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dventure and description for the desultory reader."--_Morning Chronicle._ "No other writer on Canada can compare with the gallant author of the present volume in the variety and interest of his narrative."--_John Bull._ * * * * * STORY OF THE PENINSULAR WAR. A COMPANION VOLUME TO MR. GLEIG'S "STORY OF THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO." With six Portraits and Map, 7s. 6d. bound. "Every page of this work is fraught with undying interest. We needed such a book as this; one that could give to the rising generation of soldiers a clear notion of the events which led to the expulsion of the French from the Peninsula."--_United Service Gazette._ * * * * * LADY LISTER KAYE'S BRITISH HOMES AND FOREIGN WANDERINGS. 2 vols., post 8vo., 21s. bound. "Unrivalled as these volumes are, considered as portfolios of aristocratic sketches, they are not less interesting on account of the romantic history with which the sketches are interwoven."--_John Bull._ * * * * * THE NEMESIS IN CHINA; COMPRISING A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE WAR IN THAT COUNTRY; _With a Particular Account of the Colony of Hong Kong._ From Notes of Captain W. H. HALL. R.N., and Personal Observations by W. D. BERNARD, Esq., A.M., Oxon. CHEAPER EDITION, with a new Introduction, 1 vol., with Maps and Plates, 10s. 6d. bound. "Capt. Hall's narrative of the services of the _Nemesis_ is full of interest, and will, we are sure, be valuable hereafter, as affording most curious materials for the history of steam navigation."--_Quarterly Review._ "A work which will take its place beside that of Captain Cook."--_Weekly Chronicle._ * * * * * ADVENTURES OF A GOLDFINDER. WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. 3 vols., post 8vo. "What is here? Gold? yellow, glittering, precious gold?" _Timon of Athens._ * * * * * MR. DISRAELI'S CONINGSBY. CHEAP STANDARD EDITION, WITH A NEW PREFACE. In 1 vol., with Portrait, 6s. bound. "We are glad to see that the finest work of Disraeli has been sent out in the same shape as those of Dickens, Bulwer, and other of our best novelists, at such a price as to place them within the reach of the most moderate means. Coningsby has passed from the popularity of a season to an enduring reputation as a stand
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