MESSRS BLACKWOOD AND SONS' _RECENT PUBLICATIONS._ =THE HISTORY OF SCOTLAND=, FROM AGRICOLA'S INVASION TO THE REVOLUTION OF 1688. By JOHN HILL BURTON. To be completed in 6 vols. demy 8vo. Vols. I. to IV., price 56s. "The best account that has yet been written of the national life and being of Scotland."--_Times._ "One of the completest histories that we ever saw of any country."--_Saturday Review._ "Not only the most complete and trustworthy history of Scotland yet written, but it will merit a high place among the historical works of our age."--_Daily News._ "A great contribution to historical literature."--_Scotsman._ "We do not remember to have read so reticent, so calm and dispassionate a history."--_Blackwood's Magazine._ "Une grande et belle histoire."--_Revue des Deux Mondes._ "This admirable book."--_Morning Herald._ =COUNT MONTALEMBERT'S HISTORY OF THE MONKS= OF THE WEST. 5 vols. 8vo, £2, 12s. 6d. The volumes just published (III. to V.), contain the History of the Conversion of England by the Monks, and may be had as a complete book, price 31s. 6d. "On the whole, the intellectual interest of the Count's 'Monks of the West' rests mainly on this, that it is the work of a brilliant and accomplished layman and man of the world, dealing with a class of characters who have generally been left to the arid professional handling of ecclesiastical writers. Montalembert sees their life as a whole, and a human whole; and, with all his zeal as an amateur hagiographer, he cannot but view them with some of the independence of a mind trained to letters and politics."--_Pall Mall Gazette._ =THE HANDY ROYAL ATLAS.= By ALEX. KEITH JOHNSTON, LL.D. &c., Author of the 'Royal Atlas,' the 'Physical Atlas,' &c. 45 Maps, clearly printed and carefully coloured, with General Index. Imperial quarto, price £2, 12s. 6d., half-bound morocco. "Is probably the best work of the kind now published."--_Times._ "Not only are the present territorial adjustments duly registered in all these maps, but the latest discoveries in Central Asia, in Africa, and America have been delineated with laborious fidelity. Indeed the ample illustration of recent discovery, and of the great groups of dependencies on the British Crown, renders Dr Johnston's the best of all Atlases for English use."--_Pall Mall Gazette._ "He has given us in a portable form geography posted to the last discovery and the last Revolution."--_Saturday Review._ "This is Mr Keith Johnston's admirable Royal Atlas diminished in bulk and scale so as to be perhaps, fairly entitled to the name of 'handy,' but still not so much diminished but what it constitutes an accurate and useful general Atlas for ordinary households."--_Spectator._ "The 'Handy Atlas' is thoroughly deserving of its name. Not only does it contain the latest information, but its size and arrangement render it perfect as a book of reference."--_Standard._