WORKS PUBLISHED BY BRADBURY AND EVANS. 5 In Eight Volumes, large 8vo, price 31. 16s. 6d., handsomely bound in cloth, illustrated with many hundred Woodcuts and Steel Engravings, AND DEDICATED TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, CHARLES KNIGHT'S POPULAR HISTORY OF ENGLAND. Extract from the Author's Postscript to Volume 8.-"In the Introduction to my First Volume I have stated the circumstances which led me to entertain the idea of writing a book that might be recommended for purposes of instruction, when a Young Man of Eighteen asks for a History of England.' With a pardonable pride, I may presume to mention that my desire to produce such a book has been welcomed in a manner far beyond my hope I fear beyond my desert. Whilst the Prince of Wales was pursuing his studies at the University of Cambridge, my History was used as a text-book, and was quoted and recommended by the Rev. Charles Kingsley, the Professor of Modern History, in the course of Lectures which His Royal Highness attended. The exalted rank of the studentthe literary eminence of the Professor-combine to render this compliment most grateful It affords me the consolation of believing that, whatever may be the errors and deficiencies of my undertaking, it has been recognized by one whose opinion is of no ordinary value, as a well-meant endeavour to write the History of the Kingdom and of the People with a due sense of my responsibility to be just and truthful, and with a catholicity of mind that may be preserved without the suppression of honestly-formed opinions." to me. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. FROM THE ATHENEUM. "We very cordially recommend Mr. Knight's volumes to the readers whom they seek. We know of no history of England so free from prejudice, so thoroughly honest and impartial, so stored with facts, fancies, and illustrations, and therefore none so well adapted for school or college as this 'Popular History of England.'” FROM THE TIMES. "This is the history for English youth."-Jan. 12, 1860. FROM "ALL THE YEAR ROUND," IN AN ARTICLE UPON PARISH REGISTERS. "So observes Mr. Charles Knight in his admirably comprehensive popular History of England, from which no topic that concerns the history of the English people-not even this question of the origin of parish registers- has been omitted; that book of Mr. Knight's being, let us say here by the way, the best history extant, not only for, but also of, the people." FROM THE EXAMINER. "During the last five years Mr. Knight has been labouring at the magnum opus of his literary life. His ambition has been to advance liberal thought and right knowledge in England by a History of England, so written as to engage popular attention, giving the succession of events in the detail necessary to their full perception, and with his own high interpretation of their relative importance. He is the last man who would see in English History the kings and queens instead of the people." FROM THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW. "So far as we are acquainted with this comprehensive history, we cannot hesitate to commend the results of Mr. Knight's seven years' labour. He has probably done all that talent, industry, uprightness, and an enlightened sympathy could do. His history is probably the most available, and the most informing history of England that we possess. It has one cardinal moral merit; it is a thoroughly patriotic history-the production of an educated Englishman who loves his country, without concealing his country's faults, and without hating the country of a neighbour. It has the merit of being readable, and presenting a complete and often graphic narrative of nearly two thousand years of England's fortunes and of England's action." The work is sold separately in Volumes. Vols. 1. to VI., price 98. each; Vol. VII, 108. 6d. ; and Ports 55 to 58, price Complete in Four Vols., crown 8vo, price 68. each, uniform with the Cheap Editions of "Vanity Fair" and "Pendennis." MISCELLANIES IN PROSE AND VERSE. The contents of each Volume of the "Miscellanies" are also published in separate Parts, at various prices, as follows: Shakespeare at "Bankside"- The Wine Cellar, a "Morality"-Kind Cousin TomThe Manager's Pig-The Tapestry Weaver of Beauvais-The Genteel Pigeons-Shakespeare in China-The Order of PovertyA Gossip at Reculvers-The Old Man at the Gate-The Epitaph of Sir Hugh Evans. VOL. 5.-PUNCH'S LETTERS TO HIS SON, AND COMPLETE LETTER WRITERSKETCHES OF THE ENGLISH. VOL. 6.-A MAN MADE OF MONEY. CONTENTS:-Bubbles of the Day-Time Works These are also sold separately, price 18. each. 8 WORKS PUBLISHED BY BRADBURY AND EVANS. PUNCH'S HISTORY OF THE LAST TWENTY YEARS. RE-ISSUE OF "PUNCH." From its Commencement in 1841 to the end of 1860. In Volumes, 5s, boards, uncut, monthly; and in double Vols., 10s. 6d. cloth gilt, every other month. Vol. 1 The following Volumes are already published :— In boards, price 5s. each, Vols. 1 to 29; in cloth, gilt edges : (For 1841) Vols. 2 and 3 (1842) Vols. 4 and 5 (1843) Vols. 6 and 7 (1844) Vols. 12 and 13 (1847) Vols. 28 and 29 (1855) Any Volume or Double Volume may always be had separately. Amongst the contents of the published volumes are the following complete Works: "The complete re-issue of Punch, a publication which has come out consecutively week by week for upwards of twenty years, is in its way one of the Curiosities of Literature. Suppose a future Macaulay at the close of this century looking up materials for the history of the present portion of it, the Times and the statutes at large will supply him with most of them; but it is simply impossible that he can dispense with Punch." FROM THE EXAMINER. "As a current comment on our social history, the volumes of Punch will have in their way as real, if not as grave, an interest to future students as the tomes of any serious historical compiler. The pencil sketches show the English year by year in their habits as they lived, and chronicle incidentally every shift and turn of outward fashion. Thus in a pleasant and handy volume one can recover the whole body of English gossip for a bygone year. To the shelves, then, of all household libraries not yet possessed of their enlivening store of wit and wisdom, we recommend the volumes of Punch in this their complete re-issue. They are rich in wholesome comic thought, and they are, we believe, the best repertory of comic sketches within the whole range of English and foreign literature.” WORKS PUBLISHED BY BRADBURY AND EVANS. ONCE A WEEK, AN ILLUSTRATED MISCELLANY OF Literature, Art, Science, and Popular Information, Is published EVERY SATURDAY, price 3d. ; in Monthly Parts, price 1s. ; and in Half-yearly Volumes, price 7s. 6d. The Eighth Volume was published on the 24th June, 1863. Amongst the numerous Contributors to "ONCE A WEEK" are the following: And the following eminent Artists are amongst its frequent Illustrators : By the Author of "LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET," "AURORA FLOYD," &c., is now in course of publication. Amongst the numerous Works published originally in "ONCE A WEEK " the following: are THE SILVER CORD, by SHIRLEY BROOKS; Illustrated by JOHN Tenniel. |