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Maunder’s Treasury of Knowledge and Library of Reference; comprising an English Dictionary and Grammar, Universal Gazetteer, Classical Dictionary, Chronology, Law Dictionary, Synopsis of the Peerage, Useful Tables, &c.

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Maunder’s Biographical Treasury.

Latest Edition, reconstructed and partly rewritten, with about 1,000 additional Memoirs, by W.L.R. Cates.

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Maunder’s Scientific and Literary Treasury; a Popular Encyclopædia of Science, Literature, and Art.

New Edition, in part rewritten, with above 1,000 new articles, by J.Y. Johnson.

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Maunder’s Treasury of Geography, Physical, Historical, Descriptive, and Political.

Edited by W. Hughes, F.R.G.S.

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Maunder’s Historical Treasury; General Introductory Outlines of Universal History, and a Series of Separate Histories.

Revised by the Rev. G.W. Cox, M.A.

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Maunder’s Treasury of Natural History; or Popular Dictionary of Zoology.

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The Treasury of Bible Knowledge; being a Dictionary of the Books, Persons, Places, Events, and other Matters of which mention is made in Holy Scripture.

By Rev. J. Ayre, M.A.

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The Theory and Practice of Banking.

By H.D. Macleod, M.A.

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The Elements of Banking.

By Henry Dunning Macleod, Esq. M.A.

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Modern Cookery for Private Families, reduced to a System of Easy Practice in a Series of carefully-tested Receipts.

By Eliza Acton.

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A Practical Treatise on Brewing; with Formulæ for Public Brewers, and Instructions for Private Families.

By W. Black.

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English Chess Problems.

Edited by J. Pierce, M.A. and W.T. Pierce.

With 608 Diagrams. Crown 8vo. 12s. 6d.

The Theory of the Modern Scientific Game of Whist.

By W. Pole, F.R.S.

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The Correct Card; or, How to Play at Whist: a Whist Catechism.

By Captain A. Campbell-Walker.

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The Cabinet Lawyer; a Popular Digest of the Laws of England, Civil, Criminal, and Constitutional.

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Pewtner’s Comprehensive Specifier; a Guide to the Practical Specification of every kind of Building-Artificer’s Work.

Edited by W. Young.

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Chess Openings.

By F.W. Longman, Balliol College, Oxford.

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Hints to Mothers on the Management of their Health during the Period of Pregnancy and in the Lying-in Room.

By Thomas Bull, M.D.

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The Maternal Management of Children in Health and Disease.

By Thomas Bull, M.D.

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INDEX.

