ng work with perspicuity
and completeness. It will henceforth be the standard work on Nepaul.
Captain Smith's narrative of his personal adventures is most
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CANADA AS IT WAS, IS, AND MAY BE.
BY THE LATE LIEUTENANT-COLONEL SIR R. BONNYCASTLE.
With an Account of Recent Transactions,
BY SIR JAMES E. ALEXANDER, K.L.S., &c.
2 v., post 8vo., with Maps, &c. 21s. bound.
"These volumes offer to the British public a clear and trustworthy
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use to the traveller or settler, and the military and political reader.
The information rendered is to be thoroughly relied on as veracious,
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"This is the best work on Canada for every class of readers--the most
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SPAIN AS IT IS.
By G. A. HOSKINS, ESQ.
2 v., with Illustrations, 21s. bound.
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COLONEL LANDMANN'S ADVENTURES
AND RECOLLECTIONS.
2 vols. post 8vo. 21s. bound.
"Among the anecdotes in this work will be found notices of King George
III., the Dukes of Kent, Cumberland, Cambridge, Clarence, and Richmond,
the Princess Augusta, General Garth, Sir Harry Mildmay, Lord Charles
Somerset, Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Lord Heathfield, Captain Grose, &c.
The volumes abound in interesting matter. The anecdotes are one and all
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that his volumes will be acceptable. They partake, to some extent, both
of the good and bad qualiti
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