8 NEW WORKS AND NEW EDITIONS 



Balfour's Botany, continued. 



" This is the best introduction, beyond all comparison, which has yet appeared, to the mosft 

 delightful of all sciences. We are glad that the merit of it is due to the talent of a Scottish bo- 

 tanist, and the enterprise of a publishing firm connected with Scotland.'' Worth British Mail. 



" The book of Dr. Balfour is a very complete one, much more so than the generality of elemen- 

 tary books. The chapters devoted to the structure of plants are particularly well done." Atlas. 



" Dr. Balfour's ' Manual of Botany' is entitled to gi'eat praise, for the clear and comprehensive 

 manner in which he has presented the student with this most serviceable introduction to the 

 science. The work is admirably arranged." Bentley's Magazine. 



" An elementary book of this kind has long been wanted. Hitherto the student has had to seek 

 his knowledge of physiology from one source, of classifications from a second, of medical botany 

 from a third, of agricultural chemistry from a fourth, of botanical geography from a fifth, and of 

 geological botany from a sixth ; all equally expensive works, and some of them not generally 

 accessible. Thanks to the talent of a zealous and accomplished botanist and excellent teacher, 

 and the enterprise of a publishing firm long identified with the interests of science, the element* 

 of all these departments of the study are embodied within the plan of the present work, which i* 

 as remarkable for comprehensiveness as for cheapness " Scottish Guardian. 



" We can recommend the volume as a convenient and pleasant manual to snch of our readers 

 us may wish to study the curious phenomena of vegetable life." Scotsman. 



" Now for the fruits, and we have done sufficient justice to this rare and most readable work of 

 the Avhole botanic library for we have gleaned a full and fair example of its varied, interesting, 

 and instructive contents. It is not a mere system ; it is a philosophy of botany, to which the 

 systematic part serves subordinately the office of an index. . . . Whoever wants to know all 

 the rest, with the least possible trouble, within the most limited extent of verbiage, and without 

 absolutely a single grain of humbug, will not fail to consult Professor Balfour's model Manual of 

 Botany." Tait's Magazine. 



" Perhaps the most masterly digest of the science which has yet appeared, and, at the same 



time, one of the most readable Professor Balfour's Manual will be found of peculiar value. 



To an amazing amount of fact, condensed into rather more than six hundred closely-printed 

 pages, and illustrated by more than eight hundred wood-cuts, it adds the higher philosophy of 

 the science. It is the work of a man to whom botany has been the passion and study of a life- 

 time ; and who. to an intimate acquaintance with what had been previously known, adds much 

 that has been the result of original observation." Witness. 



Vol. XIV., price 3s. 6cL, cloth lettered, 



A MANUAL of ELECTRO-METALLURGY, including the Applica- 

 TIONS OF THE ART TO MANUFACTURING PURPOSES. By 

 JAMES NAPIER, F.C.S. With numerous Illustrations. 



History of the Art of Electro-Metallurgy. Description of Galvanic Batteries. 

 Electrotype Processes. Bronzing. Deposition of Metals. Electro-Plating, Electro- 

 Gilding, &c. 



It is by far the most comprehensive treatise which has been yet published." Critic. 



Vol. XV., price 9s., cloth lettered, 



HISTORY of GREECE. From its Earliest Records to the Close of 

 the Peloponnesian War. By the Hon. Sir T. N. TALFOURD, D.C.L. ; 

 the Rev. J. B. OTTLEY, M.A., late Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford ; 

 J. T. RUTT, Esq.; and E. POCOCKE, Esq. With numerous Illustra- 

 tions. 



Preliminary View of the Influence of Mythology over the early Greeks. Oracles, 

 Mysteries, Festivals, and National Games Oriental Sources of Greek Mythology. 

 Popular Legends of the Gods. Legends of Heroes Sketch of the Geography of 

 Greece. Early History of the Peloponnesian States. Athens and other Greek 

 States. The Persian War. Supremacy of Athens. Alcibiades. Recapitiilation. . 

 Social Condition of the Ancient Greeks. Early Sculptors of Greece. Early Painters 

 of Greece. Chronological Tables. 



