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PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD. By ANDREW LANG

Profusely illustrated with photogravures from original sources. New volume of Goupil & Co.'s Biographical Series.
Royal 4to. Edition on fine paper, with facsimile frontispiece in colors, 28 full-page illustrations, and 12 smaller ones.
Limited to 1500 copies, 250 of which are for America. $20.00 net.

A most elaborately illustrated and sumptuous volume. The text is of especial value, Mr. Lang having had access, by special permission from Queen Victoria, to the Stuart papers at Windsor from which he has derived much new and hitherto unpublished material of great interest.

INNERMOST ASIA

Travel and Sport in the Pamirs. By RALPH P. COBBOLD. With 5 maps, 29 full-page plates, and 85 text illustrations. With appendices on The Commerce of Innermost Asia; The Mineral Wealth of Innermost Asia; Treatise respecting the AngloRussian Frontier; Bibliography, etc. 8vo, $5.00.

AN INVALUABLE ReferencE WORK ON CHINA

THINGS CHINESE

Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with China. By J. DYER BALL, H. M. Civil Service, Hong Kong. New, revised and enlarged edition. One volume, large octavo, 666 pages, $5.00 net.

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A new text, collated with the original MSS. and revised proofs, which are still in existence, with many hitherto unpublished additions. This will be the most complete Edition of Lord Byron's Works, as no other Editors have had access to the original MSS., and the only one authorized by his family and representatives. With portraits and illustrations. To be completed in 2 vols. Crown 8vo, $2.00 each.

Poetry, including Poems written between

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Dante's Ten Heavens

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Letters and Journals, covering Byron's
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Giotto and His Works in Padua

Being an explanatory notice of the Frescoes in the Arena Chapel. By JOHN RUSKIN. With 56 Illustrations reproducing the Frescoes. Now first reissued after the publication of the Arundel Society (1854). 12mo, $3.00.

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