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1. Pelham. By Bulwer	$ 75
2. The Disowned. By Bulwer	75
3. Devereux. By Bulwer	50
4. Paul Clifford. By Bulwer	50
5. Eugene Aram. By Bulwer	50
6. The Last Days of Pompeii. By Bulwer	50
7. The Czarina. By Mrs. Hofland	50
8. Rienzi. By Bulwer	75
9. Self-Devotion. By Miss Campbell	50
10. The Nabob at Home	50
11. Ernest Maltravers. By Bulwer	50
12. Alice; or, The Mysteries. By Bulwer	50
13. The Last of the Barons. By Bulwer	1 00
14. Forest Days. By James	50
15. Adam Brown, the Merchant. By H. Smith	50
16. Pilgrims of the Rhine. By Bulwer	25
17. The Home. By Miss Bremer	50
18. The Lost Ship. By Captain Neale	75
19. The False Heir. By James	50
20. The Neighbors. By Miss Bremer	50
21. Nina. By Miss Bremer	50
22. The President's Daughters. By Miss Bremer	25
23. The Banker's Wife. By Mrs. Gore	50
24. The Birthright. By Mrs. Gore	25
25. New Sketches of Every-day Life. By Miss Bremer	50
26. Arabella Stuart. By James	50
27. The Grumbler. By Miss Pickering	50
28. The Unloved One. By Mrs. Hofland.	50
29. Jack of the Mill. By William Howitt.	25
30. The Heretic. By Lajetchnik off	50
31. The Jew. By Spindler	75
32. Arthur. By Sue	75
33. Chatsworth. By Ward	50
34. The Prairie Bird. By C. A. Murray	1 00
35. Amy Herbert. By Miss Sewell	50
36. Rose d'Albret. By James	50
37. The Triumphs of Time. By Mrs. Marsh	75
38. The H— Family. By Miss Bremer	50
39. The Grandfather. By Miss Pickering.	50
40. Arrah Neil. By James	50
41. The Jilt	50
42. Tales from the German	50
43. Arthur Arundel. By H. Smith	50
44. Agincourt. By James	50
45. The Regent's Daughter	50
46. The Maid of Honor	50
47. Safia. By De Beauvoir	50
48. Look to the End. By Mrs. Ellis	50
49. The Improvisatore. By Andersen	50
50. The Gambler's Wife. By Mrs. Grey	50
51. Veronica. By Zschokke	50
52. Zoe. By Miss Jewsbury	50
53. Wyoming	$ 50
54. De Rohan. By Sue	50
55. Self. By the Author of “Cecil”	75
56. The Smuggler. By James	75
57. The Breach of Promise	50
58. Parsonage of Mora. By Miss Bremer	25
59. A Chance Medley. By T. C. Grattan	50
60. The White Slave	1 00
61. The Bosom Friend. By Mrs. Grey	50
62. Amaury. By Dumas	50
63. The Author's Daughter. By Mary Howitt	25
64. Only a Fiddler! &c. By Andersen	50
65. The Whiteboy. By Mrs. Hall	50
66. The Foster-Brother. Edited by Leigh Hunt	50
67. Love and Mesmerism. By H. Smith	75
68. Ascanio. By Dumas	75
69. Lady of Milan. Edited by Mrs. Thomson	75
70. The Citizen of Prague	1 00
71. The Royal Favorite. By Mrs. Gore.	50
72. The Queen of Denmark. By Mrs. Gore	50
73. The Elves, &c. By Tieck	50
74, 75. The Step-Mother. By James	1 25
76. Jessie's Flirtations	50
77. Chevalier d'Harmental. By Dumas	50
78. Peers and Parvenus. By Mrs. Gore	50
79. The Commander of Malta. By Sue	50
80. The Female Minister	50
81. Emilia Wyndham. By Mrs. Marsh	75
82. The Bush-Ranger. By Charles Rowcroft	50
83. The Chronicles of Clovernook	25
84. Genevieve. By Lamartine	25
85. Livonian Tales	25
86. Lettice Arnold. By Mrs. Marsh	25
87. Father Darey. By Mrs. Marsh	75
88. Leontine. By Mrs. Maberly	50
89. Heidelberg. By James	50
90. Lucretia. By Bulwer	75
91. Beauchamp. By James	75
92, 94. Fortescue. By Knowles	1 00
93. Daniel Dennison, &c. By Mrs. Hofland	50
95. Cinq-Mars. By De Vigny	50
96. Woman's Trials. By Mrs. S. C. Hall	75
97. The Castle of Ehrenstein. By James	50
98. Marriage. By Miss S. Ferrier	50
99. Roland Cashel. By Lever	1 25
100. Martins of Cro' Martin. By Lever	1 25
101. Russell. By James	50
