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MAJOR J. H. LAWRENCE-ARCHER, Bengal H. P. 



The Orders of Chivalry, from the Original Statutes of the various 



Orders of Knighthood and other Sources of Information. With 3 



Portraits and 63 Plates, beautifully coloured and heightened with 



gold, 4to, coloured, £(i. 6s., Plain, £1. 3s. 



" Major Lawrence-Archer has produced a learned and valuable work in his account 



of 'The Orders of Chivalry.' He explains that the object of the book is to supply a 



succinct account of the chivalric orders in a convenient form. The literary form of 



the work is amply convenient for reference and study. Its material form could be 



convenient only to some knight of the times when armour was worn in the field, and 



men were stronger in the arm than they are now. It is a handsome volume. The 



size of the book is doubtless due to the introduction of a series of engraved plates of 



the badges and crosses of the various orders described. These plates are executed in 



a finished style, and give the work an exceptional value for students of heraldic 



symbolism. The author may be congratulated on the successful issue of a laborious 



and useful task."— 5cot«/wan, 14th May 1888. 



SIR EDWIM ARNOLD, M.A., Author of The Light of Asia,'' dr^c. 

 The Book of Good Counsels, Fables from the Sanscrit of the Hito- 

 padesa. With Illustrations by Gordon Browne. Autograph and 

 Portrait, crown 8vo, antique, gilt top, 5s. 

 The Same. Superior Edition, beautifully bound, 7s. 6d. 



" It is so long since Sir Edwin Arnold's Indian fables were in print that they may 

 practically be regarded as a new book. In themselves they are almost the fathers of 

 all fable, for whereas we know of no source whence the ' Hitopad^sa ' could have 

 been borrowed, there are evidences of its inspiration and to spare in Bidpai, in ^Eaop, 

 and in most of the later fabulists."— Pa« Mall Gazette. 



"Those curious and fascinating stories from the Sanskrit which Sir Edward 

 Arnold has retold in ' The Book of Good Counsels ' give us the key to the heart of 

 modern India, the writer tells us, as well as the splendid record of her ancient gods 

 and glories, quaint narratives, as full of ripe wisdom as the songs of Hiawatha, and 

 with the same curious blending of statecraft and wood-magic in them." — Daily 

 Telegraph. 



" A new edition comes to hand of this delightful work — a fit companion to 'iEsop's 

 Fables' and the 'Jungle Book.' Sir Edwin has done well to republish this record of 

 Indian stories and poetical maxims from the Sanskrit. And the illustrations, a speci- 

 men of which we give here, what shall we say of them ? Simply that they are equal 

 to the text. No more pleasant series of ' Good Counsels' is it possible to find, and we 

 are convinced that it is not an ill counsel — far from it — to advise our readers to forth- 

 with get this charming work. They will derive not a little pleasure, and perchance 

 instruction, from a perusal of the story of the jackal, deer, and crow, of the tiger and 

 the traveller, of the lion, the jackals, and the bull, of the black snake and golden 

 chain, of the frogs, and the old serpent, and of all the other veracious chronicles 

 herein set forth." — Whitehall Review. 



S. BARING- GOULD, ALA., Atithor of Meha/ah," d^c. 

 In Troubadour Land. A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc, with 

 Illustrations by J. E. Rogers. Medium 8vo, 12s. 6d. 



" The title of Mr Baring-Gould's book only indicates one of the many points of 

 interest which will attract the intelligent traveller during a tour in Provence and 

 Languedoc. Besides troubadours, there are reminiscences of Greek colonisation and 

 Roman Empire, of the Middle Ages, and of the Revolution. . . . The illustrations 

 which adorn the pages of this very readable volume are decidedly above the average 

 The arm-chair traveller will not easily find a pleasanter compagnon de voyage." — St 

 James's Gazette. 



"A most charming book, brightly written, and profusely illustrated with exquisite 

 engravings." — Glasgow Herald. 



"A charming book, full of wit and fancy and information, and worthy of its 

 subject. " — Scots-man. 



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