12 MACMILLAISrS CATALOGUE OF WORKS IN 



" . . . Every page is full of interest, not merely to the musi- 

 cian, but to the general reader. The book is a very charming one, on 

 a topic of deep and lasting interest." — STANDARD. 



Goldsmid. — telegraph and travel, a Narrative of 

 the Formation and Development of Telegraphic Communication 

 between England and India, under the orders of Her ^Lajesty's 

 Government, with incidental Notices of the Countries traversed by 

 the Lines. By Colonel Sir FREDERIC GoLDSMiD, C.B., K.C.S.I., 

 late Director of the Government Indo-European Telegraph. With 

 numerous Illustrations and Maps. 8vo. "Zis. 

 '* The tnerit of the work is a total absence of exaggeration, -which does 

 not, ho7vei'er, preclude a vividness and vigour of style not always character- 

 istic of similar narratives." — STANDARD. 



Gordon. — last letters from EGYPT, to which are added 



Letters from the Cape. By Lady Duef Gordon. With a 



Memoir by her Daughter, Mrs. Ross, and Portrait engraved by 



Jeens. Second Edition. Crown 8vo, gs. 



" The intending tourist who wishes to acquaint himself with the country 



he is about to visit, stands embarrassed a?nidst the riches presented for his 



choice, and in the end probably rests contented with the sober usefulness of 



Murray. He will not, haivrjer, if he is well advised, grudge a place in 



his portmanteau to this book." — Times. 



Gray. — china, a History of the Laws, Manners, and Customs 

 of the People. By the Venerable John Henry Gray. LL.D., 

 Archdeacon of Hong Kong, formerly H. B.M. Consular Chaplain 

 at Canton. Edited by W. Gow Gregor. With 150 Full-page Illustra- 

 tions, being Facsimiles of Drawings by a Chinese Artist. 2 Vols. 

 Demy 8vo. 32J. 

 " Its pages contain the most truthful and vivid picture of Chinese life 



which has ever been published." — Athen^UM. 



" The only elaborate and vahtable book 7ue have had fbr many years 



treating generally of the people of the Celestial Empire." — ACADEMY. 



Green. — W^orksbyJoHN Richard Green: — 



HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE. Vol. I.— Early 



England — Foreign Kings — The Charter — The Parliament. With 



8 Coloured Maps. 8vo. 16^. Vol. II. — The Monarchy, 



1461 — 1540; the Restoration, 1540 — 1603. 8vo. 16^-. Vol. III. 



• — Puritan England, 1603 — 1660 ; thej Revolution, 1660 — 16S8. 



With 4 Maps. 8vo. \6s. [Vol. IF. in the press. 



'^ Ulr. Green has done a work 'which probably no one but himself could 



have done. He has read and assimilated the restdts of all the labours of 



students during the last half century in the field oj English history, and 



has given them a f-esh meaning by his o-tvn independent study. He has 



fused together by the fo-rce of sympathetic itnagination all that he has so 



