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20 20 BOOKS PUBLISHED BY Crown 8vo, cloth extra, "js. Home's Orion: An Epic Poem, in Three Books. By RICHARD HENGIST HORNE. Tenth Edition. " Orion will be admitted, by every -man of genius, to be one of the noblest, if not the very noblest, poetical -work of the age. Its defects are trivial and conventional its beauties intrinsic and supreme." EDGAR ALLAN POE. Small 8vo, cloth extra, 6s. Jeux d' Esprit, Written and Spoken, of the Later Wits and Humourists. Collected and Edited by HENRY S. LEIGH. threefold: he has performed the duty of taster with care and judgment ; he has restored tnany stolen or strayed bons-mots to their rightful owners ; and he has exercised his editorial functions delicately and sparingly." DAILY TELEGRAPH. Two Vols. 8vo, with 52 Illustrations and Maps, cloth extra, gilt, 14*. Josephus's Complete Works. Translated by WHISTON. Containing both " The Antiquities of the Jews," and "The Wars of the Jews." Small 8vo, cloth, full gilt, gilt edges, with Illustrations, 6s. Kavanaghs' Pearl Fountain, And other Fairy Stories. By BRIDGET and JULIA KAVANAGH. With Thirty Illustrations by J. MOYR SMITH. " Genuine new fairy stories of the old type, some of them as delightful as the best of Grimm's l German Popular Stories' .... For the most part, thi stories are downright, thorough-going fairy stories of the most admirable kind. . . . . Mr. Moyr Smith's illustrations, too, are admirable. Look at that white rabbit. Anyone would see at the first glance that he is a rabbit with a wind, and a -very uncommon mind too that he is a fairy rabbit, and that he is posing as chief adviser to some one without reading even a word of the story, Again, notice the fairy-like effect of the little picture of the fairy-bird' Don' t- forget-me,' flying away back into fairy-land. A more perfectly dream-like in. - pression of fairy-land has hardly been given in any illustration of fairy tales within our knowledge" SPECTATOR. Small 8vo, cloth extra, 5-r. Lamb 's Poetry for Children, and Prince Dorus. Carefully reprinted from unique copies. " The quaint and delightful little book, over the recovery of which all the hearls of his lovers are yet warm with rejoicing" Mr. SWINBURNE, in the ATHENAEUM. Crown 8vo, cloth, full gilt, 6s. (uniform with "Boudoir Ballads.") Leigh s A Town Garland. By HENRY S. LEIGH, Author of " Carols of Cockayne."
 * ' This thoroughly congenial piece of work . . . Rfr. Leigh's claim to praise is