_New Carlyle Letters._

 =Carlyle and the London Library=

   =A Collection of Original Letters to
   W. D. Christie on the Founding of
   the London Library in 1841.=

                          =By THOMAS CARLYLE.=

  Arranged by MARY CHRISTIE, and Edited by FREDERIC HARRISON, Litt.D.

                                                           =Crown 8vo.
                                                           3s. 6d. net.=

Every one knows that it is to the energies of Thomas Carlyle that London
owes the great library bearing its name. Experiencing the great
disadvantage of not having books of reference at hand to work from, and
the utter impossibility of working on such gigantic schemes as his were
at the British Museum, he set on foot an agitation. The end was
recognised as good, and the great men of the day took up the cause and
carried it through. This little volume comprises the collection of
letters written by Carlyle to W. D. Christie, which brought about the
establishment of the valuable institution known as the London Library,
in St. James’s Square, now looked upon as indispensable.

 _The Economics of the Future._

 =The Return to the Land=

                       =By SENATOR JULES MELINE=,

    Leader of the Moderate Republicans in France: Former Minister of
  Agriculture; Minister of Commerce; Premier. With a Preface by JUSTIN
                               MCCARTHY.

                                                             =Crown 8vo.
                                                             5s. net.=

Mr. Justin McCarthy, in his Preface, says:—“This book seems to me
destined to make a deep mark upon the age. Senator Jules Méline, leader
of the Moderate Republicans in France, was Minister of Agriculture in
the Cabinet of Jules Ferry from 1883 to 1885; was elected President of
the representative chamber of France in 1889; and in 1896 became Prime
Minister, an office which he resigned not long after, having found
probably that his political views were not radical enough for the public
opinion of the country. The book is remarkable in every sense. With all
its practical teaching, with its minute and careful instruction on
manufacturing and industrial questions, there is not a dull page in it
from first to last. M. Méline has much of the feeling of the poet as
well as the reasoning power of the practical and the scientific teacher.
Even where the reader may not accept all the principles of political
economy on which M. Méline founds many parts of his case, that reader,
if he have an appreciative mind, cannot fail to admire the sincerity,
the power, and the persuasiveness of the author.

“The great object of the book is to convince the world that the return
to the land, and to the work which the land still offers in all or most
countries, is now the nearest and the surest means for the mitigation or
the removal of the troubles which have come on the working populations
everywhere, and that the present is the appropriate time for the
beginning of such a movement.

“The reader who begins this volume with nothing more than a creditable
desire to learn something about the development of manufacturing
industry here, there, and everywhere, soon finds himself absorbed in M.
Méline’s exposition as much as if he were reading a story of magic from
the _Thousand and One Nights_.”

 _Reminiscences of an Actor._

 =Joseph Jefferson
 Reminiscences of a Fellow-Player.=

                          =By FRANCIS WILSON=,

                  Author of “The Eugene Field I Knew,”
                 “Recollections of a Player,” &c., &c.
               With 33 Portraits and other Illustrations.

                                                          =Demy 8vo.
                                                          10s. 6d. net.=

It is seldom that a biographic volume brings together more fitly the
subject and the chronicler than does this juxtaposition of Joseph
Jefferson and Francis Wilson. Men in the same profession, they were
still further sympathetic by reason of their love of good books and good
pictures, and through their kindly and humorous view of human nature,
and in their enjoyment of the oddities of every-day life and character.
For many years Mr. Wilson was a hero-worshipper of Joseph Jefferson; as
a small boy he rubbed against him in the street, in order, boy-fashion,
to feel that he had touched the hem of his garment. When he grew to know
the man, he set down from time to time a full record of Jefferson’s
charming conversation. During the weeks of the all-star tour he made a
further record of the table-talk of Mr. Jefferson when surrounded with
that splendid body of actors which included Mrs. Drew, William H. Crane,
the Hollands, Julia Marlowe, Nat Goodwin, Fanny Rice, Robert Taber, and
Mr. Wilson himself. It was a company to draw out the best of Jefferson’s
varied experiences, and the best was set down by Mr. Wilson, and has
been reproduced in this delightful volume of reminiscences. Mr. Wilson
has written one of those books about the American stage that is sure to
have a permanent place; and moreover, by the good taste with which he
has written it, and by the excellent literary skill which he has shown,
he has produced a volume worthy of very high praise as a literary
performance.

 _A Study of Hypnotism._

 =Hypnotism and Spiritism
   A Critical and Medical Study.=

                       =By Dr. GIUSEPPE LAPPONI=,

       Chief Physician to Their Holinesses Leo XIII. and Pius X.;
           Professor of Anthropology in the Academy at Rome.
                    Translated by Mrs. PHILIP GIBBS.

