FOOTNOTES:[55]Both books dealing with insect life.
[55]Both books dealing with insect life.
[55]Both books dealing with insect life.
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THE SCHOOLMASTER.A Commentary upon the Aims and Methods of an Assistant Master in a Public School. ByA. C. Benson, C.V.O., President of Magdalene College, Cambridge.
This book is the fruits of the experience of one who has gained distinction both as a schoolmaster and as a man of letters. It is not a scientific educational treatise, but an attempt to consider the life of the schoolmaster from within.
GOLDEN STRING.A Day Book for Busy Men and Women. Arranged bySusan, Countess of Malmesbury, and MissViolet Brooke-Hunt.
“An admirable selection of noble and inspiring thoughts.”—Westminster Gazette.
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RUNNING THE BLOCKADE.A Personal Narrative of Adventures, Risks, and Escapes during the American Civil War. ByThomas E. Taylor. Frontispiece and Map.
An absorbing record of personal adventure, and a real contribution to history, for it presents to us, from the pen of a principal actor, the most complete account we have of a great blockade in the early days of steam. As a picture of exciting escapes, of coolness and resource at moments of danger, of well-calculated risks, boldly accepted and carried through, it has few rivals in sea story.
HISTORICAL MEMORIALS OF CANTERBURY.By the lateDean Stanley. With Illustrations.
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LIVINGSTONE'S FIRST EXPEDITION TO AFRICA. A popular account of Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. ByDavid Livingstone, M.D. With Map and numerous Illustrations.
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THE GATHERING OF BROTHER HILARIUS.ByMichael Fairless.
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AN ENGLISHWOMAN'S LOVE LETTERS.ByLaurence Housman.
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ÆSOP'S FABLES.A New Version, chiefly from the original sources. By the Rev.Thomas James, M.A. With more than 100 Woodcuts designed byTennielandWolfe.
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UNBEATEN TRACKS IN JAPAN.An Account of Travels in the Interior, including visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrine of Nikkô. By Mrs.Bishop(Isabella L. Bird). With Illustrations.
This book gives practically Mrs.Bishop'sday to day experiences during journeys of over one hundred and four thousand miles in Japan. As a faithful and realistic description of Old Japan by one of the most remarkable Englishwomen of her day, this book has an abiding interest.
NOTES FROM A DIARY.First Series. BySir Mountstuart E. Grant Duff.
Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff, besides being a distinguished public-servant, was a popular member of society with a genius for gathering and recording good stories. In his series of “Notes from a Diary” he jotted down the best things he heard, and thereby made some enjoyable volumes.
LAVENGRO: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest.ByGeorge Borrow. With 6 Pen and Ink Sketches byPercy Wadham.
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OUR ENGLISH BIBLE.The Story of its Origin and Growth. ByH. W. Hamilton Hoare, late of Balliol College, Oxford, now an Assistant Secretary to the Board of Education, Whitehall. With Specimen Pages of Old Bibles.
An historical sketch of the lineage of our Authorised Version, which was published in 1901 under the title of “The Evolution of the English Bible.”
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THE LETTERS OF QUEEN VICTORIA. A Selection from her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861.Edited byA. C. Benson, M.A., C.V.O., andViscount Esher, G.C.V.O., K.C.B. With 16 Portraits. 3 vols. 1s.net each volume.
Published by authority of his Majesty King Edward VII. This edition is not abridged, but is the complete and revised text of the original.
ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION.ByCharles Darwin. Popular impression of the Corrected Copyright Edition. Issued with the approval of the author's executors.
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ROUND THE HORN BEFORE THE MAST.An Account of a Voyage from San Francisco round Cape Horn to Liverpool, in a Fourmasted “Windjammer,” with experiences of the life of an Ordinary Seaman. ByBasil Lubbock. With Illustrations.
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ENGLISH BATTLES AND SIEGES IN THE PENINSULA.ByLieut.-Gen. Sir William Napier, K.C.B. With Portrait.
In spite of the countless books which have appeared on the Peninsular War, this great work has preserved its popularity as a standard book on the subject for over half a century and still holds its own when most rivals, which have appeared since, have become forgotten.
STUDIES IN THE ART OF RAT-CATCHING.ByH. C. Barkley.
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THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT.By the Right Rev.Charles Gore, D.D., LL.D., Bishop of Oxford.
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THE HOUSE OF QUIET. An Autobiography.ByA. C. Benson.
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THE THREAD OF GOLD.ByA. C. Benson.
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THE PAINTERS OF FLORENCE. From the 13th to the 16th Centuries.ByJulia Cartwright(Mrs.Ady). With Illustrations.
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A LADY'S LIFE IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS.By Mrs.Bishop(Isabella L. Bird). With Illustrations.
The Irish Timessays:—“‘A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains’ needs no introduction to a public who have known and admired Mrs. Bishop (Isabella L. Bird) as a fearless traveller in the days when it was something of an achievement for a woman to undertake long and remote journeys.”
THE LIFE OF DAVID LIVINGSTONE.ByWilliam Garden Blaikie. With Portrait.
This is the standard biography of the great missionary who will for ever stand pre-eminent among African travellers.
DEEDS OF NAVAL DARING; or, Anecdotes of the British Navy.ByEdward Giffard.
This work contains ninety-three anecdotes, told in everyday language, of such traits of courage and feats of individual daring as may best serve to illustrate the generally received idea of the British sailor's character for “courage verging on temerity.”