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The Book of Ballads. 



Edited by Bon Gaultier. Eleventh Edition, with numerous lUustratioDa 

 by Doyle, Leech, and Crowquill. Gilt edges, post octavo, 8s. 6d. 



Family Records of the Bruces and the Cumyns. 



With an Historical Introduction and Appendix from authentic Public 

 and Private Documents. By M. E. Cnmming Bruce. Quarto, cloth, 

 jf 2, los. large-Papek Edition, medium quarto, cloth, £-i, los. 



Jessie CaTneron : A Highland Story. 



By the Lady Kachel Butler. Second Edition. Small octavo, with a 

 Frontispiece, as. 6d. 



Handy Book of Meteorology. 



By Alexander Buchan, M.A., F.E.S.E., Secretary of the Scottish Meteor- 

 ological Society, &c. A New Edition, being the Third. \In the press. 



In this Edition the Charts of the Distribution of Atmospheric Pressure and 

 of Terrestrial Temperature will be revised ; the Relations of Temperature to 

 Atmospheric Pressure and Winds will, with the aid of Illustrative Charts, be 

 more fully discussed, and the 'principle will be applied in explanation of un- 

 usually Hot and Cold Seasons, as well as Seasons of excessive Drought or 

 excessive Rainfall ; Charts will be given showing the Distribution of Rain over 

 the Continents of the Globe, and its connection with the distribution of atmo- 

 spheric pressure and temperature, and with prevailing winds, will be pointed 

 out ; the Prevailing Winds over the Globe will be represented on Charts ; and 

 otherwise the book will be revised throughout. 



Introductory Text-Book of Meteorology. 



By Alexander Bnchan, M.A., F.E.S.E., Author of 'Handy Book of 

 Meteorology,' &c. Crown 8vo, with 8 Coloured Charts and other En- 

 gravings, pp. 2i8. 4S. 6d. 



' ' A handy compendium of Meteorology by one of the most competent 

 authorities on this branch of science." — Petermann's Geographlsche Mittheil- 

 ungen. 



' ' We can recommend it as a handy, clear, and scientific introduction to the 

 theory of Meteorology, written by a man who has evidently mastered his sub- 

 ject." — Lancet. 



" An exceedingly useftil volume." — Athe7iaum. 



Memoir of the Political Life of the Right Hon- 



ouraile Edmund Burke, with Extracts from his Writings. By the Rev. 

 George Croly, D.D. 2 vols, post 8vo, i8s. 



Handbook of the Mechanical Arts 



Coneemed in the Construction and Arrangement of Dwelling-Houses and 

 other Buildings ; with Practical Hints on Road-making and the Enclosing 

 of Land. By Eohert Scott Bum, Engineer. Second edition, crown 8vo. 

 6s. 6d. 



