HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, & TRAVELS. 15 



through fourteen years of the new state of things under Charles II. The 

 first volume deals with the life of Milton as extending fro in 1608 to 1640, 

 which was the period of his education and of his minor poems. 



Mitford (A. B). TALES OF OLD JAPAN. By A. B. 



MlTFOKD, Second Secretary to the British Legation in Japan. 

 With upwards of 30 Illustrations, drawn and cut on Wool by- 

 Japanese Artists. Two vols. crown Svo. 2U. 



This work is an attempt to do for Japan what SirJ. Davis, Dr. 

 and M. Stanislas Julien, have done for China. Under the influence oj 

 more enlightened ideas and of a liberal system of policy, the old Japanese 

 civilization is fast disappearing, and will, in a few years, be completely 

 extinct. It was important, therefore, to preserve as far as possible trust- 

 worthy records of a state of society which although venerable from its anti- 

 quity, has for Europeans the dawn of novelty hence the series of narra- 

 tives and legends translated by Mr. Mitford, and in which the Japanese 

 are very judiciously left to tell their own tale. The two volumes comprise 

 not only stories and episodes illustrative of Asiatic superstitions, but also 

 three sermons. The preface, appendices, and notes explain a number of 

 local peculiarities ; the thirty-one woodcuts are the genuine work of a native 

 artist, who, unconsciozisly of course, has adopted the process first introduced 

 by the early German masters. 



Morley (John). EDMUND BURKE, a Historical Study By 

 JOHN MORLEY, B.A. Oxon. Crown Svo. "js. 6d. 



" The style is terse and incisive, and brilliant with epigram and point. 

 It contains pithy aphoristic sentences which Biirke himself would not have? 



Morison. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SAINT BERNARD, 



Abbot of Clairvaux. By JAMES COTTER MORISON, M.A. New 

 Edition, revised. Crown Svo. Js. 6d. 



" One of the best contributions in our literature towards a vivid, intel- 

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 feelings during the twelfth century. A delightful and instructive volume, 

 and one of the best products of the modern historic spirit." 



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