A GRAND SCIENTIFIC WORK ON THE ZOOLOGY OF EGYPT VOLUME FIRST REPTILIA AND BATRACHIA BY JOHN ANDERSON, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S. One volume, roy. 4to., lxv and 372 pp. of TEXT, with woodcuts, MAP of Egypt, Nubia, and the Sudan, seven Illustrations of physical features in Introduction, 41 coloured and 11 uncoloured PLATES of Reptiles and Batrachians, cloth, uncut 1898 Price, £12. 12s 100 copies printed, only 95 for sale. Purchasers of the above do not bind themselves to take further volumes, but they will have the privilege of securing them if so inclined. "The first step towards the preparation of this volume was the formation of a collection of the Reptiles and Batrachians of Egypt. This was an absolute necessity, as these groups were evidently so poorly represented in the Museums of this country and in those of Europe, that it would have been impossible to have derived from them any just conception of the extent of these constituents of the Egyptian Fauna. Moreover, in Great Britain, as on the Continent, it was a rare circumstance to find a specimen with any more definite locality assigned to it than Egypt,' Nubia,' or the 'Sudan.' "In forming the Collection which was to serve as the basis of this volume, an endeavour was made to obtain as many specimens as possible from a diversity of accurately ascertained and registered localities, distributed over as wide an area as possible. "While in Egypt, in 1892, I drew up a Memorandum, pointing out the lack of information that existed regarding the Fauna of the country generally, but more especially of the Mammalia, Reptilia, and Batrachia; and further, to make this Circular as useful as possible, it was translated into Arabic through the courteous assistance of Colonel Sir Colin Scott Moncrieff, at that time Director of Irrigation, who also aided me in its circulation. Those who favourably replied to the Memorandum were furnished with the necessary materials for collecting, and with full instructions for the proper preservation of the specimens. "Nearly five years were devoted to collecting, with the result that over 1500 specimens of Reptilia and Batrachia were brought together, of which more than 1400 were permanently preserved. The greater part was presented to the British Museum; another set, all but complete, was also presented to the Museum of the Egyptian Government School of Medicine in Cairo, and a few of the more important species were given to some of the Museums in Europe."—The Author's Preface. Arabic: Badger (G. P.). English-Arabic Lexicon, in which the Equivalents for English Words and Sentences are rendered into literary and colloquial Arabic. Impl. 4to., xii and 1248 pp. double columns, cloth (£9. 98), £2. 28 1881 This is the counterpart to Lane's great Arabic-English Lexicon. Absolutely, and longo intervallo, the best work of its kind. No one else has attempted so grand an undertaking, and the achievement has not been inferior to the attempt. The gradations aud changes of meaning in Arabic expression, and the local varieties of usage, have been marked with extraordinary nicety and completeness; and all the scientific technology of modern English has been embodied in the alphabet. The book is a thesaurus rather than a lexicon, and stands in the same rank with the wonderful new English Dictionary and Littré's magnificent French work. Cameron (D. A.). Arabic-English Vocabu LARY, for the Study of the Arabic Vernacular as spoken in Egypt. 8vo., xvi and 324 pp., sewed (12s), 2s 6d; or cloth, 3s 6d Faris. 1892 Ash-Shidyâq's Practical Grammar of the Arabic Language, with Interlineal Reading Lessons, Dialogues and Vocabulary. Fourth Edition revised from the Second Edition by the Rev. H. A. Williams. 12mo., ii and 242 pp., cloth, 78 6d 1891 The best and cheapest method of acquiring the Language spoken in Syria, Egypt, Arabia, and by the Arabs in all parts of the World. "This ingenious little book deserves the favour with which it has been received; for the Author has made a bold attempt to simplify that very complex subject, Arabic Grammar. The book is strong in Dialogues, to which forty-four pages are given. This is the part of the book which has found favour with the public; and the Syrian author is here quite at home. The Dialogues are decidedly good, consisting simply of colloquial sentences on various subjects, to be learnt by heart, and used as needed. Fâris Ash-Shidyaq ends his book with a vocabulary containing about 3000 very common, and therefore very useful, words. We can certainly say of Faris that his book is very good, as far as it goes."—Allen's Indian Mail. Spiro (S.). Arabic-English Vocabulary of the colloquial Arabic of Egypt, containing the vernacular Idioms and Expressions, Slang Phrases, etc., used by the Native Egyptians. Roy. Svo., 660 pp., double columns, sewed (£1. 