4 WORKS PUBLISHED DURING THE SEASON, 



DARWIN'S NATURALIST'S VOYAGE ROUND THE 



WORLD. Second Edition, with Additions and Woodcuts. Post 8vo. 7s. Qd. 



" Looking at the general mass of Mr. Darwin's results, I cannot help considering his voyage round 

 the world as one of the most important events for geology which has occurred for many years." 

 President of the Geological Society. 



" Upon the merits of Mr. Darwin's volume there can be no two opinions. It is up to the science of 

 the day, and in some instances beyond it. There are, indeed, no illustrations to the book, but we find 

 ample materials for deep thinking ; we have the vivid description that fills the mind's-eye with 

 brighter pictures than painter can present, and the charm arising from the freshness of heart which 

 is thrown over these virgin pages of a strong intellectual man, and an acute and deep observer. It is 

 not to the scientific alone that Mr. Darwin's volume will prove interesting. The general reader will 

 find in it a fund of amusement and instruction. Mr. Darwin is a first-rate landscape painter with his 

 pen, and even the dreariest solitudes are made to teem with interest." Quarterly Review. 



"Mr. Murray could scarcely have chosen a better work than that of Mr. Darwin for his ' Home and 

 Colonial Library.' It is an inexhaustible mine of observations and anecdotes of the Natural History 

 of the South American continent, written with the intelligence of a quick-sighted observer, and the 

 tone of a gentleman." Dr. Lindley's Gardeners' Chronicle. 



LAPPENBERG'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND UNDER 



THE ANGLO-SAXON KINGS. 2 Vols. 8vo. 21s. 



" This book will be found to supply a defect in our historic literature. We have had nothing with 

 such claims to accuracy in respect of chronological criticism ; and in none other of our books is pre- 

 served, in such useful and accessible shape, the German portion of Anglo-Saxon History." Examiner. 



" A very important book. It comes from a high historical school." Christian Remembrancer. 



" The most striking characteristic of this work is, the pertinacious industry of the author. Every 

 available source of information has been explored, from the classical historians, geographers, and 

 philosophers, the Northern Sagas and the German Chronicles, to the works on Anglo-Saxon times 

 published by English antiquarians. In this respect Lappenberg's History is without a rival." 

 Spectator. 



SIDNEY'S LIFE OF GENERAL LORD HILL, 



LATE COMMANDER OF THE FORCES. Portrait. 8vo. 12s. 



" The more accurately the facts and true circumstances of the Wellington Campaigns become known, 

 deeper and more widely spread must be the wonder they excite. The life of Lord Hill has, in this view, 

 an important value ; but, independently of that, and of the enduring interest of his memorable achieve- 

 ments, the work possesses, in the development of his personal character, a further, and, we even think, 

 its greatest, charm. There is as yet no military memoir which we should so gladly place in the handa 

 of a youthful soldier ; and we are certain it will prove a well-read, universal, and long remaining 

 favourite." Dublin University Magazine. 



LORD ROBERTSON'S LEAVES FROM A JOURNAL, 



AND OTHER FRAGMENTS IN VERSE. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d. 

 " The author unites to strong feeling for the sublimity and the grandeur of what he beheld, the 

 power of expressing his sensations in vigorous and poetic diction. He sees and feels as a scholar 

 and a poet, and as a scholar and a poet he expresses himself. Some of his lines are very beautiful : 

 they are polished without labour, and energetic without effort. A manly cast of thought distin- 

 guishes his reflections, and he is exempt from the puerilities and affectation of a mere maker of verses. 

 A good deal can be learnt from this book. It teaches as well as pleases the reader." Times, Sept. 5th. 



HAWKSTONE. A TALE OF AND FOR ENGLAND IN THE 



YEAR 184. 2 Vols. Fcap. 8vo. 12s. 



" A tale of more profound and sustained interest we have never met. The skill with which incident 

 after incident is made to sustain the attention, and with which moral and religious truths of the 

 highest moment are interwoven without effort or affectation ; the rich and exhaustless variety of 

 thought and imagery and diction, which affords a continual relief and enjoyment ; the exquisite 

 beauty of its descriptions ; the force and grandeur of its tragic incidents ; and the high philosophy 

 which breathes in every page and brings out such a noble moral throughout all appear to us to place 

 this work on so high an elevation that we should not find it easy to point to any work of fiction cha- 

 racterised by so great a combination of excellencies." English Review, April, 1845, 



