Rumour, by the author of 'Charles Auchester'.

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Hurst and Blackett, 1858
 

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الصفحة 3 - MEMOIRS OF THE COURT AND CABINETS OF GEORGE THE THIRD, FROM ORIGINAL FAMILY DOCUMENTS.
الصفحة 16 - Starting from Bremen for California, the author of this Narrative proceeded to Rio, and thence to Buenos Ayres, where he exchanged the .wild seas for the yet wilder Pampas, and made his way on horseback to Valparaiso...
الصفحة 13 - ... taste is gratified by chronicles of sport, the lover of adventure will find a number of .perils and escapes to hang over, and the lover of a frank good-humoured way of speech will find the book a pleasant one in every page.
الصفحة 17 - ... beautiful in those famous regions consecrated to everlasting immortality in the annals of the prophets — and which no other modern writer has ever depicted with a pencil at once so reverent and picturesque.'' — Sun. " In the mixture of story with anecdote, information and Impression, it perhaps surpasses 'Eothen.
الصفحة 19 - A book of sound counsel. It is one of the most sensible works of its kind, well written, true-hearted, and altogether practical. Whoever wishes to give advice to a young lady may thank the author for means of doing so.
الصفحة 6 - TURKEY: ITS HISTORY AND PROGRESS; FROM THE JOURNALS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF SIR JAMES PORTER, Fifteen Years Ambassador at Constantinople, continued to the Present Time, with a Memoir of SIR JAMES PORTER, by his Grandson, SIR GEORGE LARPENT, BART. 2 vols. 8vo., with Illustrations. 30s, bound. "These volumes are of an authentic character and enduring interest.
الصفحة 4 - THE LIVES OF PHILIP HOWARD, EARL OF ARUNDEL, AND OF ANNE DACRES, HIS WIFE. Edited from the Original MSS. By the DUKE OF NORFOLK, EM 1 vol. antique. "These biographies will be read with interest. They throw valuable light on the social habits and the prevalent feelings of the Elizabethan age.
الصفحة 13 - He has seen nature in the wildest, sublimest, and also the most beautiful aspects the old world can present. These he has depicted by pen and pencil. He has done both well. Many a fireside will rejoice in the determination which converted the artist into an author. Mr. Atkinson is a thorough Englishman, brave and accomplished, a lover of adventure and sport of every kind. He knows enough of mineralogy, geology, and botany to impart a scientific Interest to his descriptions and drawings; possessing...

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