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List of Works

Published by

Frederick Pitman, 20, Paternoster Row, London, E.G.

Second Edition, demy 4to, cloth, price 7s. 6d.

The Psychonomy of the Hand; or, the Hand an Index of Mental Development, according to Mm. D'Arpentigny and Desbarrolles. With thirty-one tracings from living and other hands. By R. Beamish, F.R.S., &c., Author of "Life of Sir M. I. Brunel."

Third Edition, Revised, demy 8vo, extra cloth, price 6s. Gd.; half-morocco, 12s.; morocco, 15s.

Life: Its Nature, Varieties, and Pheno-mena. By Leo H. Grindon, Lecturer on Botany at the Royal School of Medicine, Manchester; Author of "Figurative Language," "Manual of British and Foreign Plants," &c. This work can also be had in Twelve Sixpenny Parts.

Cloth, price 2s. 6d.

A Manual of British and Foreign Plants, consisting of the Latin and English names of those likely to come before the Botanical Student; with other useful information. By Leo H. Grindon, Author of "Life: Its Nature, Varieties, and Phenomena," &c.

Third Edition, crown 8vo, extra cloth, price 2s. 6d.

Our Eternal Homes. By a Bible Student. Contents:—1. What is Heaven? 2. Guardian Angels. 3. Heavenly Scenery. 4. Death the Gate of Life. 5. Do the Departed forget us? 6. Man's Book of Life. 7. Infants in Heaven.

To be completed in Twelve Parts, price 1s. each.

Parable, or Divine Poesy. Illustrations in Theology and Morals, selected from the great Divines, and systematically arranged. By R. A. Bertram.

The various illustrations are placed under appropriate headings; and each subdivision is chronologically arranged. In addition to many advantages of arrangement, the divisions and subdivisions constitute outlines of sermons; so that, in addition to several thousand illustrations, the work will contain nearly five hundred homiletic skeletons. The value of such a volume to the Lay Preacher and the Sunday-school Teacher will be at once apparent.

Fcap. Svo, extra cloth gilt, gilt edges, price 3s. 6d.

Love: Selections from the best Poets.

Cloth, price 3s.

Forty Moral Lectures for the Young.

By the Rev. W. Mason.

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Fcap. 8vo, extra cloth, gilt edges, 3s.

Poems. By B. H. Farquhar, Author of "The Pearl of Days," &c.

Fcap. 8vo, cloth, price 3s.

Vegetable Cookery, Pastry, Pickling, &c. By the Author of "Fruits and Farinacea the proper Food of Man."

This volume supplies a want long felt. Cookery-books exist in abundance, but they relate almost exclusively to the preparation of dishes from animal food. This work is devoted entirely to the proper cooking of vegetables, to preserving, pickling, the preparation of sauces, soups, beverages, &c., &c., and forms a complete treatise upon the subject.

Second Thousand, crown 8vo, cloth, price 5s.

Hidden Springs. By the Rev. Joseph Parker, D.D., of Manchester.

Extra cloth, gilt edges, price 2s.

Seven Stories for Children. By Mary C. (Hume) Rothery.

Crown 8vo, cloth 5s.

The Wedding Guests; or, the Happiness of Life. A Novel. By Mary C. (Hume) Rothery.

Paper hoards, price 1s. 6d., 254 pages.

Hits. A collection of the best Tales contributed to "Household Words," "Temple Bar," "Once a Week," and "Chambers's Journal." By Lewis Hough, M.A.

16mo, extra cloth, price 1s.

Original Nursery Rhymes, for Girls and Boys. By Alexander J. Ellis, F.R.S. With Four full-page Illustrations by Edwin J. Ellis, engraved by J. D. Cooper. This book is an attempt to substitute playful sense for serious nonsense.

Cloth, price 1s., with 102 illustrations.

Reading Made Easy; or, Child's First Book; in which the elements of knowledge are arranged in a pleasing and attractive form, and by which Spelling, Reading, "Writing, and Drawing are taught simultaneously. With full directions for Parents and Teachers. By George Vasey.

Cloth, price 2s., with 160 illustrations.

Knowledge Made Easy; or, the Arts of Spelling, Writing, Arithmetic, and Short-hand, taught simultaneously; and (by means of the short-hand characters) the Elements of Architectural, Geometrical, and Ornamental Drawing, easily and pleasantly acquired. By George Vasey.

London: E. Pitman, 20, Paternoster Row, E.C.