102. A Simple Story. By Mrs. Inchbald	50
103. Norman's Bridge. By Mrs. Marsh	50
104. Alamance	50
105. Margaret Graham. By James	25

106. The Wayside Cross. By E. H. Milman.	$ 25
107. The Convict. By James	50
108. Midsummer Eve. By Mrs. S. C. Hall	50
109. Jane Eyre. By Currer Bell	75
110. The Last of the Fairies. By James	25
111. Sir Theodore Broughton. By James	50
112. Self-Control. By Mary Brunton	75
113, 114. Harold. By Bulwer	1 00
115. Brothers and Sisters. By Miss Bremer	50
116. Gowrie. By James	50
117. A Whim and its Consequences. By James	50
118. Three Sisters and Three Fortunes. By G. H. Lewes	75
119. The Discipline of Life	50
120. Thirty Years Since. By James	75
121. Mary Barton. By Mrs. Gaskell	50
122. The Great Hoggarty Diamond. By Thackeray	25
123. The Forgery. By James	50
124. The Midnight Sun. By Miss Bremer	25
125, 126. The Caxtons. By Bulwer	75
127. Mordaunt Hall. By Mrs. Marsh	50
128. My Uncle the Curate	50
129. The Woodman. By James	75
130. The Green Hand. A “Short Yarn”	75
131. Sidonia the Sorceress. By Meinhold	1 00
132. Shirley. By Currer Bell	1 00
133. The Ogilvies	50
134. Constance Lyndsay. By G. C. H.	50
135. Sir Edward Graham. By Miss Sinclair	1 00
136. Hands not Hearts. By Miss Wilkinson	50
137. The Wilmingtons. By Mrs. Marsh	50
138. Ned Allen. By D. Hannay	50
139. Night and Morning. By Bulwer	75
140. The Maid of Orleans	75
141. Antonina. By Wilkie Collins	50
142. Zanoni. By Bulwer	50
143. Reginald Hastings. By Warburton	50
144. Pride and Irresolution	50
145. The Old Oak Chest. By James	50
146. Julia Howard. By Mrs. Martin Bell	50
147. Adelaide Lindsay. Edited by Mrs. Marsh	50
148. Petticoat Government. By Mrs. Trollope	50
149. The Luttrells. By F. Williams	50
150. Singleton Fontenoy, R. N. By Hannay	50
151. Olive. By the Author of “The Ogilvies”	50
152. Henry Smeaton. By James	50
153. Time, the Avenger. By Mrs. Marsh	50
154. The Commissioner. By James	1 00
155. The Wife's Sister. By Mrs. Hubback	50
156. The Gold Worshipers	50
157. The Daughter of Night. By Fullom	50
158. Stuart of Dunleath. By Hon. Caroline Norton	50
159. Arthur Conway. By Capt. E. H. Milman	50
160. The Fate. By James	50
161. The Lady and the Priest. By Mrs. Maberly	50
162. Aims and Obstacles. By James	50
163. The Tutor's Ward	50
164. Florence Sackville. By Mrs. Burbury	75
165. Ravenscliffe. By Mrs. Marsh	50
166. Maurice Tiernay. By Lever	1 00
167. The Head of the Family. By Miss Mulock	75
168. Darien. By Warburton	50
169. Falkenburg	75
170. The Daltons. By Lever	1 50
171. Ivar; or, The Skjuts-Boy. By Miss Carlen	$ 50
172. Pequinillo. By James	50
173. Anna Hammer. By Temme	50
174. A Life of Vicissitudes. By James	50
175. Henry Esmond. By Thackeray	50
176, 177. My Novel. By Bulwer	1 50
178. Katie Stewart	25
179. Castle Avon. By Mrs. Marsh	50
180. Agnes Sorel. By James	50
181. Agatha's Husband. By the Author of “Olive”	50
182. Villette. By Currer Bell	75
183. Lover's Stratagem. By Miss Carlen	50
184. Clouded Happiness. By Countess D'Orsay	50
185. Charles Auchester. A Memorial	75
186. Lady Lee's Widowhood	50
187. Dodd Family Abroad. By lever	1 25
188. Sir Jasper Carew. By Lever	75
189. Quiet Heart	25
190. Aubrey. By Mrs. Marsh	75
191. Ticonderoga. By James	50
192. Hard Times. By Dickens	50
193. The Young Husband. By Mrs. Grey	50
194. The Mother's Recompense. By Grace Aguilar	75
195. Avillion, &c. By Miss Mulock	1 25
196. North and South. By Mrs. Gaskell	50
197. Country Neighborhood. By Miss Dupuy	50
