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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A CATALOGUE OF REMARKABLE BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MR. GEORGE REDWAY (1887) ***

A

CATALOGUE

OF

REMARKABLE BOOKS

PUBLISHED BY

MR. GEORGE REDWAY

“TOLLE, LEGE”

LONDON

15, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN

1887

Handsomely printed and bound in one vol. 8vo., price 10s. 6d.

KABALA DENUDATA.

THE KABBALA UNVEILED.

CONTAINING THE FOLLOWING BOOKS OF THE ZOHAR:—

- 1. The Book of Concealed Mystery.

- 2. The Greater Holy Assembly.

- 3. The Lesser Holy Assembly.

Translated into English from the Latin version of KNORR VON ROSENROTH, and collated with the original Chaldee and Hebrew Text, by S. L. MACGREGOR MATHERS.

“We have seen that the Therapeuts listened every Sabbath to discourses on the traditionary lore which was handed down in secret amongst themselves. HAS THIS SECRET LORE PASSED AWAY FROM THE EARTH? Scholars of the calibre of Reuchlin Joel and M. Franck, of the Institute of France, affirm that we have it still in the ‘Kabbalah.’ This word implies secret tradition. The legend runs that this secret wisdom was first taught by Jehovah to the seven angels that stand round his throne. It was then handed down orally through the seven earthly messengers (Adam, Moses, David, &c.). Finally, the Rabbi Simon Ben Jochai, in a cavern amid earth rocking and supernatural coruscations delivered it to the world in a “BOOK OF SPLENDOUR,” THE “SOHAR.”—Arthur Lillie’s “Buddhism in Christendom” (1887).

Dr. Ginsburg speaks of the Kabbalah as:—“A system of religious philosophy, or, more properly, of theosophy, which has not only exercised for hundreds of years an extraordinary influence on the mental development of so shrewd a people as the Jews, but has captivated the minds of some of the greatest thinkers of Christendom in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, claims the greatest attention of both the philosopher and theologian. When it is added that among its captives were Raymond Lully, the celebrated scholastic metaphysician and chemist (died 1315); John Reuchlin, the renowned scholar and reviver of Oriental literature in Europe (born 1455, died 1522); John Picus de Mirandola, the famous philosopher and classical scholar (1463-1494); Cornelius Henry Agrippa, the distinguished philosopher, divine, and physician (1577-1644); as well as our own countrymen, Robert Fludd, the famous physician and philosopher (1574-1637), and Dr. Henry More (1614-1687); and that these men, after restlessly searching for a scientific system which should disclose to them ‘the deepest depths’ of the divine nature, and show them the real tie which binds all things together, found the cravings of their minds satisfied by this theosophy, the claims of the Kabbalah on the attention of students in literature and philosophy will readily be admitted. The claims of the Kabbalah, however, are not restricted to the literary man and the philosopher; the poet, too, will find in it ample materials for the exercise of his lofty genius.”

In crown 8vo., cloth, price 7s. 6d.

POSTHUMOUS HUMANITY:

A STUDY OF PHANTOMS.

By ADOLPHE D’ASSIER, Member of the Bordeaux Academy of Sciences. Translated and annotated by HENRY S. OLCOTT, President of the Theosophical Society. To which is added an Appendix showing the popular beliefs current in India respecting the post-mortem vicissitudes of the human entity.

Contents:—Facts establishing the existence of the posthumous personality in man—Its various modes of manifestation—Facts establishing the existence of a second personality in the living man—Its various modes of manifestation—Facts establishing the existence of the personality in animals, and concerning a posthumous animality—Fluidic form of vegetables—Fluidic form of gross bodies—Character of the posthumous being—Its physical constitution—Its aversion to light—Its reservoir of living force—Its ballistic—The nervous fluid—Electric animals—Electric persons—Electric plants—The mesmeric ether and the personality which it engenders—The somnambule—The sleep-talker—The seer—The turning-table—The talking-table—The medium—Miracles of the ecstatics—Prodigy of magic—The incubus—The obsessing spirit—Causes of the rarity of the living phantom—Causes of the rarity of the trans-sepulchral phantom—Resemblance of the spiritistic phenomena to the phenomena of the posthumous order—Lycanthropy—Glance at the fauna of the shades—Their pre-occupations—How they prolong their existence—The posthumous vampire.

In demy 8vo., cloth, price 10s. 6d.

INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF MADAME

BLAVATSKY,

Compiled from information supplied by her relatives and friends, and edited by A. P. SINNETT, with a portrait reproduced from an original painting by HERMANN SCHMIECHEN.

“Mr. Sinnett’s memoir is fluently written, and is free from unsympathetic scepticism. Theosophists will find both edification and interest in the book; and the general student of science will profit more or less by having his attention called to, &c....”—Pall Mall Gazette.

“Mr. Sinnett, however, offers on all the disputed points explanations which will be perfectly satisfactory to those who do not agree with the committee of the Psychical Society.”—Pall Mall Gazette.

“For any credulous friend who revels in such stories I can recommend ‘Incidents in the Life of Madame Blavatsky.’ I READ EVERY LINE OF THE BOOK WITH MUCH INTEREST.”—Truth.

In post 8vo., with numerous plates coloured and plain, cloth, price 7s. 6d.

GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY;

OR, THE SCIENCE OF REPRESENTATION.

Being the Theories and Diagrams of B. W. BETTS explained by LOUISA S. COOK.

“His attempt seems to have taken a similar direction to that of George Boole in logic, with the difference that, whereas Boole’s expression of the Laws of Thought is algebraic, Betts expresses mind-growth geometrically; that is to say, his growth-formulæ are expressed in numerical series, of which each can be pictured to the eye in a corresponding curve. When the series are thus represented, they are found to resemble the forms of leaves and flowers.”—Extract from “Symbolic Methods of Study,” by Mary Boole.

The Pall Mall Gazette, in a characteristic article entitled, “Very Methodical Madness,” allows that “Like Rosicrucianism, esoteric Buddhism, and other forms of the mystically incomprehensible, it seems to exercise a magnetic influence upon many minds by no means as foolish as its original inventor’s.”

“This work is the result of more than twenty years’ application to the discovery of a method of representing human consciousness in its various stages of development by means of geometrical figures—it is, in fact, the application of mathematical symbology to metaphysics. This idea will be new to many of our readers; indeed, so far as we know, Mr. Betts is the only man who has tried to work out a coherent system of this kind, though his work unfortunately remains imperfect.”—Theosophist, June, 1887.

In demy 8vo., cloth, price 10s. 6d.

THE MYSTERIES OF MAGIC;

A Digest of the Writings of Eliphas Levi, with Biographical and Critical Essay by ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE.

“A very curious book.”—Time.

“To the rapidly-extending catalogue of remarkable books published by Mr. George Redway, of London, an important addition has been made by the issue of a digest of the writings of Eliphas Levi. Many people, we dare say, will consider the volume to be ‘full of nonsense,’ but it is really a very curious and improving work, going over a vast space of ground, and presenting a great deal of matter that is worth thinking over. The author has earned a title to be heard. As a contribution to what is called ‘occult science,’ the present book will, of course, find a welcome from many readers, among those especially whose passion it is to grope for the unseen, and to these the varied contents will give delight. The matter contained in Mr. Waite’s volume is wonderfully varied, and much of it worth reading, even by those who do not believe in magic of any kind, black or white.”—Glasgow Herald.

“No determined student of Nature’s higher mysteries, setting out from the standpoint of modern European culture, can afford to remain ignorant of Eliphas Levi’s works. But to study them in the original is a wearisome task, if for no other reason, on account of their aggregate length. The present single volume is a digest of half a dozen books enumerated by the present author in a ‘biographical and critical essay’ with which he prefaces his undertaking. These are the Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie, the Histoire de la Magie, the Clef des Grands Mystères, the Sorcier de Meudon, the Philosophie Occulte, and the Science des Esprits. To attack the whole series—which, indeed, it might be difficult to obtain now in a complete form—would be a bold undertaking, but Mr. Waite has endeavoured to give his readers the essence of the whole six books in a relatively compact compass.”—Light.

“Let no man think that such transcendental mysteries as the astrologer and the magician plunge into have disappeared from the face of the earth. Their votaries defy derision, they meet contempt with a calm consciousness of power, and a sublime sense of superiority; for in this generation the magicians have found a new prophet, a new hierophant—almost a new gospel.... Meanwhile, lest our readers should suppose that the modern students of the science of magic are not in deadly earnest, or that they are few in number or poor in substance, let them, with all due awe and thankfulness, buy this handsome volume, and as they open it let them cast a glance at the amazing list of works published and publishing by a single firm on the various branches of the occult sciences. Having done that, let them ask themselves whether some forms of faith—for we dare not drop a hint of disrespect—do not die hard.”—Athenæum, Aug. 6th, 1887.

12mo., cloth, 2s.

NATURE AND LAW.

An Answer to PROFESSOR DRUMMOND’S “Natural Law in the Spiritual World.”

Professor Drummond subordinates the Spiritual universe to the Material; the author of “Nature and Law” sustains a thesis diametrically opposed to this. His conclusion is “that there is more of heaven than of earth in all terrestrial things, more of spirit than of matter in what are termed material laws.”

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THE LITERATURE OF OCCULTISM AND

ARCHÆOLOGY.