Acton’s Modern Cookery, 40

Aird’s Blackstone Economised, 39

Airy’s Hebrew Scriptures, 29

Alpine Club Map of Switzerland, 34

Alpine Guide (The), 34

Amos’s Jurisprudence, 10

—— Primer of the Constitution, 10

Anderson’s Strength of Materials, 20

Armstrong’s Organic Chemistry, 20

Arnold’s (Dr.) Christian Life, 29

—— Lectures on Modern History, 2

—— Miscellaneous Works, 13

—— School Sermons, 29

—— Sermons, 29

—— (T.) Manual of English Literature, 12

Atherstone Priory, 36

Autumn Holidays of a Country Parson, 14

Ayre’s Treasury of Bible Knowledge, 39

Bacon’s Essays, by Whately, 11

—— Life and Letters, by Spedding, 11

—— Works, 10

Bain’s Mental and Moral Science, 12

—— on the Senses and Intellect, 12

—— Emotions and Will, 12

Baker’s Two Works on Ceylon, 34

Ball’s Guide to the Central Alps, 34

—— Guide to the Western Alps, 35

—— Guide to the Eastern Alps, 34

Bancroft’s Native Races of the Pacific, 23

Barry on Railway Appliances, 20

Becker’s Charicles and Gallus, 35

Black’s Treatise on Brewing, 40

Blackley’s German-English Dictionary, 16

Blaine’s Rural Sports, 37

Bloxam’s Metals, 20

Boultbee on 39 Articles, 29

Bourne’s Catechism of the Steam Engine, 27

—— Handbook of Steam Engine, 27

—— Treatise on the Steam Engine, 27

—— Improvements in the same, 27

Bowdler’s Family Shakspeare, 37

Bramley-Moore’s Six Sisters of the Valley, 36

Brande’s Dictionary of Science, Literature, and Art, 23

Brinkley’s Astronomy, 12

Browne’s Exposition of the 39 Articles, 29

Buckle’s History of Civilisation, 3

—— Posthumous Remains, 12

Buckton’s Health in the House, 24

Bull’s Hints to Mothers, 40

—— Maternal Management of Children, 40

Burgomaster’s Family (The), 34

Burke’s Rise of Great Families, 8

—— Vicissitudes of Families, 8

Busk’s Folk-lore of Rome, 35

—— Valleys of Tirol, 33

Cabinet Lawyer, 40

Campbell’s Norway, 35

Cates’s Biographical Dictionary, 8

—— and Woodward’s Encyclopædia, 5

Changed Aspects of Unchanged Truths, 14

Chesney’s Indian Polity, 3

—— Modern Military Biography, 4

—— Waterloo Campaign, 3

Codrington’s Life and Letters, 7

Colenso on Moabite Stone &c., 32

——’s Pentateuch and Book of Joshua, 32

Collier’s Demosthenes on the Crown, 13

Commonplace Philosopher in Town and Country, by A. K. H. B., 14

Comte’s Positive Polity, 8

Congreve’s Essays, 9

—— Politics of Aristotle, 11

Conington’s Translation of Virgil’s Æneid, 37

—— Miscellaneous Writings, 13

Contanseau’s Two French Dictionaries, 15

Conybeare and Howson’s Life and Epistles of St. Paul, 30

Corneille’s Le Cid, 36

Counsel and Comfort from a City Pulpit, 14

Cox’s (G.W.) Aryan Mythology, 4

—— Crusades, 6

—— History of Greece, 4

—— General History of Greece, 4

—— School ditto, 4

—— Tale of the Great Persian War, 4

—— Tales of Ancient Greece, 36

Crawley’s Thucydides, 4

Creighton’s Age of Elizabeth, 6

Cresy’s Encyclopædia of Civil Engineering, 27

Critical Essays of a Country Parson, 14

Crookes’s Chemical Analysis, 25

—— Dyeing and Calico-printing, 28

Culley’s Handbook of Telegraphy, 27

Davidson’s Introduction to the New Testament, 31

D’Aubignè’s Reformation, 31

De Caisne and Le Maout’s Botany, 24

De Morgan’s Paradoxes, 13

De Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, 9

Disraeli’s Lord George Bentinck, 8

Disraeli’s Novels and Tales, 35

Dobson on the Ox, 38

Dove’s Law of Storms, 18

Doyle’s (R.) Fairyland, 25

Eastlake’s Hints on Household Taste, 26

Edwards’s Rambles among the Dolomites, 34

—— Nile, 32

Elements of Botany, 23

Ellicott’s Commentary on Ephesians, 30

—— —— —— Galatians, 30

—— —— —— Pastoral Epist., 30

—— —— —— Philippians, &c., 30

—— —— —— Thessalonians, 30

—— Lectures on Life of Christ, 29

Elsa: a Tale of the Tyrolean Alps, 36

Evans’ (J.) Ancient Stone Implements, 23

—— (A.J.) Bosnia, 33

Ewald’s History of Israel, 30

—— Antiquities of Israel, 31

Fairbairn’s Application of Cast and Wrought Iron to Building, 27

