NEW WORKS AND NEW EDITIONS 



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Messes. LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, and LONGMANS. 



ACTON (MISS).-MODERN COOKERY, 



111 all its BrHiichcs, reduced to a System of Easy Practice. For the use of Private Families. 

 In aSeiiesj.f Practical Receipts, all uf which have been strictly tested, and are given with 

 the most minute exactness. By Kliza .Acton. New Edition, to which are added, Directions 

 for Carvinif. Foolscap 3vo. with Plates and Woodcuts, 7s. 6d. cloth. 

 " The whole nf Mixs Acton'' s recipes ' with a few trijiivg eaceptiuns, which are scruptiloiislt/ 

 ipecijied, are confined to such as may be perjectlv depended uti,jTOin having been proved 

 beneath i ur own roof, and under otir own personal inspection.' He add, moreover, that the 

 recipes are all reasonable, and nevr in any instance extravagant. They do nut bid us 

 sacrifice ten pounds <ij excellent meat, that ve may get a couple of quarts of ernvy from it; 

 nor do they deal with butter and eggs as if they coft nothing. AJiss Actu/i's book is a good 

 book in even/ way ; there is right-mindedness in every page of it, as well as thorough know- 

 ledge and experience of the subjects she handles.^' — Medical Gazette. 



AMY HERBERT. 



By a Lady. Edited by the Rev. William Sewell,B.D. of Exeter College, Oxford. New 

 Edition. 2 vols, foolscap Svo. 9s. cloth. 



ANDERSEN.— THE TRUE STORY OF IVIY LIFE; 



A sketch. By Hans Christian Andersen, author of "The Shoes of Fortune," "The 

 Nightingale,"'" O. T.," " Only a Fiddler," " The iniprovisatore," etc. Translated by Mary 

 Howitt. Fcp. Svo. 5». cloth. 



ARTISAN CLUB (THE).— A TREATISE ON THE STEAM-EMCIME. 



In its application to Mines, Mills, Steam Navigation, and Railways. By the Artisan Club. 

 Edited by John Bourne. C.E. New Edition. 4to. with 30 Steel Plates, etc., and about 

 350 Wood Engravings, •27s. cloth. 



BAKER.— RAILWAY ENGINEERING; 



Containing the most approved .Metliods of laving our Railway Curves, and of setting out the 

 Cutt.ngs, Embankments, and Tunnels ol Raihvays: with a General and two Auxiliary Tables, 

 for the Calculation of Earthworks of Railways, Canals, etc. Also, the Investigation of the 

 Formula for the Superelevation of the exterior Rail in Curves, By T. Baker, Surveyor and 

 Civil Engineer. Svo. 5s. cloth. 



BALL.-AN ACCOUNT OF THE CULTIVATION AND MANUFACTURE 



OF TEA IN CHINA: derived from Personal Observation during an Official Residence iu 

 that Country of upwards of Twentv Years ; and illustrated by the best Authorities, Chinese 

 as well as European. With some Remarks on the Experimer ts now making for tire Intro- 

 duction of the Culture of the Tea Tree in other parts of the World. By S. Ball, Esq late 

 Inspector of Teas to the East India Company in China. Svo. with Plates and Woodcuts, 

 Hi. cloth. 



BANFIELD AND WELD.— THE STATISTICAL COMPANION ; 



Exhibiting the most interesting Facts in Moral and Intellectual, Vitiil, Economical, and 

 Political Statistics, at home and abroad . Compiled from Official and other authentic Sources, 

 by T. C. Banfielcl. Statistical Clerk to the Council of Kducation ; and C. R. Weld, Assistant 

 Secretary to the Ro)al Society. Foolscap Svo. 5s. cloth. 



BARNES.— THE ELECTORAL LAWS OF BELGIUM 



Proposed as the Basis ot Parliamentary Reform in England Translated, with the Commen- 

 tary of M.J. H. Bivort. Secretary of the Cabinet ol the Belgian Minister of the Interior. 

 By'Philip Edward Barnes, Esq. B..\. F.L.S. Foolscap Svo. 3i. 6d. cloth. 



