BOOKS OF HISTORY, BTOGRAPIIT, d-c, WORTH HAVING. 



(See THE TIMES, January 22.) 

 Pp. 336, handsomely printed, cloth extra, price Ss. 6d., 



Holidays with Hobgoblins; or, Talk of Strange Things. By Dudley 



CosTELLo. With humorous engravings by George Cruikshank. Amongst the chapters may 

 be enumerated : Shaving a Ghost : Superstitions and Traditions ; Monsters ; the Ghost of Pit 

 Pond; the 'Vatcher of the Dead; the Haunted House near Hampstead ; Dragons, Griffins, and 

 Salamanders; Alchemy and Gunpowder; Mother Shipton; Bird History; Witchcraft and Old 

 Boguey ; Crabs ; Lobsters ; the Apparition of Moniieur Bodry. 



SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME TO HONE'S WORKS. 

 In preparation, thick 8vo., uniform with 'Year-Book,' pp. 800, 



Hone's Scrap Book. A Supplementary Volume to the ' Every -Day Book,' 



the 'Year- Book,' and the 'Table-Book.' From the MSS. of the late William Hune, with 

 upwards of One Hundred and Fifty engravings of curious or eccentric objects. 



BARNUM'S NEW BOOK. 



Humbugs of the World. By P. T. Barnum. Pp. 320, crown 8vo., cloth 



extra, 4s. 6d. 



'A most vivacious book, and a very readable one.'— Globe. 

 ' The history of Old Adams and his grisly bears is inimitable.' — AthenjeuM. 



'A History of Humbugs by the Prince of Humbugs 1 What book can be more promising?' — Saturday 

 Review. 



This day, new edition, with numerous illustrations, 



Log of the 'Water Lily' (Thames Gig), during Two Cruises in the 



Summers of 1861-52, on the Rhine, Neckar, Main, Moselle, Danube, and other Streams of Ger- 

 many. By R, B. Mansfield, B. A., of University College, Oxford, and illustrated by Alfred 

 Thompson, B.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge. 

 This was the earliest boat excursion of the kind ever made on the Continental rivers. Very recently the 

 subject iias been revived again in the exploits of Mr. MacGregor in his ' Rob Roy Canoe.' Tlie volume will 

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This day, in two vols., 8vo., very handsomely printed, price 16s., 

 THE HOUSEHOLD STORIES OF ENGLAND. 



Popular Romances of the West of England; or, the Drolls of Old Com- 



waU. Collected and edited by Robert Hunt, F.R.S. 



For an analysis of this important work see printed description, which may be obtained gratis at the 

 publisher's. 



Many of the stories are remarkable for their wild poetic beauty; others surprise us by their quaintnesa; 

 whilst others, agam, show forth a tragic force which can only be associated with those rude ages which 

 existed long before the period of authentic history. 



Mr. George Cruikshank has supphed two wonderful pictures as illustrations to the work. One Is a portrait 

 of Giant Bolster, a personage twelve miles high. 



Eobson; a Sketch, by Augustus Sala. An Interesting Biography, with 



Sketches of his famous characters, 'Jem Baggs,' 'Boots at the Swan,' 'The Yellow Dwarf,' 

 'Daddy Hardacre,' (Sic. Price 6<i. 



This day, post 8vo. , with numerous illustrations. 



School Life at Winchester College ; or, the Reminiscences of a Winchester 



Junior. By the author of ' The Log of the Water Lily,' and ' The Water Lily on the Danube.' 

 This book does for Winchester what • Tom Brown's School Days' did for Rugby— explains the every-day life, 

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 toms, Ac, peculiar to the College. Thb Illustraxions have been iimted in imitation of Waieb- 

 CoLOUB Drawings. 



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