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In 20 parts, super-royal 4to, 2s. each. The Carpenter and Joiner's Assistant.

By James Newlands, Borough Engineer of Liverpool. New and Imprmed Edition. Being a Comprehensive Treatise on the selection, preparation, and strength of Materials, and the mechanical principles of Framing, with their applications in Carpentry, Joinery, and Hand Railing ; also, a complete treatise on Lines; and an Illustrated Glossary of Terms used in Architecture and Building. Illustrated l)y above One Hundred Engraved Plates, containing above Nine Hundred Figures; and above Seven Hundred Geometric, Constructive, and Descriptive Figures interspersed throughout the text.

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Foolscap 8vo, bound, 7j. 6d.

Peddie's Practical Measurer.

A Series of Tables for the use of Wood Merchants, Builders, Carpenters, Joiners, Sawyers, Plasterers, Painters, Glaziers, Masons, Bricklayers, &c. New edition, greatly enlarged.

To this edition have been added Tables for facilitating calculations of timber in Deals and Battens; and also for estimating the price of Boards of various thickness, and for other purposes. The Work now presents the most extensive and complete sec of Tables of the kind that is In the market, and contains information only to be eLcwhere obtained from several bouks.

Foolscap 8vo, bound, 91. The Agriculturist's Calculator.

A Series of Forty-five Tables for Land Measuring, Draining, Manuring, Planting, Weight of Hay and Cattle by Measurement, Building, &c. &c.

It Is believed that scarcely anything can occur in Farm calculations for which these Tables do not provide valuable assistance ; and that the care and labour bestowed on their compilation entitle them to the confidence of the agricultural community.

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To be completed in 4 vols., super-royal 8vo, cloth elegant, Sj. 6d. each; or 14 parts, 2s. each. The Cabinet of Irish Literature.

A Selection from the Works of the chief Poets, Orators, and Prose Writers of Ireland. Edited, with biographical sketches and hterary notices, by Charles A. Read, f.r.h.s., author of "Tales and Stories of Irish Life," " Stories from the Ancient Classics," &c. Illustrated by a series of 32 admirable Portraits in mesochrome, specially prepared for this work.

The Publishers aim in tlas Work to supply a standard work where the genius, the fire, the pathos, the humour, and the eloquence of Irish Literature are adequately represented. The specimens selected, which will be arranged chronologically from the earliest to the present time, will both present a historical view of Irish Literature, and enable the reader to judge of the individual style and particular merit of each author, while to those not critically disposed the infinite variety presented in this convenient collective form will aiford both instruction and amusement.

In two handsome vols., super-royal 8vo, 3&f.; or 15 parts, 2s. each. The Works of the Ettrick Shepherd, IN POETRY AND PROSE. Centenary Edition. With a Biographical Memoir by the Rev. Thomas Thomson. Illustrated by Forty-four fine Engravings on steel, from Original Drawings by D, O. Hill, R.S.A., K. Halsewelle, A.R.S.A., W. Small, and J. I,awson.

Hogg's Works comprise Tales in Prose, illustra.tive of Border history and superstitions. They comprise likewise Poems of great imaginative power and descriptive beauty ; Ballads full of humour and touches of tender pathos ; and Songs which, besides being universally popular when first made public, jtc still cherished as among the finest productions of our native lyric muse.

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