Pagan and Legendary Period--German Period--Norman Conquest to beginning of Civil Wars--Civil Wars--Accession of William the Third to present Time--Antiquities and Archæology--Language and Literature. Part IV.--ECONOMICS and TRADE. Agriculture--Horticulture--Trade, Commerce, and Manufactures--Constitution and Laws--Manners and Customs--Principal Public Institutions--Hints to Tourists--Money, Weights, and Measures--Statistics. BY DAVID THOMAS ANSTED, M.A., F.R.S., &c., AND ROBERT GORDON LATHAM, M.A., M.D., F.R.S. _The Illustrations drawn on Wood expressly for this Work, by_ PAUL J. NAFTEL, _Member of the London Society of Painters in Water Colours_. * * * * * SATURDAY REVIEW, _April_ 4, 1863.--"This is a really valuable work. A book which will long remain the standard authority on its subject. No one who has been to the Channel Islands, or who purposes going there, will be insensible of its value." ATHENÆUM, _Nov._ 16, 1862.--"It is the produce of many hands, and every hand a good one. Nearly everything which a man can desire to know about Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, and Sark, about their history, geography, and natural history, Professor Ansted and Dr. Latham have contrived to tell." SPECTATOR, _Jan._ 24, 1863.--"We are quite sure that to all classes of readers this work will prove exceedingly interesting, while scientific men will acknowledge that it leaves no room for any future history of the Islands." LONDON REVIEW, _Jan._ 17, 1863.--"We can safely say that no one can visit the Channel Islands without finding much to interest and inform in the work before us." OBSERVER, _Nov._ 30, 1862.--"As gems of art, these illustrations have rarely been equalled, and certainly have never been surpassed. They are alone sufficient to confer a lasting popularity and permanent value. The volume however, possesses an intrinsic worth irrespective of all its graces of adornment, which will not fail to command it the hearty approbation of every reader." Wm. H. Allen & Co. SECOND EDITION. AN INQUIRY INTO THE THEORIES OF HISTORY, CHANCE, LAW, WILL; With SPECIAL REFERENCE to the PRINCIPLES of POSITIVE PHILOSOPHY. BY WILLIAM ADAM. 8vo, cloth, 15s. WESTMINSTER REVIEW.--"The 'Inquiry into the Theories of History,' although anonymous, is a first-rate book. Its object is to reconcile Theism with the scientific conception of law, and from that reconciliation to deduce a true theory of history. The book contains a most able and effectual vindication of Theism, and of a rational, as opposed to irrational, Positivism." CORNHILL MAGAZINE.--"Written with remarkable ability, and, considering its polemical spirit, with excellent temper. The style is always animated, and at times felicitous. The volume gives ample proof of metaphysical acuteness. One good service it will certainly effect--namely, that of fastening the attention of its readers on the great fundamental problems of historical science."