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------------- THE HOUSE OF AUSTRIA IN THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR. Two Lectures, with Notes and Illustrations. By _Adolphus W. Ward_, M.A., Professor of History in Owens College, Manchester. Extra fcap. 8vo. _2_s_. 6d_. "_Very compact and instructive_."--_Fortnightly Review_. Warren. ------- AN ESSAY ON GREEK FEDERAL COINAGE. By the Hon. _J. Leicester Warren_, M.A. 8vo. 2_s_. 6_d_. "_The present essay is an attempt to illustrate Mr. Freeman's Federal Government by evidence deduced from the coinage of the times and countries therein treated of_."--_Preface_. Wilson. ------- A MEMOIR OF GEORGE WILSON, M. D., F.R.S.E., Regius Professor of Technology in the University of Edinburgh. By his SISTER. New Edition. Crown 8vo. 6_s_. "_An exquisite and touching portrait of a rare and beautiful spirit_." _Guardian_. Wilson (Daniel, LL.D.). ----------------------- PREHISTORIC ANNALS OF SCOTLAND. By _Daniel Wilson_, LL.D., Professor of History and English Literature in University College, Toronto. New Edition, with numerous Illustrations. Two vols. demy 8vo. 36_s_. _This elaborate and learned work is divided into four Parts. Part I. deals with_ The Primeval or Stone Period: _Aboriginal Traces, Sepulchral Memorials, Dwellings, and Catacombs, Temples, Weapons, &c. &c.; Part II.,_ The Bronze Period: _The Metallurgic Transition, Primitive Bronze, Personal Ornaments, Religion, Arts, and Domestic Habits, with other topics; Part III.,_ The Iron Period: _The Introduction of Iron, The Roman Invasion, Strongholds, &c. &c.; Part IV.,_ The Christian Period: _Historical Data, the Norrie's Law Relics, Primitive and Mediaeval Ecclesiology, Ecclesiastical and Miscellaneous Antiquities. The work is furnished with an elaborate Index._ PREHISTORIC MAN. New Edition, revised and partly re-written, with numerous Illustrations. One vol. 8vo. 21_s_. _This work, which carries out the principle of the preceding one, but with a wider scope, aims to "view Man, as far as possible, unaffected by those modifying influences which accompany the development of nations and the maturity of a true historic period, in order thereby to ascertain the sources from whence such development and maturity proceed." It contains, for example, chapters on the Primeval Transition; Speech; Metals; the Mound-Builders; Primitive Architecture; the American Type; the Red Blood of the West, &c. &c._ SECTION II. ===========
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