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OUTLEDGE'S AMERICAN HAND BOOK and

Ristide through the United States, containing Descriptions of

the Principal Cities and Towns, the different Routes, with Advice to Emigrants and Mechanics. With an accurate Map.

"Contains all that a reasonable traveller can desire."-Atlas.

"Is one of the best arranged little works of the kind we have met with."— Athenæum.

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NATURAL HISTORY, SPORTING, AND AGRICULTURAL.

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NATURAL HISTORY, by Rev. J. G. WOOD, Illustrated with upwards of 450 Engravings from designs by William Harvey. The book is printed on tinted paper, and its principal features are:

1st. Its Accuracy. 2nd. Its Systematic Arrangement. 3rd. Illustrations executed expressly for the work. And 4th. New and Authentic Anecdotes. The Fifth Thousand is now ready.

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"Contains a great number of spirited and well executed woodcuts, and is a book that both parents and children inay look over with pleasure and edification."— English Churchman.

COMPANION TO WHITE'S SELBORNE.

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A TOUR ROUND MY GARDEN. BY ALPHONSE KARR.

Revised and Edited by the Rev. J. G. Wood. With 117 Illustrations from designs by W. Harvey, &c. Beautifully printed on tinted paper, emblematically gilt.

"A Tour Round my Garden' is, in short, a perfect medley, including anecdotes, jeux d'esprit, and burlesque inventions à la Karr, such as could proceed from none but the whimsical editor of the 'Guèpes.' We laugh at some of the letters, at others we could almost cry. Read, for instance, 'On board a Swiss steamboat,' and say if it does not-although no imitation-smack of the quaint tenderness and graceful fancy of Laurence Sterne; see, two chapters later, how many interesting things are suggested to the author by an old wall, and how well he says them. To us who have almost as great a foible for flowers as M. Karr himself, the pages of his Tour round my Garden' offer most attractive passages. His rambling digressions prevent the least monotony. He wanders hither and thither with or without pretext. A magnolia takes him to China, a caprice carries him to Peru, thence he steps across to the Brazils."-Blackwood's Magazine, July 1852.

Natural History, &c.]

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WHITE'S NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE. A

new edition.

Edited by the Rev. J. G. WOOD, and illustrated with upwards of 200 Illustrations by W. Harvey. Printed on tinted paper.

"A very superior edition of this most popular work."

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"The notes are explanatory and simple, all original, and in correction of some fallacies which White fell into from the imperfect state of natural history in his time."_Globe.

"It is a book very emphatically to be recommended."-Leader.

"The notes are numerous, and contain many curious facts and illustrations in addition to White's statements, written in an agreeable manner.”—Guardian.

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FOREST LIFE: A FISHERMAN'S SKETCHES OF NORWAY

AND SWEDEN. By the Rev. HENRY NEWLAND, Author of "The Erne and its Legends and its Fly-fishing." With Eight large Illustrations. Post 8vo, cloth, emblematically gilt.

"The author's motive in the above work is to convey as much real information on the subjects treated on as he could compass: his descriptions are, therefore, real descriptions, his anecdotes real anecdotes. The incidents of the story did actually happen. His instructions in the art of fly-fishing, and the hydrography of the river, are the results of his own experience, and the fairy legends are his own collections."-Extract from Preface.

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ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF DOMESTIC POULTRY.

Edited by MARTIN DOYLE. With Twenty Illustrations, from designs by Weigall. Printed in Colours.

This work also includes the treatment of Turkeys, Geese, Ducks, Guinea Fowl, &c., and to show the practical nature of the work, the following contents are given:

The History of the Origin of Domestic Poultry.

The Process of Incubation and Progressive States of the Egg.

The Selection of Stock for Breeding.

Methods of Hatching, Rearing, and Feeding Chickens.

The Egyptian Artificial Mode of Hatching, and our Modern Experiments. The best Modes of Feeding, and the Result of Experiments with various kinds of Grain.

Places for Poultry-houses, their Position, and the proper way of Housing Poultry.

Methods of Fattening and Caponizing.

The Organs of Digestion explained, and the Diseases to which Poultry are liable, with Advice for their Treatment, as well as for Accidental Injury.

"To all poultry keepers this book will be invaluable, as it will save them in time its price every year. It is the most useful, practical, and complete book that has ever been issued on domestic poultry."

Sporting, &c.]

SURPASSES EVEN GORDON CUMMING'S ADVENTURES.

WILD

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WILD SPORTS IN THE FAR WEST. By FREDERICK GERSTAECKER. Translated from the German, and illustrated with tinted Plates from Designs by Harrison Weir.

"Whoever takes an interest-and there are very few who do not-in the excitement of the chase, cannot be better entertained than by perusing this volume, which brings vividly before the readers such adventures, that even that mighty hunter Gordon Cumming himself must own himself entirely surpassed by this young German, Gerstaecker. The illustrations are in Harrison Weir's happiest style, and being printed with a tint, gives a reality and a beauty to the pictures that cannot but be admired."

