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place * When I was a Utile Girl,' "— TiMBS. *^ It is one of the choicest morsels of child-biography which we have met withJ* — Nonconformist.
 * At the head, and a long way ahead, of ail books for giris, we

White.— RHYMES BY WALTER WHITE. 8vo. 'js. 6d.

Whittier.— JOHN greenleaf whittier's poetical

WORKS. Complete Edition* with Portrait engraved by C. H.

Jbens. iSmo. 4J. 6d.


 * Mr, Whittier has all the smooth melody and the pathos oj^ the author

of * Hiawatha^ with a greaUr nicety of description and a

quainter fancy."— G^iK:Bvac,

Willoughby.— FAIRY GUARDIANS. A Book for the Young. By F. Willoughby. Illustrated. Crown 8vo. gilt 5^. Saturday Review.
 * A dainty and delicious tale of the good oldfashioned type," —

Wolf.— THE LIFE AND HABITS OF WILD ANIMALS.

Twenty Illustrations by Joseph Wolf, engraved by J. W. and E.

Whymper. With descriptive Letter-press, by D. G. Elliot,

F.L.S. Super royal 4to, cloth extra, gilt edges. 21s.

This is the last series of drawings which wUl be made by Mr, Wolf, either upon wood or stone. The Pall Mall Gazette says: " 754^ fercef untamable side of brute nature has never received a more robust and vigorous interpretation, and the various incidents in which particular character is shown are set forth with rare dra- matic power. For excellence that will endure^ we incline to place this very near the top of the list of Christmas books,'* And the Art Journal observes, *^ Rarely, if ever, have we seen animal life more forcibly and beautifully depicted than in this really splendid volume.

Also, an Edition in royal folio, handsomely bound in Morocco elegant, Proofs before Letters, each Proof signed by the Engravers.

Woolner. — my beautiful lady. By Thomas Woolner.

With a Vignette by A. Hughes. Third Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 5j.

" No man can read this poem without bang struck by the fitness and finish of the workmanship, so to speak, as well as by the chastened and unpretending loftiness of thought which pervades the wholi^ — Globe.

Words from the Poets. Selected by the Editor of " Rays of Sunlight" With a Vignette and Frontispiece. l8mo. limp., 1/.
 * The sdection aims at popularity, and deserves it," — ^Guardian.