HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, &> TRAVELS. 15 



natural scenery and the peculiarities of the human life in the midst of which 

 the plants were found \ By this method the subject is made interesting to 

 a very large class of readers. ' ' Botanical knoivledge is blended with a 

 love of nature, a pious enthusiasm, and a rich felicity of diction not to be 

 met with in any works of kindred character, if we except those of Hugh 

 Miller" TELEGRAPH. "Mr. M.'s glowing pictures of Scandinavian 

 scenery." SATURDAY REVIEW. 



Martin (Frederick) THE STATESMAN'S YEAR-BOOK : 



See p. 36 of this Catalogue. 



Martineau. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, 18521868. 

 By HARRIET MARTINEAU. Third and Cheaper Edition, with 

 New Preface. Crown 8vo. 6s. 



A Collection of Memoirs under these several sections: (i) Royal, (2) 

 Politicians, (3) Professional, (4) Scientific, (5) Social, (6) Literary. These 

 Memoirs appeared originally in tJie columns of the DAILY NEWS. " Miss 

 Martinead s large literary powers and her fine intellectual training make 

 these little sketches more instructive, and constitute them more genuinely 

 works of art, than many more ambitious and diffuse biographies." 

 FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW. " Each memoir is a complete digest of a 

 celebrated life, illuminated by the flood of searching light which streams 

 from the gaze of an acute but liberal mind" MORNING STAR. 



Masson (David). For other Works by same Author, see PHILO- 

 SOPHICAL and BELLES LETTRES CATALOGUES. 



LIFE OF JOHN MILTON. Narrated in connection with the 

 Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of his Time. By 

 DAVID MASSON, M.A., LL.D., Professor of Rhetoric and English 

 Literature in the University of Edinburgh. Vol. I. with Portraits. 

 8vo. i8j. Vol. II., 16381643. 8vo. i6j-. Vol. III. in the 

 press. 



This work is not only a Biography, but also a continuous Political, 

 Ecclesiastical,, and Literary History of England through Milton's whole 

 time. In order to understand Milton, his position, his motives, his 

 thoughts by himself, his public words to his countrymen, and the probable 

 effect of those words, it was necessary to refer largely to the History oj his 

 Time, not only as it is presented in well-known books, but as it had to be 

 rediscovered by express and laborious investigation in original and forgotten 



