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fresh and novel particular regarding his life, but has given 

 the most lucid explanation of Newton's great discoveries 

 and has endeavoured to render these intelligible to all classes 

 of readers. 



A JOUKNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR. 



By DANIEL DE FOE. 

 A New Edition, icith Historical Notes by E. W. BRAYLEY, F.S.A. 



"From De Foe's History of the Plague we may derive 

 more information than from all the other publications on the 

 subject put together. He has collected all the facts attending 

 the rise, progress, and termination of the malady ; an accu- 

 rate report of the number of deaths, as published by 

 authority ; a faithful account of the regulations adopted to 

 arrest and mitigate its fury. But that which imparts life to 

 the whole, and forms its distinguishing feature, is its 

 descriptive imagery. The effects upon the affrighted minds 

 of the inhabitants are depicted with all the genuine pathos of 

 nature, without any aim at effect, but with the ease and 

 simplicity of real life." 



A CLASSICAL TOUR THEOUGH ITALY. 



By the EEV. T. CHETWODE EUSTACE. 



Seventh Edition. With great A dditions and Translations of the 

 various Quotations from A ncient and Modern A uthors. 3 Volt. 



It was the fate of Eustace, like that of Bruce, to see his 

 labours rejected, and his veracity impeached ; nor did these 

 painful insinuations originate in the chance of ignorance. 

 His honesty was also called in question. But truth in both 

 instances eventually prevailed, and the writings of both these 

 amiable but injured travellers are now appealed to as standard 

 works. Eustace's Journey is not only the most accurate in 

 topography, architecture, and politics, but is, par excellence, 

 the classical tour through this land of poetry and painting. 

 Those tourists who would soar above Eustace, have vainly 

 sought to depreciate his learning. Those whose lot was cast 

 below him, have gathered from his rich plumage; but 

 neither had the courage to pass him by in silence. In this 

 edition, which is sold at one-third the cost of the earlier 

 ones, the discoveries made by excavation since the author'a 

 death have been introduced. 



