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INDEX.

PAGE

Acting Charades 10

Algebra (Cassell's) 31

Architectural Works 7

Arithmetic (Cassell's) 31

---- for the Young 31

Arnold's (Edwin) Poems 9

Astronography 32

Balance of Beauty 36

Ball Room Polka 11

---- Preceptor 11

Beattie and Collins 5

Bertie's Indestructible Books 22

Bible Gallery 4

---- Women of the 4

Bingley's Tales 21

Biographical Dictionary 33

Boat (The) and the Caravan 19

Book and its Story 36

---- of the Months 24

Boswell's Johnson 24

Botany, The Outlines of 32

Boyhood of Great Men 6

Boy Princes 6

Boy's Own Book 19

---- Treasury 20

Brandon's Architectural Works 7

British Empire, Greatness of the 34

Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress 3

Byron Beauties 3

---- Illustrated 3

Capern's Poems 10

Cassell's Educational Works 26

Cheever's Whaleman's Adventures 20

Childs' Drawing Books 23

Child's First Lesson Book 20

Christian Graces in Olden Time 3

Christmas with the Poets 1

Classical Library 30

Colling's Gothic Architecture 8

---- Ornament 8

Comic Works 14

---- Almanack 14

Comical Creatures from Wurtemburg 15

---- People 15

---- Story Books 22

Cottage Gardener's Dictionary 25

Cowper's Poems 5

Cracker Bon-Bon for Christmas 10

Crosland's Memorable Women 19

Cruikshank's (Geo.) Works 14

---- Fairy library 21

Curiosities of Modern Travel 7

Dale's Poems 10

De Lolme's French Manual 27

Dibdin's Water Colours 23

---- Easy Drawing Book 23

Dictionaries 13

Domestic Architecture 8

---- Hints 24

Drawing Books 23

Edgar's Boyhood of Great Men 18

---- Footprints of Famous Men 18

---- Boy Princes 18

---- History for Boys 18

Educator, The Popular 26

---- Biblical 26

---- Historical 26

---- The Child's 31

Emma de Lissau 20

England, Cassell's History of 32

---- History of 33

English without a Master 38

---- Cassell's Lessons in 30

---- (The) Language, its Elements and Form 32

Etiquette for the Ladies 11

---- Gentlemen 11

---- of Courtship 11

Euclid, Symbolical 24

---- Cassell's 31

Fables of AEsop 15

Footprints of Famous Men 6

Footprints of Travellers 34

Ford's Easy Lessons in Landscape 23

French, Cassell's Lessons in 27

---- Dictionary, Cassell's 27

---- Miniature 18

---- without a Master 33

France, The History of 31

Games for Christmas 10

Geography, Cassell's Elementary 31

German, Cassell's Lessons in 28

---- Dictionary (Cassell) 28

---- without a Master 38

Glenny's Handbook to Flower-garden 25

---- Catechism of Gardening 25

---- Garden Almanac 25

Glossary of Architecture 8

Goldsmith's Works 24

Graces, Gallery of the 4

Greek, Cassell's Lessons in 30

Grimm's Household Stories 19

Guizot's Young Student 20

Gutch's Scientific Pocket Book 12

Handbook of Pencil Drawing 23

Harding's Drawing Books 8, 23

---- Portfolio 23

Harry's Ladder to Learning 21

---- Book of Poetry 21

Health for the Million 37

Heath's Keepsake 3

---- Waverley Gallery 4

Heroes of Asgard 19

---- of England 6

Heroines of Shakspeare 3

Hervey's Meditations 24

History for Boys 6

Home Lesson Books 22

---- Story Books 22

How to make Home Happy 24

Howitt's Library for the Young 35

Humphreys' British Coins 3

Indestructible Lesson Books 22

---- Pleasure Books 22

Introd. to Gothic Architecture 8

Ireland, the History of 33

Italian, Cassell's Lessons in 30

---- Without a Master 38

Julien's (Mons.) Studies of Heads 23

Johnson's Lives of the Poets 24

---- Human Figure 23