                                                             =Crown 8vo.
                                                             6s.=

This book, which has made a tremendous stir upon the Continent, traces
the study of Hypnotism and Spiritism from the earliest ages to the
present day, and defines the future of the science and its probable
bearing upon national life.

 _A New Work by CHARLES G. HARPER._

 =The Old Inns of Old England=

   =A Picturesque Account of the Ancient
   and Storied Hostelries of our own
   Country.=

                        =By CHARLES G. HARPER=,

         Author of “The Stage Coach and Mail in Days of Yore,”
                     “The Brighton Road,” &c., &c.
       With upwards of 200 Illustrations, chiefly by the Author.

                                                           =Two Volumes,
                                                           Demy 8vo.
                                                           Gilt Top,
                                                           42s. net.=

Principal Chapters: General History of Inns—Pilgrims’ Inns and Monastic
Hostels—Inns in Literature—Pickwickian Inns—Dickensian Inns—Inns of Old
Romance—Rural Inns—Inns with Relics and Curiosities—Rhymes and
Inscriptions—Visitors’ Books—Innkeepers’ Epitaphs—Signs Painted by
Artists—Queer Signs in Quaint Places—Historic Inns—Highwaymen’s Inns—The
Highest Inns in England—Ingle-Nooks—Inns Retired from Business.

It is somewhat singular that no book has hitherto been published dealing
either largely or exclusively with inns and their story. This vacant
niche in the literature of the road is filled by the present volumes,
the latest in the series of works on the Historic Roads of England, and
the literature of travel in general, written by Mr. Charles G. Harper,
and intended eventually to comprise every aspect of our ancient
highways, and the life upon them in days of yore. It is believed that,
while, of necessity, not every picturesque inn could be mentioned or
illustrated in two large volumes, a fully representative set has been
included.

As in his earlier works, the author’s aim has been the entirely modern
one of seeking to amuse and interest the general reader, and the book is
therefore in no sense an architectural or antiquarian disquisition.

 _A Study in Sociology._

 =The Polish Jew
   His Social and Economic Value.=

                     =By BEATRICE C. BASKERVILLE.=

                                                          =Demy 8vo.
                                                          10s. 6d. net.=

“Many of the facts set forth in the book are so much at variance with
accepted opinions of the Polish Jew—both in Great Britain and the United
States of America—that I have been advised to preface them with the
assurance that they are not the outcome of a short visit to Poland, but
the result of eight years’ residence in the country. During this time I
have had every opportunity of observing the Polish Jew both in the towns
and settlements, and have been in contact with the leaders of thought on
all sides of the question from the Anti-Semite to the Jewish
nationalist. I have witnessed the growth of that revival which has now
spread throughout most of the settlements and all the large ghettos of
the country, and which has engendered hostility to the Gentile and
revolution against the powers that be. The fact that thousands of the
men and women here discussed annually emigrate to compete with the
English-speaking nations, has caused me to investigate their social and
economic value the more carefully, both for the sake of the pauper
aliens themselves and for that of the people among whom they eventually
settle.”—Extract from Author’s Preface.

                          THE NATIONAL EDITION

                            OF THE WORKS OF

                           =Charles Dickens=

 Including upwards of One Hundred and Thirty Articles now collected for
                            the first time.

                                  HIS

                 =LETTERS, SPEECHES, PLAYS, and POEMS=,

                             TOGETHER WITH

                    =FORSTER’S LIFE OF THE AUTHOR=.

The pictures, numbering upwards of 850, comprise all the Original
Illustrations; with a complete series of Portraits, Additional
Illustrations, Facsimiles and Reproductions of Handwriting, many of
which have not been included in any collected edition of the novelist’s
works; the whole printed upon India Paper, and mounted on Plate paper.

  Strictly limited to 750 sets for England and America. Complete in 40
                                Volumes.
                Royal 8vo. Price =10s. 6d.= net per vol.

The National Edition of the Works of Charles Dickens is designed to rank
as the final and definitive edition of his works, and to serve as a
worthy memorial to the connection which has subsisted for over seventy
years between the firm of Chapman and Hall and the immortal memory of
Charles Dickens. It is by far the most handsome edition of Dickens ever
placed upon the market, and being strictly limited in number is likely
to take its place in a very short time among those treasures of the
booklover which change hands at highly enhanced prices.

The edition is being printed by Messrs. T. and A. Constable of
Edinburgh, His Majesty’s Printers, in a type newly cast for the purpose,
upon pure rag paper of the highest quality.

