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19 CHATTO & WINDUS, PICCADILLY. 19 Crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, 7^. 6d. Hook's (Theodore) Choice Humorous Works, including his Ludicrous Adventures, Bons-mots, Puns, and Hoaxes. With a new Life of the Author, Portraits, Fac- similes, and Illustrations. Demy 8vo, cloth extra, 12s. 6d. Hueffer's The Troubadours: A History of Provengal Life and Literature in the Middle Ages. By FRANCIS HUEFFER. " This attractive volume deals in a very fresh and exact way with a most in- teresting phase of culture and letters Mr. Hueffer claims for his volume the praise of being the first adequate study on so famous a subject as the Troubadours which has appeared in the English language ; and we believe that we must allow that he is right. His book will be found exceedingly interesting and valuable It is a grateful task to review a volume where so firm aground of scholarship is under oiirfeet, and where there is so little need to be on the watch for instances of inaccuracy or want of knowledge. . . . Mr. Hueffer is to be congratulated on a very important contribution to literature." EXAMINER. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 'js. 6d. Howell's The Conflicts of Capital and Labour, Historically and Economically considered. Being a History and Review of the Trade Unions of Great Britain, show- ing their Origin, Progress, Constitution, and Objects, in their Political, Social, Economical, and Industrial Aspects. By GEORGE HOWELL. "A complete account of trades unions, involving the most candid statement of their objects and aspirations, their virtues and faults, is of great value ', and such Mr. Howell' s book will be found by those who consult it. . . . Far from being the impassioned utterance of an advocate, it is, on the contrary, a calm, authorita- tive statement of facts, and the expression of the views of the workmen and their leaders. . . . The book is a storehouse of facts, some of them extremely well arranged. .... His book is ofprofound interest. We have no hesitation in giving it our hearty praise" ECHO. ' ' This book is an attempt, and on the whole a successful attempt, to place the work of trade unions in the past, and their objects in the fiiture, fairly before the public from the working man's point of view." PALL MALT. GAZETTE. Atlas folio, half morocco, gilt, $ $s. The Italian Masters : Autotype Facsimiles of Original Drawings in the British Museum. With Critical and Descriptive Notes, Biographical and Artistic, by J. COMYNS CARR. " This splendid volume. . . Mr. Carr's choice of examples has been dictated by wide knowledge and fine tact. . . The majority have been reproduced with remarkable accuracy. Of the criticism which accompanies the drawings we have not hitherto spoken, but it is this which gives the book its special value" PALL MALL GAZETTE.