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Earthward Pilgrimage (The). By Moncure D. Conway, the eminent Unitarian Minister, and friend of Emerson. Crown 8vo, 400 pages, cloth neat, 7. 6d.

**This volume has excited considerable discussion, as it advances many entirely new views upon the life hereafter. The titles to some of the chapters will convey an idea of the contents of the work :-"How I left the world to come for that which is."

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Dickens's Speeches, Literary and Social. Now first With Coapters ou "Charles Dickens as a Letter Writer, Poet, and Public Reader." This day, price 73. 6d., with fiue Portrait by Count D'Orsay, 370 pages.

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***"His capital speeches. Every one of them reads like a page of Pick wick.'"-The Critic.

"His speeches are as good as any of his printed writings."-The Times.

-Ib.- Uniform with The "CHARLES DICKENS EDITION," and forming a supplementary volume to that favourite issue, crimson cloth, 3s. 6d.

Cheap edition, without portrait, in paper wrapper, 28.

Madge and the Fairy Content. A Charming

Child's Story. By BLANCHARD JERROLD. Intended to inculcate a Spirit of Contentment. With nearly 100 Pictures of the Industry requisite to produce the Christmas Pudding. 49. 6d.

A Third Supply of Yankee Drolleries, comprising the best recent Works of American Humorists. A. WARD'S FENIANS; MARK TWAIN; AUTOCRAT BREAKFAST TABLE; BRET HARTE; INNOCENTS ABROAD. With an Introduction by GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA, Crown 8vo, 700 pages, cloth extra, 39. 6d.

An entirely new gathering of Transatlantic humour.

copies have been sold of the 1st and 2nd series.

Fourteen thousand

John Camden Hotten, 74 and 75, Piccadilly, W.

UNIFORM WITH MR. RUSKIN'S EDITION OF "GERMAN› POPULAR STORIES."

New Book of Delightful Tales.-"Family Fairy Tales;" or, Glimpses of Elfland at Heatherston Hall." Edited by CHOLMONDELEY PENNELL, Author of "Puck on Pegasus," &c., adorned with beautiful pictures of "My Lord Lion," "King Uggermugger," and other great folks. Handsomely printed on toned paper, in cloth, green and gold, price 4s. 6d. plain, 5s. 6d. coloured.

***This charming volume has been universally praised by the critical press.

The Rosicrucians; their Rites and Mysteries. With Chapters on the Ancient Fire- and Serpent-Worshippers, and Explanations of the Mystic Symbols represented in the Monuments and Talismans of the Primeval Philosophers. By HARGRAVE JENNINGS. IOS. 6d.

***A volume of startling facts and opinions upon this very mysterious subject, illustrated by nearly 300 engravings.

"Curious as many of Mr. Hotten's works have been, the volume now under notice is, among them all, perhaps the most remarkable. The work purports to describe the Rites and Mysteries of the Rosicrucians. It dilates on the ancient Fire and Serpent Worshippers. The author has certainly devoted an enormous amount of labour to these memorials of the ROSE-CROSS-otherwise the Rosicrucians."- The Sun, 21st March, 1870,

Gustave Dore's Favourite Pencil Sketches.-Historical Cartoons; or, Rough Pencillings of the World's History from the First to the Nineteenth Century. By GUSTAVE DORE. With admirable letterpress descriptions by THOMAS WRIGHT, F.S.A. Oblong 4to, handsome table book, 7s. 6d.

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*** A new book of daring and inimitable designs, which will excite considerable attention, and doubtless command a wide circulation.

Captain Castagnette. His Surprising, almost Incredible Adventures. 4to, with GUSTAVE DORE's Illustrations. Is. 9d. (sells at 58.)

DIRECT APPLICATION must be made to Mr. Hotten for this book.

Cent. per Cent. A Story written upon a Bill Stamp. By BLANCHARD JERROLD. With numerous coloured illustrations in the style of the late Mr. Leech's charming designs, price 7s. 6d.

*** A Story of "The Vampires of London," as they were pithily termed in a recent notorious case, and one of undoubted interest.

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The Conscript. A Story of the French and German War of 1813. Translated from the French of MM. ERCKMANN CHATRIAL. Feap.. Is.

*An authorized and unmutilated popular edition of this now famous work. The translations, hitherto published in this country and in America, can b. regarded as little more than abridgments.

Napoleon II., The Man of his Time:

PART I.-The Story of the Life of Napoleon III., as told by JAS. W
HASWELL.

PART II.-The Same Story, as told by the PoPULAR CARICATURES O.
the past 25 years.

Crown 8vo, 400 pages, 7. 63.

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The object of this Work is to give both sides of the Story. The Artist has gone over the entire ground of Continental and English Caricatures for the last quarter of a century, and a very interesting book is the result.

Bismarck, the Great German Statesman. The Story

OF HIS CAREER, told for Popular Reading. By Mr. GEO. BULLEN, of the British Museum.. Fcap., 19.

An admirable account of the "Man of Blood and Iron;" giving numerous very characteristic anecdotes.

Echoes from the French Poets. An Anthology from BAUDELAIRE, ALFRED DE MUSSET, LAMARTINE, VICTOR HUGO, A. CHENIER, T. GAUTIER, BERANGER, NADAUD, DUPONT, PARNY, and others. By HARRY CURWEN. Fcap. 8vo, clotb, 58.; half-morocco, 63. "A pleasant little volume of translations from modern French poets."-Graphic, Aug. 20, 1870.

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NEW SOCIETY BOOK,
By the Author of "Puniana."

Gamosagammon; or, Advice to Parties about to Connubialize. By the Hon. Hugh Rowley. With numerous exquisite and fanciful designs from his pencil. Small 4'0, green and gold, 6s.

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The Quaintest, Funniest, most Original Book published for a long time. Three years since it was announced under the title of "Advice to Parties about to Marry."

Country-House Charades, for Acting. By Captain E. C. Nugent. With Illustrations by W. R. Snow. Small 4'0, green and gold, 6s.

**An entirely new book of Household Amusements. An Appendix gives the various Songs set to Music for accompaniment upon the Pianoforte.

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Cruikshank's Comic Almanack. A nine years' gathering of the BEST HUMOUR. the WITTIEST SAYINGS the Drollest Quips, and the Best Things of THACKERAY. HOOD, MAYHEW, ALBERT SMITH, A'BECKETT, ROBERT BROUGH. With nearly one thousand Woodcuts and Steel Engravings by the inimitable CRUIKSHANK, HINE, LANDELLS. Crown 8vo, 600 pp., 7s. 63.

John Camden Hotten, 74 and 75, Piccadilly, W.

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NEW SERIES OF ILLUSTRATED HUMOROUS NOVELS.

1. The Story of a Honeymoon. By CHAS. H. Ross and AMBROSE CLARKE. With numerous Illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 6s.

An inimitable story of the adventures and troubles of a newly-married couple. Not unlike Mr. Burnand's "Happy Thoughts."

2. Cent. per Cent. A Story written upon a Bill Stamp. By BLANCHARD JERROLD. With numerous coloured Illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 6s.

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A capital novei, "intended not only for City readers, but for all interested in money matters." "-Athenæum.

The Genial Showman; or, Adventures with Artemus WARD, and the Story of his Life. 2 vols., crown 8vo, illustrated by BRUNTON, 218.

**This is a most interesting work. It gives Sketches of Show-Life in the Far West, on the Pacific Coast, among the Mines of California, in Salt Lake City, and across the Rocky Moun'sins; Including chapters descriptive of Artemus Ward's visit to England.

John Camden Hotten, 74 and 75, Piccadilly, W.

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