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ESSAYS AND LECTURES. 



THE BETTER SELF. Essays for Home Life. By the Author of '' The 

 Gentle Life." Crown 8vo. 6^. 



A CLUSTER OF LIVES. By Alice King-, Author of "Queen of 

 Herself," &c. Crown 8vo. 7^. 6d. 



Contents.— Vittoria Colonna— Madame Recamier— A Daughter of the Stuarts- 

 Dante — Madame de Sevigne — Geoffrey Chaucer — Edmund Spenser — Captain Cook's 

 Companion — Ariosto — Lucrezia Borgia — Petrarch — Cervantes — Joan of Arc — Galileo — 

 Madame Cottin — Song of the Bird in the Garden of Armida. 



Second Edition. 

 IN STRANGE COMPANY; or, The Note Book of a Roving Correspondent. 

 By James Gi-reenwood, " The Amateur Casual." Crown 8vo. 6s. 



"A bright, lively book." — Standard. \ "Some of the papers remind us of Charles Lamb 



" Has all the interest of romance."— C«if«2. | on beggars and chimney-sweeps."— ^c/ji?. 



MASTER-SPIRITS. By Rolbert Buchanan. Post 8vo. 10s. 6d. 



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" Full of fresh and vigorous writing, such as can 

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" Written with a beauty of language and a spirit 

 of vigorous enthusi.-ism rare even in our best living 

 word-painters. "' — Standard. 



" A very pleasant and readable book." 



Examiner, 



"Mr. Buchanan is a writer whose books the 

 critics may always open with satisfaction . . . both 

 manly and artistic."— //i7«r. 



GLANCES AT INNER ENGLAND. A Lecture delivered in the United 

 States and Canada. By Edward Jenkins, M.P., Author of " Ginx's Baby," &c. 

 Crown Svo. Price ss. 



"These 'glances' exhibit much of the author's 

 characteristic discrimination and judgment." — 

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"Cleverly written, full of terse adages and 



rapier-like epigrams it is ; thoughtful and just it is 

 in many respects." — Edio. 



"Eloquent and epigrammatic." — Illustrated 

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OUR LAND LAWS. Short Lectures delivered before the Working Men's 

 College. By T. Lean Wilkinson. Crown Svo, limp cloth, ■zs. 

 "Avery handy and intelligible epitome of the general principles of existing land laws." — Statidard. 



AN ESSAY ON THE CULTURE OF THE OBSERVING 



POWERS OF CHILDREN, especially in connection with the Study of Botany. Bj- 

 Eliza A. Youmans. Edited, with Notes and a Supplement, by Joseph, 

 PayTie, F.C.P., Author of "Lectures on the Science and Art of Education," &c. 

 Crown 8vo, 7.S. 6d. 



flowers at first hand, not merely to be informed of 

 what others have seen and txa»ined." — Pall Mail 

 Gazette. 



" This study, according to her just notions on the 

 subject, is to be fundamentally based on the ex- 

 ercise of the pupil's own powers of observation. He 

 is to see and examine the properties of plants and 



THE GENIUS OF CHRISTIANITY UNVEILED. Being Essays 



by "William G-odwin, Author of " Political Justice," &c. Edited with a preface by 

 C. Kegran Paul, i vol. Crown 8vo. 7^. 6d. 



"Few have thought more clearly and directly 1 " The deliberate thoughts of Godwin deserve to 

 than William Godwin, or expressed their reflec- be put before the world for reading and considera- 

 tions with more simphcity and unreserve." tion." — Athenaiun. 

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WORKS BY JOSEPH PAYNE, Professor of the Science and Art o^ 

 Education to the College of Preceptors. 



The True Foundation of Science Te.\ching. A Lecture delivered at the 

 College of Preceptors. Svo, sewed, 6d. 



The Science and Art of Education. A Lecture introductory to a "Course 

 of Lectures and Lessons to Teachers on the Science, Art, and History of Education," 

 delivered at the College of Preceptors. Svo, sewed, 6d. 



Fkobel and the Kindergarten System of Elementary Education. A 

 Lecture delivered at the College of Preceptors. Svo, sewed, 6d. 



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