC DOUBTS relative to NAPO-BLACK'S GENERAL ATLAS of the

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