Being a Catalogue of Books ON SALE relating to:—

Ancient Worships.—Astrology.—Alchemy.—Animal Magnetism.—Anthropology.—Arabic.—Assassins.—Antiquities.—Ancient History.—Behmen and the Mystics.—Buddhism.—Clairvoyance.—Cabeiri.—China.—Coins.—Druids.—Dreams and Visions.—Divination.—Divining Rod.—Demonology.—Ethnology.—Egypt.—Fascination.—Flagellants.—Freemasonry.—Folk-Lore.—Gnostics.—Gems.—Ghosts.—Hindus.—Hieroglyphics and Secret Writing.—Herbals.—Hermetic.—India and the Hindus.—Kabbala.—Koran.—Miracles.—Mirabilaries.—Magic and Magicians.—Mysteries.—Mithraic Worship.—Mesmerism.—Mythology.—Metaphysics.—Mysticism.—Neo-platonism.—Orientalia.—Obelisks.—Oracles.—Occult Sciences.—Philology.—Persian.—Parsees.—Philosophy.—Physiognomy.—Palmistry and Handwriting.—Phrenology.—Psychoneurology.—Psychometry.—Prophets.—Rosicrucians.—Round Towers.—Rabbinical.—Spiritualism.—Skeptics, Jesuits, Christians and Quakers.—Sibylls.—Symbolism.—Serpent Worship.—Secret Societies.—Somnambulism.—Travels.—Tombs.—Theosophy.—Theology and Criticism.—Witchcraft.

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THE PATH:

A Magazine devoted to the Brotherhood of Humanity, Theosophy in America, and the Study of Occult Science, Philosophy, and Aryan Literature. Edited by WILLIAM Q. JUDGE. Published under the auspices of The Aryan Theosophical Society of New York.

Price 1s. monthly.

“LUCIFER:”

A Theosophical Monthly, designed to bring light “to the hidden things of darkness” on both the physical and psychic planes of life. Edited by H. P. BLAVATSKY and MABEL COLLINS.

This Magazine is published with a dual purpose. The first is to direct the searching light of impartial truth on the dark problems of human life, chiefly on the present psychic and spiritual state of our cultured classes throughout Europe and America. The second is to apply it fearlessly as a dissecting knife to every prejudice, whether social or religious, and as a microscope by which to reveal the hidden essence underlying external appearances, the accepted routine of life, forms of accustomed thought, existing institutions, sciences, and creeds. The true light-bearer is at war with no man; but it is his duty to serve humanity by opposing and denouncing everything which tends to hypocrisy, egotism, and the hurt of the many for the gain of the few. “LUCIFER” will endeavour to carry out this duty to the full. This is the secondary task which falls to the lot of all who oppose the dark serried mass of materialists. But the primary one, and that which in this Magazine will always take the first place, is that of applying theosophic thought to the problems of life. There are things which can only be scrutinized to any effectual purpose by the application of a higher knowledge than that which is sufficient to deal with external facts. The Editors have the courage to undertake so great an effort as the launching of this Magazine because they have promise and good earnest of help, from those who possess that higher knowledge, and who consider the time is ripe for truths, which have existed from all ages, to be born again in the minds of men. The best known students of mysticism and occult philosophy will contribute to its pages, while fiction, the mirror of life, will be used to reveal some of the marvellous phases of existence. The attempt will be not merely to promote the comprehension of inner truths and mysteries connected with the spiritual progress of humanity, but to show that occult philosophy may shed a new light on the practical conduct of our destinies in their relation with the physical world.

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THE THEOSOPHIST:

A Magazine of Oriental Philosophy, Art, Literature and Occultism. Conducted by H. P. BLAVATSKY. Vols. I. to VIII. now ready.

“Theosophy has suddenly risen to importance.... The movement implied by the term Theosophy is one that cannot be adequately explained in a few words ... those interested in the movement, which is not to be confounded with spiritualism, will find means of gratifying their curiosity by procuring the back numbers of ‘The Theosophist’ and a very remarkable book called ‘Isis Unveiled,’ by Madame Blavatsky.”—Literary World.

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THE HANDBOOK OF PHYSIOGNOMY.

By ROSA BAUGHAN.

“The merit of her book consists in the admirable clearness of her descriptions of faces. So vivid is the impression produced by them that she is able to dispense with illustrations, the reader using the faces of his acquaintances for that purpose. The classification, too, is good, although the astrological headings may be regarded by the profane as fanciful. Physiognomy may now be scientifically studied by means of composite photography.”—Pall Mall Gazette.

Fourth edition, newly revised, with illustrative plates, price 1s.

THE HANDBOOK OF PALMISTRY.

By ROSA BAUGHAN, author of “Indications of Character in Handwriting.”

“It possesses a certain literary interest, for Miss Baughan shows the connection between palmistry and the doctrines of the Kabbala.”—Graphic.

“Miss Rosa Baughan, for many years known as one of the most expert proficients in this branch of science, has as much claim to consideration as any writer on the subject.”—Sussex Daily News.

“People who wish to believe in palmistry, or the science of reading character from the marks of the hand,” says the Daily News, in an article devoted to the discussion of this topic, “will be interested in a handbook of the subject by Miss Baughan, published by Mr. Redway.”

Nos. 3 to 13, and each succeeding number as issued, may be had, price 1s.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE LONDON LODGE

OF THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY:

Nos. 1 and 2.—Out of print.

No. 3—On the Higher Aspect of Theosophic Studies. By MOHINI M. CHATTERJI.

No. 4.—A Synopsis of Baron Du Prel’s “Philosophie der Mystik.” By BERTRAM KEIGHTLEY.

No. 5.—A Paper on Reincarnation. By Miss ARUNDALE. And other Proceedings.

No. 6.—The Theosophical Movement. By A. P. SINNETT.

No. 7.—The Higher Self. By A. P. SINNETT.

No. 8.—The Theosophical Society and its Work. By MOHINI M. CHATTERJI.

No. 9.—A Paper on Krishna. By MOHINI M. CHATTERJI.

No. 10.—On Mesmerism. By A. P. SINNETT.

No. 11.—Theosophy in the Works of Richard Wagner. By W. ASHTON ELLIS.

No. 12.—Buddha’s Teaching. By A. P. SINNETT.

No. 13.—The Relations of the Higher and the Lower Self. By A. P. SINNETT.

Printed on antique paper and tastefully bound, price 7s. 6d.

THE ASTROLOGER’S GUIDE.

ANIMA ASTROLOGIÆ;

OR, A GUIDE FOR ASTROLOGERS.

Being the One Hundred and Forty-six Considerations of the Astrologer, GUIDO BONATUS, translated from the Latin by Henry Coley, together with the choicest Aphorisms of the Seven Segments of JEROM CARDAN, of Milan, edited by William Lilly (1675); now first republished from the original edition with Notes and Preface by W. C. ELDON SERJEANT.

“Mr. Serjeant deserves the thanks of all who are interested in astrology for rescuing this important work from oblivion.... The growing interest in mystical science will lead to a revival of astrological study, and advanced students will find this book an indispensable addition to their libraries. The book is well got up and printed.”—Theosophist.

In post 4to., illustrated with engravings on wood, most chastely bound in white vellum, price 10s. 6d.

ASTROLOGY THEOLOGIZED.

THE SPIRITUAL HERMENEUTICS OF

ASTROLOGY AND HOLY WRIT.

Being a Treatise upon the Influence of the Stars on Man, and on the Art of Ruling them by the Law of Grace. Reprinted from the Original of 1649. With a Prefatory Essay on Bible Hermeneutics. By ANNA KINGSFORD, M.D., Paris.

“It is well for Dr. Anna Kingsford that she was not born into the sidereal world four hundred years ago. Had that been her sorry fate, she would assuredly have been burned at the stake for her preface to ‘Astrology Theologized.’ It is a very long preface—more than half the length of the treatise it introduces; it contains some of the finest flowers of Theosophical philosophy, and of course makes very short work of Christianity.”—St. James’s Gazette.

“Mrs. Kingsford, amid many things which we do not understand, and some few which we think we comprehend afar off, gives a more detailed analysis of ghosts than we remember to have met with in any of the ancient hermetic writers.”—St. James’s Gazette.

“The only pleasing features of the book are the reproductions of a number of beautiful symbolical figures with which it is illustrated. That on p. 28, representing Christ surrounded by an elliptical glory and carried up to heaven by angels, is taken from an illuminated manuscript of the fourteenth century in the Bibliothèque Royale; and the figure of the Virgin in an aureole, on p. 94, is from a tenth-century illuminated manuscript in the same library. Some of the figures here reproduced are among the finest things in Christian iconography.”—St. James’s Gazette.

Small 4to., with illustrations, bound in vegetable parchment, price 10s. 6d.

THE VIRGIN OF THE WORLD.

By HERMES MERCURIUS TRISMEGISTUS. A Treatise on Initiations, or Asclepios; the Definitions of Asclepios; Fragments of the Writings of Hermes. Translated and edited by the authors of “The Perfect Way.” With an Introduction to “The Virgin of the World” by A. K., and an Essay on “The Hermetic Books” by E. M.

“It will be a most interesting study for every occultist to compare the doctrines of the ancient Hermetic philosophy with the teaching of the Vedantic and Buddhist systems of religious thought. The famous books of Hermes seem to occupy, with reference to the Egyptian religion, the same position which the Upanishads occupy in Aryan religious literature.”—Theosophist, November, 1885.

Just published, 32 pages, wrapper, price 1s.

THE NEW ILLUMINATION.

By EDWARD MAITLAND, author of “The Pilgrim and the Shrine.”

Contents:—The Revival of Mysticism.—The “Modus” of Illumination.—Cyclical Illuminations.—Propositions Involved.—Previous Illuminations.—The Obscuration.—The New Illumination.—The Crucial Tests.—Further Tokens.

In crown 8vo., price 7s. 6d.

MAGIC, WHITE AND BLACK;

OR, THE SCIENCE OF FINITE AND INFINITE LIFE.

Containing Practical Hints for Students of Occultism, by FRANZ HARTMANN, M.D. Illustrated with magical signs, and a symbolical frontispiece etched by MACKANESS, from a design by the Author.

Post 8vo., cloth, price 10s. 6d.

