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In Two Volumes, 8vo.,

ATHENS: ITS RISE AND FALL:

WITH VIEWS OF THE ARTS, LITERATURE, AND SOCIAL LIFE OF THE ATHENIAN PEOPLE.

By Sir E LYTTON BULWFR, Bart, M.A.,

Anthor of England and the English," "Rienzi," &c.

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"The rise and fall of Athens from the pen of Mr. Bulwer. What a theatre for description! What themes for the graphic narrator! much appland his general tone of moderation and candour. specimens, and other passages, combine a warm feeling of the great or the beautiful with a wakeful sagacity, ever throwing out abundance of new and fine observations." Edinburgh Review.

"Years of labour have not been misspent in the research and consideration of the subject, and the style is worthy of the best names in this elevated part of our national literature." Literary Gazette.

VI.

LADY CHATTERTON'S NEW WORK.

In 3 Vols. Pest 8vo. with Illustrations,

HOME SCENES & FOREIGN RECOLLECTIONS. BY LADY CHATTERTON.

"These volumes are marked at once by talent and refinement." Quarterly Review.

"Lady Chatterton's work displays an acute perception of human nature, and great talent in selecting and applying maxims to the different circumstances of life." Times.

This work may be in truth called a miscellany of polite literature, seasoned throughout with an amiable and sweetly religious spirit." Literary

Gazette.

"One of the most agreeable, picturesque, and readable books of the season." Monthly Chronicle.

"Three more delightful volumes have rarely come under our notice.” Observer.

VII.

CAPTAIN KNOX'S NEW WORK.

In Three Vols. Post 8vo.

LEGENDS OF WESTERN GERMANY.
BY CAPTAIN KNOX

THE BLACK FOREST-THE NECKAR-THE ODENWALDTHE TAUNUS-THE RHINF-AND THE MOSELLE. Captain Knox has provided a rich treat for our tourists. He has embo. died in a series the Legends which are attached to the most picturesque and beautiful scenes of Germany, so that the traveller may at once have before him the past and the present. Whether for the por mantean or the library, Captain Knox's work will prove equally attractive." Chronicle.

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THE SOCIAL INFLUENCE OF DEMOCRACY: THE COMPLETION OF DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA.

By M. A. DE TOCQUEVILLE. Translated by H. REEVE, Esq.

"As a study of political science, this book stands unrivalled in our time," equally remarkable for lucidity of style, acuteness and delicacy of reasoning, and for the moral and intellectual vigour with which it has been conceived and completed." Times.

New Works published by Saunders and Otley.

IX.

JUST PUBLISHED,

In one large volume, octavo, price 21s., Bound and Lettered, with the Arms Beautifully Engraved,

MR. LODGE'S PEERAGE OF THE BRITISH

EMPIRE.

TO WHICH IS ADDED THE BARONETAGE.

THE TENTH EDITION.

Revised and Corrected throughout from the Personal Communications of the Nobility.

This work will be found an important acquisition to all gentlemen and heads of families, and particularly to the learned professions. It answers more readily and satisfactorily than any work previously published, the various questions which continually arise respecting the connexions and relationships of the higher classes. Every page being kept standing in Type and constantly revised by each of the Noble Families, au authenticity and correctness are thus attained which may justly be considered unexampled in se large a mass of Family History, embracing the entire Aristocracy of the British Empire, with their various connexions and Collateral Branches. Every Edition is corrected throughout to the date of publication.

X.

Dedicated, by permission, to Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. IN ONE SMALL VOLUME, BOUND IN SILK, WITH COLOURED PLATES, SEVENTH EDITION, REVISED,

BY THE EDITOR OF "THE FORGET ME NOT."

THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.

"By all these token-flowers that tell

What words can never speak so well," BYRON.

XI.

In One Volume, cloth gilt.

THE BOOK OF SONNETS.

Edited by Miss A. M. WOODFOrd.

Dedicated, by permission, to W. Wordsworth, Esq.

"The sonnet is a beautiful form of poetry, emanating in an impulse like some single flash of light, perfect in itself, and requiring none of the labour of second thoughts and after study. The happiest effort of nearly every poet has been the sonnet, and they well deserved collection and publication, The volume before us is rich in exquisite samples: it includes the choicest specimens, from the earliest to the latest poets. It is a most attractive voTume." Metropolitan.

"An elegant and well-chosen selection, comprising the finest specimens of the English sonnet from Wyatt to Wordswerth." Tail's Magazine.

"The best collection of sonnets that has appeared. Short biographical notices precede the productions of each Poet, and trace clearly the history of each." Spectator.

XII.

MR. READE'S ITALY.
In One Vol. 8vo,

ITALY: A POEM.

WITH HISTORICAL AND CLASSICAL NOTES By J. E. READE, Esq., Author of "CAIN THE WANDERER," &c. "Mr. Reade's 'Italy' may be justly described as the noblest poem that has appeared since the Childe Harold."

Atlas.

Sun.

"The author of this elegant and splendid work has more than fulfilled in his Italy the promises held out by Cain the Wanderer.'" Literary Gaz. "It abounds in passages of uncommon grace and sweetness." "No collection of the poets of our own time can be considered complete without it." Morning Chronicle.

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"Every one who has written or who may write for the press, sess this work." Metropolitan.

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Published monthly,

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A GUIDE TO READERS IN THE CHOICE OF
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HINTS FOR THE FORMATION OF READING AND BOOK SOCIETIES.

With an IMPROVED PLAN for rendering them more extensively avail. able and efficient.

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THE CATALOGUES

of Messrs. SAUNDERS and OTLEY'S extensive Subscription Library, With a view of meeting the in CONDUIT STREET, HANOVER SQUARE. creasing demand for works of a more valuable and standard character than are usually found in Circulating Libraries, the Proprietors have very considerably augmented their collection in HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, DIVINITY, BELLES LETTRES, MORAL and POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, VOYAGES, Travels, &c. Every new PUBLICATION of interest is added immediately it appears: and to assist subscribers in the choice of new works, an analytical list which is furnished published monthly, entitled "THE LIBRARY CIRCULAR. gratuitously. The terms of subscription for the supply of Book Societies and Families throughout England, Scotland, and Treland, may be had Gratis, and Post Free, on application to Messrs. Saunders and Otley, Pub lishers, Conduit Street.

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