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" It is a -work of wkicJi aiilhor, prinlcr, and publisher may alike feel 

 proud. It is a work, too, of tvhich none but a genuine artist could by pos- 

 sibility have been the author^ — SATURDAY Review. i 



Helps. — REALMAH. By Arthur Helps. Cheap Edition. , 



Crown 8vo. bs. i 



Of this work, by the Author of "'Friends in Countil," the Saturday 

 Review says: " Underneath the form [that of dialogtie) is so much shrewd- 

 ness, fancy, and above all, so much wise ki?idliness, that we should think 

 all the better of a man or woman who likes the book." 



Herschel. — the ILIAD of homer. Translated into English 

 Hexameters. By Sir John Herschel, Bart. 8vo. iSj-. 



A version of the Iliad in English Hexameters. The question of Homeric 

 translation is fully discussed in the Preface. 



"It is admirable, not only for many intrinsic merits, but as a grea 

 mail! s tribute to Genius." — Illustrated London News. 



HIATUS : the Void in Modern Education. Its Cause and Antidote. 

 By OuTis. 8vo. 8j-. 6d. 



The main object of this Essay is to point out hoiu the emotional element 

 zvhich underlies the Fine Arts is disregarded and undeveloped at this time 

 so far as {despite a pretence at filling it up) to constitute an Educational 

 Hiatus. 



HYMNI ECCLESI^. &^ " Theological Section." 



Kennedy. — LEGENDARY FICTIONS OF THE IRISH 

 CELTS. Collected and Narrated by Patrick Kennedy. Crown 

 8vo. With Two Illustrations. 7^'. dd. 



"A very admirable popular selection of the Irish fairy stories and legends, 

 in zvhich those who are familiar with Mr. Crokers, and other selections 

 of the same kind, will find tnuch that is fresh, and full of ike peculiar 

 vivacity and humour, and sometimes nen of the ideal beauty, of the true 

 Celtic Legend^ — Spectator. 