THE LIFE OF PHILIPPUS THEOPHRASTUS, BOMBAST OF HOHENHEIM, KNOWN BY THE NAME OF

PARACELSUS,

And the substance of his teachings concerning Cosmology, Anthropology, Pneumatology, Magic and Sorcery, Medicine, Alchemy and Astrology, Theosophy and Philosophy. Extracted and translated from his rare and extensive works and from some unpublished Manuscripts, by FRANZ HARTMANN, M.D., author of “Magic,” &c.

“Paracelsus was a high priest among mystics and alchemists; he left behind him one hundred and six treatises upon medical and occult subjects, which are likely to be read by the curious as long as mysticism remains a necessary study for whoever would trace the developments of civilization.

“From some considerable acquaintance with the writings of Paracelsus, we can say that Dr. Hartmann has made his excerpts from them with a good deal of skill. Students, indeed, should be grateful for this book, despite its setting of Theosophical nonsense; since to read one of Bombast’s Latin or German treatises is a very stiff exercise indeed, unless you are well versed in his very recondite terminology.

“Dr. Hartmann has compiled a very full and accurate glossary of occult terms, which will be of great use to future readers of Paracelsus; and for so much he is to be thanked.

“Dr. Hartmann quotes some of his recipes for transmuting metals and producing the ‘electrum magicum.’ But Paracelsus is the most transcendental of European mystics, and it is not always easy to know when he is writing allegorically and when practically. Dr. Hartmann says he has tried these prescriptions and found them all right; but he warns the uninitiated against running the risk of blowing themselves up in the endeavour to follow the master’s instructions.

“Paracelsus held firmly to the belief of some of the hermetic writers of the Middle Ages, that it is perfectly possible to create human beings by alchemical means; and he even gives directions (in his treatise ‘De Natura Rerum’) for the production of homunculi.

“On the whole, however, Dr. Hartmann has produced a very amusing book and a book which will have some permanent value to the student of the occult.”—St. James’s Gazette.

64 pp., 8vo., wrapper, price 1s. 6d.

THE “OCCULT WORLD PHENOMENA,”

AND THE SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH.

By A. P. SINNETT, with a Protest by MADAME BLAVATSKY.

“An interesting addition to the fast-expanding literature of Theosophy.”—Literary World.

“All who are interested in Theosophy should read it.”—Glasgow Herald.

“Mr. Sinnett scores some points against his adversary, and his pamphlet is to be followed by some memoirs of Madame Blavatsky, which may contain further refutations. Madame Blavatsky herself appends to the pamphlet a brief and indignant denial of the grave charges which have been made against her.”—Graphic.

In crown 8vo., cloth, price 7s. 6d.

THEOSOPHY, RELIGION, AND OCCULT

SCIENCE.

By HENRY S. OLCOTT, President of the Theosophical Society.

“This book, to which we can only allot an amount of space quite incommensurate with its intrinsic interest, is one that will appeal to the prepared student rather than to the general reader. To anyone who has previously made the acquaintance of such books as Mr. Sinnett’s ‘Occult World,’ and ‘Esoteric Buddhism,’ or has in other ways familiarized himself with the doctrines of the so-called Theosophical Society or Brotherhood, these lectures of Colonel Olcott’s will be rich in interest and suggestiveness. The American officer is a person of undoubted social position and unblemished personal reputation, and his main object is not to secure belief in the reality of any ‘phenomena,’ not to win a barren reputation for himself as a thaumaturgist or wonder-worker, but to win acceptance for one of the oldest philosophies of nature and human life—a philosophy to which of late years the thinkers of the West have been turning with noteworthy curiosity and interest. Of course, should the genuineness of the phenomena in question be satisfactorily established, there would undoubtedly be proof that the Eastern sages to whom Colonel Olcott bears witness do possess a knowledge of the laws of the physical universe far wider and more intimate than that which has been laboriously acquired by the inductive science of the West; but the theosophy expounded in this volume is at once a theology, a metaphysic, and a sociology, in which mere marvels, as such, occupy a quite subordinate and unimportant position. We cannot now discuss its claims, and we will not pronounce any opinion upon them; we will only say that Colonel Olcott’s volume deserves and will repay the study of all readers for whom the byways of speculation have an irresistible charm.”—Manchester Examiner.

In crown 8vo., cloth, price 6s.

A PROFESSOR OF ALCHEMY

(DENIS ZACHAIRE).

By PERCY ROSS, author of “A Comedy without Laughter” and “A Misguidit Lassie.”

The above work is not so much a novel as a study in alchemy. Its incident and detail, with a few exceptions, are not fiction but fact, being drawn from contemporary works, including Denis Zachaire’s own “Opusculum.”

In 2 vols., crown 8vo., cloth, price 10s. 6d.

UNITED.

By A. P. SINNETT.

“Mr. Sinnett’s previous works on ‘Esoteric Buddhism’ and ‘The Occult World’ in some way prepare the reader for the marvellous psychological phenomena with which the present volumes abound, and which cannot fail to have an irresistible charm for all those who love the byways of speculation.”—Literary World.

“There is, nevertheless, a weird attractiveness about ‘United’ which makes even the non-believer in theosophy loth to put down the book when once he has taken it up; while to the lovers of occult phenomena it will prove irresistibly fascinating.”—Literary World.

“Literary ability is evident throughout the book.”—St. James’s Gazette.

“It would be difficult to point to a more earnest writer than Mr. Sinnett, and all he says invariably carries force and weight.... The book has a power of its own which compels respect, and Mr. Sinnett is so much the same as he always is, so eager and sincere in expounding the mysteries in which he is a fervent believer, that one seems to be inspired with some of the curious fascination of his teaching.... In spite of all the improbable and weird fancies which have to be accepted by the student of the occult religion, it should always be borne in mind that its tenets are eminently elevating and beautiful; that it appeals to the best side of our nature.... But all is vague confusion to the uninitiated, and it has to be reluctantly admitted that if attracted one is sadly dazzled by the perusal of such a couple of volumes as ‘United.’ The purpose of ‘United’ is a good one; it is written with marked ability, and the story is pleasantly related in the happy vein of a characteristic author.”—Morning Advertiser, Dec. 31st, 1886.

Bound in fancy cloth, uncut edges, price 2s.

TOBACCO TALK AND SMOKERS’

GOSSIP.

An amusing Miscellany of Fact and Anecdote relating to “The Great Plant” in all its forms and uses, including a Selection from Nicotian Literature.

CONTENTS:—A Tobacco Parliament—Napoleon’s First Pipe—A Dutch Poet and Napoleon’s Snuff-Box—Frederick the Great as an Ass—Too Small for Two—A Smoking Empress—The Smoking Princesses—An Incident on the G.W.R.—Raleigh’s Tobacco Box—Bismarck’s Last Cigar—Bismarck’s Cigar Story—Moltke’s Pound of Snuff—Lord Brougham as a Smoker—Mazzini’s Sang-froid as a Smoker—Lord Clarendon as a Smoker—Politics and Snuff-Boxes—Penn and Tobacco—Tobacco and the Papacy—The Snuff-Mull in the Scotch Kirk—Whately as a Snuff-Taker—The First Bishop who Smoked—Pigs and Smokers—Jesuits’ Snuff—Kemble Pipes—An Ingenious Smoker—Anecdote of Dean Aldrich—Smoking to the Glory of God—Professor Huxley on Smoking—Blucher’s Pipe-Master—Shakespeare and Tobacco—Ben Jonson on Tobacco—Lord Byron on Tobacco—Décamps and Horace Vernet—Milton’s Pipe—Anecdote of Sir Isaac Newton—Emerson and Carlyle—Paley and his Pipe—Jules Sandeau on the Cigar—The Pickwick of Fleet Street—The Obsequio of Havana—The Social Pipe (Thackeray)—Triumph of Tobacco over Sack and Ale—The Smoking Philosopher—Sam Slick on the Virtues of a Pipe—Smoking in 1610—Bulwer-Lytton on Tobacco-Smoking—Professor Sedgwick—St. Pierre on the Effect of Tobacco—Ode to Tobacco (C. S. Calverley)—Meat and Drink (Charles Kingsley)—The Meerschaum (O. W. Holmes)—Charles Kingsley at Eversley—Robert Burns’s Snuff-box—Robinson Crusoe’s Tobacco—Guizot—Victor Hugo—Mr. Buckle as a Smoker—Carlyle on Tobacco—A Poet’s Pipe (Baudelaire)—A Pipe of Tobacco—The Headsman’s Snuff-box—The Pipe and Snuff-box (Cowper)—Anecdote of Charles Lamb—Gibbon as a Snuff-Taker—Charles Lamb as a Smoker—Farewell to Tobacco (Chas. Lamb)—The Power of Smoke (Thackeray)—Thackeray as a Smoker—Dickens as a Smoker—Chewing and Spitting in America—Tennyson as a Smoker—A Smoker’s Opinion of Venice—Coleridge’s First Pipe—Richard Porson—Cruikshank and Tobacco—Mr. James Payn—Mr. Swinburne on Raleigh—The Anti-Tobacco Party—“This Indian Weed”—Dr. Abernethy on Snuff-Taking—Abernethy and a Smoking Patient—Tobacco and the Plague—“The Greatest Tobacco-Stopper in all England”—Dr. Richardson on Tobacco—Advice to Smokers—Some Strange Smokers—The Etymology of Tobacco—The Snuff called “Irish Blackguard”—A Snuff-Maker’s Sign—Mr. Sala’s Cigar-Shop—Death of the “Yard of Clay”—A Prodigious Smoker—A Professor of Smoking—Tobacco in Time of War—Ages attained by Great Smokers—A Maiden’s Wish—“Those Dreadful Cigars”—How to take a Pinch of Snuff—The Tobacco Plant—Fate of an Early Smoker—Adding Insult to Injury—Tom Brown on Smoking—The Snuff-Taker—Tobacco in North America—National Characteristics—Smoking at School—Carlyle on “The Veracities”—Children’s Pipes—The Uses of Cigar Ash—An Inveterate Smoker—A Tough Yarn—Some French Smokers—Riddles for Smokers—Cigar Manufacturing in Havana.

