# The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth/End matter

History.
The Vikings in Western Christendom, A.D. 789—888. By C. F. Kearny, Author of "Outlines of Primitive Belief," "The Dawn of History," &c. With Map and Tables, Demy 8vo., cloth, 16s.
These Lectures attracted much attention in the Session of 1889-90, and are now reprinted to meet the desire of a very large public. In each case the authors have striven to put their audience in thorough sympathy with the National Life and Thought of the Nations treated of.
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Theology and Philosophy.
The Wider Hope: Essays and Strictures on the Doctrine and Literature of a Future. By Numerous Writers, Lay and Clerical: Canon Farrar, the late Principal Tulloch, the late Rev. J. Baldwin Brown, the Very Rev. E. H. Plumptre, D.D., Rev. William Arthur, Rev. James H. Rigg, Rev. Henry Allon, D.D. With a Paper by Thomas de Quincey, and a Bibliography of Recent Eschatology as contained in the British Museum. Crown 8vo., cloth, 7s. 6d.
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"The translation is clear and elegant."—Morning Post.
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