Also, uniform with the above.

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FRANK WILDMAN'S ADVENTURES BY WATER

AND LAND. By FREDERICK GERSTAECKER. Translated from the German, with tinted illustrations, by HARRISON WEIR.

An admirable companion to "Wild Sports in the Far West."

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OGS: THEIR MANAGEMENT, ETC. Being a new

DOGS:

plan of treating the Animal, based upon a consideration of his natural temperament. Illustrated by numerous Woodcuts, by Harrison Weir, depicting the character and position of the Dog when suffering disease. By EDWARD MAYHEW, Author of " The Horse's Mouth, showing the Age by the Teeth;" Editor of "Blain's Veterinary Art."

"All owners of dogs should purchase this admirable work."-Observer.

"Is founded on a close observation of the animal's living nature, as well as a knowledge of his anatomical structure."-Spectator.

"Contains the result of several years' experience."-Leader.

"A valuable contribution to the study of canine pathology."-Press.

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HORSES AND HOUNDS

[ORSES AND HOUNDS. A Practical Treatise on their With Illustrations by Harrison

Weir.

"A thoroughly practical work, by a practical man, and one that will be found of the greatest use to every one who takes an interest in either HORSES or HOUNDS." "A most ably written, a clearly arranged, and a graphically illustrated volume on hunting, horses, and hounds."-Bell's Life.

"We recommend it to the farmer, the sportsman, or the huntsman.'-Bell's Messenger.

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NGLING: How To ANGLE, AND WHERE TO
By ROBERT BLAKEY. With numerous Illustrations.

Go.

"One of the best books ever published on the subject, containing more practical information than dozens of its pretentious rivals. We can only say as an angler to anglers, that if they do not provide themselves with this shilling volume, they deserve never to catch a roach above two ounces in weight."-The Field.

Sporting, &c.]

NEW WORK ON THE PROPAGATION OF THE SALMON.
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FISH AND FISHING IN THE LONE GLENS OF

SCOTLAND. With Chapters devoted to a History of the Propagation, Growth, and Metamorphoses of the Salmon. By DR. KNOX. With Illustrations.

"Dr. Knox has paid long and careful attention to the history of the Salmon and Salmonide. As a guide to angling localities, the book is inappreciable.”—Observer.

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SHOOTING; A Manual of Practical Information on this

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branch of British Field Sports. By ROBERT BLAKEY, Author of 'Angling: How to Angle, and Where to Go," &c., &c. With Illustrations, by Harrison Weir.

"This is a very useful book, and well suited for the study and instruction of the young sportsman."-Observer.

"Contains much that will interest the general sporting reader.”—Era.

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PIGEONS AND RABBITS, IN THEIR WILD AND

DOMESTIC AND CAPTIVE STATES. With Illustrations. "This work gives excellent instruction as to the choice, management, and profitable treatment of these beautiful birds; and we consider his remarks on the rabbit the best we have ever read."

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COUNTRY HOUSE (The), containing "The Poultry

Yard," "The Piggery," "The Ox and the Dairy," with numerous illustrations.

RHA

In One Volume, price 4s. 6d., cloth lettered. HAM'S DICTIONARY of the FARM. A new Edition, entirely Revised and Re-edited, with Supplementary Matter, by WILLIAM and HUGH RAYNBIRD. With numerous Illustrations.

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FLAX

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LAX AND HEMP: Their Culture and Manipulation. By E. SEBASTIAN DELAMER, Author of "Pigeons and Rabbits.” With many Illustrations.

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Agricultural, &c.]

BOOKS FOR THE COUNTRY.

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"Railroads, steamboats, and other rapid conveyances, which have added so largely to urban populations, have, at the same time, afforded the means to a numerous body, whose industry is carried forward in town, of seeking for health and amusement in rural pursuits. Such now work in crowded cities, and live in quiet country houses. The once limited population of convenient villages is thus doubled and quadrupled. The families of the merchant and the professional man now inhabit the same hamlet, once inaccessible, where the country gentleman, the clergyman, and the farmer, have customarily dwelt. It is to this numerous class, always moving from business to recreation, as well as to the settled country residents, that we address the small series, entitled Books for the Country."

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nagement and Treatment. By ANGLING: How TO ANGLE,

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WHERE To Go. By R.

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SHOOTING: A Manual

OF PRACTICAL INFORMATION. By R. BLAKEY. With Illustrations

CATTLE; their Manage by Weir.

ment, Treatment, and Diseases.

By W. C. L. MARTIN.

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LAX AND HEMP. By
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THE HORSE: its History, trations.

Management, and treatment.

By WILLIAM YOUatt.

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EES; their Habits, Ma- SMALL FARMS; a Prac

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nagement, and Treatment. By the Rev. J. G. WOOD.

tical Treatise, or, How they may be Profitably Managed. By MARTIN DOYLE.

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