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THE HISTORY OF TITHES.

By H. W. CLARKE.

“We have no hesitation in saying that he has produced the best book of moderate size yet published for the purpose of enabling an ordinary reader to thoroughly understand the origin and history of this ancient impost.... The author gives a great deal of interesting information concerning the planting and growth of Christianity in these islands, the origin of parishes, and the founding and endowment of parish churches.... Mr. Clarke declares himself in his book to be a member of the Church of England. He thus writes in no spirit of hostility to her. But he rightly uses very plain language in giving his opinion on the wilful distortion of facts by Church writers aiming to defend their Church.... No one who wishes thoroughly to understand the history of tithes should be without this book. It will well repay perusal as a book of ecclesiastical history apart from its special object.”—Literary World.

“The change of front which the defenders of the Church have been executing in the face of the enemy has exposed them to some awkward attacks, and Mr. Clarke has no doubt seized on a weak point in the line which seems to have been now adopted. Nor must we take leave of Mr. Clarke without praising his twelfth chapter, which contains an impartial and valuable array of facts and figures, which should be read by all who are interested in the solution of the tithe problem.”—Athenæum, July, 1887.

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THE LIFE, TIMES, AND WRITINGS OF

THOMAS CRANMER, D.D.

(The first Reforming Archbishop of Canterbury).

By CHARLES HASTINGS COLLETTE.

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MOUNTAINEERING BELOW THE SNOW-LINE;

OR, THE SOLITARY PEDESTRIAN IN SNOWDONIA AND ELSEWHERE.

By M. PATERSON, illustrated with etchings.

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AMBULANCE SERMONS:

Being a series of Popular Essays on Medical and Allied Subjects, by J. A. AUSTIN, M.D.

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THE FORTUNATE LOVERS.

Twenty-seven novels of the Queen of Navarre, translated by ARTHUR MACHEN. Edited and selected with notes and an introduction by A. MARY F. ROBINSON. With etched frontispiece by R. JACOMB HOOD.

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THE HEROIC ENTHUSIASTS

(GLI HEROICI FURORI).

An Ethical Poem by GIORDANO BRUNO.

Part the First translated by L. Williams. With an introduction, compiled chiefly from DAVID LEVI’S “Giordano Bruno o la Religione del Pensiero.”

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A SOUL’S COMEDY.

By ARTHUR E. WAITE.

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THE RUEING OF GUDRUN,

And Other Poems. By the Hon. Mrs. GREVILLE-NUGENT.

“Mrs. Greville-Nugent has succeeded very fairly well with her villanelles and rondeaux, her triolets and sestines, her ballades and chants royal.”—St. James’s Gazette.

“Where she shows herself at her best is in the French forms of verse, which exactly suit her talent.”—Times.

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THE PRAISE OF ALE;

OR, SONGS, BALLADS, EPIGRAMS, AND ANECDOTES RELATING TO BEER, MALT, AND HOPS.

Collected and arranged by W. T. MARCHANT.

CONTENTS:—Introduction.—History.—Cards and Wassail Songs.—Church Ales and Observances.—Whitsun Ales.—Political.—Harvest.—General.—Barley and Malt.—Hops.—Scotch Songs.—Local and Dialect.—Trade Songs.—Oxford Songs.—Ale Wives.—Brewers.—Drinking Clubs and Customs.—Royal and Noble Drinkers.—Black Beer.—Drinking Vessels.—Warm Ale.—Facts, Scraps, and Ana.

The volume will contain much curious and out-of-the-way information, embracing a short sketch of the rise and progress of the art of brewing in this country; an account of the laws relating to beer, and the statutes against drunkenness; of the manners and customs of “malt worms” and mug-house clubs; and the obsolete phraseology of “toss-pots,” such as “super-nagulum,” “upsee-freeze,” “shoeing horns,” and “carousing the hunter’s hoop.” The author will pay attention to the drinking customs more or less connected with the Church—Whitsun Ales, Bride Ales, Bride Bush, Bride Wain, and the like; the chants of the wassail-bowl, of the Hock Cart, and the Sheepshearing and Harvest Home rejoicings—

“Here’s a health to the Barley mow, brave boys,

Here’s a health to the Barley mow”—

and Brazenose songs in honour of the brew for which that college is renowned. Then there are lyrics pertaining to particular sorts and conditions of men, as the songs of the threshers and tinkers, sailors and soldiers, and the clubs, which may be considered as forming a class of themselves. This work will doubtless prove a valuable and pleasant addition to the library of the student of history and lover of poetry.

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IMMODESTY IN ART.

An Expostulation and Suggestion in a Letter to Sir Frederick Leighton, by FREDERICK GEORGE LEE, LL.D., F.S.A.

“With the general spirit and drift of Dr. Frederick George Lee’s vigorous pamphlet we entirely and heartily concur. On certain points of detail we may venture to differ from the author. Not all representations of the nude are of necessity immodest: witness, for example, the works of such an artist as Mr. G. F. Watts. Conversely, there are scores of pictures (chiefly French) which, though they do not come under the category of which we speak, are nevertheless flagrantly immodest. We deem it unnecessary to discuss the matter further, especially as we have already and more than once expressed a very definite opinion upon it—in substantial agreement with Dr. Lee—in the articles devoted to Art criticism. To that opinion we intend to adhere, though in doing so we may stand alone in the public press. As to Dr. Lee’s protest, it is, in our opinion, both timely and serviceable.”—John Bull.

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THE CURATE’S WIFE.

A Novel by J. E. PANTON, author of “Sketches in Black and White,” “Less than Kin,” &c.

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THE VALLEY OF SOREK.

By GERTRUDE M. GEORGE, with a Critical Introduction by RICHARD HERNE SHEPHERD.

“There is in the book a high and pure moral and a distinct conception of character.... The dramatis personæ ... are in reality strongly individual, and surprise one with their inconsistencies just as real human beings do.... There is something powerful in the way in which the reader is made to feel both the reality and the untrustworthiness of his (the hero’s) religious fervour, and the character of the atheist, Graham, is not less strongly and definitely conceived.... It is a work that shows imagination and moral insight, and we shall look with much anticipation for another from the same hand.”—Contemporary Review.

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LOW DOWN.

Wayside Thoughts in Ballad and other Verse. By TWO TRAMPS.

“This is a collection of short pieces, most of which can fairly be considered poetry—no slight merit, as verses run just now. Some of the pieces are singularly pathetic and mournful; others, though in serious guise, are permeated by quaint humour; and all of them are of considerable merit. From the variety and excellence of the contents of this bundle of poetical effusions, it is likely to attract a great number of readers, and many passages in it are particularly suitable for recitation.”—Army and Navy Gazette, Aug. 14, 1886.

“But ‘Low Down,’ as it is called, has the distinction of being multi-coloured, each sheet of eight pages consisting of paper of a special hue. To turn over the leaves is, in fact, to enjoy a sort of kaleidoscopic effect, a glimpse of a literary rainbow. Moreover, to complete the peculiarity of the thing, the various poems are printed, apparently at haphazard, in large or small type, as the case may be. There are those, perhaps, who would take such jokes too seriously, and bring them solemnly to the bar of taste, there to be as solemnly condemned. But that is scarcely the right spirit in which to regard them. There is room in life for the quaint and curious as well as for the neat and elegant.”—Globe.

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FIFINE:

A Novel. By ALFRED T. STORY.

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“Exhibiting genuine ability.”—Scotsman.

“Readers will be glad that the morally unpleasant portions of the book are briefly narrated.”—Scotsman.

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AN OMITTED INCIDENT IN THE “GREAT

NAVAL WAR OF 1887.”

By Lieut.-Colonel W. HOPE, V.C.

“This witty, sarcastic, and drastic brochure is just what might have been expected from a brave, and of late persecuted, soldier. It is feigned to be published in 1907; its origin is due to recent contributions in the ‘St. James’s Gazette,’ and it is dedicated to the Auxiliary Naval and Military Forces of the British Empire.... The incident related by Colonel Hope is not without its lessons, and, though at times bordering on the region of improbability, is very well worth reading.”—Western Daily Mercury.

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SEA SONG AND RIVER RHYME

FROM CHAUCER TO TENNYSON.

Selected and edited by ESTELLE DAVENPORT ADAMS. With a New Poem by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE. Illustrated with Twelve Original Etchings.

“The selections have been made with judgment and taste.”—Glasgow Herald.

“The book is on the whole one of the best of its kind ever published.”—Glasgow Herald.

“Its illustrations are really exquisite.”—Glasgow Herald.

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“The value of the work is enhanced by a new poem from the pen of Mr. Algernon Charles Swinburne which displays deep and heroic feeling.”—Morning Post.

“Twelve really exquisite and delicately executed etchings of sea and river side accompany and complete this beautiful volume.”—Morning Post.

“A special anthology delightful in itself and possessing the added graces of elegant printing and dainty illustrations.”—Scotsman.

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“Mrs. Davenport Adams has evidently expended a prodigious amount of labour in making the collection comparatively exhaustive.”—Literary World.

“The volume is got up in the handsomest style, and includes a dozen etchings of sea and river scenes, some of which are exquisite.”—Literary World.

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COSMO DE’ MEDICI:

An Historical Tragedy. And other poems. By RICHARD HENGIST HORNE, author of “Orion.”

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WELLERISMS

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Selected by CHARLES F. RIDEAL. Edited, with an Introduction, by CHARLES KENT, author of “The Humour and Pathos of Charles Dickens.”

