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BOOKS ! BOOKS ! BOOKS ! 'P'URNESS amd DIXON have on Sale a Choice Assortment of Interesting and Popular Works, including the following:— Sunday at Home for 1877. Leisure Hour for 1877. Child’s Companion for 1877. Little Wide Awake tor 1877. Saved from the Sea, by Kingston. Robinson Crusoe, 100 Illustrations. Swiss Family Robinson, 300 Illustrations. Boys Book of Sports. Every Boys Annual. Ethel Clinton. Little Hazel. Polly and Jack. Nannettc Dampier.J Prince Übbely Bubble. Told in the Twilight. Aunt Martha’s Corner Cupboard. By Hesba Stretton, — Fern’s Hollow. Cassy. Little Meg’s Children. Max Kromer. Lost Gip. Friends till Death. Kardoo, the Hindoo Girl. Trot’s Letters to her Doll. Our New House. Melbourne House. Uncle Tom’s Story of his Life. Turnaside Cottage. The Twins of Saint Marcel. The Lost Father. Christmas at Annesley. By A. L.O.E., — Miracles of Heavenly Love. Fairy Frisket. The Silver Casket. Aunt Jane’s Hero. Richard Hunne. With the Tide. The Fairy Spinner. General Beckwith. Barriers Burned Away. The Teacher’s Handbook of Questioning on the Gospels. Men Who Have Made Themselves. The Sword and Garment. Grace for Grace. Life of D. L. Moody. Church Life in Australia. Recreations of a Country Parson. The Land of the Sun. Military Heroes of England. Enquire Within. The Revolt of the Field ; a Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the Move ment among the Agricultural Labourers ’ of England. Martyr Graves of Scotland. A Cloud of Witnesses. Tales of Old Ocean. Oliver Wyndham ; a Tale of the Great Plague, by the author of “ Naomi.” Beecher’s Lectures to Young Men. Beecher’s Lectures on Preaching. Central Truths. The Markham’s of Ollerton. Eldergowan. Sketches of Indian Life and Travel. Earth and its Treasures. The Home and Synagogue of the Modern Jew. Homes Made and Marred. Sceptre and Crowns. Nettie’s Mission. The Little Camp on Eagle Hill. Cross and Crown. Sons of God. Marco Visconti. The Way of the World. Nails Driven Home. Quiet Talks with my Young Friends. Wanderings of a Pilgrim. The Little Head of the Family. Robert and Harold, the Young Marooners Mary Brunton. Helen’s Victory. • Bertram Noel. Life of Dr. Livingstone. Mary Bunyan. Betty’s Bright Idea, by Mrs. Stowe.



FURNESS AND DIXON’S LIST OF BOOKS— continued. Vicar of Wakefield. One Summer. Davie Blake, the Sailor, by Mrs. Sewell. Prudence Palfrey. The Flower of the Family. The Sunny Side. The Shady Side. Nanny’s Treasure. Homer’s Iliad. Arabian Nights. Longfellow’s Poetical Works. Scott’s Goldsmith’s ~ Cowper’s ~ The Argonaut. Once a Week. East Lynne. Miss or Mrs. Sapphire Cross, 3 vols. How I Won my Spurs (splendidly bound and illustrated). Cheap—lllustrated covers:— From the Earth to the Moon. Around the Moon. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Popular Tales and Romances. Citizen Bonaparte. The Polish Jew. The Illustrious Dr. Matheus. Family Theatricals. Book of Riddles, &c. The Barton Experiment, by the author of “ Helen’s Babies.” The Jericho Road, by ditto. Lost and Found. The Last Days of Pompeii. What Will lie Do With It, 2 vols. Lucretia. Rienzl. Joshua Haggard. Harold. The Girl He Married. Letty Hyde’s Lovers. Lucy Arden. Rob Roy. Second to None. Queen’s Cadet. First Love and Last Love. Two Midshipmen. Tom Cringle’s Log. Running the Gauntlet. Will He Many Her. Albert Lunel, by Lord Brougham. The Bivouac. The Hussar. A Wife to Order. The Light Dragoon. Captain Blake. The Log of the Waterlily. Ocean Waifs. Only an Ensign. Rifle Rangers. Sir Harry Hotspur. Christie Johnson. Afloat in the Forest. The Cliff Climbers. Nights at Sea. The Maroon. Giraffe Hunters. The White Gauntlet. Autobiography of a Thief. Peg Woffington. David Chantrey. The Jumping Frog, by Mark Twain. Innocents at Home, by ditto. The White Chief. Hunter’s Feast. The Sylvesters. The Leaguer of Lathom. The Wild Huntress. Roughing It. Tancred, by the Hon. B. Disraeli. Sybil, by ditto. Gardenhurst. The Armourer’s Daughter. The Half Blood. My Love She’s but a Lassie,, The Half Brothers. The Parson’s Daughter. The Life of a Sailor. Gervase Skinner. Tales of the Coastguards. Chetwynd Calverley. Leonard Lindsay. The Wood Rangers. The Girl he Left Behind Him. Tiger Hunter. Condoned. Flood and Field. The Ex-Wife. Hearths and Watch Fires. Peter Simple. Sea Lions. Midshipman Easy. Newton Foster. Japhet in Search of a Father. Jacob Faithful. Out of the Hurly Burly. Dot and Dime. Theo ; a Love Story. &c., Sec., Sec., Sec.



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