HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, fr TRAVELS. 3 



These letters are the exact account of a lady's experience of the brighter 

 and less practical side of colonization. They record the expeditions, ad- 

 ventures, and emergencies diversifying the daily life of the wife of a New 

 Zealand sheep-farmer ; and, as each was -written while the novelty and 

 excitement of the scenes it describes were fresh upon her, they may succeed 

 in giving here in England an adequate impression of the delight and free- 

 dom of an existence so far removed from our own highly-wrought civiliza- 

 tion. " We have never read a more truthful or a pleasanter little book." 

 ATHEN^UM. 



Bernard, St. .S^MORISON. 



Blanford (W. T.) GEOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY OF" 

 ABYSSINIA. By W. T. BLANFORD. 8vo. 21 j. 



This work contains an account of the Geological and Zoological 

 Observations made by the author in, Abyssinia, when accompanying the 

 British Army on its march to Magdala and back in 1868, and during a 

 short journey in ^Northern Abyssinia, after the departure of the troops, 

 Part I. Personal Narrative; Part II. Geology ; Part III. Zoology. 

 .With Coloured Illustrations and Geological Map. " 77ie result of his 

 labours" the ACADEMY says, "is an important contribution to the 

 natural history, of the country." 



Bryce. THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE. By JAMES BRYCE, 

 D.C.L., Regius Professor of Civil Law, Oxford. New and Re- 

 vised Edition. Crown 8vo. JS. 6d. 



The object of this treatise is not so much to give a narrative history of 

 the countries included in the Romano- Germanic Empire Italy during the 

 Middle Ages, Germany from theninth century to the nineteenth as to describe 

 the Holy Empire itself as an institution or system, the wonderful offspring 

 of a body of beliefs and traditions which have almost wholly passed away 

 from the world. To make such a description intelligible it has appeared 

 best to give the book the form rather of a narrative than of a dissertation ; 

 and to combine with an exposition of what may be called the theory of the 

 Empire an outline oj the political history of Germany, as well as some 

 notice of the affairs of medieval Italy. Nothing else so directly linked the 

 old world to the neiv as the Roman Empire, which exercised over the minds of 

 men an influence stich as its material strength could never have commanded. 

 It is of this influence, and tlie causes that gave it power, that the presetit 

 ^vork is designed to treat. "It exactly supplies a want ; it affords a key 



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