GIFT BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. 
JUST PUBLISHED. 
THE GIRL’S OWN ANNUAL FOR 1895 contains 832 pages, profusely 
illustrated. Price 8s. in handsome cloth cover designed by Gleeson White, 
and with portrait end-papers ; or, for Lending Libraries, in Two Half-Yearly 
Volumes at 4 s. 
“ No belter gift-book for girls can be imagined .” — British Weekly. 
JXTST PUBLISHED. 
THE BOY’S OWN ANNUAL FOR 1895 contains 832 pages, with many 
Coloured and Wood Engravings. Price 8s. in handsome cloth ; or, for 
Libraries, in Half-Yearly Volumes, 4s. each. 
“ Breathes there a boy with soul so dead who never to his father said, * Please will you buy me The Boy s 
Own AnnztalV No, we canuot believe it .” — Daily Chronicle. 
JUST PUBLISHED. 
HIDDEN BEAUTIES OF NATURE. By Richard Kerr, F.G.S. 
With 59 Illustrations from Sketches and Photographs. Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d., 
cloth. 
The object of this work is to show how much interest and benefit can be derived from the study of natural 
objects accessible to all. The illustrations are very beautiful, and the volume forms an admirable gift or 
prize book. 
JUST PUBLISHED. 
CONSIDER THE HEAVENS. A Popular Introduction to Astronomy. 
By l\Irs. WiLLl.^M STEADMAN Aldis. With many Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 
2 S. 6d., cloth boards. 
Mrs. Aldis, who has written this little book under the eye of her husband, who was Senior Wrangler, 
starts with the view that its readers know nothing of astronomy. In clear, simple language, and with an 
abundance of illustrative e.xamples, the marvellous and the fascinating and many of the difficult points of 
astronomy are made plain to the reader. 
JUST PUBLISHED. 
THE MICROSCOPE : A POPULAR HANDBOOK TO. By 
Lewis Wright, Author of “ Optical Projection,” “ Light : a Course of 
Experimental Optics,” &c. With many Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 2s. 6d., 
cloth boards. 
Into this unpretentious volume Mr. Lewis Wright has compressed an enormous amount of information. 
He deals exhaustively with the construction of the microscope, with the best forms it has assumed, and the 
best way in which to use it. A ver>* large number of fine illustrations are given, and the book is published at 
a price which brings it within the reach of all readers. 
Crown 8vo, 2s. 6d., cloth boards. 
PONDS AND ROCK POOLS. With Hints on Collecting for, and the 
Management of, the Micro-Aquarium. By HENRY SCHERREN. With 
Illustrations. 
Thb book describes how to search ponds and rock pools for minute animals ; what instruments to get and 
how to use them ; and how to preser\'e and how to study under the microscope the animal forms met with. 
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LIGHTHOUSES: THEIR HISTORY AND ROMANCE. By W. J. 
Hardy, F.S.A., Author of “ The Handwriting of the Kings and Queens of 
England,” “ Book Plates,” &c., &c. With many Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 
2s. 6d., cloth boards. 
Mr. Hardy gives in this little book a very large amount of entirely new matter about the origin and the 
historj' of our lighthouses. He traces the whole system of lighting the coast from its earliest to its most 
highly-developed forms. Incident and adventure enliven the storj*, and the book makes an admirable prize or 
gift-book. 
Crown 8vo, 2s. 6d., cloth boards. 
POPULAR NATURAL HISTORY FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. By W. J. 
Gordon, Author of “ The Horse World of London,” “ Our Countrys Birds,” 
“How London Lives,” “Foundry, Forge and Factory,” &c. With many 
Illustrations. 
The method of this book is scientific, the style is popular. It is intended as a prize book for schools, &c., 
and also as the kind of book to put into the hands of boys and girls when they wish for fuller information 
about animals and birds than the ordinary* natural history anecdote books give. The volume is profusely 
illustrated. 
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