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Sam Weller’s Introduction.—Old Weller at Doctor’s Commons.—Sam on a Legal Case.—Self-acting Ink.—Out with It.—Sam’s old White Hat.—Independent Voters.—Proud o’ the Title.—The Weller Philosophy.—The Twopenny Rope.—Job Trotter’s Tears.—Sam’s Misgivings as to Mr. Pickwick.—Clear the Way for the Wheelbarrow.—Unpacking the Lunch Hamper.—Battledore and Shuttlecock.—A True Londoner.—Spoiling the Beadle.—Old Weller’s Remedy for the Gout.—Sam on Cabs.—Poverty and Oysters.—Old Weller on Pikes.—Sam’s Power of Suction.—Veller and Gammon.—Sam as Master of the Ceremonies.—Sam before Mr. Nupkins.—Sam’s Introduction to Mary and the Cook.—Something behind the Door.—Sam and Master Bardell.—Good Wishes to Messrs. Dodson and Fogg.—Sam and his Mother-in-law.—The Shepherd’s Water Rates.—Stiggins as an Arithmetician.—Sam and the Fat Boy.—Compact and Comfortable.—Apologue of the Fat Man’s Watch.—Medical Students.—Sam Subpœnaed.—Disappearance of the “Sassage” Maker.—Sam Weller’s Valentine.—Old Weller’s Plot.—Tea Drinking at Brick Lane.—The Soldier’s Evidence Inadmissible.—Sam’s “Wision” Limited.—A Friendly “Swarry.”—The Killebeate.—Sam and the Surly Groom.—Mr. Pickwick’s Dark Lantern.—The Little Dirty-faced Man.—Old Weller Inexorable.—Away with Melancholy.—Post Boys and Donkeys.—A Vessel.—Old Weller’s Threat.—Sam’s Dismissal of the Fat Boy.—Is she a “Widder”?—Bill Blinder’s Request.—The Watch-box Boy.

“Some write well, but he writes Weller.”—Epigram on Dickens.

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A REGULAR PICKLE:

HOW HE SOWED HIS WILD OATS.

By HENRY W. NESFIELD, author of “A Chequered Career.”

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LEICESTER: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

By FRANCIS W. L. ADAMS.

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EBENEZER JONES’S POEMS.

STUDIES OF SENSATION AND EVENT.

Poems by EBENEZER JONES. Edited, Prefaced, and Annotated by RICHARD HERNE SHEPHERD. With Memorial Notices of the Author by SUMNER JONES and W. J. LINTON. A new Edition. With Photographic Portrait of the Poet.

“This remarkable poet affords nearly the most striking instance of neglected genius in our modern school of poetry. His poems are full of vivid disorderly power.”—DANTE G. ROSSETTI.

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FAMOUS FROSTS AND FROST FAIRS IN

GREAT BRITAIN.

Chronicled from the Earliest to the Present Time. By WILLIAM ANDREWS, F.R.Hist.S.

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“PHIZ”

(HABLOT KNIGHT BROWNE).

A Memoir; including a Selection from his Correspondence and Notes on his Principal Works. By FRED. G. KITTON. With a Portrait and numerous

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BURMA: AS IT WAS, AS IT IS, AND

AS IT WILL BE.

By J. G. SCOTT (“Shway Yoe”).

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DREAMS OF THE DERBY:

Together with many curious tips and omens for other Races, now first collected and arranged for the printer. By FORTUNATUS.

CONTENTS:—About Sir Peter Teazle—Derby Dreams—Eleanor—Lapdog and Cadland—Dangerous—Spaniel, winner of the Derby in 1831—Plenipotentiary—Flying Dutchman—Daniel O’Rourke—Caractacus: Snewing’s Dream—A Hop-Merchant’s Dream—Dreams of Caractacus—Ellington—A Story of £25,000—Pyrrhus the First—Macaroni—Cremorne—Derby Sweeps—Dugdale’s Dream—Uncle John’s Dream—A Club Steward’s Luck—Doncaster’s Derby—Another of Fred Booth’s Stories—Bluegown—A Waif’s Tips—Blair Athol—Bloomsbury’s Year—Sham Dreamers—Couronne de Fer—Lottie Fowler—About Derby and other Tipsters—“Chanticleer’s” Tip—Executor—Kisber—Miscellaneous—Poetic Prophets of the Derby—The Oaks and St. Leger—Marie Stuart’s Oaks—St. Leger—Caller Ou—Hawthornden—Craig Millar’s Year—Knight of St. George—Achievement—Earlier Dreams and Omens—Dreams of Handicap and other Race Winners—A Dream of Diophantus—The Fate of Dundee—Another Dundee Story—See-Saw—Fanciful Backing—Prevision of an Accident—A Conspiracy of 1843—Flash-in-the-Pan—One Act—Bob Smart’s Glenlivat Dream—Inveresk—Julius—Tips for the Northumberland Plate—A Clever Backer—The Chief’s Presentiment—Lowlander’s Victory at Ascot—Gubat.

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THE LOVE AFFAIR:

A DRAMA OF AN ANCIENT DEMOCRACY.

In five Acts, with six Tableaux. By W. W. ALDRED, author of “A Lost Cause.”

“There are gleams of nature, of wit, of observation, and even of verse, in ‘The Love Affair.’ The style is free from mere verbiage and line padding; and it changes with freedom from the old and stately to the modern and familiar.”—Pall Mall Gazette.

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CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH

HACHISH EATER.

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THE ANATOMY OF TOBACCO;

Or, Smoking Methodised, Divided, and Considered after a New Fashion. By LEOLINUS SILURIENSIS.

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A WORD FOR THE NAVY.

By ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE.

“Mr. Swinburne’s new patriotic song, ‘A Word for the Navy,’ is as fiery in its denunciation of those he believes to be antagonistic to the welfare of the country as was his lyric with which he startled the readers of the Times one morning.”—Athenæum.

The publisher of this poem is also the sole proprietor of the copyright; it cannot therefore be included in Mr. Swinburne’s collected works.

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LITERARY AND HISTORICAL EDITION OF POE’S RAVEN.

THE RAVEN.

By EDGAR ALLAN POE, with Historical and Literary Commentary by JOHN H. INGRAM.

“This is an interesting monograph on Poe’s famous poem. First comes the poet’s own account of the genesis of the poem, with a criticism, in which Mr. Ingram declines, very properly, we think, to accept the history as entirely genuine. Much curious information is collected in this essay. Then follows the poem itself, with the various readings, and then its after-history; and after these ‘Isadore,’ by Albert Pike, a composition which undoubtedly suggested the idea of ‘The Raven’ to its author. Several translations are given, two in French, one in prose, the other in rhymed verse; besides extracts from others, two in German and one in Latin. But perhaps the most interesting chapter in the book is that on the ‘Fabrications.’”—Spectator.

“There is no more reliable authority on the subject of Edgar Allan Poe than Mr. John H. Ingram.... The volume is well printed and tastefully bound in spotless vellum, and will prove to be a work of the greatest interest to all students of English and American literature.”—Publisher’s Circular.

544 pages, crown 8vo., green cloth boards, price 7s. 6d.

DICKENSIANA.

A Bibliography of the Literature relating to CHARLES DICKENS and his Writings, compiled by FRED. G. KITTON, author of “‘Phiz’ (Hablot K. Browne), a Memoir,” and “John Leech, Artist and Humourist,” with a portrait of “Boz,” from a drawing by SAMUEL LAURENCE.

“This book is honestly what it pretends to be, and nothing more. It is a comprehensive catalogue of all the writings of Mr. Charles Dickens, and of a good quantity of books written about him. It also contains copious extracts from reviews of his works and from sermons on his character. The criticisms are so various, and some of them are so much at variance with others, that the reader of them can complain of nothing less than a lack of material on which to form his judgment, if he has not formed it already, on the claim of Mr. Dickens to occupy a front place in the rank of English classics. Assertions, if not arguments, are multiplied on either side.”—Saturday Review.

“Mr. Fred. G. Kitton ... has done his work with remarkable thoroughness, and consequently with real success. It is a subject on which I may fairly claim to speak, and I may say that all I know, and a great deal I did not know, about Dickens is to be found in Mr. Kitton’s work.”—“Atlas,” in the World.

“DICKENSIANA.”

“If with your Dickens-lore you’d make

Considerable headway,

The way to be well-read’s to take

This book brought out by REDWAY.

’Tis clear, exhaustive, and compact,

Both well arranged and written;

A mine of anecdote and fact,

Compiled by F. G. KITTON.”—Punch.

In preparation.

DICKENS AND THE STAGE.

By T. EDGAR PEMBERTON, author of “Dickens’s London.”

With new portraits of Mr. Irving as “Jingle,” Mr. Toole as “The Artful Dodger,” and Miss Jennie Lee as “Jo.”

Uniform with “Hints to Collectors,” price 6s.

THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SWINBURNE.

A Bibliographical List arranged in Chronological Order of the Published Writings in Verse and Prose of ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE (1857-1887).

PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION.

Born on April 5, 1837, in the year of Queen Victoria’s accession, of which the whole nation is now celebrating the Jubilee, Algernon Charles Swinburne to-day attains the jubilee or fiftieth year of his own life, and may be therefore claimed as an essentially and exclusively Victorian poet. Of the half-century of life now completed, more than a quarter of a century has been devoted to fruitful and noble work in song and to work hardly less fruitful and noble in the field of criticism.

In issuing this new edition, revised throughout and brought down to date, of a bibliographical record originally published nearly four years ago, the compiler cannot deny himself the pleasure of associating with the date the coincidence, not only of a double jubilee, but also of a double birthday, viz., his own.

Long distant may the day be when this record, already so goodly an one, can be made complete in a final sense, and collectors of the books of our greatest Victorian poet and critic be able to echo Lord Melbourne’s callous expression of grateful relief that they can bind him up!

As on former occasions, the compiler invites the co-operation of literary correspondents, and will be grateful to anyone who will correct an error or supply an omission.

A few large-paper copies, with India proof portrait, in imperial 8vo., parchment-paper covers, price 7s. 6d.