198. Constance Herbert. By Miss Jewsbury	50
199. The Heiress of Haughton. By Mrs. Marsh	50
200. The Old Dominion. By James	50
201. John Halifax. By the Author of “Olive,” &c	75
202. Evelyn Marston. By Mrs. Marsh	50
203. Fortunes of Glencore. By Lever	50
204. Leonora d'Orco. By James	50
205. Nothing New. By Miss Mulock	50
206. The Rose of Ashurst. By Mrs. Marsh	50
207. The Athelings. By Mrs. Oliphant	75
208. Scenes of Clerical Life	75
209. My Lady Ludlow. By Mrs. Gaskell	25
210, 211. Gerald Fitzgerald. By Lever	50
212. A Life for a Life. By Miss Mulock	50
213. Sword and Gown. By Geo. Lawrence	25
214. Misrepresentation. By Anna H. Drury	1 00
215. The Mill on the Floss. By George Eliot	75
216. One of Them. By Lever	75
217. A Day's Ride. By Lever	50
218. Notice to Quit. By Wills	50
219. A Strange Story	1 00
220. Brown, Jones, and Robinson. By Trollope	50
221. Abel Drake's Wife. By John Saunders	75
222. Olive Blake's Good Work. By J. C. Jeaffreson	75
223. The Professor's Lady	25
224. Mistress and Maid. By Miss Mulock	50
225. Aurora Floyd. By M. E. Braddon	75
226. Barrington. By Lever	75
227. Sylvia's Lovers. By Mrs. Gaskell	75
228. A First Friendship	50
229. A Dark Night's Work. By Mrs. Gaskell	50
230. Countess Gisela. By E. Marlitt	25
231. St. Olave's. By Eliza Tabor	75
232. A Point of Honor	50
233. Live it Down. By Jeaffreson	1 00
234. Martin Pole. By Saunders	50

235. Mary Lyndsay. By Lady Ponsonby	$ 50
236. Eleanor's Victory. By M. E. Braddon	75
237. Rachel Ray. By Trollope	50
238. John Marchmont's Legacy. By M. E. Braddon	75
239. Annie Warleigh's Fortunes. By Holme Lee	75
240. The Wife's Evidence. By Wills	50
241. Barbara's History. By Amelia B. Edwards	75
242. Cousin Phillis	25
243. What Will He Do With It? By Bulwer	1 50
244. The Ladder of Life. By Amelia B. Edwards	50
245. Denis Duval. By Thackeray	50
246. Maurice Dering. By Geo. Lawrence	50
247. Margaret Denzil's History	75
248. Quite Alone. By George Augustus Sala	75
249. Mattie: a Stray	75
250. My Brother's Wife. By Amelia B. Edwards	50
251. Uncle Silas. By J. S. Le Fanu	75
252. Lovel the Widower. By Thackeray	25
253. Miss Mackenzie. By Anthony Trollope	50
254. On Guard. By Annie Thomas	50
255. Theo Leigh. By Annie Thomas	50
256. Denis Doone. By Annie Thomas	50
257. Belial	50
258. Carry's Confession	75
259. Miss Carew. By Amelia B. Edwards	50
260. Hand and Glove. By Amelia B. Edwards	50
261. Guy Deverell. By J. S. Le Fanu	50
262. Half a Million of Money. By Amelia B. Edwards	75
263. The Belton Estate. By A. Trollope	50
264. Agnes. By Mrs. Oliphant	75
265. Walter Goring. By Annie Thomas	75
266. Maxwell Drewitt. By Mrs. J. H. Riddell	75
267. The Toilers of the Sea. By Victor Hugo	75
268. Miss Marjoribanks. By Mrs. Oliphant	50
269. True History of a Little Ragamuffin. By James Greenwood	50
270. Gilbert Rugge. By the Author of “A First Friendship”	1 00
271. Sans Merci. By Geo. Lawrence	50
272. Phemie Keller. By Mrs. J. H. Riddell	50
273. Land at Last. By Edmund Yates	50
274. Felix Holt, the Radical. By Geo. Eliot	75
275. Bound to the Wheel. By John Saunders	75
276. All in the Dark. By J. S. Le Fanu	50
277. Kissing the Rod. By Edmund Yates	75
278. The Race for Wealth. By Mrs. J. H. Riddell	75
279. Lizzie Lorton of Greyrigg. By Mrs. Linton	75
280. The Beauclercs, Father and Son. By C. Clarke	50
281. Sir Brook Fossbrooke. By Chas. Lever	50
282. Madonna Mary. By Mrs. Oliphant	50
283. Cradock Nowell. By R. D. Blackmore	75
284. Bernthal. From the German of L. Muhlbach	50
