6 Cheap Editions of Standard and Popular Works. 



History. 



In fcap. 8vo, price Is. 6d., or 2s. cloth gilt. 



T ANDMAEKS OF THE HISTOEY OF GEEECE. 

 JLJ By the Rev. JAMES WHITE. 



" This book, with its companion volume, deserves to have a place in every house 

 where there are young readers, and in many a house where there are none but 

 elder ones, able to appreciate the genial writings of a man, who having taste and 

 knowledge at command, sits down to write in the simplest way the story of a people 

 for a people's reading." Examiner. 



In fcap. 8vo, price 2s. cloth, or 2s. 6d. roan lettered. 



GOLDSMITH'S HISTOEY OF ENGLAND. A Ne^v 

 Edition, with Continuation to the Death of Wellington. With 

 Portraits of all the Sovereigns. 



" In this edition, the editor has added some facts which had been overlooked by 

 the author, and preceded the original work by a short notice of the earlier history, 



Ethered from the old chroniclers, and continued to the present time. To each 

 apter is appended a series of questions, by means of which the tutor will readily 

 be enabled to examine the pupil as to the impressions the facts have made on his 

 memory." 



V* Is placed on the list of School Books of the Educational Committee of the 

 Privy Council. 



BIOGRAPHY. 



In 4 vols. crown 8vo, price 10s., or in 2 vols. cloth gilt, 10s. 

 OSWELL'S LIFE OF DE. JOHNSON, with nume- 

 rous Portraits, Views, and Characteristic Designs, engraved from 

 authentic sources. 



" Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, Shakspeare ia not more 

 decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of 

 orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. Many of the greatest men thai 

 have ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that 

 ever lived, and he has beaten them all. His was talent, and uncommon talent, and to 

 Jemmy Boswell we indeed owe many hours of supreme delight." Macaulay. 



In crown 8vo, price 2s. 6d. cloth extra, gilt. 



HPHE LIFE, PUBLIC AND DOMESTIC, OF THE 

 J- RIGHT HON. EDMUND BURKE. By PETER BURKE, Esq. 

 (of the Inner Temple and the Northern Circuit). Profusely illustrated 

 with Portraits, Scenes of Events, and Landscape Views, relating to the 

 great Orator and the other noted persons of his time and career. 



"This volume attempts to relate the biography of Edmund Burke as a private 

 person and a public character in an easily intelligible shape. The author's aim has 

 been to furnish a plain and popular biography, in which he trusts he has succeeded." 



In fcap. 8vo, 3s. boards, or 3s. 6d. cloth gilt. 

 TfLLISTON'S LIFE and ENTEEPEISES. By GEOEGE 



-^ RAYMOND. Illustrated with Portrait and Engravings on steel, 

 from designs by Phiz, Cruikshank, &c. 



" This is a very entertaining memoir of one of the most gentlemanly, accomplished, 

 Bnd versatile actors who adorned the English stage. The life of E. W. Elliston, 

 unlike that of the majority of his professional brethren, affords ample materials for a 

 readable book, and this volume presents indubitable testimony in proof of that 

 taGt,"~Morning Post. 



