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MISCELLANEOUS. 



LIVE COALS ; or, Faces from the Eire. By Miss Budgen, 



"Acheta," Authoi' of 'Episodes of Insect Life/ etc. Dedicated, by Special 

 Permission, to H.R.H. Field- Marshal the Duke of Cambridge. Royal 

 4to, 35 Original Sketches printed in colours, 42s. 



The ' Episodes of Insect Life,' published in three series some years since, and 

 so favourably received, will pleasantly recall to the mind of every one acquainted 

 with that Work the power of graphic description, the playful fancy, the fertile 

 imagination, and the humorous and artistic pencil of its gifted Author. The 

 talent and genius therein displayed won, unsolicited, from the late Prince Con- 

 sort, a graceful acknowledgment in the presentation to tbe Author of a copy of a 

 book, ' The Natural History of Deeside,' privately printed by command of Her 

 Majesty the Queen. The above Work comprises a series of Thirty-five highly 

 imaginative and humorous Sketches, suggested by burning Coals and Wood, ac- 

 companied by Essays, descriptive and discursive, on : — The Imagery of Accident 

 —The Fire in a New Light— The Fire an Exhibitor— The Fire a Sculptor. 



EVERYBODY'S WEATHER-GUIDE. The Use of Me- 



teorological Instruments clearly Explained, with Directions for Securing at 

 any time a probable Prognostic of the Weather. By A. Steinmetz, Esq., 

 of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law, Author of ' Sunshine and Showers,' 

 etc. Is. 



SUNSHINE AND SHOWERS : their Influences through- 



out Creation. A Compendium of Popular Meteorology. By Andkew 

 Steinmetz, Esq., of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law, Author of 'A 

 Manual of Weather- Casts,' etc. etc. Crown 8vo, Wood Engravings, 

 Is. 6d. 



This Work not only treats fully all the leading topics of Meteorology, but es- 

 pecially of the use of the Hygrometer, for wbich systematic Rules are now for 

 the first time drawn up. Among other interesting and useful subjects, are chap- 

 ters on. Rainfall in England and Europe in general — Wet and Dry Years — Tem- 

 perature and Moisture with respect to the health of Plants and Animals — The 

 Wonders of Evaporation — Soil Temperature — The Influence of Trees on Climate 

 and Water Supply — The Prognostication of the Seasons and Harvest — The 

 Characteristics and Meteorology of the Seasons — Rules of the Barometer — Rules 

 of the Thermometer as a Weather Glass — Popular Weather-casts — Anemometry 

 — and finally, What becomes of the Sunshine — and what becomes of the 

 Showers. 