285. Rachel's Secret	75
286. The Claverings. By Anthony Trollope	50
287. The Village on the Cliff. By Miss Thackeray	25
288. Played Out. By Annie Thomas	75
289. Black Sheep. By Edmund Yates	50
290. Sowing the Wind. By E. Lynn Linton	50
291. Nora and Archibald Lee	50
292. Raymond's Heroine	$ 50
293. Mr. Wynyard's Ward. By Holme Lee	50
294. Alec Forbes. By George Macdonald	75
295. No Man's Friend. By F. W. Robinson	75
296. Called to Account. By Annie Thomas	50
297. Caste	50
298. The Curate's Discipline. By Mrs. Eiloart	50
299. Circe. By Babington White	50
300. The Tenants of Malory. By J. S. Le Fanu	50
301. Carlyon's Year. By James Payn	25
302. The Waterdale Neighbors	50
303. Mabel's Progress	50
304. Guild Court. By Geo. Macdonald	50
305. The Brothers' Bet. By Miss Carlen	25
306. Playing for High Stakes. By Annie Thomas. Illustrated	25
307. Margaret's Engagement	50
308. One of the Family. By James Payn	25
309. Five Hundred Pounds Reward. By a Barrister	50
310. Brownlows. By Mrs. Oliphant	38
311. Charlotte's Inheritance. Sequel to “Birds of Prey.” By Miss Braddon	50
312. Jeanie's Quiet Life. By Eliza Tabor	50
313. Poor Humanity. By F. W. Robinson	50
314. Brakespeare. By Geo. Lawrence	50
315. A Lost Name. By J. S. Le Fanu	50
316. Love or Marriage? By W. Black	50
317. Dead-Sea Fruit. By Miss Braddon. Illustrated	50
318. The Dower House. By Annie Thomas	50
319. The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly. By Lever	50
320. Mildred. By Georgiana M. Craik	50
321. Nature's Nobleman. By the Author of “Rachel's Secret”	50
322. Kathleen. By the Author of “Raymond's Heroine”	50
323. That Boy of Norcott's. By Chas. Lever	25
324. In Silk Attire. By W. Black	50
325. Hetty. By Henry Kingsley	25
326. False Colors. By Annie Thomas	50
327. Meta's Faith. By Eliza Tabor	50
328. Found Dead. By James Payn	50
329. Wrecked in Port. By Edmund Yates	50
330. The Minister's Wife. By Mrs. Oliphant	75
331. A Beggar on Horseback. By Jas. Payn	35
332. Kitty. By M. Betham Edwards	50
333. Only Herself. By Annie Thomas	50
334. Hirell. By John Sannders	50
335. Under Foot. By Alton Clyde	50
336. So Runs the World Away. By Mrs. A. C. Steele	50
337. Baffled. By Julia Goddard	75
338. Beneath the Wheels	50
339. Stern Necessity. By F. W. Robinson	50
340. Gwendoline's Harvest. By James Payn	25
341. Kilmeny. By William Black	50
342. John: A Love Story. By Mrs. Oliphant	50
343. True to Herself. By F. W. Robinson	50
344. Veronica. By the Author of “Mabel's Progress”	50
345. A Dangerous Guest. By the Author of “Gilbert Rugge”	50
346. Estelle Russell	75
347. The Heir Expectant. By the Author of “Raymond's Heroine”	50
348. Which is the Heroine?	50
349. The Vivian Romance. By Mortimer Collins	50

350. In Duty Bound. Illustrated	$ 50
351. The Warden and Barchester Towers. By A. Trollope	75
352. From Thistles — Grapes? By Mrs. Eiloart	50
353. A Siren. By T. A. Trollope	50
354. Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite. By Anthony Trollope. Illustrated	50
355. Earl's Dene. By R. E. Francillon	50
356. Daisy Nichol. By Lady Hardy	50
357. Bred in the Bone. By James Payn	50
358. Fenton's Quest. By Miss Braddon. Illustrated	50
359. Monarch of Mincing-Lane. By W. Black. Illustrated	50
360. A Life's Assize. By Mrs. J. H. Riddell	50
361. Anteros. By the Author of “Guy Livingstone”	50
362. Her Lord and Master. By Mrs. Ross Church	50
363. Won—Not Wooed. By James Payn	50
364. For Lack of Gold. By Chas. Gibbon	50
365. Anne Furness	75
366. A Daughter of Heth. By W. Black.	50
367. Durnton Abbey. By T. A. Trollope.	50
368. Joshua Marvel. By B. L. Farjeon	40
369. Lovels of Arden. By M. E. Braddon. Illustrated	75
370. Fair to See. By L. W. M. Lockhart.	75
371. Cecil's Tryst. By James Payn	50
372. Patty. By Katharine S. Macquoid	50
373. Maud Mohan. By Annie Thomas	25
374. Grif. By B. L. Farjeon	40
375. A Bridge of Glass. By F. W. Robinson	50
376. Albert Lunel. By Lord Brougham	75
377. A Good Investment. By Wm. Flagg	50
378. A Golden Sorrow. By Mrs. Cashel Hoey	50
379. Ombra. By Mrs. Oliphant	75
380. Hope Deferred. By Eliza F. Pollard	50
381. The Maid of Sker. By R.D. Blackmore	75
382. For the King. By Charles Gibbon	50
383. A Girl's Romance, and Other Tales. By F. W. Robinson	50
384. Dr. Wainwright's Patient. By Edmund Yates	50
385. A Passion in Tatters. By Annie Thomas	75
386. A Woman's Vengeance. By Jas. Payn	50
387. The Strange Adventures of a Phaeton. By William Black	75
388. To the Bitter End. By Miss Braddon	75
389. Robin Gray. By Charles Gibbon	50
390. Godolphin. By Bulwer	50
391. Leila. By Bulwer	50
392. Kenelm Chillingly. By Lord Lytton.	75
393. The Hour and the Man. By Harriet Martineau	50
394. Murphy's Master. By James Payn	25
395. The New Magdalen. By Wilkie Collins.	50
396. “`He Cometh Not,' She Said.” By Annie Thomas	50
397. Innocent. By Mrs. Oliphant. Illustrated	$ 75
398. Too Soon. By Mrs. Macquoid	50
399. Strangers and Pilgrims. By Miss Braddon	75
400. A Simpleton. By Charles Reade	50
401. The Two Widows. By Annie Thomas	50
402. Joseph the Jew	50
403. Her Face was Her Fortune. By F. W. Robinson	50
404. A Princess of Thule. By W. Black.	75
405. Lottie Darling. By J. C. Jeafferson.	75
406. The Blue Ribbon. By Eliza Tabor.	50
407. Harry Heathcote of Gangoil. By Anthony Trollope	25
408. Publicans and Sinners. By Miss M. E. Braddon	75
409. Colonel Dacre. By Author of “Caste”	50
410. Through Fire and Water. By Frederick Talbot	25
411. Lady Anna. By Anthony Trollope	50
412. Taken at the Flood. By Miss Braddon	75
413. At Her Mercy. By James Payn	50
414. Ninety-Three. By Victor Hugo	25
415. For Love and Life. By Mrs. Oliphant	75
416. Doctor Thorne. By Anthony Trollope	75
417. The Best of Husbands. By Jas. Payn	50
418. Sylvia's Choice. By Georgiana M. Craik	50
419. A Sack of Gold. By Miss V. W. Johnson	50
420. Squire Arden. By Mrs. Oliphant	75
421. Lorna Doone. By R. D. Blackmore	75
422. Treasure Hunters. By Geo. M. Fenn	40
423. Lost for Love. By Miss Braddon	75
424. Jack's Sister. By Miss Dora Havers	75
425. Aileen Ferrers. By Susan Morley	50
426. The Love that Lived. By Mrs. Eiloart	50
427. In Honor Bound. By Charles Gibbon	50
428. Jessie Trim. By B. L. Farjeon	50
429. Hagarene. By George A. Lawrence	75
430. Old Myddelton's Money. By Mary Cecil Hay	50
431. At the Sign of the Silver Flagon. By B. L. Farjeon	40
432. A Strange World. By Miss M. E. Braddon	75
433. Hope Meredith. By Eliza Tabor	50
434. The Maid of Killeena, and Other Stories. By William Black	50
435. The Blossoming of an Aloe. By Mrs. Cashel Hoey	50
436. Safely Married. By the Author of “Caste”	50
437. The Story of Valentine; and his Brother	75
438. Our Detachment. By Katharine King	50
439. Love's Victory. By B. L. Farjeon	25
440. Alice Lorraine. By R. D. Blackmore	75
441. Walter's Word. By James Payn	75
442. Playing the Mischief. By J. W. De Forest	75
443. The Lady Superior. By Eliza F. Pollard	50

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