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CHAT TO & WIND US, PICCADILLY, 17 Crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, with Illustrations, Js. 6d. Greenwood's Wilds of London: Descriptive Sketches, from Personal Observations and Experience, of Remarkable Scenes, People, and Places in London. By JAMES GREENWOOD. With 12 Tinted Illustrations by ALFRED CONCANEN. "" Mr. James Greenwood presents himself once more in the character of ' one ivhose delight it is to do his humble endeavour towards exposing and extirpating cocial abuses and those hole-and-corner evils -which afflict society.' " SATURDAY RKVIHW. Large 4to, price ONE GUINEA, with 14 facsimile plates. The Grosvenor Gallery Illustrated Cata- logiie Winter Exhibition (1877-78) of Drawings by the Old Masters and Water-Colour Drawings by Deceased Artists of the British School. With a Critical Introduction by J. COMYNS CARR. " Turning to Mr. COMYNS CARR'S essay on the drawings of the Italian Mas- ters, we may say that it is undeniably the most finished piece of critical writing that has fallen from his hand." ACADEMY. " Mr. COMYNS CARR'S Illustrated Catalogue of the Grosvenor Gallery Exhi- bition of Drawings last year, with his admirable introduction and careful phots- graphic illustrations. It costs a guinea, and is worth a great deal more. Ex- qiiisite alike in its text and its illustrations." PUNCH. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 6s. Hake 's New Symbols : Poems. By THOMAS GORDON HAKE. " The entire book breathes a pure and ennobling influence, shows welcome originality of idea and illustration, and yields the highest proof of imaginative faculty and mature power of expression." ATHENAEUM. ' Medium 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, with Illustrations, is. 6d. Hall's (Mrs. S. C.J Sketches of Irish Character. With numerous Illustrations on Steel and Wood by DANIEL MACLISE, Sir JOHN GILBERT, W. HARVEY, and G. CRUIKSHANK. " The Irish Sketches of this lady resemble Miss Mitford's beautiful English Sketches in ' Our Village,' but they are far more vigorous and picturesque and bright." -BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. Small 8vo, cloth limp, with Illustrations, 2s. 6d. The House of Life ; HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY, with its Applications to the Preservation of Health. For use in Classes, and Popular Reading. With numerous Illustrations. By Mrs. F. FENWICK MILLER.