Volume II Part 44 (2/2)
Second Edition, in 2 Vols., with Ill.u.s.trations, 21s. bound.
”One of the best accounts of the country and people that has been published of late years.”--_Spectator._
”A very agreeable book. Mr. Neale is evidently quite familiar with the East, and writes in a lively, shrewd, and good-humoured manner. A great deal of information is to be found in his pages.”--_Athenaeum._
”We have derived unmingled pleasure from the perusal of these interesting volumes. Very rarely have we found a narrative of Eastern travel so truthful and just. There is no guide-book we would so strongly recommend to the traveller about to enter on a Turkish or Syrian tour as this before us. The information it affords is especially valuable, since it is brought up almost to the last moment. The narrative, too, is full of incident, and abounds in vivid pictures of Turkish and Levantine life interspersed with well-told tales. The author commences his narrative at Gaza; visits Askalon, Jaffa and Jerusalem, Caipha and Mount Carmel, Acre, Sidon and Tyre, Beyrout, Tripoli, Antioch, Aleppo, Alexandretta, Adana, and Cyprus. Of several of these famous localities we know no more compact and clearer account than that given in these volumes. We have to thank Mr. Neale for one of the best books of travels that we have met with for a very long time.”--_Literary Gazette._
KHARTOUM AND THE NILES.
By GEORGE MELLY, ESQ.
Second Edition. 2 v. post 8vo., with Map and Ill.u.s.trations, 21s. bound.
”Independently of the amus.e.m.e.nt and information which may be derived from Mr. Melly's interesting work, the references to the relations which exist at this time between the Sublime Porte and Egypt are worthy of every consideration which statesmen and public men can bestow upon them.”--_Messenger._
”We cannot feel otherwise than grateful to the author of these valuable and useful volumes for having kept so faithful a journal, and for giving the public the benefit of his adventures and experience. The manners and customs of the natives, as well as the natural curiosities, and the relics of antiquity which the travellers visited, in turns engage the reader's attention; and, altogether, the book is a most entertaining and instructive _vade-mec.u.m_ to the interesting portion of the East of which it treats.”--_John Bull._
SCENES FROM SCRIPTURE.
BY THE REV. G. CROLY, LL.D.
Author of ”SALATHIEL,” &c., 1 v., 10s. 6d. bound.
”Eminent in every mode of literature, Dr. Croly stands, in our judgment, first among the living poets of Great Britain--the only man of our day ent.i.tled by his power to venture within the sacred circle of religious poets.”--_Standard._
”An admirable addition to the library of religious families.”--_John Bull._
NARRATIVE OF FIVE YEARS' RESIDENCE AT NEPAUL.
BY CAPTAIN THOMAS SMITH,
Late a.s.sISTANT POLITICAL-RESIDENT AT NEPAUL. 2 v. post 8vo. 21s. bound.
”No man could be better qualified to describe Nepaul than Captain Smith; and his concise, but clear and graphic account of its history, its natural productions, its laws and customs, and the character of its warlike inhabitants, is very agreeable and instructive reading. A separate chapter, not the least entertaining in the book, is devoted to anecdotes of the Nepaulese mission, of whom, and of their visit to Europe, many remarkable stories are told.”--_Post._
”No one need go elsewhere for information about Nepaul. He will find it all arranged in this intelligent and interesting work with perspicuity and completeness. It will henceforth be the standard work on Nepaul.
Captain Smith's narrative of his personal adventures is most exciting.”--_United Service Gazette._
CANADA AS IT WAS, IS, AND MAY BE.
BY THE LATE LIEUTENANT-COLONEL SIR R. BONNYCASTLE.
With an Account of Recent Transactions,
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