LIFE ON THE EARTH; 



ITS OUZO-IIsT .A-IXriD STJCCESSIOlSr. 



By JOHN PHILLIPS, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., Professor of Geology in the 

 University of Oxford. Crown 8vo. 6s. 6d. 



' It 13 not without gratitude as well as pleasure that one receives at such a time a careful 

 and condensed summary of the present unquestionable results of scientific research, proceeding 

 from one who has great clearness and soundness of intellect, and the richest and completes! 

 knowledge.' NONCONFORMIST. 



THE STORY OF A BOULDER; 



OR, GLEANINGS BY A FIELD GEOLOGIST. 

 By ARCHIBALD GEIKIE. Illustrated. Fcp. 8vo. cloth, 5s. 



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LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE OF 

 M. DE TOCQUEVILLE. 



Translated from the French. By the Translator of ' Napoleon Correspondence 

 with King Joseph.' With numerous additions. 2 vols. crown 8vo. 21s. 



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 capable of appreciating exhaustive and solid thought.' SPECTATOR. 



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 Charminz as specimens of style, they are of infinitely greater value as showing the inner life of 

 a man who was as simple as a child, and yet as gifted as any of the many learned writers aud 

 scholars whom France has produced.' BELL'S MMHMtt. 



PICTURES OF OLD ENGLAND. 



By Dr. REINHOLD PAULT. Translated, with the author's revision, by 



E. C. OTI. With a Map of London in the Thirteenth Century. 



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CONTENTS: 



I. CANTERBURY AND THE WORSHIP OF ST. THOMAS X BECKET. 

 II. MONKS AND MENDICANT FRIARS. 



III. PARLIAMENT IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY. 



IV. ENGLAND'S EARLIEST RELATIONS TO AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA; 

 V. THE EMPEROR LOUIS IV. AND KING EDWARD IIL 



VI. THE HANSEATIC STEEL YARD IN LONDON. 

 VII. TWO POETS, GOWER AND CHAUCER. 

 VIII. JOHN WICL1F. 



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