Keepsake (The) 3

King's Interest Tables 24

Knight's Store of Knowledge 37

Ladies' Drawing-Room Book 36

Language of Flowers 4, 11

Latin, Cassell's Lessons in 29

---- Dictionary (Cassell's) 29

---- Without a Master 38

Lectures on the Great Exhibition 12

Lionel Fitzgibbon 36

Little Boy's Own Book 19

---- Mary's Books 21

---- Treasury 21

---- Lesson Book 21

Longfellow's Poems 2, 9

---- Hyperion 2

---- Golden Legend 2, 9

---- Kavanagh 2

---- Prose Works 10

---- Song of Hiawatha 9

Loves of the Poets 1

Mackay's (Charles) Egeria 10

---- Town Lyrics 10

Man, The Natural History of 33

Manuals of Instruction 22

Massey's (G.) Babe Christabel 9

---- Craigcrook Castle 9

Mathematical Science 31, 32

Mayhew's Acting Charades 10

---- Peasant-Boy Philosopher 18

---- Sandboys' Adventures 15

---- Wonders of Science 18

Memoirs of the Queens of Prussia 37

Men of the Time 5

Merry Pictures 2

Mia and Charlie 19

Miller's Daughter 1

Miller's (T.) Poems for Children 21

Milton's Poetical Works 4

---- L'Allegro and Il Penseroso 2

Museum of Painting and Sculpture 4

Musgrave's Ramble in Normandy 7

Ogleby's Adventures 15

Oldbuck's Adventures 15

Painters (The) of All Nations, History of 35

Panoramic View of Palestine 24

Parlour Magic 20

Pellatt on Glass-making 4

Phillips's Etchings of Familiar Life 23

Playmate (The) 20

Poetry of the Year 3

Political Economy 32

Prout's (Sam.) Elementary Drawing 23

Queens of Prussia, Memoirs of the 37

Raffaelle's Cartoons 3

Reid's (Capt. M.) Desert Home 17

---- Boy Hunters 17

---- Young Voyageurs 17

---- Forest Exiles 17

---- Bush Boys 17

---- Young Yaegers 17

Reynard the Fox 20

Rhymes and Roundelayes 2

Rival (The) Kings 19

Robinson Crusoe 11

Romance of Modern Travel 7

Round Games 10

Sailings over the Globe 34

St. Leonard 35

Science Popularly Explained 32

Scotland, The History of 33

Scott's Poems 5

Shadows 11, 15

Shakspeare, Concordance to 37

---- Heroines 3

Sharpe's Diamond Dictionary 13

Shilling's Worth of Sense 11

Sidney Grey 19

Smith's (Alex.) Poems 9

---- Sonnets on the War 9

Southey's Life of Nelson 6, 19

Spanish without a Master 38

Spelling Book (Cassell's) 30

Steam Engine, The History of the 34

Store of Knowledge 37

Suggestions in Design 12

Sutcliffe's Drawing Book of Horses 23

Taylor's (Jeff.) Young Islanders 20

Tennyson's Miller's Daughter 1

Thomson's Seasons 5

Timbs's Curiosities of London 16

---- Curiosities of England 16

---- Popular Errors 16

---- School Days of Eminent Men 16

---- Things Not Generally Known 16

Waverley Gallery 4

Weather Book, the 11

Webster (Daniel) Orations 36

Webster's Quarto Dictionaries 13

---- Smaller Dictionary 13

Winkles's English Cathedrals 8

Women of the Bible 4

Wonders of Travel 7

---- of the Heavens 34

Worsley's Little Drawing Book 23

Year-Book of Facts 12

Young Lady's Oracle 11

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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE

Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been
corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within
the text and consultation of external sources.

Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text,
and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.

Pg 7, 'Analyis of Gothick' replaced by 'Analysis of Gothick'.
Pg 7, 'By and J. A. Brandon' replaced by 'By R. and J. A. Brandon'.
Pg 18, '6s. cloth gilt.'; the number was unclear, '6' has been
assumed.