AN ESSAY ON THE GENIUS OF GEORGE

CRUIKSHANK.

By “THETA” (WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY), with all the original woodcut illustrations, a new portrait of CRUIKSHANK, etched by PAILTHORPE, and a prefatory note on THACKERAY AS AN ART CRITIC, by W. E. CHURCH.

“Thackeray’s essay ‘On the Genius of George Cruikshank,’ reprinted from the Westminster Review, is a piece of work well calculated to drive a critic of these days to despair. How inimitable is its touch! At once familiar and elegant, serious and humorous, enthusiastically appreciative, and yet just and clear-sighted; but, above all, what the French call personnel. It is not the impersonnel reviewer who is going through his paces ... it is Thackeray talking to us as few can talk—talking with apparent carelessness, even ramblingly, but never losing the thread of his discourse or saying a word too much, nor ever missing a point which may help to elucidate his subject or enhance the charm of his essay.... Mr. W. E. Church’s prefatory note on ‘Thackeray as an Art Critic’ is interesting and carefully compiled.”—Westminster Review.

“As the original copy of the Westminster is now excessively rare, this re-issue will, no doubt, be welcomed by collectors.”—Birmingham Daily Mail.

“The new portrait of Cruikshank by F. W. Pailthorpe is a clear, firm etching.”—The Artist.

Printed on hand-made paper and bound in vellum, crown 8vo., price 6s.

HINTS TO COLLECTORS OF ORIGINAL EDITIONS OF THE WORKS OF

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY.

By CHARLES PLUMPTRE JOHNSON.

“... A guide to those who are great admirers of Thackeray, and are collecting first editions of his works. The dainty little volume, bound in parchment and printed on hand-made paper, is very concise and convenient in form; on each page is an exact copy of the title-page of the work mentioned thereon, a collation of pages and illustrations, useful hints on the differences in editions, with other matters indispensable to collectors.... Altogether it represents a large amount of labour and experience.”—Spectator.

“... Mr. Johnson has evidently done his work with so much loving care that we feel entire confidence in his statements. The prices that he has affixed in every case form a valuable feature of the volume, which has been produced in a manner worthy of its subject-matter.”—Academy.

“The list of works which Mr. Johnson supplies is likely to be of high interest to Thackeray collectors. His preliminary remarks go beyond this not very narrow circle, and have a value for all collectors of modern works.”—Notes and Queries.

“... It is choicely printed at the Chiswick Press; and the author, Mr. Charles Plumptre Johnson, treats the subject with evident knowledge and enthusiasm.... It is not a Thackeray Bibliography, but a careful and minute description of the first issues, with full collations and statement of the probable cost.... Mr. Johnson addresses collectors, but is in addition a sincere admirer of the greatest satirist of the century.”—Book Lore.

Printed on hand-made paper, and bound in vellum, crown 8vo., price 6s.

HINTS TO COLLECTORS OF ORIGINAL EDITIONS OF THE WORKS OF

CHARLES DICKENS.

By CHARLES PLUMPTRE JOHNSON.

“Enthusiastic admirers of Dickens are greatly beholden to Mr. C. P. Johnson for his useful and interesting ‘Hints to Collectors of Original Editions of the Works of Charles Dickens’ (Redway). The book is a companion to the similar guide to collectors of Thackeray’s first editions, is compiled with the like care, and produced with the like finish and taste.”—Saturday Review.

“This is a sister volume to the ‘Hints to Collectors of First Editions of Thackeray,’ which we noticed a month or two ago. The works of Dickens, with a few notable ‘Dickensiana,’ make up fifty-eight numbers, ... and Mr. Johnson has further augmented the present volume with a list of thirty-six plays founded on Dickens’s works, and another list of twenty-three published portraits of Dickens. As we are unable to detect any slips in his work, we must content ourselves with thanking him for the correctness of his annotations. It is unnecessary to repeat our praise of the elegant format of these books.”—Academy.

Only 100 copies printed, foolscap 8vo., printed on hand-made paper at the Chiswick Press, and bound in parchment by Burn to form a companion volume to “Tamerlane,” price 10s. 6d.

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST;

OR, A ROUGH OUTSIDE WITH A GENTLE HEART.

By CHARLES LAMB. Now first reprinted from the original edition of 1811, with Preface and Notes by RICHARD HERNE SHEPHERD.

Price 21s.

TAMERLANE,

And Other Poems. By EDGAR ALLAN POE.

First published at Boston in 1827, and now first republished from a unique copy of the original edition, with a preface by RICHARD HERNE SHEPHERD.

100 copies printed. Two copies only remain.

An édition de luxe in demy 18mo., price 1s.

JOHN LEECH, ARTIST AND HUMOURIST.

A Biographical Sketch by FRED. G. KITTON. New edition, revised. The only published biography of JOHN LEECH.

“In the absence of a fuller biography we cordially welcome Mr. Kitton’s interesting little sketch.”—Notes and Queries.

“The multitudinous admirers of the famous artist will find this touching monograph well worth careful reading and preservation.”—Daily Chronicle.

“The very model of what such a memoir should be.”—Graphic.

In large 8vo., uniform with the new “Standard” edition of Thackeray’s Works, price 10s. 6d.

SULTAN STORK,

And other Stories and Sketches by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY (1829-44), now first collected, to which is added the Bibliography of THACKERAY, revised and considerably enlarged.

The Athenæum says:—“Admirers of Thackeray may be grateful for a reprint of ‘Sultan Stork.’”

“The remains of Thackeray are now in the hands of the resurrectionists. Writers in the Athenæum have been gloating over them, and Mr. George Redway, a London publisher of peculiar and quaint literature, has issued a handsome volume of Thackerayan fragments.”—Glasgow Herald.

“Thackeray collectors, however, have only to be told that none of the pieces now printed appear in the two volumes recently issued by Messrs. Smith, Elder, and Co., in order to make them desire their possession. They will also welcome the revision of the Bibliography, since it now presents a complete list, arranged in chronological order, of Thackeray’s published writings in prose and verse, and also of his sketches and drawings.”—Daily Chronicle.

“‘Sultan Stork’ ... which purports to be told by Scheherazade on the thousand and second of the ‘Arabian Nights,’ is undoubtedly the work of Mr. Thackeray, and is quite pretty and funny enough to have found a place in his collected miscellanies. ‘Dickens in France’ is as good in its way as Mr. Thackeray’s analysis of Alexander Dumas’ ‘Kean’ in the ‘Paris Sketch-Book.’... There are other slight sketches in this volume which are evidently by Mr. Thackeray, and several of his obiter dicta in them are worth preserving.... We do not assume to fix Mr. Thackeray’s rank or to appraise his merits as an art critic. We only know that, in our opinion, few of his minor writings are so pleasant to read as his shrewd and genial comments on modern painters and paintings.”—Saturday Review.

In large crown 8vo., price 3s. 6d.

SITHRON, THE STAR STRICKEN.

Translated (Ala bereket Allah) from an ancient Arabic Manuscript, by SALEM BEN UZÄIR, of Bassora.

“This very remarkable book, ‘Sithron,’ ... is a bold, pungent, audacious satire upon the ancient religious belief of the Jews.... No one can read the book without homage to the force, the tenderness, and the never-failing skill of its writer.”—St. James’s Gazette.

Handsomely printed and tastefully bound, 436 pages, large crown 8vo., cloth extra, 7s. 6d.

ESSAYS IN THE STUDY OF FOLK-SONGS.

By the COUNTESS EVELYN MARTINENGO-CESARESCO.

“A pleasant volume on a pleasant topic.... The Countess, with her sincere enthusiasm for what is simple, passionate, and sensuous in folk-song, and with her lucid and unaffected style, well understands the mode in which the educated collector should approach the shy singers or story-tellers of Europe.... Her introduction is perhaps, to the scientific student of popular culture, the best part of her book.... Next to her introduction, perhaps her article on ‘Death in Folk-Poetry’ is the most serviceable essay in the volume.... ‘Folk Lullabies’ is perhaps the most pleasant of the remaining essays in the admirable volume, a volume remarkable for knowledge, sympathy, and good taste.”—Extracts from a page notice in the Saturday Review, April 24, 1886.

“This is a very delightful book, full of information and thoughtful suggestions. It deals principally with the Folk-songs of Southern peoples, Venetian, Sicilian, Armenian, Provence, and Greek Songs of Calabria, but there are several essays devoted to the general characteristics of Folk-Poetry, such as the influence of Nature, the Inspiration of Death, the idea of Fate, the numerous songs connected with the rites of May, Folk-Lullabies, and Folk-Dirges. There is also an interesting essay on what is called the White Paternoster, and Children’s Rhyming Prayers. This is one of the most valuable, and certainly one of the most interesting, books which have been written on a subject which has of late years been exciting an ever-increasing attention, and which involves many important problems connected with the early history of the human race.”—Standard.

“‘Folk-Songs,’ traditional popular ballads, are as tempting to me as King Charles’s head to Mr. Dick. But interesting as the topic of the origin and diffusion and literary merit of these poems may be—poems much the same in all European countries—they are rather caviare to the general. The Countess Martinengo-Cesaresco is, or should be, a well-known authority among special students of this branch of literature, to whom I heartily commend her ‘Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs.’ The Countess is, perhaps, most familiar with Southern volksleider, as of Greece, Italy, and Sicily. Her book is a treasure-house of Folk-lore of various kinds, and the matter is handled with much poetic appreciation and a good deal of learning.”—Daily News.

“A kind of popular introduction to the study of Folk-lore.”—St. James’s Gazette.

About 500 pages, crown 8vo., cloth, price 10s. 6d.

THE HISTORY OF THE FORTY VEZIRS;

OR, THE STORY OF THE FORTY MORNS AND EVES.

Written in Turkish by SHEYKH-ZADA, and now done into English by E. J. W. GIBB, M.R.A.S.

