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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-03-22 00:00:00

ILLUSTRATIONS of IRISH LIFE and CHARACTER.

CARLETON'S TRAITS AND STORIES, IN SHILLING PARTS.
On the 31st instant will be published Part I. price Is., and to
be continued every fortnight, the Fourth Edition of
TRAITS and STORIES of the IRISH PEASANTRY.
By WILLIAM CARLETON. • ,
Illustrated with numerous characteristic Plates and Wood
Engravings py W. H. Brooke, Esq. $
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PLAN OF PuBLICATION.
I. To be completed in Twenty-live One Stillli Parts, pub-
lished every fortnight, forming five handsome v umes.
2. The Virst Series of these Tales will b blished in Ten
Parts, containing—Ned M'Keown.—The T Tasks.—Shame
Fadh's Wedding.—,Larry NPFarlands Wa e.—The Battle of
the Factions.—The Funeral.—The Party Fight.—The Hedge
School.—The Abduction of Mat Kavanagh.—The Station.
3. The Second Series will be completed in Fifteen Parts
Contents:—The Midnight Mass.--,--The Donagh, or the Horse
Stealers.—Phil. Purcell, the Pig Driver.—An Essay on Irish
Swearing.—The Geoyraphy of an Irish Oath. The Lianhan
Sheet—The Poor Scholar.—Wild Goose Lodge.,—Tuliber
Dergh, or the Red Well.—Denis O'Shaughnessy going to May-
nootb.—Pheliin O'Toole's Courtship.
4. With the last number of the First Series will be given a
copious Glossary of Scenes peculiar to the Irish Peasantry.
5. The work will he handsomely printed on line paper, of the
size and appearance of the popular five shilling volumes; five
parts completing a volume.

" Admirable, truly, intensely Irish—never were the outra-
geous whimsicalities of that strange, wild, imaginative people
so characteristically described; nor, amidst all the fun, frolic,
and fatly, is there any dearth of poverty, pathos,. and. puska.
The author is a jewel."—Bledwood's Magazine.
" Genuine and capital traits and stories these are. What be-
tween Brookes felicitous designs, and the author's naive and
native talent, we.have here a publication which may be placed
on the shelf with its most popular contemporaries."—Literary
Gazette. ,
London : Baldwiu and Cradock, Paternoster-row; and W.
F. Wakeman, Dublin. •

GUY'S ELEMENTS OF UNIVERSAL HISTORY,
von GRAMMAR SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES.
On the 10th instant, was published, neatly printed in a 12mo.
volume of upwardi filf 300 pages, price only 3s. 6d., hand-
somely bound anineltered,
-17li LEMENTS OF ANCIENT HISTORY, including
141 Greece, Egypt, Persia, Carthage, Rome, the Philistines,
Phcenicians, Jews, Goths, Iluns, &c.
By JOSEPH GUY,
Formerly of the Royal "Military College;
Author of School Geography, Pocket Cyclopwdia, School
Question Book, British Spelling Boa, &c. &c.
e )rti
The Work is divided into Chapters, and bdivided into Sec-
tions, having the paragraphs in each se • on numbered, to cur-
respond with a copious list of QUES' ,TUNS for EXAMINA-
TION at the end of the volume, • s limbered.
' By the. e,
GUY'S ELEMENTS of M ERN HISTORY, includ-
ing France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Russia, Prus-
sia, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, America, &c., divided into Chap-
ters and Sections on the plan of the Ancient History, also with
the Questions for E::amination at the end, 12m0., price only
3s. 6d., bound and lettered.
GUY'S ELEMENTS of BRITISH HISTORY; contain-
ing England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland; with Questions for
Examination at the end; and the Work also divided into Chap-
ters and Sections, with the paragraphs numbered. 12m0., price
only 3s. rd., bound and lettered.
*** These Elements, it is hoped, will supply a valuable desi-
deratum for Grammar Schools and Academies. The object has
been to concentrate a sufficient portion of General History in
three moderate school volumes, the whole being an Abridgment
upon an ample scale : everything therein contained is founded
upon unquestionable authority, having been taken from none
but works of established reputation. Each volume can be pur-
chased separately.
London : Baldwin and Cradock, Paternoster-row.
Lately published, the Fourth Edition of
GUY'S SCHOOL QUESTION BOOK on. History, Bio-
graphy; Geography, Astronomy, &c., with a Chart of Epochs
and the Leading Events of Ancient History.
.Price 4s. 6d.,
bound in green and lettered.
Also New Editions of all Mr. GUY'S POPULAR SCHOOL
BOOKS.