BOOKS FOR PRIZES.

THE BOY'S OWN BOOK: a Complete Encyclopædia of the Sports and Pastimes, Athletic, Scientific, and Recreative, of Boyhood and Youth. New and greatly enlarged Edition, with io Vignette Titles printed in gold, and over 600 Illustrations. 700 pages, handsomely bound in cloth, 8s. 6d. ; or French morocco, gilt edges, 12s.

"The real original work. To name it, is to praise it."-Saturday Review. "There has never been a better book than this, for boys."-Art-Journal. "The book is still peerless."-Sun.

"It has had many imitators, but like most imitations, they have been but puny counterfeits."-Baily's Magazine of Sports.

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A whole boy's library in itself."-Army and Navy Gazette.

THE BOY'S HOME BOOK OF SPORTS, GAMES, EXERCISES, and PURSUITS. By Writers of the Boy's Own Magazine. Beautifully printed on toned paper, with 200 Engravings, and Coloured Frontispiece and Title. Cloth elegant, gilt edges, 2s. 6d.

CONTENTS:-In-door Games - The Playground-FootballHockey-Golf- Croquet-Cricket - Skittles- Quoits-BowlesRunning and Walking-Gymnastics-Fencing-Archery-Angling -Swimming-Rowing-Skating - Riding-Driving-ChessDraughts-Dominoes-Singing and Talking Birds-The Poultry Yard-Rabbits-Dogs-Bees-Silkworms-Gold and Silver Fish,

&c., &c.

"It is a charming little volume, especially suited for holiday times, and full of information healthful to mind and body."-Civil Service Gazette. "MANY HAPPY RETURNS OF THE DAY!" A Birthday Book for Boys and Girls. By CHARLES and MARY COWDEN CLARKE. New and improved Edition, with numerous additional Engravings, elegantly bound in cloth, gilt edges. Small post 8vo, price 6s.

'Just the book to please and delight an intelligent boy or girl."-Civil Service Gazette.

"A very charming little book. We can strongly and conscientiously recommend it."-Literary Gazette.

"He will be a lucky boy who obtains it for a prize or a present."-Weekly Dispatch.

MERRY TALES FOR LITTLE FOLK. Illustrated with more than 200 Pictures. Edited by Madame DE CHATELAIN. 16mo, cloth elegant, price 3s. 6d.; gilt edges, 45. Containing The House that Jack Built-Little Bo-Peep-The Old Woman and her Eggs-Old Mother Goose-Cock Robin-Old Mother Hubbard-The Three Bears-Jack the Giant Killer-Jack and the Bean Stalk-Puss in Boots-Little Red Riding Hood— Cinderella—and 30 other well known favourite stories.

"A charmingly illustrated volume, which ought to be placed in every nursery by Act of Parliament."-Aunt Judy's Magazine. "A charming collection of favourite stories."—Athenæum.

SCHOOL-DAYS OF EMINENT MEN. Containing School and College Lives of the most celebrated British Authors, Poets, and Philosophers; Inventors and Discoverers; Divines, Heroes, Statesmen, &c. By JOHN TIMBS. Second Edition. Frontispiece by John Gilbert, 13 Views of Public Schools, and 20 Portraits by Harvey. Fcap. price 3s. 6d. cloth.

LONDON LOCKWOOD & Co., 7, Stationers' Hall Court, E.C.

JUVENILE BOOKS.

CHICKSEED WITHOUT CHICKWEED; being very Easy and Entertaining Lessons for Little Children. New Edition, with Frontispiece. 12mo, cloth, Is. A book for every

mother.

COBWEBS TO CATCH FLIES; or, Dialogues in Short Sentences, adapted for Children from the Age of Three to Eight Years. Part I. Easy Lessons; Part II. Short Stories. Cloth, 25. complete.

*The Parts separately, Is. each.

THE FIRST or MOTHER'S DICTIONARY. By Mrs. JAMESON. Tenth Edition. 18mo, cloth, 2s. 6d.

*** Words unsuited for children are omitted, and the definitions given are adapted to the infant capacity.

"Children,' Miss Edgeworth observes, must attend to words as well as things one of the greatest difficulties in early instruction arises from the want of words.' It was to obviate this difficulty that the following work was undertaken."-Extract from Preface.

SCHOOL-ROOM LYRICS. A Selection of 143 Poems for Youthful Readers, compiled and edited by Anne Knight. New Edition. 18mo, cloth, Is.

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* Short, apt, and simple Poems, from the writings of Bowring, Heber, Hannah More, Longfellow, Bernard Barton, Barbauld, Howitt, Mrs Hemans, Jane Taylor, Southey, Campbell, Wordsworth, &c., &c.

PAYNE'S SELECT POETRY FOR CHILDREN, with brief Explanatory Notes, arranged for the Use of Schools and Families. Sixteenth Edition, with fine Steel Frontispiece.

18mo, cloth, 2s. 6d.

"Compiled to assist in laying the foundation of a pure and just taste, by interesting the mind, at an early age, in poetry of a superior order-high toned, beautiful, simple, but not childish.'

TOMKINS' POETRY.-POETRY for SCHOOLS and FAMILIES; or, the Beauties of English Poetry. Selected for the Use of Youth. By E. TOMKINS. Twenty-second Edition, with considerable Additions and fine Steel Frontispiece. Fcap. 8vo, cloth, 2s. 6d.; gilt edges, 3s.

"This compilation offers in a small compass, the very flower of English poetry, and care has been taken to select not only such pieces as Innocence may read without a blush, but such as will even tend to strengthen such innocence."-Extract from Preface.

HADDON'S RUDIMENTARY ARITHMETIC, for the Use of Schools. New Edition. Revised and corrected with additions, and numerous examples. By A. ARMAN. 12mo, cloth limp, Is. 6d.; KEY TO ARITHMETIC, 12mo, cloth limp, Is. 6d.

ARITHMETIC (THE STEPPING STONE TO), being a complete Course of Exercises in the first Four Rules (Simple and Compound), on an entirely new principle. For the Use of Elementary Schools. By A. ARMAN. 12mo, cloth limp, IS.; KEY TO ARITHMETIC, 12mo, cloth limp, Is.

LONDON: LOCKWOOD & Co., 7, Stationers' Hall Court, E.C.