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S OF POMPEII. By MARC MONNIER. With 22 illustrations. One volume 12mo $1 50 _For specimen illustration see page 19._ There are here summed up, in a very lively and graphic style, the results of the discoveries made at Pompeii since the commencement of the extensive excavations there. The illustrations represent the houses, the domestic utensils, the statues, and the various works of art, as investigation gives every reason to believe that they existed at the time of the eruption. CRITICAL NOTICES. "It is undoubtedly one of the best works on Pompeii that have been published, and has this advantage over all others--in that it records the results of excavations to the latest date."--_N.Y. Herald_. "A very pleasant and instructive book."--_Balt. Meth. Prot_. "It gives a very clear and accurate account of the buried city."--_Portland Transcript_. =Sublime in Nature.= THE SUBLIME IN NATURE, FROM DESCRIPTIONS OF CELEBRATED TRAVELLERS AND WRITERS. By FERDINAND LANOYE. Illustrated with 48 woodcuts. One volume 12mo $1 50 _For specimen illustration see page 20._ The Air and Atmospheric Phenomena, the Ocean, Mountains, Volcanic Phenomena, Rivers, Falls and Cataracts, Grottoes and Caverns, and the Phenomena of Vegetation, are described in this volume, and in the most charming manner possible, because the descriptions given have been selected from the writings of the most distinguished authors and travellers. The illustrations, several of which are from the pencil of GUSTAVE DORE, reproduce scenes in this country, as well as in foreign lands. CRITICAL NOTICES. "As a hand-book of reference to the natural wonders of the world this work has no superior."--_Philadelphia Inquirer_. "The illustrations are particularly graphic, and in some cases furnish much better ideas of the phenomena they indicate than anything short of an actual experience, or a panoramic view of them would do."--_N.Y. Sunday Times_. =The Sun.= THE SUN. By AMEDEE GUILLEMIN. From the French by T.L. PHIPSON, Ph.D. With 58 illustrations. One volume 12mo $1 50 _For specimen illustration see page 21._ M. GUILLEMIN'S well-known work upon _The Heavens_ has secured him a wide reputation as one of the first of living astronomical writers and observers. In this compact treatise he discourses familiarly but most accurately and entertainingly of the Sun as the source of light, of heat, and of chemical action; of its influence upon livin
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