—— Information for Engineers, 27

—— Life, 7

—— Treatise on Mills and Millwork, 27

Farrar’s Chapters on Language, 13

—— Families of Speech, 13

Fitzwygram on Horses and Stables, 38

Forbes’s Two Years in Fiji, 33

Francis’s Fishing Book, 37

Freeman’s Historical Geography of Europe, 6

Freshfield’s Italian Alps, 33

Froude’s English in Ireland, 2

—— History of England, 2

—— Short Studies, 12

Gairdner’s Houses of Lancaster and York, 6

Ganot’s Elementary Physics, 20

—— Natural Philosophy, 19

Gardiner’s Buckingham and Charles, 3

—— Thirty Years’ War, 6

Geffcken’s Church and State, 10

German Home Life, 13

Gibson’s Religion and Science, 29

Gilbert & Churchill’s Dolomites, 34

Girdlestone’s Bible Synonyms, 29

Goodeve’s Mechanics, 20

—— Mechanism, 20

Grant’s Ethics of Aristotle, 11

Graver Thoughts of a Country Parson, 14

Greville’s Journal, 2

Griffin’s Algebra and Trigonometry, 20

Grohman’s Tyrol and the Tyrolese, 32

Grove (Sir W.R.) on Correlation of Physical Forces, 19

—— (F.C.) The Frosty Caucasus, 32

Gwilt’s Encyclopædia of Architecture, 26

Harrison’s Order and Progress, 9

Hartley on the Air, 19

Hartwig’s Aerial World, 22

—— Polar World, 22

—— Sea and its Living Wonders, 22

—— Subterranean World, 22

—— Tropical World, 22

Haughton’s Animal Mechanics, 20

Hayward’s Biographical and Critical Essays, 7

Heathcote’s Fen and Mere, 28

Heine’s Life and Works, by Stigand, 7

Helmholtz on Tone, 23

Helmholtz’s Scientific Lectures, 19

Helmsley’s Trees, Shrubs, and Herbaceous Plants, 24

Herschel’s Outlines of Astronomy, 18

Hinchliff’s Over the Sea and Far Away, 33

Holland’s Fragmentary Papers, 21

Holms on the Army, 4

Hullah’s History of Modern Music, 23

—— Transition Period, 23

Hume’s Essays, 12

—— Treatise on Human Nature, 12

Ihne’s History of Rome, 5

Indian Alps, 32

Ingelow’s Poems, 37

Jameson’s Legends of Saints and Martyrs, 26

—— Legends of the Madonna, 26

—— Legends of the Monastic Orders, 26

—— Legends of the Saviour, 26

Jelf on Confession, 30

Jenkin’s Electricity and Magnetism, 20

Jerram’s Lycidas of Milton, 35

Jerrold’s Life of Napoleon, 2

Johnston’s Geographical Dictionary, 17

Jukes’s Types of Genesis, 31

—— on Second Death, 31

Kalisch’s Commentary on the Bible, 30

Keith’s Evidence of Prophecy, 30

Kerl’s Metallurgy, by Crookes and Röhrig, 27

Kingsley’s American Lectures, 13

Kirby and Spence’s Entomology, 21

Kirkman’s Philosophy, 11

Knatchbull-Hugessen’s Whispers from Fairy-Land, 35

—— Higgledy-Piggledy, 35

Lamartine’s Toussaint Louverture, 36

Landscapes, Churches, &c. by A. K. H. B., 14

Lang’s Ballads and Lyrics, 36

Latham’s English Dictionary, 15

—— Handbook of the English Language, 15

Laughton’s Nautical Surveying, 19

Lawrence on Rocks, 22

Lecky’s History of European Morals, 5

—— —— —— Rationalism, 5

—— Leaders of Public Opinion, 8

Lee’s Kesslerloch, 22

Lefroy’s Bermudas, 33

Leisure Hours in Town, by A. K. H. B., 14

Lessons of Middle Age, by A. K. H. B., 14

Lewes’s Biographical History of Philosophy, 6

Lewis on Authority, 12

Liddell and Scott’s Greek-English Lexicons, 16

Lindley and Moore’s Treasury of Botany, 23

Lloyd’s Magnetism, 21

—— Wave-Theory of Light, 21

Longman’s (F.W.) Chess Openings, 40

—— German Dictionary, 15

—— (W.) Edward the Third, 2

—— Lectures on History of England, 2

—— Old and New St. Paul’s, 26

London’s Encyclopædia of Agriculture, 28

—— Gardening, 28

—— Plants, 24

Lubbock’s Origin of Civilisation, 22

Lyra Germanica, 32

Macaulay’s (Lord) Essays, 1

—— History of England, 1

—— Lays of Ancient Rome, 25, 36

—— Life and Letters, 7

—— Miscellaneous Writings, 12

—— Speeches, 12

—— Works, 2

McCulloch’s Dictionary of Commerce, 16

Macleod’s Principles of Economical Philosophy, 10

—— Theory and Practice of Banking, 39

—— Elements of Banking, 39

Mademoiselle Mori,, 36

Malet’s Annals of the Road, 37

