OBSERVER.--"As a prose satire, the History of the Abderites yields only in breadth of humour and pungency of wit to Dean Swift's immortal Travels of Captain Lemuel Gulliver; and of works of that class, we know of none in any language that can compare with either of the two." LONDON REVIEW.--"Here is enjoyment for many a Christmas to come, for many thousands of English boys, and many thousands of English men and women. Unfortunately for the world, Pisistratus Caxton departed this life without having made any contribution towards the great history of human folly, save, indeed, by the records of his own. Mr. Christmas has given us something even better in his translation of Wieland's Abderites; and in the simplest, most racy, and vernacular English, has enriched our literature with another character of the family dear to mankind, of the Quixotes, Gullivers and other human foils of human self-love and vanity. If the addition to our shelves of a book to delight the young and instruct the old, overflowing with wit, fun, drollery inexpressible, wisdom, depth and knowledge, is an achievement deserving of national thanks, we undertake to convey our share to Mr. Christmas, fearing only lest we should not have thanked him sufficiently." MORNING HERALD.--"There is, indeed, about it, nothing of the stiffness of a translation; and the work reads with all the ease and freedom of an original composition." 13 Waterloo Place, S. W. THE HISTORY OF CHESS, From the Time of the Early Invention of the Game in India till the Period of its Establishment in Western and Central Europe. BY DUNCAN FORBES, LL.D. 8vo, 15s. HERALD.--"This volume will be a welcome addition to the library of every lover of the noble game of chess. Our author makes a stout fight for the Hindoos as the inventors of the game, and adduces many cogent proofs in support of his opinion. He shows how the game is played in other countries, how it has been modified both in the names of the pieces and the names of the game by the peculiarities of the country or the national temperament of the inhabitants; and then traces the steps by which it has arrived at its present place of honour in civilized and intellectual Europe. The book is, therefore, full of curious lore, that lean on other and higher subjects than chess-playing, for it involves dissertations on ethnology, comparative etymology, the dispersion and settlement of nations, and the manners and customs of different countries, to a degree that would not be at all anticipated by a person who contented himself by reading the title-page. All this information is given, not in any dry, repulsive, or even technical style, but freshly, clearly, and in an animated manner--the style that would naturally be adopted by a gentleman and man of the world." THE ARMIES OF THE GREAT POWERS. BY LASCELLES WRAXALL. Post 8vo, 10s. 6d.