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the Thackeray circle, and there is a curious portrait of Coleridge, not very thinly veiled. There is enough autobiography, too, of interest in its way."--Leslie Stephen. "No complete edition of the Sage of Chelsea will be able to ignore these manuscripts."--_Pall Mall Gazette._ _MEN, MINES, AND ANIMALS IN SOUTH AFRICA._ By Lord Randolph S. Churchill. With Portrait, Sixty-five Illustrations, and a Map. 8vo. 337 pages. Cloth, $5.00. "The subject-matter of the book is of unsurpassed interest to all who either travel in new countries, to see for themselves the new civilizations, or follow closely the experiences of such travelers. And Lord Randolph's eccentricities are by no means such as to make his own reports of what he saw in the new states of South Africa any the less interesting than his active eyes and his vigorous pen naturally make them."--_Brooklyn Eagle._ "Lord Randolph Churchill's pages are full of diversified adventures and experience, from any part of which interesting extracts could be collected.... A thoroughly attractive book."--_London Telegraph._ "Provided with amusing illustrations, which always fall short of caricature, but perpetually suggest mirthful entertainment."--_Philadelphia Ledger._ "The book is the better for having been written somewhat in the line of journalism. It is a volume of travel containing the results of a journalist's trained observation and intelligent reflection upon political affairs. Such a work is a great improvement upon the ordinary book of travel. Lord Randolph Churchill thoroughly enjoyed his experiences in the African bush, and has produced a record of his journey and exploration which has hardly a dull page in it."--_New York Tribune._ New York: D. APPLETON & CO., 1, 3, & 5 Bond Street. _LIFE IN ANCIENT EGYPT AND ASSYRIA._ By G. Maspero, late Director of Archaeology in Egypt, and Member of the Institute of France. Translated by Alice Morton. With 188 Illustrations. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50. "A lucid sketch, at once popular and learned, of daily life in Egypt in the time of Rameses II, and of Assyria in that of Assurbanipal.... As an Orientalist, M. Maspero stands in the front rank, and his learning is so well digested and so admirably subdued to the service of popular exposition, that it nowhere overwhelms and always interests the reader."--_London Times._ "Only a writer who had distinguished himself as a student of Egyptian and Assyrian antiqu
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