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Page 16 - ROGER OF WENDOVER'S Flowers of History, comprising the History of England from the Descent of the Saxons to AD 1235, formerly ascribed to Matthew Paris.
Page 439 - BOND'S A Handy Book of Rules and Tables for verifying Dates with the Christian Era, &c. Giving an account of the Chief Eras and Systems used by various Nations ; with the easy Methods for determining the Corresponding Dates. By JJ Bond. 5*. BONOMI'S Nineveh and Its Palaces. 7 Plates and 294 Woodcut Illustrations. 5.'.
Page 18 - SHARPE (S.) The History of Egypt, from the Earliest Times till the Conquest by the Arabs, AD 640.
Page 17 - Robbers ( with Schiller's original Preface), Fiesco, Love and Intrigue, Demetrius, Ghost Seer, Sport of Divinity. The Dramas in this volume are translated into Prose.
Page 4 - Christian Iconography: a History of Christian Art in the Middle Ages. Translated by EJ Millington and completed by Margaret Stokes. With 240 Illustrations. 2 vols. S*. each. DIOGENES LAERTIUS. Lives and Opinions of the Ancient Philosophers. Translated by Prof. CD Yonge, MA 5*.
Page 440 - D'Arblay). With an Introduction and Notes by AR' Ellis, y. 6d. Cecilia. With an Introduction and Notes by AR Ellis. 2 vols. y. 6d. each. BURN (R ) Ancient Rome and Its Neighbourhood.
Page 439 - Introduction to the Old Testament. By Friedrich Bleek. Edited by Johann Bleek and Adolf Kamphausen. Translated by GH Venables, under the supervision of the Rev. Canon Venables. 2 vols. 5*.
Page 7 - Travel-Pictures, including the Tour in the Harz, Norderney, and Book of Ideas, together with the Romantic School. Translated by Francis Storr.
Page 13 - MUDIE'S British Birds ; or, History of the Feathered Tribes of the British Islands. Revised by W. CL Martin. With 52 Figures of Birds and 7 Coloured Plates of Eggs. 2 vols. NEANDER (Dr. A.). History of the Christian Religion and Church. Trans, from the German byj.
Page 25 - This excellent edition of the English classics, with their complete texts and scholarly introductions, are something very different from the cheap volumes of extracts which are just now so much too common/ — St.