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SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO.’S NEW LIST.

Just published, crown 8vo, cloth, 2s. 6d.

A SHORT HISTORY OF PARLIAMENT.

By B. C. SKOTTOWE, M.A.

STEPNIAK’S NEW BOOK.

THE RUSSIAN STORM CLOUD; or, Russia in her Relations to her Neighbouring States.  Is now ready at all Libraries.  8vo, 12s. 6d.

“Stepniak’s obvious self-restraint and moderation, combined with his avowal of revolutionary sympathies, greatly enhance the value of his political forecast.”—Saturday Review.

“The most interesting book Stepniak has yet put forth.”—St. James’s Gazette.

RECONNOITRING CENTRAL ASIA.  By Charles Marvin.  Adventures of English and Russian Explorers, Secret Agents, and Special Correspondents in the Region between the Caspian and India, from 1863 to 1884.  With Illustrations and Map.  Second Edition.  Demy 8vo, cloth gilt, 7s. 6d.

FROM PARIS TO PEKIN OVER SIBERIAN SNOWS: A Narrative of a Journey by Sledge over the Snows of Russia and Siberia, by Caravan through Mongolia, across the Gobi Desert and the Great Wall, and by Mule Palanquin through China to Pekin.  By Victor Meignan.  At all Libraries.  Demy 8vo, with Map and 15 Plates, 16s.

“A lively record of travel.”—Athenæum.

“The story is lucid and never tedious.”—Contemporary Review.

“An amusing volume.”—Daily News.

“His sketches of society are drawn with a light and skilful pen. . . .  A series of lively pictures.”—Saturday Review.

“A bright, brisk . . . breathless book.”—Times.

“A delightful work of travel. . . .  The work cannot fail to be popular.”—Science Gossip.

Demy 8vo, cloth extra, gilt top, 10s. 6d.

EMIGRANT LIFE IN KANSAS.  By Percy G. Ebbutt.

“We refer those who wish to know more of the experiences of those settlers to the book itself, which concludes with many practical remarks. . . .  A clear, homely, every-day view of emigrant life.”—Anglo-American Times.

“He gives a very good—and what to intending emigrants will prove very useful—description of his everyday existence in the West.”—Contemporary Review.

“There is a vast amount of information in this artless and racy narrative of a boy of sixteen.”—The Graphic.

New and Revised Editions of the Works of W. H. Prescott.  Edited by John Foster Kirk.  Each volume handsomely bound in cloth extra, gilt top.  Demy 8vo, 7s. 6d.

1.  HISTORY OF THE REIGN OF FERDINAND and ISABELLA.

2.  HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF PERU.

3.  HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO.

NEW BOOK BY MR. SYDNEY E. WILLIAMS.

PARTY AND PATRIOTISM; or, The Degeneracy of Politics.  Crown 8vo, cloth, neat, 3s. 6d.

“Mr. Williams may be assured of many readers among the thoughtful men of both parties.”—Yorkshire Post.

RADICAL PIONEERS OF EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.  By J. Bowles Daly, LL.D.  Crown 8vo, with copious Index, cloth extra, 6s.

“It would be hard to conceive a volume of more compressed information and deeper interest. . . .  Mr. Daly has pictured with amazing conciseness and graphic power the social and moral conditions of the time. . . .  It forms an admirable picture of an epoch more pregnant, perhaps, with political instruction than any other in the world’s history.”—Daily Telegraph, April 13th.

SIX CENTURIES OF WORK AND WAGES.  By J. E. Thorold Rogers, M.P.  Second Edition, in One Volume.  8vo, 15s.

“An interesting book on a subject of no small importance, on which hitherto it has been impossible to find a concise and reliable treatise.”—Spectator.

THE PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL ECONOMY.  By Yves Guyot, Hon. Member Cobden Club.  With numerous diagrams. 8vo, 9s.

“That well-known work . . . is an excellent store-house of facts and ideas.”—The Times.

“A valuable addition to the literature of economic lore.”—Spectator.

THE WANDERINGS OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS.  By Professor Victor Hehn and James S. Stallybrass.  Demy 8vo, cloth extra, 16s.

“No more interesting work can be imagined. . . .  A profusion of learning is spent on every chapter; at every turn some odd piece of classical lore turns up.  Every student of nature, as well as every scholar, will be grateful to Mr. Stallybrass for his book.  He gives them in their own tongue a great body of erudition and collection of striking facts.  The index is excellent, and particular attention should be drawn to the notes, which are most valuable, and run to one hundred pages.”—Academy.