=THE TEXT.=—The text used is that which was corrected by Charles Dickens
himself in the last two years of his life, and therefore contains all
the copyright emendations which he made when the volumes passed for the
last time through his hands.

The edition contains all the collected papers from whatever source that
seemed worthy of permanent association with the name of their
author—from _The Examiner_, _Daily News_, _Household Words_, _All the
Year Round_, over 130 in all—the most notable of these being all
Dickens’s contributions to _Household Words_, some 90 in number, _which
have been identified for the first time by indisputable evidence_.

=THE ILLUSTRATIONS.=—As regards the choice of illustrations, the
Publishers’ plan has been to include only those pictures which were
drawn for their editions during the life of the author, and which may
therefore be held to have received his personal approbation. Under this
arrangement they are able to reproduce for the first time in a Collected
Edition a number of illustrations not usually associated with the
novels, and the utmost care has been taken to do justice to the artists’
workmanship. The original illustrations are printed from a duplicate set
of the steel plates on the best India paper and mounted on plate paper—a
process which gives a greatly refined value to the delicacy of the
original steel plates.

=THE ARTISTS.=—Dickens, as is well known, took the keenest possible
interest in the illustrations to his books, and was very particular over
the choice of the artists. At the same time, his work offered such
infinite possibilities to pen and pencil, that all the best talent of
his time was eager to be employed in his service, with the result that
the muster-roll of the artists represented in the present edition
contains the names of all the leading masters of Black and White
throughout the Victorian Era. It may be said without exaggeration that
the illustrations alone form an historical picture gallery of their
time, as will be admitted when the following list is studied and
understood.

                         ARTISTS REPRESENTED.

                       George Cruikshank.
                       Hablot K. Browne (Phiz).
                       Robert Seymour.
                       John Leech.
                       R. W. Buss.
                       C. R. Leslie, R.A.
                       Frank Stone, A.R.A.
                       T. Webster, R.A.
                       George Cattermole.
                       Daniel Maclise, R.A.
                       H. Warren.
                       Kenny Meadows.
                       Richard Doyle.
                       J. Mahony.
                       E. G. Dalziel.
                       G. J. Pinwell.
                       W. Maddox.
                       J. Absolon.
                       F. Corbeaux.
                       Marcus Stone, R.A.
                       Clarkson Stonefield, R.A.
                       Samuel Palmer.
                       F. W. Topham.
                       Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A.
                       Sir John Tenniel, R.A.
                       Fred. Walker.
                       Arthur Boyd Houghton.
                       W. P. Frith, R.A.
                       F. A. Fraser.
                       H. French.
                       Townley Green.
                       Charles Green.
                       Sir Luke Fildes, R.A.
                       Charles Alston Collins.

=THE ADDITIONAL ILLUSTRATIONS= will be—

All the original covers, printed from the wood blocks on tinted paper.

All the pictorial covers of the “People’s Edition,” printed from the
wood blocks on tinted paper.

The steel vignette title-pages to the “Library Edition.”

The frontispieces of the First Cheap Edition, by Leslie, Webster, A.
Boyd Houghton, Frank Stone, Marcus Stone, R.A., Stanfield, Phiz,
Cruikshank, and others.

The plates by Phiz, Buss, Leech, Cruikshank, Maddox, Warren, Absolon,
Corbeaux, Frank Stone, and others, which were either cancelled from the
original edition or appeared separately as sets of extra illustrations.

The frontispieces and other plates from “Master Humphrey’s Clock,”
which, on account of their size, do not appear in other editions.

The illustrations which appeared only in the first editions of “A
Child’s History of England” and “Pictures from Italy,” by F. W. Topham
and Samuel Palmer respectively.

All these pictures will be printed from the steel plates and wood
blocks, where they exist, or from carefully reproduced blocks, on India
paper, and will be mounted, as in the cases of the other pictures.

=ITS COMPLETENESS.=—The edition therefore may claim to represent all the
authoritative literature emanating from the pen of Dickens, combining
with this rich material a unique pictorial record of the association of
contemporary art with the work of the greatest novelist of his
generation. It will be issued at the rate of two volumes monthly, with
one or two rare exceptions, when three volumes will appear together.

=THE BINDING.=—The edition will be bound by Messrs. James Burn and Co.,
of Kirby Street, Hatton Garden, in olive-green sateen, with a full gold
design on the back and side, and gilt top.

            _Full detailed 8 pp. Prospectus on Application._

                          TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

 1. Silently corrected obvious typographical errors and variations in
      spelling.
 2. Retained archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed.
 3. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.