"A geological treatise has rarely, if ever, been put into a more readable and popular form. General readers, who have been puzzled and perplexed by elementary text-books, and who have found little satisfaction in the vague generalisation and unmethodical picturesqueness of other popular expositions, will obtain in these pages a clear, trustworthy, and sufficiently panoramic version of the story of the earth and man."--_Glasgow Herald_. =THE DAYS OF AULD LANG SYNE.= By IAN MACLAREN. Third Edition, completing 50,000. Crown 8vo, gilt top, 6_s._ "There is, we think, a sense in which the new volume is not merely an addition but a supplement to its predecessor. In 'Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush' were passages, and indeed whole stories, which were masterstrokes or masterpieces of a fine poignant pathos, or a dry yet genial humour, but the former preponderated, and gave tone and expression to the book. It may be doubted whether the humorous quality of that Scots canniness which stands out most conspicuously in a difficult negotiation has ever been rendered with happier fineness of observation or intimacy of touch than in the opening study, 'A Triumph in Diplomacy.'"--_Daily Chronicle_. =BESIDE THE BONNIE BRIER BUSH.= By the same Author. Ninth Edition, completing 60,000. Art linen, crown 8vo, gilt top, 6_s._ "As an artist in Scotch character of the sort that is found at its best in country villages he has no superior among his contemporaries, ambitious and able as several of these are."--_Spectator_. =STRANGERS AT LISCONNEL.= A second Series of "Irish Idylls." By JANE BARLOW. Second Thousand. Crown 8vo, cloth. 6_s._ "In 'Strangers at Lisconnel' Miss Barlow returns to her early love, and has produced a second series of 'Irish Idylls' which are in every way as delightful as the sketches of peasant life that at one bound brought her into the very front rank of delineators of Irish character. The sketches possess in a high degree all the charm, simplicity, and tenderness of the original series, while revealing the same fidelity to nature as well as the rich humour and pathos characteristic of the people which Miss Barlow so admirably describes."--_Scotsman_. "Only the nature of a genuine artist, combined with the skill of a master of language, could lend so powerful and vivid an interest to the section of barren Irish bogland where the scenes are laid, and only one who had a tender interest and affection for the people could weave such a truthful yet fascinating web of romance around their simple lives."--_Derry Standard_. _BY THE SAME AUTHOR._ =1. IRISH IDYLLS.= Sixth Edition. Crown 8vo, cloth, 6_s._ "The 'Irish Idylls' are delightful reading, and afford a truer insight into Irish peasant character, and ways of light and thought, than any book that it has been our fortune to read for a long time."--_Athenæum_.