Being a comprehensive Guide to the Plays, Playwrights, Players, and Playhouses of the United Kingdom and America, from the Earliest to the Present Times. By W. Davenport Adams. (Uniform with Brewer's "Reader's Handbook.") [In preparation.
Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 6s.
Dyer.—The Folk-Lore of Plants.
By T. F. Thiselton Dyer, M.A. [In preparation.
Among the subjects treated of will be the following:—1. Primitive and Savage Notions respecting Plants—2. Plant-Worship—3. Plant-Life—4. Lightning Plants—5. Legendary Origin of Plants—6. Mystic Plants—7. Plant Nomenclature—8. Ceremonial Use of Plants—9. The Doctrine of Signatures—10. Plants in Folk-Medicine—11. Plants in Folk-Tales—12. Plants in Demonology and Witchcraft—13. Wishing-Plants—14. Sacred Plants—15. Luck-Plants.
Crown 8vo, cloth boards, 6s. per Volume.
Early English Poets.
Edited, with Introductions and Annotations, by Rev. A. B. Grosart.