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Lyon and Blair LYON AND BLAIR’S List of New Books, New Editions and Recent Arrivals ; THE MAORI. POLYNESIAN COMPARATIVE DICTIONARY, By Edward Tbegear, F.R.G.S., F.R.H.S., President of the Wellington Philosophical Society, &e., &0., &o. Prospectuses and specimen p,p. on application. 680 p.p. Royal Svo., cloth, lettered, 21s. Half calf, cloth sides, 30s. By arrangements with the Agents of Mr John Raskin we are enabled to supply the Works of that gentleman at a price not hitherto obtainable at this side of the globe. They are supplied only for NET CASH, and the Trade will please note that no farther allowances can be made. With country orders it will be necessary to send One Shilling per vol. extra to cover the cost {of postage. “ Munera Pulvetis," “ The Eagle's Neat," "Time and Tide” (by Wears and Tyne), " The Crown of Wild Olive,” “The Queen of the Air," " The Two Paths,” “ A Joy for Ever.” In cloth, Ss eaob ; or in roan, gilt edges, 7a 6d each ; purple calf, gilt edges, 11s each ; vellum extra, gilt tops, 13s 6d each. Small post, Svo. 11 Aratra Pentelici,” “Ariadne Florentine,” “ValD’Arno,” “The Seven Lamps of Architecture." Small complete editions with all the plates of the works on pages 2,3, and 4of this list. In cloth, 7s 6d each ; or in roan, gilt edges, 10s each ; purple oalf, gilt edges, 13s 6d ; vellum extra, gilt tops, 16s -aoh. “ The Ethics of the Dust.” Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation. With new preface and added note. I. —The Valley of Diamonds. ll.—The Pyramid Builders. HI, —The Crystal Life. IV.—The Crystal Orders. V.—Crystal Virtues. Vl.—Crystal Quarrels. VII, —Home Virtues. Vlll.—Crystal Caprice. IX. —Crystal Sorrows. X,—The Crystal Rest. Notes. Fifth edition, crown Svo., in cloth, 5s ; or inroan, gilt edges, 7a 6d. “Sesame and Lilies." A small edition of the book in its original form, containing only the two lectures, "Kings’ Treasuries” and “Queens’ Gardens.” With new preface. In cloth, 5a ; or in roan, gilt edges, 7s 6d; purple oalf, gilt edges, 11s. Small post Svo, Tenth edition. “ Letter to Young Girls.” Eighteenth edition. 12mo. Supplied in packets of net less than twelve copies, for Is per packet. “ The King of the Golden River; or, The Black Brothers ” : A Legend of Styria. With numerous woodcuts. Now Ready. Ninth edition. In cloth, 2s 6d ; roan, gilt edges, ss, “ Dame \Vigvins of Lee and her Seven Wonderful Cats ” : A Humorous Tale, written principally by a lady of ninety. Edited, with additional verses, by John Ruskin, and with new Illustrations by Kata Greenaway. In cloth, la 6d, demy 12mo. “ Roadside Songs of Tnsoany ”: Translated and illustrated by Francesca Alexander, and edited by John Ruskin, L.L.D., &0., &o. Extract, The Translator : “ These songs and hymns of the poor people ... are but the siftings, oo to say, of hundreds and hundreds which 1 have heard and learnt, mostly from old people ; many of them have never, so far as I know, been written down before, and others it would be impossible now to find ... In their day they have been a comfort to many. Labourlog people have sung them at their work, and have felt their burdens lightened. The complete work in cloth, top edge gilt, plates linen jointed, medium 4to. £3 10s.

