CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS'
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Nimrod in Mashunaland.

Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa.

Being the narrative of the last eleven years spent on the Zambesi and its tributaries; with an account of the colonization of Mashunaland and the progress of the gold industry in that country. By FREDERICK COURTNEY SELOUS, C. M. Z. S. With numerous illustrations and map. 500 pp., square 8vo, $10.00 net. The most brilliant volume of hunting adventure which has been published since Gordon Cumming. It is filled with thrilling narratives of big game shooting, and pioneering among the natives in the wildest parts of Africa. It is especially timely in its account of Mashunaland.

Esquemeling's Buccaneers of America:

A True Account of the Most Remarkable Assaults Committed of Late Years upon the Coasts of the West Indies by the Buccaneers of Jamaica and Tortuga (both English and French). By JOHN ESQUEMELING, one of the Buccaneers who was present at those Tragedies (1684-5). Edited in Modern English by HENRY POWELL. With maps, plates of sieges, etc., and portraits. Includes the very scarce Fourth Part, comprising the Dangerous Voyage and Bold Assaults of Capt. Bartholomew Sharp and Others. Royal 8vo, $5.00.

Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp, 1882-1892.

From the original manuscripts of Father Joseph Ohrwalder, late Priest of the Austrian Mission Station at Delen, Kordofan. By Major F. R. WINGATE, R.A. Fully illustrated, revised, and condensed. Tenth edition. Crown 8vo, $2.co.

"A book of very unusual and manifold interest and value. In the first place, it is an interesting book to read; in the second, it is an historical document of the first importance; and in the third, it has an extraordinary appositeness at the present moment."-Saturday Review.

The Siege of Lucknow :

A Diary by the Hon. Lady INGLIS. With map. New and cheaper edition. Crown 8vo, $1.25. "A noble record of one of the most heroic deeds of history."-London Spectator.

The Book of Good Counsels.

From the Sanscrit of the Hitopadesa. By Sir EDWIN
ARNOLD, M. A., K.C.I.E., C. S.I., author of "The
Light of Asia,' "The Light of the World," etc.
With illustrations by GORDON BROWNE. Crown
Svo, antique gilt top, $2.50.

Hafiz.

A Selection from the Diwan of Hafiz of Sheraz,
rendered into English Prose by JUSTIN HUNTLY
MCCARTHY, translator of the Quatrains of Omar
Khayyam. 16m0, about 180 pp., $2.00 net.

Memorable

Things Chinese.

Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with
China. By J. D. BALL. 8vo, $3.00.

"Things Chinese' gives more information on various sub jects connected with China than all the previous publications in the same direction combined."-Hong Kong Telegraph.

Pastorals of France-Renunciations.
A volume of stories comprising "A Last Love of
Pornic," "Yvonne of Croisic," "The Four Bells of
Chartres," "A Chemist in the Suburbs," "A Con-
fidence at the Saville," "The North Coast and
Eleanor." By FREDERICK WEDMORE. Title-page
by J. FULLEYLOVE, “R. I. Crown 8vo, $2.00.
Paris Houses:

With Illustrative, Critical, and Anecdotal Notices. By WILMOT HARRISON, author of "Memorable London
Houses."
With over 60 original illustrations of celebrities and their houses from drawings made expressly
for this work by Paris artists. Crown Svo, $2 25.

The Paris Law Courts:

Sketches of Men and Manners. Translated from the French by GERALD P. MORIARTY, of Balliol College, Oxford. With 140 illustrations. Demy 8vo, $3.75.

The Founders of Old Testament Criticism.

By T. K. CHEYNE, D.D., Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture at Oxford. Large crown 80, $2.00 net.

"The volume is one of great interest and value. It displays all the author's well-known ability and learning, and its opportune publication has laid all students of theology, and specially of Bible criticism, under weighty obligation."-Scotsman.

Books About Books.

A series of six volumes, arranged and edited by ALFRED POLLARD, intended to give in a convenient form information on all the chief points which invest old books in the eyes of their lovers and collectors with an interest unattainable by modern reprints. Each with numerous illustrations. Crown 8vo, per vol., $2.50. The Great Book Collectors. By C. L. and M. A. ELTON.