“The interest of this compilation is naturally not to be compared to that aroused by the ever-fresh ‘Thousand and One Nights;’ but it has had high reputation among particular admirers, and the gentleman to whom we are indebted for this English version—apparently the most complete in any language of Western Europe—merits the thanks of the reading public for the work performed.”—Athenæum.

“A delightful addition to the wealth of Oriental stories available to English readers is ‘The History of the Forty Vezirs’ (Redway), done into English by Mr. E. J. W. Gibb, from the Turkish of Sheykh-Zāda. The collection comprises 112 stories. To the forty told by the Lady and those of the forty Vezirs, Mr. Gibb has added four from Belletête, twenty from a MS. in the India Office, six from Dr. Behrnauer’s translation, and two from a MS. recently purchased by Mr. Quaritch. The results of collation are admirably summarized in a comparative table that analyzes the contents of the various texts. In the preface Mr. Gibb deals with the bibliography of the French and German versions, and indicates some of the more interesting parallels suggested by those old stories in the ‘Gesta Romanorum,’ the ‘Decameron,’ the ‘Thousand and One Nights,’ the ‘Mabinogion,’ and other treasures of old-world fable. In short, Mr. Gibb has considerately done everything to help the reader to an intelligent appreciation of this charming book.”—Saturday Review.

“In my opinion the version is definite and final. The style is light and pleasant, with the absolutely necessary flavour of quaintness; and the notes, though short and few, are sufficient and satisfactory. Mr. Gibb does not write only ad clerum; and thus he has been obliged to ‘leave in the obscurity of an Eastern language’ three whole tales (pp. 353, 366, and 399), No. 2 being exceedingly witty and fescennine. He has the good sense, when he supplants a broad joke by a banal English phrase, to subjoin in a note the original Turkish (pp. 109, 140, 199, 215, and 382). Yet some of the novelle are highly spiced enough: see the amorous princess in the Eleventh Wazir’s story (pp. 381-3); and the truly Turkish and unspeakable version of modest Æsop’s ‘Countryman and his Son.’ Of the less Milesian I would especially commend the story of the Venus-star and the magical angels, Harut and Marut (p. 167); the explanation of the proverb, ‘Take counsel of the cap that is on thy head’ (p. 362), and the Thirty-seventh Wazir’s tale, showing why ‘men have beaten their wives since the days of Saint Adam’ (p. 349).”—Sir RICHARD F. BURTON, in the Academy.

Large post 8vo., cloth, uncut, price 7s. 6d.

THE BLOOD COVENANT:

A Primitive Rite and its Bearings on Scripture, by H. CLAY TRUMBULL, D.D.

“An admirable study of a primitive belief and custom. One of the utmost importance in considering the growth of civilization.”

“A profound interest will be aroused by the keenness and clearness of vision, no less than by the wealth of learning, by means of which he follows a line of research, tracing through this one rite the cannibalism of savages to a religious impulse not essentially different in its symbolical aspect from one of the most vital principles of Christianity. In the details of the work will be found much to attract the attention of the curious. Its fundamental and essential value, however, is for the student of religions; and all such will be grateful to Dr. Trumbull for this solid, instructive, and enlightening work.”—Scotsman.

Demy 8vo., cloth, price 10s. 6d.

SERPENT-WORSHIP AND OTHER ESSAYS,

With a Chapter on Totemism, by C. STANILAND WAKE, Member of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.

Contents:—Rivers of Life—Phallism in Ancient Religions—The Origin of Serpent-Worship—The Adamites—The Descendants of Cain—Sacred Prostitution—Marriage among Primitive Peoples—Marriage by Capture—Development of the Family—The Social Position of Woman as affected by “Civilisation”—Spiritism and Modern Spiritualism—Totems and Totemism—Man and the Ape.

In demy 8vo., choicely printed, cloth, or Japanese parchment, price 7s. 6d.

PRIMITIVE SYMBOLISM

As illustrated in Phallic Worship; or, The Reproductive Principle, by the late HODDER M. WESTROPP. With an Introduction by MAJOR-GENERAL FORLONG, author of “Rivers of Life.”

“This work is a multum in parvo of the growth and spread of Phallicism, as we commonly call the worship of nature or fertilizing powers. I felt, when solicited to enlarge and illustrate it on the sudden death of the lamented author, that it would be desecration to touch so complete a compendium by one of the most competent and soundest thinkers who have written on this world-wide faith. None knew better or saw more clearly than Mr. Westropp that in this oldest symbolism and worship lay the foundations of all the goodly systems we call Religions.”—J. G. R. FORLONG.

“A well-selected repertory of facts illustrating this subject, which should be read by all who are interested in the study of the growth of religions.”—Westminster Review.

In crown 8vo., 676 pages, cloth, price 10s. 6d.

MYTHS, SCENES, AND WORTHIES OF

SOMERSET.

By MRS. E. BOGER.

The author has somewhat departed from her original intention of making a collection of the myths and legends of Somerset. Unwittingly fiction glided into fact, and the story developed into history, and it was found difficult, if not impossible, to define their respective limits. For instance, though Arthur is an impalpable and shadowy personage, while Alfred is a most real and substantial one, yet the mingling of truth and fable in the story of each—as connected with Somerset—is only one of degree; and even in later times, myth is so intertwined with the lives of St. Dunstan, of Sir John de Courcy, of Roger Bacon, &c., that, if one tries rudely to tear away the accretions of myth and fable, a maimed and distorted picture is all that is left.

Among the legends of Saints are some of rare beauty, full of earnest thought and quaint suggestiveness. It has been endeavoured to show that, instead of being, as they are generally and conveniently classed—with a charming simplicity—as the “lying inventions of the monks,” they are in most cases but the loving exaggerations of a simple age, to which every unexplained wonder was a miracle.

Some of the articles may be thought to be of undue length; but St. Dunstan is a character so strangely misrepresented in most histories, that the author was anxious to prove incontestably his claim to be one of the worthiest of the worthies of Somerset; again, as to the unhappy Duke of Monmouth, though the story of his rebellion is of necessity taken chiefly from Macaulay, the story of his quasi-royal progress is little known, and Macaulay studiously omits any palliating or softening circumstance in the terrible record of the battle of Sedgmoor and the Bloody Assize.

In Preparation.

HOW TO TRACE A PEDIGREE;

OR, THE SCIENCE OF HERALDRY EXPLAINED.

By CHARLES WORTHY, Esq., late of the College of Arms.

Introductory.—Science of Heraldry, Coats of Arms, Varieties of Arms, Partition Lines, Tinctures, Furs, Ordinaries, &c., &c.—Common Charges, Lions and other Beasts, Heraldic Monsters, &c., &c.—Miscellaneous Objects Alphabetically arranged.—Technical Terms used in Heraldry.—The Rules of Blazon.—The Marshalling of Arms, Hatchments, &c., &c.—Crests, Mottoes, Helmets, Mantlings, Supporters, and Coronets.—The Rules of Precedence.—Peers, Baronets, Knights, Esquires, Gentlemen.—Advice to Pedigree Hunters, How to Trace a Pedigree, Parochial Registers, Public Documents, Probate Court, Fees, &c., &c.—The College of Arms, Officers of Arms, Heraldic Records, Heraldic Fees, Grants of Arms, Change of Name.—Liveries, with some Remarks upon Cockades, and those who are entitled to use them.—General Remarks, Drawing and Illuminating, Taxes in respect of Arms.

Handsomely printed on antique paper, and tastefully bound, price 2s. 6d.

POPE JOAN

(THE FEMALE POPE).

A Historical Study. Translated from the Greek of Emmanuel Rhoïdis. With Preface by CHARLES HASTINGS COLLETTE.

“When Dr. Döllinger wrote to the effect that ‘the subject of Pope Joan has not yet lost interest,’ he said no more than the truth. The probability is that the topic will always have its attractions for the lovers of the curiosities of history. Mr. Baring-Gould has declared that ‘the whole story of Pope Joan is fabulous, and rests on not a single historical foundation;’ but others are not so firmly convinced in the matter, and at all times there are those who are anxious to investigate singular traditions.... Rhoïdis discusses the topic with much learning and ingenuity, and Mr. Collette’s introduction is full of information.”—Globe.

“It is interesting enough, and is accompanied by curious illustrations.”—Notes and Queries.

In crown 8vo., about 450 pages, with illustrations, and historico-symbolical binding, price 7s. 6d.

THE REAL HISTORY OF THE ROSICRUCIANS.

Founded on their own Manifestoes, and on Facts and Documents collected from the Writings of Initiated Members, by ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE, author of “The Mysteries of Magic: a Digest of the Writings of Eliphas Levi.”

Influence of the Secret Societies.—Derivations of the name Rosicrucian.—On the State of Mystical Philosophy in Germany at the close of the Sixteenth Century.—The Prophecy of Paracelsus.—The Fama Fraternitatis of the Meritorious Order of the Rosy Cross.—The Confession of the Rosicrucian Fraternity.—The Chymical Marriage of Christian Rosencreutz.—The Connection of the Rosicrucian Claims with those of Alchemy and Magic.—On the Antiquity of the Rosicrucian Fraternity.—Theories as to the Authorship of the Rosicrucian Manifestoes.—Progress of Rosicrucianism in Germany.—Rosicrucian Apologists: Michael Maier, Robert Fludd, Thomas Vaughan, &c.—Rosicrucianism in France.—Connection between the Rosicrucians and Freemasons.—Modern Rosicrucian Societies, &c., &c.

In the present work every important and available fact has been carefully collected, and the manifestoes and other documents of the Fraternity are republished in revised versions. The Rosicrucians as represented by themselves are, therefore, offered to English readers for the first time in the literature of the subject. The task has been performed by a sympathetic but impartial writer, purged from the bias of any particular theory, and above all uncontaminated by the pretension to superior knowledge, which claimants have never been able to substantiate.

A few copies only remain of the following important work, by the author of “The Rosicrucians.”

