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CHATTO 6- WIND US, PICCADILLY. 2$ Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 8s. Marston 's (Philip B.) Song Tide, And other Poems. Second Edition. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 6s. The New Republic ; or, Culture, Faith, and Philosophy in an English Country House. By W. H. MALLOCK. " The great charm of the book lies in the clever and artistic way the dialogue is managed, and the diverse and various expedients by -which, whilst the love of thought on every page is kept at a high pitch, it never loses its realistic aspect. . . . It is giving high praise to a work of this sort to say that it absohttely needs to be taken as a w/iole, and that disjointed extracts here and there would entirely fail to convey any idea of the artistic unity, the careful and conscientious sequence of what is evidently the brilliant oritcome of much patient thought and study. . . . Enough has now been said to recommend these volumes to any reader who desires sojnething above the usual novel, something which will open up lanes of thought in his own mind, and insensibly introduce a higher standard into his daily life. . . . Here is novelty indeed, as well as originality, and to anyone who can appreciate or understand * The New Republic^ it cannot fail to be a rare treat." OBSERVER. Square 8vo, cloth extra, with numerous Illustrations, 9^. North Italian Folk. By Mrs. COMYNS CARR. With Illustrations by RANDOLPH CALDECOTT. " A deligJitful book, of a kind which is far too rare. If anyone wants to really know the North Italian folk, we can honestly advise him to omit the journey, and sit down to read Mrs. Carr's pages instead. . . . Description-mill Mrs. Cnrr is a real gift . . . It is rarely that a book is so happily illustrated." CON- TEMPORARY REVIEW. MOORE'S HITHERTO UNCOLLECTED WRITINGS. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, with Frontispiece, gs. Prose and Verse Humorous, Satirical, and Sentimental by THOMAS MOORE. Including Suppressed Passages from the Memoirs of Lord Byron. Chiefly from the Author's MSS., and all hitherto Inedited and Uncollected. Edited, with Notes, by RICHARD HERNE SHEPHERD. " Hitherto Thomas Moore has been mostly regarded as one of the lighter writers merely a sentimental poet par excellence, in whom the ' rapture of love and of wine ' determined him strictly to certain modes of sympathy and of utterance, and these to a large extent of a slightly artificial character. This volume will serve to show him in other, and certainly as attractive, aspects, while, at the same time, enabling ^^s to a considerable extent to see how faithfully he developed himself on the poetical or fanciful side. . . . This is a book which claims, as it oiight to obtain, various classes of readers, and we trust that the very mixed elements of interest in it may not conflict with its obtaining them. For the lightest reader there is much to enjoy ; for the most thoughtful something to ponder over ; and the thanks of both are due to editor and publisJier alike.'" NONCONFORMIST.