A REVISED SERIES OF THE WORKS FORMERLY COMPLETED, IN BOUND Bvo VOLUMES. I. “Sesame and Lilies.” Three Lectures, with new preface. Sixth edition. In paper boards, 13s; or in full purple calf, gilt leaves, 18s. 11. “ Munera Polveris." Six Essays on the Elements of Political Economy, Second edition. In paper boards, 13s. 111. “ Aratra Pentelici.” Six Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture, with one engraving on steel and 20 plates by the Autotype process. Second edition. In paper bonrdu, £1 2a 6d ; or in fall purple calf, gilt leaves, £1 7a 6d. IV. “The Eagle’s Nest.” Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Soiene to Art, Second edition. In paper boards, 13a ; or in fall purple calf, gilt leaves, 18s. V. “Time and Tide,” by Weare and Tyne. Twenty-five Letters to a Working Men of Sunderland on Laws of Work, Second edition. In paper boards, 13s; or in full purple calf, gilt leaves, 18s. VI. “The Crown of Wild Olive." Four Essays on Work, Traffic, War, and the Future of England, with added article on the Economy of the Kings of Prussia. Third edition. In paper boards, 13s ; or in full purple calf, gilt leaves, 18s. VII. “Ariadne Florentine.” Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving, and Appendix. Given before the University of Oxford, with four full-page wood engravings, and 12 plates by the Autotype process. In paper boards, £1 2s 6d ; or in full purple calf, gilt leaves, £1 7s fid. VIII. “Val d’Arno.” Ten Lectures on Art of Thirteenth Centuary in Pisa and Florence, with one engraving on steel, aud 12 plates by tho Autotype process. Second edition. In paper boards, £1 2a fis ; or in full purple calf, gilt leaves, £1 7s fid. IX. “ Queen of the Air.” A Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm. Revised (1883) edition. In paperboards, 13s ; or in full purple oalf, gilt leaves,

18s. X. “The Two Paths ” Lectures on Art, and its Application to Decoration and Manufacture. Delivered in 1858-9, with new preface and added note. Second edition. In paper boards, 13s ; or in full purple calf, gilt leaves, 18s. XI. “A Joy for Ever” (and its Price in the Market). The Substance of Two Lectures on the Political Economy of Art, with new preface and added articles. In paper boards, 13a; or in full purple

calf, gilt leaves, 18a. •‘The Seven Lamps of Architecture.” An exact reprint on toned paper of the issue of 1880, with its various additions to the text of the second edition, together with the 14 original plates. Now ready. Fifth edition. Imperial Bvo, cloth, £1 Is ; purple calf, £1 15s. New and Complete Edition of “The Stones of Venice.” In three vols., imperial Bvo., with the 53 plates, and all the woodcuts and text as originally issued. Cloth, price £4 9s the three vols,, in.

elusive of the new Index. “ Frondes Agrestea,” Readings in “ Modern Painters." In one vol, Ninth edition, in cloth, 3a ; or in roan, gilt edses, 4s ; Purple calf, gilt edges, 8s fid. 12mo, A Now Edition of “ Modern Painters," Vol. 11, with a new preface, numerous critical notes, and epilogue, with anto* biographical account of the author's early art studies. In two vols., small post Bvo (not sold separately) ; in cloth, 10s. . „ “ Arrows of the Chace being a collection of the scattered letters of John Buskin, LL.D., D.C.L. (with added preface by the author). Now ready. In paper boards, Bvo, £1 10s the two volumes (not sold separately). “On the Old Roada collection of Mr Ruskin’s miscellaneous pamphlets, articles, and Essays (1834 -1884). In paper boards, Bvo, £1 10s the three, volumes (not sold separately). Now ready. “Unto this Last.” Four essays on the first principles of political economy. Now ready. Sixth edition, 12ra0., in cloth, 3s; or in roan, gilt edges, 4s. “ The Story of Ida : ’ Epitaph on an Etrurian Tomb. By “ Francesca.” Edited,with preface, hy John Rnskin. full* page steel engraving. Third edition. On toned paper, crown Bvo, in cloth, 3s, or in roan, gilt edges, 5s fid. “The Art of England." Cloth, Ss ; purple calf, gilt edges, £l. “The Storm Cloud of the Nineteenth Century.” Two lectures (the second sup. plsmental to the first), given at the London Institution, Now ready. 4to. cloth, 4s fid. LYON & BLAIB, Printers, Publishers, & Lithographers, LAMBTON QUAY, WELLINGTON. J|ED FUNNEL TEA Is a mixture of the purest CxvPoir snci Indian Pea.