Early Printed Books. By E. G. DUFF.
Early Illustrated Books. By A. W. POLLARD.
Book Bindings. By H. P. HORNE.

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS' NEW IMPORTATIONS.

Abridged edition of the late Mr. J. A. Symonds's “Renaissance in Italy."
A Short History of the Renaissance in Italy.

Taken from the work of John Addington Symonds. By Lieutenant-Colonel ALFRED PEARSON.
engraving of a recent portrait of Mr. Symonds. Demy 8vo, $3.75.

Symonds's Essays: Speculative and Suggestive. By JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS. New edition. In one volume. Demy 8vo, $3.00.

With a steel

"They are written by men of considerable knowledge of the subjects they have undertaken to discuss; they are concise; they give a fair estimate of the progress which recent discussion has added toward the solution of the pressing social questions of to-day, and are well up to date."-Westminster Review.

NEARLY READY.

SOCIALISM: ITS GROWTH AND ITS OUTCOME. By WILLIAM MORRIS and E. BELFOrt Bax. "A continuous sketch of the development of history in relation to Socialism. Our plan necessarily deals with the aspirations of Socialists now living toward the Society of the future. The work has been in the true sense of the word a collaboration, each sentence having been considered by both the authors in common."-From the Preface.

Ferdinand Lassalle. By E. BERNSTEIN.

JUST PUBLISHED.

The New Reformation and its Relation to Moral and
Social Questions. By R. BALENFORTH.

The Agricultural Labourer. By T. E. KEBBEL.

England's Foreign Trade in the Nineteenth Century.
Drunkenness. By GEORGE R. WILSON.

The Eight Hours Question. By JOHN M. ROBERTSON.
The Emancipation of Women. By A. CREPAZ.

OTHERS TO FOLLOW. FULL LISTS SENT ON APPLICATION.

Arts and Crafts Essays.

By Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society. Edited and with a preface by WILLIAM MORRIS. Crown 8vo, $2.50.

Contents.-TEXTILES. By WM. MORRIS-OF DECORATIVE PAINTING AND DESIGN. By WALTER CRANEOF WALL-PAPERS. By WALTER CRANE-PRINTING. By WM. MORRIS and E. WALKER-BOOKBINDING. By T. J. COBDEN-SANDERSON-OF DESIGNS AND WORKING DRAWINGS. BY LEWIS F. DAY-OF DECORATED FURNITURE. By J. H. POLLEN-DESIGN. By J. D. SEDDING - METAL WORK, STONE AND WOOD CARVING, EMBROIDERY, LAČE, CARVING, MATERIALS, COLOR, etc., etc.

Letters of Franz Liszt.

Edited and collected by LA MARA. Translated by CONSTANCE BACHE. 8vo, $6.00.

With two portraits. 2 vols., crown

This work contains over 650 most interesting letters, addressed by Liszt to well-known persons in society, literature, and art, and reveal, in their unvarnished variety, the real character of the great and charming artist.

The Mermaid Series:

The Best Plays of the Old Dramatists. Each volume containing about 500 pages and an etched frontispiece. Post 8vo, decorated cloth. Per volume, $1.00.

NEW VOLUMES OF THE SERIES.

THE BEST PLAYS OF BEN JONSON. Edited, with introduction and notes, by BRINSLEY NICHOLSON and C. H. HERFORD. Vol. 1 now ready, Vols. 2 and 3 shortly.

VOLUMES ALREADY ISSUED.

Christopher Marlowe-Thomas Otway-John Ford-Philip Massinger, 2 vols.-Thomas Heywood-William Wycher-ley-Nero, and Other Plays-Beaumont and Fletcher, 2 vols.-William Congreve-Webster and Tourneur-Thomas Middleton, 2 vols.-James Shirley-Thomas Dekker.

*After January 1, 1894, the price of this Series will be raised to $1.25 per volume.

The Industries of Animals.

By FRÉDÉRIC HOUSSAY. With 44 illustrations. Crown 8vo, $1.25.

Bacteria and their Products.

The Criminal.

Education and Heredity.
Electricity in Modern Life.
Evolution and Disease.

New Volume Contemporary Science Series.