Malleson’s Genoese Studies, 3

—— Native States of India, 3

Marshall’s Physiology, 25

Marshman’s History of India, 3

—— Life of Havelock, 8

Martineau’s Christian Life, 32

—— Hymns, 31

Maunder’s Biographical Treasury, 39

—— Geographical Treasury, 39

—— Historical Treasury, 39

—— Scientific and Literary Treasury, 39

—— Treasury of Knowledge, 39

—— Treasury of Natural History, 39

Maxwell’s Theory of Heat, 20

May’s History of Democracy, 2

—— History of England, 2

Melville’s Digby Grand, 36

—— General Bounce, 36

—— Gladiators, 36

—— Good for Nothing, 36

—— Holmby House, 36

—— Interpreter, 36

—— Kate Coventry, 36

—— Queens Maries, 36

Menzies’ Forest Trees and Woodland Scenery, 24

Merivale’s Fall of the Roman Republic, 5

—— General History of Rome, 4

—— Romans under the Empire, 4

Merrifield’s Arithmetic and Mensuration, 20

Miles on Horse’s Foot and Horse Shoeing, 38

—— on Horse’s Teeth and Stables, 38

Mill (J.) on the Mind, 10

—— (J.S.) on Liberty, 9

—— on Representative Government, 9

—— Utilitarianism, 9

—— Autobiography, 7

Mill’s Dissertations and Discussions, 9

—— Essays on Religion &c., 29

—— Hamilton’s Philosophy, 9

—— System of Logic, 9

—— Political Economy, 9

—— Unsettled Questions, 9

Miller’s Elements of Chemistry, 24

—— Inorganic Chemistry, 20

Minto’s (Lord) Life and Letters, 7

Mitchell’s Manual of Assaying, 28

Modern Novelist’s Library, 36

Monsell’s ‘Spiritual Songs’, 32

Moore’s Irish Melodies, illustrated, 26

Morant’s Game Preservers, 22

Morell’s Elements of Psychology, 11

—— Mental Philosophy, 11

Müller’s Chips from a German Workshop, 13

—— Science of Language, 13

—— Science of Religion, 5

Nelson on the Moon, 18

New Reformation, by Theodorus, 4

New Testament, Illustrated Edition, 25

Northcott’s Lathes and Turning, 26

O'Conor’s Commentary on Hebrews, 31

—— Romans, 31

—— St. John, 31

Owen’s Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of Vertebrate Animals, 21

Packe’s Guide to the Pyrenees, 35

Paget’s Naval Powers, 28

Pattison’s Casaubon, 7

Payen’s Industrial Chemistry, 26

Pewtner’s Comprehensive Specifier, 40

Pierce’s Chess Problems, 40

Plunket’s Travels in the Alps, 33

Pole’s Game of Whist, 40

Preece & Sivewright’s Telegraphy, 20

Prendergast’s Mastery of Languages, 16

Present-Day Thoughts, by A. K. H. B., 14

Proctor’s Astronomical Essays, 17

—— Moon, 17

—— Orbs around Us, 18

—— Other Worlds than Ours, 18

—— Saturn, 17

—— Scientific Essays (New Series), 21

—— Sun, 17

—— Transits of Venus, 17

—— Two Star Atlases, 18

—— Universe, 17

Public Schools Atlas of Ancient Geography, 17

—— Atlas of Modern Geography, 17

—— Manual of Modern Geography, 17

Rawlinson’s Parthia, 5

—— Sassanians, 5

Recreations of a Country Parson, 14

Redgrave’s Dictionary of Artists, 25

Reilly’s Map of Mont Blanc, 34

—— Monte Rosa, 34

Reresby’s Memoirs, 8

Reynardson’s Down the Road, 37

Rich’s Dictionary of Antiquities, 15

River’s Rose Amateur’s Guide, 23

Rogers’s Eclipse of Faith, 30

—— Defence of Eclipse of Faith, 30

—— Essays, 9

Roget’s Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, 15

Ronald’s Fly-Fisher’s Entomology, 38

Roscoe’s Outlines of Civil Procedure, 10

Rothschild’s Israelites, 30

Russell’s Recollections and Suggestions, 2

Sandars’s Justinian’s Institutes, 10

Savile on Apparitions, 13

—— on Primitive Faith, 30

Schellen’s Spectrum Analysis, 19

Scott’s Lectures on the Fine Arts, 25

—— Poems, 25

—— Papers on Civil Engineering, 28

Seaside Musing, by A. K. H. B., 14

Seebohm’s Oxford Reformers of 1498, 4

—— Protestant Revolution, 6

Sewell’s Questions of the Day, 31

—— Preparation for Communion, 31

—— Stories and Tales, 36

—— Thoughts for the Age, 31

—— History of France, 3

Shelley’s Workshop Appliances, 20

Short’s Church History, 6

Simpson’s Meeting the Sun, 34

Smith’s (Sydney) Essays, 12

—— Wit and Wisdom, 13

—— (Dr. R.A.) Air and Rain, 19