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MESSRS. IIUKST AND BLACKETT'S 

 NEW WORKS Continued. 



THE SWITZERS. By W. HEPWOBTH DIXON. 



Third Edition. 1 vol. demy 8vo. 15s. 



COSTKXTS : Mountain Men ; St Oothanl; Peopling the Alps; The Fight for Life ; 



Itiun anil Koeks; Teuton and Celt ; The Communes; Commaual Authorities ; 



Communal Government; Cantons and Half Cantons; Cantonal Hule; Canton 



Ziirich ; Pure Democracy; A Hevo'.ution; Popular Victories; The League; 



The Federal Pact; .Jesuits; Pilgrimage; Convent and Cauton , St Meinrud'a 



Cell ; Feast of the Rosary ; Last of the Benedictines ; Conflict of the Churches ; 



School; Democracy at School; lieuevii; Scheme of Work ; Secondary Schools ; 



School and Camp; Defence; Tho Public Force ; In the Field; Out Again; A 



Crowning Service. 



" Turn where wo will there is the same impassioned eloquence, the same lavish 

 wealth of metaphor, the same vigour of declamation, the s;ime general glow upon 

 the pages. Switzerland may be hackneyed as a country, yet there is freshness in 

 Mr. Dixon's subjects, Mr. Dixon throws a passing glance at the snow peaks and 

 glacier tlelds that are the Switzerland of the tourist. If he deals with the grand 

 catastrophes of nature, with avalanche, flood, and storm, it is in their relation 

 to the victims of the elements, for his topics are the people and their institutions. 

 We assent entirely to the parable of his preface." Times. 



"A lively, interesting, and altogether novel book on Switzerland. It is full of 

 valuable information on social, political, and ecclesiastical questions, and, like all 

 Mr. Dixou's books, it is eminently readable." Dnilu Xeirs. 



" We advise every one who cares for good literature to get a copy of this brilliant, 

 novel, and abundantly instructive account of the Switzers. The composition of the 

 book is in the very best style." .\fur/iiij 1'ust. 



" A work of real and abiding value. Mr. Dixon has never painted with more 

 force and truth. His descriptions are accurate, impartial, and clear. Wo most 

 cordially recommend the book." SUmJurd. 



" A must interesting and useful work ; especially well timed when the questions 

 of military organization and primary education occupy so large a share of public 

 attention. There is that happy fusion of the picturesque and the practical in Mr. 

 Dixon's works which gives especially to tho present book its groat charm. It has 

 at once the graphic interest of a romance, uud the sterling value of an educational 

 esay." JJaily TeleyrapK 



" Any respectable book on the Switzcrs and Switzerland is welcome to lovers of 

 the land and tho people, and we trust that Mr. Dixou'.s volume will be road in Swit- 

 zerland as well as in Knglaud." Athenietiin. 



" Mr. Dixon's book contains much readable and instructive matter." Esainintr. 

 " A writer of much dramatic and descriptive power, and one who knows his way 

 to trustworthy sources of information. Mr. Dixon has given a clever and instructive 

 sketch of the salient features of the confederation. All who know the pluyground 

 of Kurope will thank the writer for so clear un account of the social institutions of 

 a free people." (Jrajiltic. 



THE LITERARY LIFE OF THE REV. WIL- 

 LIAM HARNESS, Vicar of All Saints, Knightsbridge, and Pro- 



beiuhiry of St. Paul's. By tin; Huv. A. G. L/KSTRANGE. 8vo. l.'js. 



"The book is a pleasant book, and will bo found excellent reading. All those 

 to whom the good name of Byron is dear, will read with an almost exquisite plea- 

 sure, tho testimony given by Harness. The tine qualities of the man are, -KM forth, 

 without any attempt to conceal his errors or his vices; as regards iln> latter, thur6 

 is shown to have been gross exaggeration in the report of them." .Itfa-nvuin. 



"This work will be read with much interest. The li-v. \Viiiium Harness w.is the 

 friend of Byron, and nf almo-t every literary celebrity of his time. He liked 

 to be about literary men, and they reciprocated thai liking. Byron, Miss Mitford, 

 tho Kemble*. Wordsworth, Southey, Coleridge, Uvinb. llogers. Sheridan. Theodore 

 Hook, Henry Hope, were among his friends; and the consequence of this varied 

 literary friendship is that his life, for richness in biographical leuils, is surpassed 

 by no recent publication except Crubb Hobmsou's Diary. " A'c/m. 



