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... interesting to read as a romance , as , indeed , a good book of travels ought always to be . The illustrations by Wolf are admirably designed , and most of them represent scenes as striking as any witnessed by Jules Gérard or Gordon ...
... interesting to read as a romance , as , indeed , a good book of travels ought always to be . The illustrations by Wolf are admirably designed , and most of them represent scenes as striking as any witnessed by Jules Gérard or Gordon ...
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Seite 18 - THE ROMANCE OF THE FORUM; OR, NARRATIVES, SCENES, AND ANECDOTES FROM COURTS OF JUSTICE. SECOND SERIES. BY PETER BURKE, Esa., of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law. 2 vols. post 8vo. 21s. PRINCIPAL...
Seite 3 - She must have spent great time and labour in collecting the information, which she imparts in an easy and agreeable manner. It is difficult to lay down her book after having once begun it. This is owing partly to the interesting nature of the subject, partly to the skilful manner in which it has been treated. No other life of Marguerite has yet been published, even in France. Indeed, till Louis Philippe ordered the collection and publication of manuscripts relating to the history of France, no such...
Seite 18 - The story of the Kirkpatricks of Closeburn (the ancestors of the French Empress), and...
Seite 12 - TRAVELS IN EUROPEAN TURKEY: THROUGH BOSNIA, SERVIA, BULGARIA, MACEDONIA, ROUMELIA, ALBANIA, AND EPIRUS ; WITH A VISIT TO GREECE AND THE IONIAN ISLES, and a HOMEWARD TOUR THROUGH HUNGARY AND THE ScLAVONIAN PROVINCES OF AUSTRIA ON THE LOWER DANUBE. By EDMUND SPENCER, ESQ. Author of " Travels in Circassia,
Seite 11 - Ngami was reached by a route that had been deemed impracticable, but which proves to be the shortest and the best. The work contains much scientific and accurate information...
Seite 12 - A TOUR OF INQUIRY THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY, Illustrating their PRESENT SOCIAL, POLITICAL, AND RELIGIOUS CONDITION. By EDMUND SPENCER, Esa., Author of "Travels in European Turkey," " Circassia,
Seite 2 - EASTERN HOSPITALS AND ENGLISH NURSES; The Narrative of Twelve Months' Experience in the Hospitals of Koulali and Scutari. By A LADY VOLUNTEER. Third and Cheaper Edition, 1 vol. post 8vo. with Illustrations, 6s. bound. "A production which, not only in the subject-matter, but in its treatment, is filled with the purest and best evidences of womanly tenderness."— The Time*.
Seite 8 - Charlemagne, Abelard and Heloise, Elizabeth of Hungary, Dante, Robert Bruce, Ignez de Castro, Agnes Sorrel, Jane Shore, Lucrezia Borgia, Anne Bullen, Diana of Poitiers, Catherine de Medicis, Queen Elizabeth, Mary Queen of Scots, Cervantes, Sir Kenelm Digby, John Sobieski, Anne of Austria, Ninon del'Enclos, Mile. de Montpensier, the Duchess of Orleans, Madame de Maintenon, Catherine of Russia, and Madame de Stael. " A book which has many merits, most of all, that of a fresh and unhacknied subject....
Seite 14 - TRAVELS IN PERSIA, GEORGIA, AND KOORDISTAN, WITH SKETCHES OF THE COSSACKS AND THE CAUCASUS. By DR.
Seite 10 - ... Central Asia. Perhaps, no English artist was ever before admitted into this enchanted land of history, or provided with the talisman and amulet of a general passport; and well has Mr. Atkinson availed himself of the privilege. Mr. Atkinson's encampments lead us away into forests, gorges of mountains, where the thunder shakes the ground and the lightning strikes, like God's sword-blade, among the trees — where the Tartars cower in their felt hut, and the tea-drinkers grow silent round the red...