4s) 10s 6d; or cloth, 12s 6d Cairo, 1885 English-Arabic Vocabulary of the Modern and Colloquial Arabic of Egypt. Post 8vo., cloth, 128 This practical Arabic-English Dictionary is especially adapted for Egypt. ib., 1897 Stace (Col.). English-Arabic Vocabulary, for the use of Students of the Colloquial. 8vo. (12s); sewed, 2s 6d; or cloth, 38 6d 1893 "An Arabic-English vocabulary is of very little use to an Englishman wishing to learn some colloquial Arabic. He requires an English-Arabic vocabulary in which he can look for words and sentences arranged in alphabetical order. It is the author's object to give a vocabulary of Arabic of the vulgar tongue as it is spoken in Yemen and Southern Arabia and many other parts,-one by studying which a man will be able to converse with the natives of the lower part of the Red Sea-Gulf of Aden--the whole of the South Coast of Arabia, including Hadramant-to the Persian Gulf-Zanzibar, etc., etc.”—Extract from private letter received from the Author, February 10th, 1892. Bewick (Thomas). Works: The Library Edition of the Works of Thomas BEWICK, in FIVE VOLUMES, roy. 8vo., cloth, uncut (pub. at £12. 10s), £3. 16s the same. tooled, £4. 4s 1885-87 5 vols., roy. 8vo., half morocco, gilt tops, uncut, emblematically The set consists of 5 volumes, roy. 8vo. : 1885-87 Vols. I, II. History of British Birds; Land Birds and Water Birds, with the woodcuts of the Supplements incorporated Vol. III. History of Quadrupeds Vol. IV. Esop's Fables 2 vols. 1 vol. 1 vol. Vol. V. Memoir of Thomas Bewick, written by himself, with numerous woodcuts prepared for a projected History of British Fishes. 1 vol. The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Sym BOLIC, and Critical. Edited, with Lithographs of the Illustrated "Prophetic Books" and a Memoir, by EDWIN JOHN ELLIS, Author of "Fate in Arcadia," etc., and WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, Author of the "Wanderings of Oisin," "The Countess Kathleen," etc., complete in 3 vols., large Svo., with Portraits and 290 Facsimiles of Blake's privatelyprinted and coloured Works, £3. 38 1893 the same, Large Paper. 3 vols., 4to., half bound morocco, gilt top, £4. 14s 6d **The Edition consists of 500 copies 8vo. and 150 copies in 4to. on Large Paper. 1893 "As we shall have to indicate dissent in some respects from the opinions, and to criticize the methods, of Mr. Ellis and Mr. Yeats, let us begin by saying that their book on Blake is the greatest benefit yet bestowed on those students of a genius as wonderful as it was eccentric, who have neither the money to spend on costly originals, and not much less costly facsimiles, nor the time to spend in public libraries and museums We repeat that the editors have done remarkably good work. And as the edition is limited, we very strongly advise anyone who has three or four pounds to spare, and feels some interest in Blake, to secure a copy of it. He will obtain for his money divers quite new things, and a fuller and more orderly presentation of things not new. The chief of the first class are, first, the singular satirical rhapsody of The Island of the Moon.' one of the earliest, and, secondly, the hitherto unpublished prophetic book of Vala,' in part one of the last, of Blake's works We have here the prophetic books, uncoloured and sometimes reduced in scale, but produced by lithography in a manner which we must pronounce very satisfactory."- Saturday Review, February 4th, 1893. 6 "On the day of his death,' quotes Gilchrist, the biographer of William Blake, he composed and uttered songs to his Maker, so sweetly to the ear of his Catherine that, when she stood to hear him, he, looking upon her most affectionately, said: "My beloved! they are not mine. No! they are not mine!" It is interesting to find, in the splendid Works of William Blake,' by E. J. Ellis and W. B. Yeats (just published by Mr. Bernard Quaritch), that Blake often extemporized music to his songs in the freedom of social life: We would give much now for a single note of these melodies. It is said that musicians were present who actually took down the airs, but valuable as the merest scraps of such records would be to-day, they must be considered as hopelessly lost. One result remains at least. The reader of Blake's mystic poems is able to believe that, when he finds music spoken of, it is not alluded to for mere literary effect. Blake was really what too many poets are called by mere courtesy and conventionality-a bard. He himself claimed the title. The talent never left him. It was his last source of happiness on his death bed.' Time must tell whether the records of Blake's extemporized music are hopelessly lost.' There is no need to despair. What would one give for a few phrases of song from the wonderful man who wrote, in a barren age of English poetry, 'The Songs of Innocence and Experience'?"