THE INSURRECTION IN CHINA.

By Dr. YVAN and M. CALLERY.

With a Supplementary Account of the Most Recent Events. Edited by JOHN OXENFORD.

SECOND EDITION.

Post 8vo, with Fac-simile of Chinese Map, and Portrait of Tièn-tè, the Insurgent Chief. Price 7s. 6d., cloth.

**The Publishers of this Volume having purchased the exclusive right of translating the French work, no other English Translation can appear.

"A curious book, published at an opportune moment; written by the vivacious and intelligent Dr. Yvan, and M. Callery, once a Missionary, and since Interpreter to the French Embassy in China, to which Dr. Yvan was attached as Physician; and giving a lucid account of the origin and progress of the civil war now raging in China, bringing it down to the present day."-Blackwood's Magazine.

"Their narrative is animated by traits of Chinese manners, opinions, and ideas, and by lively reminiscences of the country and some of the actors with whom the authors were personally acquainted."-Spectator.

"With the history of MM. Callery and Yvan, and the official documents furnished by our own authorities, we are now able to form some notion of the extraordinary change going on in China."-Economist.

"The book can scarcely fail to find a curious and interested public."-Athenæum. "A timely and interesting publication, full of most curious and valuable matter.”Examiner.

"The volume is instructive and attractive in a high degree."—Illustrated News. "The Revolution in China is the greatest revolution the world has yet seen.' Times.

MEMORANDUMS MADE IN IRELAND.

By SIR JOHN FORBES, M.D., Author of
"The Physician's Holiday."

Two Vols., Post 8vo, with Illustrations, price 17. Is. cloth.

"A complete handbook of the sister island. If there be any, who, knowing nothing of its social and political condition, meditate a tour in Ireland, the pleasure and profit to be derived from the journey will be much enhanced by a careful study of Dr. Forbes's very sensible observations."-New Quarterly Review.

"The book is excellent, and, like all the writings of its author, points to a gcod purpose. It is honest, thoughtful, liberal, and kindly. By readers of all grades Dr. Forbes's volumes will be read with pleasure."-Examiner.

"Dr. Forbes is evidently possessed of a candid mind, and though he has dealt with polemical matter, he does not write in a sectarian spirit."-Athenæum.

Works of Mr. Ruskin.

I.

THE STONES OF VENICE. Vol. 3. THE FALL.
By JOHN RUSKIN, Esq.,

Author of "Modern Painters," "Seven Lamps of
Architecture," &c.

Imperial 8vo, with 12 Plates Drawn by the Author, price
Il. IIS. 6d., in embossed cloth, with top edge gilt.

THIS VOLUME COMPLETES THE WORK.

"The Stones of Venice' is the production of an earnest, religious, progressive, and informed mind. The author of this essay on architecture has condensed into it a poetic apprehension, the fruit of awe of God, and delight in nature; a knowledge, love, and just estimate of art; a holding fast to fact and repudiation of hearsay; an historic breadth, and a fearless challenge of existing social problems; whose union we know not where to find paralleled."-Spectator.

"One of the most important works on æsthetics ever published in this country; and which not only equals in profundity any single work put forth in modern times upon art, but surpasses in importance any that has heretofore been written upon the subject; inasmuch as the writer is gifted with the rare tact to make profound truths plain to common understandings."-Daily News.

II.

THE STONES OF VENICE. Vol. 2. THE SEA STORIES. By JOHN RUSKIN, Esq.

Imperial 8vo, with 20 Plates, and numerous Wood-cuts, price 27. 25. cloth.

"No one who has studied art in Venice will go through this book without such pleasure as belongs to a revival of some of his warmest admirations, and the refreshment of his most delicious associations. This volume is full of fine things, and of true things."-Athenæum.

"The plates in this volume are all line engravings, most minutely designed and delicately executed; and they familiarize us with some of the most lovely and profuse architectural inventions in the world."-Spectator.

"No one who has visited Venice can read this book without having a richer glow thrown over his remembrances of that city; and for those who have not, Mr. Ruskin paints it with a firmness of outline and vividness of colouring that will bring it before the imagination with the force of reality."-Literary Gazette.

"The whole volume is eloquent and thoughtful, and creative of thought in others. This book is a noble innovation upon the old dead talk of architects, and amateurs in architecture."-Examiner.

"Mr. Ruskin is the first really popular writer we have ever had upon architecture: he is the first writer who has satisfactorily touched upon architectural principles.”— Daily News.

Works of Mr. Ruskin.

III.

THE STONES OF VENICE. Vol. I. THE FOUNDATIONS. With Twenty-One Plates and numerous Woodcuts. Imperial 8vo, 27. 2s. cloth.

"The book before us contains Mr. Ruskin's theory and doctrines of the elements of architecture, applied to the various points of practical building. Throughout is manifest the great aim of inculcating, by every possible form of precept and example, the absolute necessity of preserving an unfailing correspondence between the destinations of buildings, and their forms and decorations. Mr. Ruskin's work cannot be read by any one without improvement to his moral sense and mental discipline. It has an indestructible value. It tells us the truth on much where it greatly imports us to be informed. The eloquence of the book is extraordinary.”—Examiner. "The reputation which Mr. Ruskin has earned by his former works will probably receive a great accession of lustre from The Stones of Venice.' This work may be justly described as his most valuable performance, and fitted to become the most popular of all his productions.”—British Quarterly Review.

"Mr. Ruskin has seized on the great principle that all art is the expression of man's delight in God's work. This is his clue through the universe; holding fast by that, he can never get far wrong. His pursuit of truth is as admirable for its clearsightedness as it is for its honesty."-Eclectic Review.

IV.

MODERN PAINTERS. Imperial 8vo.

