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Show WORKS IN TilE PRESS. LIEUT. HART'S NEW ANNUAL ARMY LIST, FOR 1841, containing tho Dates of Commissions n1~d a Statement of the War Ser~ices nnd \Vounds of most of the Officers 111 the Army, on full ]):ty, retu·ed, nnd hnlf pay, including the Ordnance aud Royal Marines; ~om piled from Official Documents, :wd Con·ccted up to Jnnuary. \V1th an Index. Stl·ongly bound in one volume, Svo. 'l'o be published with tho Magazines on the l st of January. XXXVII. HAND-BOOK l'OR TRA YELLERS IN EGYPT. By Sir GARDNER WtLKtNSON. \Vith Maps. Post Svo. XXXVIll. HAND-BOOK FOR LONDON, PAST AND PJtESENT. Intended ns a complete Guide to Strangers, and a Book of agreeable Reference for the 1 nhabitants, in the Localities nnd .Antiquities of the British Metropolis. Dy 'l'. CrtOFTON CnoKEn.. \Vith ~~Map. Post 8\'0. XXXlX, HAND-BOOK FOR TRA YELLERS IN TilE NORTHERN AND MIDLAND COUN'l'IES OF ENGLAND; including the Lakes of Cumberland, Yorkshire, North and South Wales, De1·byshirc, the ~fanufacturing Districts, &c. With detailed Dcse~·iptions of aH the Railroads, the principal Post and High H.oads, the Chief Cities :md '!'owns, the most interesting Scenery, Antiquities, P::u·ks, Mansions, Collections of Art and Natuml I I istory, Ca.thed1·als, ami Churches ; with Directions for Travellers in England, Jnformation respecting IrlllS, Conveyances, &c. &c. With n. M.ap. Post Svo. HAND-BOOK FOR TR4. YELLERS IN THE SOUTHERN AND WESTERN COUNTIES OF ENGLAND. Post Bvo. XLI. HAND-BOOK FOR TRA YELLERS IN NORTHERN ITALY. With a Map. Post Bvo. XLII, HAND-BOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN SOUTHERN ITALY AND SICILY. 'Vith Maps. Post 8vo .. HAND-BOOK FOR TRA YELLERS IN FRANCE. With a Map. Post Bvo. ALBEMARLE STREET, DP'..CEMDF.R, 1840. THE FOLLOWING WORKS HAVE RECENTLY BEEN PUBLISHED. I. THE HISTORY OF TilE POPES OF ROME during the Sixteenth and Sevenkcnth Centm·ics. Derived principally from unpublished Documents and Records preserved at Vienna, Venice, Ronw, nnd Dologna. By LEOPOLD VoN RANKE. Translated by SARA II AUSTIN. 3 vols. flvo, 36s. "To tho high qun.!iflcntions of pwfound research, cnrcfulnccurncy, j!:rcnt fairness nnd enndou t, with :~ const:mt reference to tho gl•niu;~ !Uiil splnt of ench successive nge, common to the historians of G('nnnny, l\lr. Hanko nlids the chnrm of n. si ngulul'iy luci1l, terse, umlng•·eenb\c stylc."-Quorlcr/y Jlevitw. "It b lmrdly nt.>c('ssnry fur us to sny, that this isnn excellent boc.•k, excellently trnnslntcd. Tho ol'lginnl wo•·k of Profc880r Hnnkc Is known und e~t<•cmed wbcrev<'r Gcrm:m litemture is studied; nnd has been fuund interesting even In II most innccnruto nnd dishonest French \'Crl!ion. 1t Is, ind<"ed, the work of 11 mind fittt•d both for mhwto rcse:.rchcs nnd for large speculations. It Is written also in nn admirable !ipi rit, equally remote from levity und bigotry; liCtlou~ n•Hl eu rncst, yet tolerant nnd impartial. 1t Is, tl•e•·dore, with the g•·entest p\ealiurc tl111t wo now see it t11ke its place nmon~ the Euglish Clusslcs. Of the translation we need on ly suy, tlmt it is su('h l\llllligl1t be expected from tl1e skill, t11e taste, and the scrupulous intcgnty of tlw nccomJJlishcd Judy, who, us :m interpreter between the mind Df Germany ami the mind of Britain, has nlrcudy dc..crvcd so well of both cou ntries."-E'<imburgh Jlevi~w. "With l\lrs. Austin for a trnnslator nf llis work 1\fr. Hunke hns b('Cn far more Juq1py, nnd we cannot pmi!IC too highly the t>impliclty nlHI elcgnnee of tho English into which she hus rendered the m·iginnl tl'xt She hr1s )JUt 1111 in posscSbion of n. book cxtrnonlhmry for its learning nnd hnpnl·Unlity, nncl for its just and li beral views of the times UJHI men it tlf'scrlbeH. Tho best (.'<lmplimcnt that can be paid tu Mr. Hn.nkc is, that cnch hide has accused him of partiality to its opponent-the German Prot@Stnnts cumplninlng that his work Is written in too Cntholic a SJJirit-thc Cuthulics tleclaring, thnt gcnernlly impartinl us he i11, it Is clen.r to perceive the l'rotc11tunt tendency of thchistory."-1'imu. AN INTRODUCTION TO TilE LITERARY HISTORY OF EUROPE in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries. By 11.;::-mY H ALLA:'ol. 4 vols. 8vo, 15s. each. "'Vo must remember thnt this is the first great general map or chart of the intellectual world attempted in this country. To all luvt:rs of litcrnturc it will be acccpt;tble: to the young, wo concch·c, invuhmble. \\'c almost wbh that we could renew ou r own youth, in ordt•r to Jli'Utit by its instructions; It would have prc,·ontcd us from rcadinj!: n vnst numbt·r of very bad books, and induced u~, perhaps, to read some good oncs.''-QJUirlerlylleview. ""'c hnvc dcluycd for n. long time to notice this grcnt work, tho most important contribution to literary hlbctory which English librarks hnve received for mnny years; 111Hl our excuse for the dclHy must be fnuiHlln the high churnctcr of tho 11uthor, 11s wcl\1\8 the lm)XIrtanco of the subject. Eveu for thepurposo of the very brief obhervutions which we cnn huzard, nn o.ttentii'O study of ita cont-ents woe more than u sually necosaa.ry.''-Edinburgh Rcvitw. |