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13 CHATTO & WIND US, PICCADILLY. 13 Crown 8vo, cloth extra, with Illustrations, 6s. Fairholt's Tobacco: Its History and Associations ; with an Account of the Plant and its Manufacture, and its Modes of Use in all Ages and Countries. By F. W. FAIRHOLT, F.S.A. A New Edition, with Coloured Frontispiece and upwards of 100 Illustrations by the Author. " A very pleasant and instructive history of tobacco and its associations, which we cordially recommend alike to the votaries and to the enemies of the much- maligned but certainly not neglected weed. . . . Full of interest and in- formation." DAILY NEWS. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, with Illustrations, JS. 6d. Finger-Ring Lore: Historical, Legendary, and Anecdotal. Earliest Notices; Supersti- tions ; Ring Investiture, Secular and Ecclesiastical ; Betrothal and Wedding Rings ; Ring-tokens ; Memorial and Mortuary Rings ;. Posy- Rings ; Customs and Incidents in Connection with Rings ;. Remarkable Rings, &c. By WILLIAM JONES, F.S.A. With Hun- dreds of Illustrations of Curious Rings of all Ages and Countries. " Enters fully into the whole subject, and gives an amount of information and general reading in reference thereto "which is of very high interest. The book is not only a sort of history of finger-rings, but is a collection of anecdotes* in connection with them. . . . The volume is admirably illustrated, and/- altogether affords an amount of amusement and information which is not other- wise easily accessible." SCOTSMAN. " One of those gossiping books which are as full of amusement as of instruc- tion" ATHENAEUM. THE RUSKIN GRIMM. Square crown 8vo, cloth extra, 6s. 6d. gilt edges, Js. 6d. German Popular Stories. Collected by the Brothers GRIMM, and Translated by EDGAR TAYLOR. Edited, with an Introduction, by JOHN RUSKIN. With 22 Illustrations after the inimitable designs of GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. Both Series Complete. " The illustrations of 'this volume. . . . are of quite sterling and admirable art, of a class precisely parallel in elevation to the character of the tales which' they illustrate ; and the original etchings, as I have before said in the Appendix to my ' Elements of Drawing,' were unrivalled in masterfulness of touch since Rem-- brandt (in some qualities of delineation, unrivalled even by him). . . . To make somewhat enlarged copies of them, looking at them through a magnifying glass, and never putting two lines where Cruikshank has put only one, would be an exer- cise in decision and severe drawing which would leave afterwards little to be learnt in schools." Extract from. Introduction by JOHN RUSKIN. One Vol. crown 8vo, cloth extra, 9^. Gilbert's (W. S.) Original Plays : "A Wicked World," "Charity," "The Palace of Truth," " Pygmalion," " Trial by Jury," &c. " His workmanship is in its way perfect ; it is very sound, very even, very well sustained, and excellently balanced throughout" OBSERVER.