Wilson.
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A MEMOIR OF GEORGE WILSON, M. D., F.R.S.E., Regius Professor of Technology in the University of Edinburgh.  By his SISTER.  New Edition.  Crown 8vo. 6_s_.

“An exquisite and touching portrait of a rare and beautiful spirit.” Guardian.

Wilson (Daniel, LL.D.).
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PREHISTORIC ANNALS OF SCOTLAND.  By Daniel Wilson, LL.D., Professor of History and English Literature in University College, Toronto.  New Edition, with numerous Illustrations.  Two vols. demy 8vo. 36_s_.

This elaborate and learned work is divided into four Parts.  Part I. deals with The Primeval or Stone Period:  Aboriginal Traces, Sepulchral Memorials, Dwellings, and Catacombs, Temples, Weapons, &c. &c.; Part II., The Bronze Period:  The Metallurgic Transition, Primitive Bronze, Personal Ornaments, Religion, Arts, and Domestic Habits, with other topics; Part III., The Iron Period:  The Introduction of Iron, The Roman Invasion, Strongholds, &c. &c.; Part IV., The Christian Period:  Historical Data, the Norrie’s Law Relics, Primitive and Mediaeval Ecclesiology, Ecclesiastical and Miscellaneous Antiquities.  The work is furnished with an elaborate Index.

PREHISTORIC MAN.  New Edition, revised and partly re-written, with numerous Illustrations.  One vol. 8vo. 21_s_.

This work, which carries out the principle of the preceding one, but with a wider scope, aims to “view Man, as far as possible, unaffected by those modifying influences which accompany the development of nations and the maturity of a true historic period, in order thereby to ascertain the sources from whence such development and maturity proceed.”  It contains, for example, chapters on the Primeval Transition; Speech; Metals; the Mound-Builders; Primitive Architecture; the American Type; the Red Blood of the West, &c. &c.

SECTION II.
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POETRY AND BELLES LETTRES.

Allingham.
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—­LAWRENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND; or, the New Landlord.  By William Allingham.  New and cheaper issue, with a Preface.  Fcap. 8vo. cloth, 4_s_. 6_d_.

In the new Preface, the state of Ireland, with special reference to the Church measure, is discussed.

“It is vital with the national character....  It has something of Pope’s point and Goldsmiths simplicity, touched to a more modern issue.”—­ATHENAEUM.

Arnold (Matthew).
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—­POEMS. By Matthew Arnold.  Two vols.  Extra fcap. 8vo. cloth, 12_s_.  Also sold separately at 6_s_. each.

Volume I. contains Narrative and Elegiac Poems; Volume II.  Dramatic and Lyric Poems.  The two volumes comprehend the First and Second Series of the Poems, and the New Poems.

NEW POEMS. Extra fcap. 8vo. 6_s_. 6_d_.

In this volume will be found “Empedocles on Etna”; “Thyrsis” (written in commemoration of the late Professor Clough); “Epilogue to Lessing’s Laocooen;” “Heine’s Grave”; “Obermann once more.”  All these poems are also included in the Edition (two vols.) above-mentioned.