Macmillan & Co.'s General Catalogue of Works in the Departments of History, Biography, Travels, and Belles Lettres, December, 1869Macmillan & Co.
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Macmillan & Co.'s General Catalogue of Works in the Departments of History, Biography, Travels, and Belles Lettres, December, 1869
Macmillan & Co.
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A MEMOIR OF GEORGE WILSON, M. D., F.R.S.E., Regius Professor of Technology
in the University of Edinburgh. By his SISTER. New Edition. Crown 8vo.
6_s_.
"_An exquisite and touching portrait of a rare and beautiful spirit_."
_Guardian_.
Wilson (Daniel, LL.D.).
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PREHISTORIC ANNALS OF SCOTLAND. By _Daniel Wilson_, LL.D., Professor of
History and English Literature in University College, Toronto. New
Edition, with numerous Illustrations. Two vols. demy 8vo. 36_s_.
_This elaborate and learned work is divided into four Parts. Part I. deals
with_ The Primeval or Stone Period: _Aboriginal Traces, Sepulchral
Memorials, Dwellings, and Catacombs, Temples, Weapons, &c. &c.; Part II.,_
The Bronze Period: _The Metallurgic Transition, Primitive Bronze, Personal
Ornaments, Religion, Arts, and Domestic Habits, with other topics; Part
III.,_ The Iron Period: _The Introduction of Iron, The Roman Invasion,
Strongholds, &c. &c.; Part IV.,_ The Christian Period: _Historical Data,
the Norrie's Law Relics, Primitive and Mediaeval Ecclesiology,
Ecclesiastical and Miscellaneous Antiquities. The work is furnished with
an elaborate Index._
PREHISTORIC MAN. New Edition, revised and partly re-written, with numerous
Illustrations. One vol. 8vo. 21_s_.
_This work, which carries out the principle of the preceding one, but with
a wider scope, aims to "view Man, as far as possible, unaffected by those
modifying influences which accompany the development of nations and the
maturity of a true historic period, in order thereby to ascertain the
sources from whence such development and maturity proceed." It contains,
for example, chapters on the Primeval Transition; Speech; Metals; the
Mound-Builders; Primitive Architecture; the American Type; the Red Blood
of the West, &c. &c._
SECTION II.
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POETRY AND BELLES LETTRES.
Allingham.
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--LAWRENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND; or, the New Landlord. By _William
Allingham_. New and cheaper issue, with a Preface. Fcap. 8vo. cloth, 4_s_.
6_d_.
_In the new Preface, the state of Ireland, with special reference to the
Church measure, is discussed._
"_It is vital with the national character.... It has something of Pope's
point and Goldsmiths simplicity, touched to a more modern
issue_."--ATHENÆUM.
Arnold (Matthew).
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--POEMS. By _Matthew Arnold_. Two vols. Extra fcap. 8vo. cloth, 12_s_.
Also sold separately at 6_s_. each.
_Volume I. contains Narrative and Elegiac Poems; Volume II. Dramatic and
Lyric Poems. The two volumes comprehend the First and Second Series of the
Poems, and the New Poems._
NEW POEMS. Extra fcap. 8vo. 6_s_. 6_d_.
_In this volume will be found "Empedocles on Etna"; "Thyrsis" (written in
commemoration of the late Professor Clough); "Epilogue to Lessing's
Laocoön;" "Heine's Grave"; "Obermann once more." All these poems are also
included in the Edition (two vols.) above-mentioned._
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