Just Published, a New Edition, Price 8s. 6d., of

BLACK'S PICTURESQUE TOURIST OF SCOTLAND

IN A NEAT PORTABLE VOLUME,

With upwards of One Hundred Illustrations, consisting of Maps, Charts, Plans of Towns, and Views of Scenery.

THIS work is now adapted to the most recent requirements of the Tourist. Every year it has undergone great and important changes, new routes have been inserted, new maps and illustrations have been added, matter superseded by recent changes has been expunged to make way for useful information, many hints and suggestions kindly afforded by Tourists using the book, have been taken advantage of, so that the Publishers have no hesitation in saying that it will now be found most complete.

Differing in plan and execution from many works published with similar intent, ambitious eulogium of the scenery to which the volume is meant to be a guide, has been studiously suppressed. A plain and intelligible account is given of those localities most worthy of the attention of strangers, and of the means by which they can be reached. By adopting this course, space has been found for the incorporation of Traditionary, Historical, and Pictorial Illustration, by which a recollection of the places described will be agreeably fixed in the memory of the Tourist.

To secure the greatest possible degree of accuracy, the principal touring districts have been specially and frequently visited, in order that the information might be the direct result of personal, disinterested inspection, and " that local opinions which are so apt to be tinged by an exaggerated appreciation, and a disregard for the merits of other places, might be carefully avoided.

EDINBURGH: ADAM & CHARLES BLACK.

In One Portable Volume, Price 10s. 6d.

BLACK'S PICTURESQUE TOURIST

AND ROAD AND RAILWAY GUIDE BOOK THROUGH ENGLAND AND WALES.

THIRD EDITION, GREATLY ENLARGED AND IMPROVED.

With a General Travelling Map; Charts of Roads, Railroads, and Interesting Localities; Engraved Views of Picturesque Scenery; and a comprehensive General Index, embracing a List of Hotels and Inns.

EXTRACTS FROM CRITICAL NOTICES.

"A decided improvement upon the old road book.”—John Bull.

"A compendious and very carefully drawn up itinerary."-Court Journal. "A carefully executed work, prettily illustrated, with useful maps."Athenæum.

"The characteristics of Black's Picturesque Tourist of England and Wales' are a more compact and handy form, a more modern style of letterpress, getting up, and illustration, with a very moderate price."-The Spectator.

"An attempt to bring the old road-book up to the pitch of modern improvement: and we are bound to pronounce it successful. It is cheap and portable, at the same time that it contains an immense mass of information, closely compressed and well printed."-The Civil Engineer's Journal.

"This work embraces, within the compass of its pages, more well-digested information, arranged with accuracy and conciseness, than has ever yet issued from the press, in the form of a volume of convenient size."-Bristol Mirror.

"In every respect Black's Picturesque Tourist' will supply a travelling directory through England and Wales; and wherever, or by whatever route, the stranger may choose to go, he has only to consult this road companion to have the name of the towns, and a description of the localities and scenery through which he passes."-Edinburgh Advertiser.

"All superfluous description is very wisely omitted, and no attempt is made after graces of style, quite out of place in a tourist's pocket companion; but we have, instead of such ambitious matter, much historical, legendary, and useful information, which will greatly conduce to the traveller's convenience and increase his pleasure, by associating the objects he views with memorable events and popular and poetical traditions."-Britannia.

EDINBURGH: ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK.

AN ESSAY ON THE GEOLOGY OF THE DISTRICT

By JOHN PHILIPS, F.R.S., G.L., Deputy Reader of Geology in the University of Oxford.

SEVENTH EDITION.

With a Correct Travelling Map; Views of the Scenery by T. M. Richardson jun., Montague Stanley, etc.; Twelve Explanatory Outline Views of Mountain Groups, by Mr. Flintoft of Keswick; Four Charts of the more interesting Localities, Itineraries, and all the Hotels.

FOR the lover of nature, no Tour can be named of a more pleasing character than that which these Lakes afford; yet we see crowds of people hurrying to the Continent on the return of each summer, without deigning to glance at the lovely scenery of their own land. "We penetrate the Glaciers, and traverse the Rhone and the Rhine, whilst our domestic lakes of Ullswater, Keswick, and Windermere, exhibit scenes in so sublime a style, with such beautiful colourings of rock, wood, and water, backed with so stupendous a disposition of mountains, that if they do not fairly take the lead of all the views of Europe, yet they are indisputably such as no English traveller should leave behind him."

"This Guide to the Lakes has been compiled upon the same elaborate plan (as the Picturesque Tourist of Scotland), governed by the same resolution to spare no cost or trouble to achieve a successful result. It needs no higher commendation. It is a Picturesque Guide in every sense-its descriptions are charmingly written, its intelligence is ample and minute, and its illustrations are admirable specimens of art."-Atlas.

"This is a little work that has an extensive popularity in the Lake districts, for the accuracy and extent of the information it conveys. Many guide books are overloaded with useless matter, which only serve to perplex and irritate the tourist. This can never occur with the volume before us, inasmuch as it contains multum in parvo,' and is so adapted as to suit every class of travellers."-Bell's Weekly Messenger.

EDINBURGH: ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK.