*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 47107 *** A Catalogue of New Books and New Editions published by Bliss, Sands, and Foster at 15 Craven St., Strand, London, W.C. _To be obtained of all booksellers, and at all libraries; or of the publishers, post-free on remittance of the published price._ Contents. _Page_ Economics 1 Travel & Reminiscence 1 Biography 2 History 3 Topography 3 Miscellaneous 4 Works for Children 4 Fiction 5 Works on Nature 7 Poetry 7 Classical Reprints 8 _ECONOMICS._ Macleod. ECONOMICS. By Henry Dunning Macleod, Author of “The Theory of Credit,” “The Elements of Banking,” etc. _Demy 8vo. Cloth, price 16s._ _TRAVEL AND REMINISCENCE._ Wm. Beatty-Kingston. MEN, CITIES, & EVENTS. By Wm. Beatty-Kingston. _Demy 8vo. Price 16s._ Martin Cobbett. THE MAN ON THE MARCH. By Martin Cobbett. _Large Crown 8vo. Price 6s._ Mrs. Alec Tweedie. A WINTER JAUNT TO NORWAY. 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Transcriber’s Notes --This catalog was bound with an 1896 publication of _British Sea Birds_, by Charles Dixon. --Silently corrected palpable typos; left non-standard spellings and dialect unchanged. --Provided an original cover image, for free and unrestricted use with this Distributed Proofreaders-Canada eBook. --Only in the text versions, delimited italicized text in _underscores_ (the HTML version reproduces the font form of the printed book.) End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Catalogue of New Books and New Editions, 1896, by Bliss, Sands, and Foster Publishers *** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 47107 ***