Evolution of Marriage and of the Family.
The Evolution of Sex.

*

PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED.
Germ-Plasm. $2.50.

The Grammar of Science.
Hypnotism.

The Man of Genius.
Manual Training.
Modern Meteorology.

The Origin of the Aryans.
Physiognomy and Expression.

Each $1.25.

Primitive Folk.

Property: Its Origin and Development.
Public Health Problems.

Sanity and Insanity.
Science of Fairy Tales.
The Village Community.
Volcanoes: Past and Present.

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New Catalogue of “Art Books" ready, also general Catalogue of Importations; also New, Rare,

and Choice Book Catalogue.

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THE STORY OF TWO NOBLE LIVES. Charlotte, Countess Canning, and Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford. By AUGUSTUS J. C. HARE, author of "Memorials of a Quiet Life," "Walks in Rome," etc., etc. With two portraits engraved on steel, eight portraits in photogravure, fourteen plates in photogravure from Lady Waterford's sketches, and twenty-five wood-cuts from sketches by the author, etc. 3 vols., crown 8vo, in ornamental cloth, $9.00 net.

This widely known author has found in the life and letters of these two noble women materials for a work of unusual interest. These two sisters bore a noble part in the social and political circles of the period. Lady Canning in her letters and journals has told the whole story of the terrible Sepoy Mutiny, and gives as well many pen pictures of life on the Continent and in the East; while there are delightful glimpses of her home life, and records of her own and husband's philanthropic labors in the life and letters of Lady Waterford."

ACROSS FRANCE IN A CARAVAN. By the author of "A Day of my Life at Eaton." An account of a journey from Bordeaux to Genoa, taken in the winter of 1889-90. With a map and fifty illustrations by John Wallace after sketches by the author. One vol., 8vo, in ornamental covers protected by a jacket, $4.50 net.

A book of travel, written in crisp and sparkling style not at all in the run" of the ordinary books of travel. The illustrations, which are largely character sketches, furnish a good idea of the people and their ways and customs. GYPSYING BEYOND THE SEA FROM ENGLISH FIELDS TO SALERNO SHORES. BY WILLIAM BEMENT LENT. 2 vols., 16mo, with eighteen full-page photogravure illustrations. Daintily bound in cloth, in box, $4.00. The author traveled in a leisurely way through England, into Wales, Scotland, Germany, and Switzerland, Holland, France, and Russia, and finally roamed through Italy. He shows himself a careful and thoughtful observer, and has a rare faculty of transferring to the reader a picture of what he saw, and what he did during these many months of travel. SOMETIME AND OTHER POEMS: CRADLE AND ARM CHAIR. Poems by MAY RILEY SMITH. 2 vols., 16mo, cloth, gilt (sold separately), $2.50 per set.

Mrs. Smith's poem, Sometime," has made her name familiar to thousands all over the land, and the present edition of her complete poems will be welcomed by a multitude of readers.

THE HIGHWAY OF LETTERS, AND ITS ECHOES OF FAMOUS FOOTSTEPS. [Fleet Street, London.] By THOMAS ARCHER. Small 8vo, profusely illustrated, cloth, $2.00.

Mr. Archer has written of Fleet Street, London, and the celebrities who have been connected with that famous thoroughfare or its neighborhood from Chaucer's time down to a date very near our own. Among the great who walked there, quarreling or cogitating, or perhaps plotting, were Ben Jonson, Samuel Johnson, Surrey, Lamb, Swift, Herrick, and Shakespeare. UNDER THE NURSERY LAMP. Poems about children. A new and enlarged edition, with six photogravure: illustrations, ornamental cloth, $1.50.

A charming selection, not for, but about children. The illustrations add a new charm to the volume.

UNDER KING CONSTANTINE. BY KATRINA TRASK. (Second edition.) 16mo, ornamental cloth, $1.25.

Three dramatic idyls, with scenes laid in that obscure period of English history immediately following the destruction of the Round Table and King Arthur's death-the first two teaching that true love is a divine force, however or wherever it may come. The last tale, one of boyish chivalry, showing that knighthood may be in the spirit and the soul, even though circumstances may defeat heroic action.

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