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THE HISTORY OF SCOTLAND, FROM AGRICOLA'S INVASION TO THE REVOLUTION OF 1688. By JOHN HILL BURTON. To be completed in 6 vols. demy 8vo. Vols. I. to IV., price 56s. "The best account that has yet been written of the national life and being of Scotland."--_Times._ "One of the completest histories that we ever saw of any country."--_Saturday Review._ "Not only the most complete and trustworthy history of Scotland yet written, but it will merit a high place among the historical works of our age."--_Daily News._ "A great contribution to historical literature."--_Scotsman._ "We do not remember to have read so reticent, so calm and dispassionate a history."--_Blackwood's Magazine._ "Une grande et belle histoire."--_Revue des Deux Mondes._ "This admirable book."--_Morning Herald._ COUNT MONTALEMBERT'S HISTORY OF THE MONKS OF THE WEST. 5 vols. 8vo, L2, 12s. 6d. The volumes just published (III. to V.) contain the History of the Conversion of England by the Monks, and may be had as a complete book, price 31s. 6d. "On the whole, the intellectual interest of the Count's 'Monks of the West' rests mainly on this, that it is the work of a brilliant and accomplished layman and man of the world, dealing with a class of characters who have generally been left to the arid professional handling of ecclesiastical writers. Montalembert sees their life as a whole, and a human whole; and, with all his zeal as an amateur hagiographer, he cannot but view them with some of the independence of a mind trained to letters and politics."--_Pall Mall Gazette._ THE HANDY ROYAL ATLAS. By ALEX. KEITH JOHNSTON, LL.D., &c., Author of the 'Royal Atlas,' the 'Physical Atlas,' &c. 45 Maps, clearly printed and carefully coloured, with General Index. Imperial 4to, price L2, 12s. 6d., half-bound morocco. ATLAS OF ASTRONOMY; Comprising, in Twenty-one Plates, a complete Series of Illustrations of the Heavenly Bodies, drawn with the greatest care, and printed in Colours, from Original and Authentic Materials. By ALEX. KEITH JOHNSTON, LL.D. F.R.S.E., &c. A New and Enlarged Edition. With an Elementary Survey of the Heavens, designed as an Accompaniment to this Atlas, by ROBERT GRANT, M.A. LL.D. F.R.S. F.R.A.S., Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Observatory in the University of Glasgow. Imperial Quarto, half-bo
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