PHALLICISM:

Its connection with the Rosicrucians and the Gnostics, and its Foundation in Buddhism, by HARGRAVE JENNINGS, author of “The Rosicrucians.”

“This book is written ad clerum, and appeals to the scholar only, and not to the multitude. It is a masterly and exhaustive account of that worship of the creative powers of nature which, under various names, has prevailed among all the nations of antiquity and of mediæval times, alike in Egypt and India, in Italy and Gaul, among the Israelites of old, and among the primitive inhabitants of Great Britain and Ireland ... a most valuable auxiliary to all who care to pursue such a subject of inquiry, a subject for which Mr. Jennings is the better fitted on account of his long and intimate acquaintance with the Rosicrucians, their tenets, and their practices.”—Antiquarian Magazine and Bibliographer.

“Unpleasant as this subject is, we are quite prepared to agree that in its scientific aspect, as a form of human worship, it has considerable importance.... Mr. Jennings deals almost entirely with the subjective part of his inquiry, and he has evidently made a considerable amount of research into the literature of early religions.... He has produced something which is, at all events, worth the attention of the student of comparative psychology.”—Antiquary.

“This book ... is profoundly learned, and gives evidence on each page of deep thought, intense powers of research, clear and unmistakable reasoning, and thorough mastership of the subject. The appendix also contains much very curious matter which will interest those who desire to study the subject under all its different aspects and bearings.”—Reliquary.

In small 4to., bound in cloth, price 3s. 6d.

THE DANCE OF DEATH

In Painting and in Print, by T. TINDALL WILDRIDGE. With Woodcuts.

“The origin of the Dance has been conjectured to have been one of the religious mysteries, moralities, or dramatic exhibitions which at the same time supplied a comedy and a homily. There certainly was an acted processional dance in which the players one by one were snatched away; Cervantes in ‘Don Quixote’ mentions it as the ‘Cortes of Death.’ ... The earliest painting of the Dance of Death is said to be that at Basil, though it is probable that many of which we have information are as old. The German and Swiss bridges, so often, too, the site of religious buildings, were decorated with the representation; an example is upon the Pont des Moulins leading into Lucerne, where is a fine Dance, restored within the last few years.” The blocks illustrating this work are a series found in a northern printing office many years ago. They seem to be of considerable age, and are somewhat close copies of Holbein’s designs.

Monthly, 1s. Volumes I. to XI., now ready, price 7s. 6d. each.

WALFORD’S ANTIQUARIAN MAGAZINE

AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW.

Edited by G. W. REDWAY, F.R.Hist.S.

The following are the Contents of the first Four Numbers published this year. ARTICLES:—Domesday Book.—Frostiana.—Some Kentish Proverbs.—The Literature of Almanacks.—“Madcap Harry” and Sir John Popham.—Tom Coryate and his Crudities.—Notes on John Wilkes and Boswell’s Life of Johnson.—Rarities in the Locker-Lampson Collection.—A Day with the late Mr. Edward Solly.—The Defence of England in the 16th Century.—The Ordinary from Mr. Thomas Jenyns’ Booke of Armes.—A Forgotten Cromwellian Tomb.—Visitation of the Monasteries in the reign of Henry VIII.—The Rosicrucians.—The Seillière Library.—A Lost Work.—Sir Bevis of Hampton.—More Kentish Proverbs.—Cromwell and the Saddle Letter of Charles I.—Recent Discoveries at Rome.—Folk-Lore of British Birds.—An Old Political Broadside.—Notes for Coin Collectors.—Higham Priory.—Byways of Periodical Literature.—How to Trace a Pedigree.—The Curiosities of Ale.—The Books and Bookmen of Reading.—The Language of the Law.—Words, Idioms, &c., of the Vulgar.—Notes on Old Chelsea.—The Romans in Cumbria.

COLLECTANEA.—Early Italian Prints.—Tercentenary of the Potato.—Chaucer Discovery.—Sir John Soane’s Museum.—Copyright in Government Publications.—Pausanias.—The Loan of Manuscripts.—Paper Making in 1588.—Portraits of Charles Dickens.—Hopton Castle.—A very Ancient Watch.—The Value of Antiquarian Study.—Curious Forestry Privilege.—A “Factory.”—Thimbles Old and New.—Mrs. Glasse’s Cookery Book.—A Bucks Estate.—Chalfont St. Giles.—Greek Coins.—Shakespearian Literature.—Geography in the Sixteenth Century.—Welsh Place Names.—Japanese Art.—Duelling in 1760.—Shelleyana.—English Archers.—Oriental Porcelain.—South Italian Folk-Lore.—Serpent-Lore.—Modern Witches.—The Domesday Plough.—A Bishop of the Olden Time.—Historical Treasures in the Upsala Cathedral.—The Witches Ladder.—Old Prayer-Book.—A Relic of James II.—Pontefract and Ripon.—Old Shoes.—Love Charms.—County Families.—A Roman Fire Brigade.—Parish Registers.—Border Raiding.—Peasant Proprietors.—Queen Mary’s Tree.—The Turks and Persians as Book-lovers.—Epitaph of John Ruskin’s Parents.—Quakers.—“Yankee” and the “Stars and Stripes.”—Gipsies.—The Royal Academy.—Chigwell Church, Essex.—Printers’ Errors.—A Village Club.—An Historical Fishery.—A Survival.—A Cock Match.—Early Publishing.—Pancakes at Westminster School.—The Archbishop’s Palace at Croydon.—The Art of the Saracens in Egypt.—The Early Custody of Domesday Book.

CORRESPONDENCE.—The late Bishop Hannington’s Ancestry.—A Reader of Curious Books.—Throwing the Dart in Cork Harbour.—The De la Poles.—The Family of John Hampden.—The “Olla Podrida” and T. Monro.—Life of Bertram Montfichet.—Magdalen College, Oxford.—Book Bound in a Murderer’s Skin.—A Forgotten Society.—Latin Verses by Dr. Johnson.—“Merchet” and the “Jus Primæ Noctis.”—Hanna, Hanet, and Wallace.—Another Book Bound in a Murderer’s Skin.—Humorous Portrait of Charles Dickens.—Beating Boys at Parish Boundaries.—Destruction of National Antiquities.

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A CATALOGUE OF REMARKABLE BOOKS

THE KABBALA UNVEILED.

POSTHUMOUS HUMANITY:

INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF MADAME BLAVATSKY,

GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY;

THE MYSTERIES OF MAGIC;

NATURE AND LAW.

THE LITERATURE OF OCCULTISM AND ARCHÆOLOGY.

THE PATH:

“LUCIFER:”

THE THEOSOPHIST:

THE HANDBOOK OF PHYSIOGNOMY.

THE HANDBOOK OF PALMISTRY.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE LONDON LODGE OF THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY:

ANIMA ASTROLOGIÆ;

THE SPIRITUAL HERMENEUTICS OF ASTROLOGY AND HOLY WRIT.

THE VIRGIN OF THE WORLD.

THE NEW ILLUMINATION.

MAGIC, WHITE AND BLACK;

PARACELSUS,

THE “OCCULT WORLD PHENOMENA,”

THEOSOPHY, RELIGION, AND OCCULT SCIENCE.

A PROFESSOR OF ALCHEMY

UNITED.

TOBACCO TALK AND SMOKERS’ GOSSIP.

THE HISTORY OF TITHES.

THE LIFE, TIMES, AND WRITINGS OF THOMAS CRANMER, D.D.

MOUNTAINEERING BELOW THE SNOW-LINE;

AMBULANCE SERMONS:

THE FORTUNATE LOVERS.

THE HEROIC ENTHUSIASTS

A SOUL’S COMEDY.

THE RUEING OF GUDRUN,

THE PRAISE OF ALE;

IMMODESTY IN ART.

THE CURATE’S WIFE.

THE VALLEY OF SOREK.

LOW DOWN.

FIFINE:

AN OMITTED INCIDENT IN THE “GREAT NAVAL WAR OF 1887.”

SEA SONG AND RIVER RHYME

COSMO DE’ MEDICI:

WELLERISMS

A REGULAR PICKLE:

LEICESTER: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

STUDIES OF SENSATION AND EVENT.

FAMOUS FROSTS AND FROST FAIRS IN GREAT BRITAIN.

“PHIZ”

BURMA: AS IT WAS, AS IT IS, AND AS IT WILL BE.

DREAMS OF THE DERBY:

THE LOVE AFFAIR:

CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH HACHISH EATER.

THE ANATOMY OF TOBACCO;

A WORD FOR THE NAVY.

THE RAVEN.

DICKENSIANA.

DICKENS AND THE STAGE.

THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SWINBURNE.

AN ESSAY ON THE GENIUS OF GEORGE CRUIKSHANK.

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY.

CHARLES DICKENS.

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST;

TAMERLANE,

JOHN LEECH, ARTIST AND HUMOURIST.

SULTAN STORK,

SITHRON, THE STAR STRICKEN.

ESSAYS IN THE STUDY OF FOLK-SONGS.

THE HISTORY OF THE FORTY VEZIRS;

THE BLOOD COVENANT:

SERPENT-WORSHIP AND OTHER ESSAYS,

PRIMITIVE SYMBOLISM

MYTHS, SCENES, AND WORTHIES OF SOMERSET.

HOW TO TRACE A PEDIGREE;

POPE JOAN

THE REAL HISTORY OF THE ROSICRUCIANS.

PHALLICISM:

THE DANCE OF DEATH

WALFORD’S ANTIQUARIAN MAGAZINE AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW.

JOURNAL OF THE BACON SOCIETY.

THE EAST ANGLIAN;

THE WESTERN ANTIQUARY;

THE SCOPE AND CHARM OF ANTIQUARIAN STUDY.

THE WHITE KING;

THE SHAKESPEARE CLASSICAL DICTIONARY;

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