Vol. I. Fifth

Edition, 18s. cloth. Vol. II. Third Edition, 10s. 6d. cloth. "Mr. Ruskin's work will send the painter more than ever to the study of nature; will train men who have always been delighted spectators of nature, to be also attentive observers. Our critics will learn to admire, and mere admirers will learn how to criticise: thus a public will be educated."-Blackwood's Magazine.

“A generous and impassioned review of the works of living painters. A hearty and earnest work, full of deep thought, and developing great and striking truths in art."-British Quarterly Review.

"A very extraordinary and delightful book, full of truth and goodness, of power and beauty.""-North British Review.

"One of the most remarkable works on art which has appeared in our time."— Edinburgh Review.

*The Third Volume is in preparation.

V.

With

Imperial 8vo, Il. Is.

THE SEVEN LAMPS OF ARCHITECTURE.
Fourteen Etchings by the Author.

cloth.

"By the 'Seven Lamps of Architecture,' we understand Mr. Ruskin to mean the seven fundamental and cardinal laws, the observance of and obedience to which are indispensable to the architect who would deserve the name. The politician, the moralist, the divine, will find in it ample store of instructive matter, as well as the artist."-Examiner.

Works of Mr. Thackeray.

I.

LECTURES ON THE ENGLISH HUMOURISTS OF THE 18TH CENTURY.

By W. M. THACKERAY, Esq.,

Author of "Esmond," "Vanity Fair," "Pendennis," &c. Second Edition, revised by the Author.

In One Volume, crown 8vo., price 10s. 6d. cloth.

"To those who attended the lectures, the book will be a pleasant reminiscence, to others an exciting novelty. The style-clear, idiomatic, forcible, familiar, but never slovenly; the searching strokes of sarcasm or irony; the occasional flashes of generous scorn; the touches of pathos, pity, and tenderness; the morality tempered but never weakened by experience and sympathy; the felicitous phrases, the striking anecdotes, the passages of wise, practical reflection; all these lose much less than we could have expected from the absence of the voice, manner, and look of the lecturer."Spectator.

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"All who did not hear these lectures will wish to know what kind of talk they were, and how these English humorists and men of genius in past times were described or criticised by a humorist and man of genius in our own. * * What fine things the lectures contain! What eloquent and subtle sayings, what wise and earnest writing! How delightful are their turns of humour; with what a touching effect, in the graver passages, the genuine feeling of the man comes out; and how vividly the thoughts are painted, as it were, in graphic and characteristic words.”— Examiner.

"This is to us by far the most acceptable of Mr. Thackeray's writings. His graphic style, his philosophical spirit, his analytical powers, his large-heartedness, his shrewdness and his gentleness, have all room to exhibit themselves."-Economist.

"These Lectures are rich in all the best qualities of the author's genius, and adapted to awaken and nourish a literary taste thoroughly English."-British Quarterly Review.

"Full of sound, healthy, manly, vigorous writing; sagacious in observation, independent and thoughtful, earnest in sentiment, in style pointed, clear and straightforward."-Westminster Review.

"A valuable addition to our permanent literature: eloquent when the author is serious; brilliant when he is gay: they are charming reading "-Daily Nevs. "Truly beautiful, suggestive essays, on topics fertile in suggestion."-Leader. "The most delightful book that many a day has seen."-Nonconformist.

"One of the most amusing books that we have read for a long time, and one that we think will occupy a lasting place in English literature."-Standard.

Works of Mr. Thackeray.

II.

ESMOND. By W. M. THACKERAY, Esq.,

Author of "VANITY FAIR," "PENDENNIS," &c. Second Edition.

In Three Volumes, Crown 8vo, Price 1l. 11s. 6d. cloth.

"A second edition of Esmond' within a few weeks of the issue of the first, speaks significantly for Mr. Thackeray's growing popularity. Mr. Thackeray

has selected for his hero a very noble type of the cavalier softening into the man of the eighteenth century, and for his heroine one of the sweetest women that ever breathed from canvass or from book, since Raffaelle painted and Shakspeare wrote. Esmond will, we think, rank higher as a work of art than Vanity Fair' or 'Pendennis, because the characters are of a higher type, and drawn with greater finish, and the book is more of a complete whole. The style is manly, clear, terse, and vigorous, reflecting every mood-pathetic, grave, or sarcastic-of the writer."Spectator.

"Once more we feel that we have before us a masculine and thorough English writer, uniting the power of subtle analysis with a strong volition and a moving eloquence-an eloquence which has gained in richness and harmony. His pathos is now sweeter,-less jarred against by angry sarcasm, but perhaps scarcely so powerful. Esmond must be read, not for its characters, but for its romantic though improbable plot, its spirited grouping, and its many thrilling utterances of the anguish of the human heart. Having reached the middle of the first volume, forward' will be the wish of every reader of this highly-wrought work."-Athenæum.

"We have at once to express in the warmest terms of praise our appreciation of the skill and taste with which Esmond' is written. The story of the novel is ingenious and very elegantly constructed, and carried onward so as to gratify constant curiosity until the end. In short, the book thoroughly occupies our minds with a sense of strength on the part of the writer, of which the manifestation is always made gracefully."-Examiner.

"In quiet richness, 'Esmond' mainly resembles the old writers; as it does also in weight of thought, sincerity of purpose, and poetry of the heart and brain. It is wise and sweet in its recesses of thought and feeling; and is more hopeful, consolatory, and kindly than 'Vanity Fair.' Thinking and educated readers will discern in it an immense advance in literary power over Mr. Thackeray's previous writings."-Fraser's Magazine.

A PORTRAIT OF W. M. THACKERAY, Esq. Engraved by Francis Holl, from a Drawing by Samuel Laurence. Engravers' Proofs on India Paper, 21. 25. ; Prints, l. Is.