-JOSEPH BENNETT, in an article "Music of the Day."-Daily Telegraph, February 4th, 1893. 2 vols., 8vo., xlv. and 628, iv. and 692 pages, with portrait; cloth Price £1. 16s The work is divided into two volumes: one devoted to Science, one to Religion. To the scholar and the specialist, to the philologist, and the archeologist, this work will be a most valuable acquisition, aiding them In their labours and giving to them the only clue to the labyrinth of onfusion in which they are involved. To the general reader it will be specially attractive because of its fascinating style and pleasing arrangement, presenting a constant variety of racy anecdote, pithy thought, Bound scholarship, and vivid description. Mme. BLAVATSKY possessed the happy gift of versatility in an eminent degree, and her style is aried to suit her theme with a graceful ease refreshing to the reader, who is led without weariness from page to page. The author has ccomplished her task with ability, and has conferred upon all a precious Doon, whose benefit the scientist as well as the religionist, the specialist as well as the general reader, will not be slow to recognize. Cornish Language: Williams (R.). Cornish-English Dictionary: LEXICON CORNU-BRITANNICUM: Dictionary of the Ancient Celtic Language of Cornwall, in which the words are elucidated by copious Examples from Cornish Works, with translations, and the Synonyms in Welsh, Armoric, Irish, Gaelic, and Manx. 3 parts in one vol. 4to., 400 pp. cloth (pub. at £2. 2s), £1. 10s Llandovery, 1862-65 Jago (F. W. P.). English-Cornish Dictionary. 4to., front. pp. i-xv and 211 pp. ; cloth, £1. Plymouth, 1887 LIST OF CONTENTS: Portrait of Dolly Pentreath of Mousehole, the last person known to have spoken the Cornish language, and view of her house. 1. History of the Decay of the ancient Language of Cornwall. 2. The Remains of Cornish Literature. 3. The author's remarks. Explanation of Letters, Abbreviations, English-Cornish Dictionary, APPENDIX, containing INTERLINEAR TRANSLATIONS, viz. :—1. The first chapter of Genesis. 2. The Lord's Prayer. 3. The Creed. 4. The ten Commandments. 5. English Changes of Celtic Cornish names. 6. Prince L. L. Bonaparte's Letter accusing Pryce of Plagiarism. 7. Pryce's Defence. Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings. Edited by JOHN DENISON CHAMPLIN, jun. Critical Editor, CHARLES C. THE CYCLOPEDIA OF PAINTERS AND PAINTINGS is not only a fuller Biographical Dictionary than now exists of the Painters of all Times and Schools, including prominent contemporaries, but it is as well a Dictionary of Works; and in a form in which the one branch of information is as immediately accessible as the other. The important paintings of all periods are treated under their own names, in separate Articles, in which are given accurate descriptions of each work, its date, its place of preservation, its history from the time of leaving the Painter's easel, notices of its replicas and copies, the names of its engravers, and such other facts as make the account as nearly as possible exhaustive. Pocket Dictionaries : Each Dictionary, 2 volumes in 1 thick 16mo. Meadows (F. C.). French and English and English and French Pronouncing DICTIONARY, by Krueger, the two Alphabets in 2 divisions, bound in 1 vol. cloth (pub. 58), 3s 6d 1899 This handy volume exhibits the pronunciation of the French in pure English sounds, the parts of speech, gender of French nouns, regular and irregular conjugations of verbs, and this new edition is entirely re-arranged, corrected and enlarged by about 2000 new words, idiomatical expressions, proverbs, a list of proper names of countries and nations. Meadows's Italian and English Dictionary, in two parts: I, Italian-English; II, English-Italian, with a Grammar; NEW EDITION, revised, corrected and enlarged, in 1 vol. cloth (pub. 5s) 3s 6d 1899 This NEW edition comprises in the first part all the old words, contractions and licenses used by the ancient Italian poets and prose writers, and in the second part all the various meanings of the English verbs, with a concise grammar and other helps to learners. Meadows's new Spanish and English Dic tionary in two parts: I, Spanish-English; II, English-Spanish, in one thick volume, cloth (pub. 58), 38 6d 1899 A new enlarged edition, comprising in the first part all the Spanish words, with their proper accents, and every noun, with its gender; containing in the second part, with the addition of many new words, all the various meanings of English verbs, in alphabetical order, all expressed in their corresponding Spanish. |