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of the most delightful and deeply-interesting works we have read for a long time."--_Weekly Chronicle._ * * * * * LADY BLESSINGTON'S JOURNAL OF HER CONVERSATIONS WITH LORD BYRON. Cheaper Edition, in 8vo., embellished with Portraits of Lady Blessington and Lord Byron, price only 7s. bound. "The best thing that has been written on Lord Byron."--_Spectator._ "Universally acknowledged to be delightful."--_Athenaeum._ * * * * * NARRATIVE OF AN OVERLAND JOURNEY ROUND THE WORLD, By SIR GEORGE SIMPSON, _Governor-in-Chief of the Hudson's Bay Company's Territories in North America._ 2 vols., 8vo., with Map, &c., 31s. 6d. bound. "A more valuable or instructive work, or one more full of perilous adventure and heroic enterprise, we have never met with."--_John Bull._ "It deserves to be a standard work in all libraries, and it will become so."--_Messenger._ "The countries of which this work gives us a new knowledge are probably destined to act with great power on our interests, some as the rivals of our commerce, some as the depots of our manufactures, and some as the recipients of that overflow of population which Europe is now pouring out from all her fields on the open wilderness of the world."--_Blackwood's Magazine._ * * * * * MR. ROSS' YACHT VOYAGE TO DENMARK, NORWAY, AND SWEDEN, IN LORD RODNEY'S CUTTER "THE IRIS." Second Edition, 1 vol., 10s. 6d. bound. "There is not a sporting man in the country who could peruse these volumes without deriving a considerable amount of pleasure and profit from their pages. No one should think of visiting Norway, Denmark, or Sweden, without consulting them."--_Era._ * * * * * FIVE YEARS IN KAFFIRLAND: WITH SKETCHES OF THE LATE WAR IN THAT COUNTRY. By MRS. HARRIET WARD (WIFE OF CAPTAIN WARD, 91ST REGIMENT). Second Edition, 2 vols., post 8vo., with Portraits of Col. Somerset, the Kaffir Chief Sandilla, &c., 21s. bound. "Mrs. Ward's narrative is one of deep interest, full of exciting adventures and wild and graphic descriptions of scenes the most extraordinary which could be presented to the eyes of a traveller."--_Sunday Times._ "The fullest, clearest, and most impartial account of the Cape of Good Hope and of the recent war, that has yet come before the public."--_Naval and Military Gazette
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