NORTH AND SOUTH WALES AND MONMOUTHSHIRE. WITH AN EXCELLENT TRAVELLING MAP, A Copious Itinerary, a Full Description of every Remarkable Place, a Notice of all the Best Hotels and Inns, and a Comprehensive General Index. Illustrated by Maps, Charts, and Views of Scenery. In the natural aspect of this country,-its mountains and hills, its valleys and glens, its lakes and rivers,-are exhibited scenes of beauty and of grandeur, which in few regions can be surpassed; while these are, for the most part, associated with historical events and traditionary legends of more than ordinary interest, and with the mouldering monuments of past ages, scarcely less striking than the splendid and romantic scenery. The inhabitants, too, are still a distinct and very remarkable people; speaking the language of their remote ancestors; retaining much that is peculiar in physical appearance, and in prevailing customs; and cherishing ardent attachment to their native soil, and to the memory of their princes, bards, and warriors. It is not, therefore, surprising that to travellers of almost every diversity of taste and pursuit, the Principality of Wales presents objects of peculiar and varied interest. To the Tourist approaching Wales from England or Scotland, the following towns, all of easy access, may be conveniently chosen as starting places for tours: -Chester, Shrewsbury, Hereford, Monmouth, and Chepstow; and from these in succession, a number of routes are so arranged as to traverse the Principality in every direction, and include every place deemed worthy of notice. EDINBURGH: ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK. To Tourists in Ireland. On the 1st of July will be published, in a neat Pocket Volume, Price Five Shillings, BLACK'S PICTURESQUE TOURIST OF IRELAND. A Second and Greatly Improved Edition. WITH A GENERAL TRAVELLING MAP, A LARGE CHART OF THE LAKES OF KILLARNEY AND SURROUNDING COUNTRY, AND PLANS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES; AND CONTAINING ALL THE BEST HOTELS, WITH THEIR RESPECTIVE CHARGES. ALSO Black's Guide to Dublin, 1s. 6d. Nearly ready, in a neat Pocket Volume, Price Eighteenpence, BLACK'S PICTURESQUE GUIDE TO WARWICKSHIRE. Uniform with Warwickshire, Price Eighteenpence each, Black's Guide to Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. GUIDE TO THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND, INCLUDING ORKNEY AND ZETLAND; DESCRIPTIVE OF THEIR SCENERY, STATISTICS, ANTIQUITIES, AND NATURAL HISTORY. CONTAINING ALSO DIRECTIONS FOR VISITING THE LOWLANDS OF SCOTLAND; WITH DESCRIPTIVE NOTICES, AND MAPS, VIEWS, TABLES OF DISTANCES, NOTICES OF INNS, &c. BY GEORGE ANDERSON AND PETER ANDERSON, OF INVERNESS. "It is, after all the deductions which the most inquisitive investigation may have deduced, the best Guide Book ever issued."London Correspondent of "Inverness Courier." 66 Irrespective altogether of its merits as a Guide Book, this is one of the most delightful publications of the topographical and descriptive kind we have ever read."-Inverness Advertiser. "Under pretence of being a Guide Book, it gives a copious supply of every kind of knowledge bearing upon the country it describes."- Tait's Magazine. "It forms beyond question the fullest and most complete Guide to the Highlands and Islands."-Scotsman. "By far the best Hand Book to the Highlands which has yet been produced." -Edinburgh Evening Courant. "In this book we have the benefit of remarkable fulness of knowledge on the part of the authors, and the accuracy of their statements is only equalled by their judicious brevity."-Chambers' Journal. "This volume should be in the pocket of every Scottish Tourist, and in the library of every Scotchman."-Aberdeen Herald. "Among the hills it is invaluable, and at the fireside most pleasant reading." -Aberdeen Journal. "We do not know two individuals better adapted to the task of writing a Guide Book to the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, than the editors of the work before us."-Literary Gazette. "This is the most complete work of its kind, and we believe the only one worth the name of a work on its immediate subject."-Atlas. "A work which has never received half its due measure of praise.”—Miller's "Old Red Sandstone." EDINBURGH: ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK. And Sold by all Booksellers. THE WAVERLEY NOVELS. LIBRARY EDITION. Illustrated by upwards of Two Hundred Engrav- CABINET EDITION. 25 vols. foolscap 8vo (26 Illustrations), £3:13:6. SEPARATE NOVELS, PEOPLE'S EDITION, in beautiful Illuminated Covers. : 14. FORTUNES OF NIGEL. 15. PEVERIL OF THE PEAK. 16. QUENTIN DURWARD. 17. ST. RONAN'S WELL. 18. REDGAUNTLET. 19. BETROTHED AND HIGHLAND WIDOW. 20. THE TALISMAN. 21. WOODSTOCK. 22. FAIR MAID OF PERTH. 23. ANNE OF GEIERSTEIN. 24. COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS. 25. SURGEON'S DAUGHTER AND CASTLE DANGEROUS. Separate Novels may also be had from any of the other Editions. I. In Twenty-eight volumes Foolscap 8vo, with Fifty-six Engravings from Turner. Price £4:4s. ; Separate volumes, 3s. II. In Three volumes Royal 8vo. (PEOPLE'S EDITION). price £1: 6s. Separate volumes, Ì. and II., 10s. each. GRANDFATHER), price 68. Bound in cloth, III. (TALES OF A Illustrated Edition of the TALES OF A GRANDFATHER-(HISTORY OF SCOTLAND.) With Six Engravings after Turner, and upwards of Fifty on Wood. In Three volumes Foolscap 8vo, cloth, 12s.; extra, cloth, gilt edges, 15s. EDINBURGH: ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK. THE MINSTRELSY OF THE SCOTTISH BORDER. COLLECTED AND EDITED BY SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART. According to Mr. Motherwell, the Editor of "Minstrelsy, Ancient and Modern, 1827," the Old Ballads, which appeared for the first time in this collection, are forty-three in number, and he adds:-" Fortunate it was for the heroic and legendary song of Scotland that the work was undertaken, and still more fortunate that its execution devolved upon one so well qualified in every respect to do its subject the most ample justice. It is truly a patriot's legacy to posterity; and much as it may be now esteemed, it is only in times yet gathering in the bosom of futurity, when the interesting traditions, the chivalrous and romantic legends, the wild superstitions, the tragic songs of Scotland, have wholly failed from the living memory, that this gift can be duly appreciated. It is then that these volumes will be conned with feelings akin to religious enthusiasm, that their strange and mystic lore will be treasured up in the heart as the precious record of days for ever passed away-that their grand stern legends will be listened to with reverential awe, as if the voice of a remote ancestor from the depths of the tomb had woke the thrilling strains of martial antiquity." The drawings in the volumes are from the hand of Mr. Turner, to whom the subjects were pointed out by Sir Walter Scott, when that great artist visited him at Abbotsford in the Autumn of 1830. In Four Vols. Foolscap Octavo, with Eight Engravings from TURNER. Cloth lettered, 10s. 6d. Many of the Ancient Border Melodies, set to Music, will be found in this Edition. To Admirers of Turner. A few India Proofs on Large Paper of that celebrated Artist's Illustrations to SIR WALTER SCOTT'S POETRY still remain, and may be had in Imperial 4to, bound in cloth, price £2: 6s. Royal 4to, plain proofs, £1: 15s. EDINBURGH: ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK. |