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WORKS

Preparing for Publication.

LAYS AND LEGENDS OF FANCY AND FABLE.
A Collection of Oriental Tales,
ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE IMAGINATIVE CHARACTER OF DIFFERENT
AGES AND NATIONS:

Designed to elucidate the philosophy of fiction as well as to affordspecimens of those marvels which have entered into popular belief,and taken a permanent place in literature. The classical inventionsof the Greeks, the romantic fables of the middle ages, the gorgeousand sometimes gloomy conceptions of the orientals, and our ownpleasing superstitions of fairy lore, will be exemplified by specimens,and the influence of fancy on belief will be illustrated by a varietyof legends most of which have not hitherto been brought before theEnglish public. By W. C. Taylor, L.L.D.

Adorned with Twenty beautiful line Engravings on Steel, frompictures by British Artists, and several Woodcuts, elegantly printedin demy 4to, and richly bound in gilt, Price 21s.


THE BOOK OF ART;

Or, Cartoons, Frescoes, Sculpture, and Decorative Art, as applied tothe New Houses of Parliament, as also to building in general: withan Appendix, containing an Historical Notice of the Exhibitions inWestminster Hall.

The Volume, which will contain at least One Hundred Engravings,is printing in the best manner, in royal 4to. Price 15s. handsomelybound.


On the 1st of November, Part 1., Price Half-a-crown, to be continuedMonthly, and completed in Ten Parts,

WANDERINGS OF A PEN AND PENCIL;

Being the results of an antiquarian and picturesque tour through theMidland Counties of England, by F. P. Palmer & Alfred Crowquill.The illustrations will be drawn on wood by the latter, andengraved by our best wood-cutters.

The Book will present something of interest for those readers whocherish the affection for antiquity, or an appreciation of manners,customs, and legends which abound in the nooks of "MerryEngland."


At Christmas,
THE
HONEY STEW OF THE COUNTESS BERTHA.
A Fairy Tale.

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF ALEXANDER DUMAS BY
MARIANNE TAYLOR.

With Coloured Engravings.


Square Royal.
RAMBLES IN NORMANDY.
BY JAMES HAIRBY, M.D.

Normandy, the cradle of our monarchy and aristocracy, the lastresting-place of our early kings, and the scene of our first greatstruggles against France, must ever have strong interest for Englishmen.We find our national associations connected with its moststriking localities; an

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