The House on the Moor, v. 1/3Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)
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The House on the Moor, v. 1/3
Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)
Fiction
"Our readers have not now to learn for the first time the quality of Mr.
Atkinson as an explorer and a writer. The comments we made on, and the
extracts we selected from, his 'Oriental and Western Siberia,' will have
sufficed to show that in the former character he takes rank with the
most daring of the class, and that in the latter he is scarcely to be
surpassed for the lucidity, picturesqueness, and power, with which he
pourtrays the scenes through which he has travelled, and the perils or
the pleasures which encountered him on the way. The present volume is
not inferior to its predecessor. It takes us through localities, some of
which are little, others not at all, known to even the best read men in
the literature of travel. The entire volume is admirable for its spirit,
unexaggerated tone, and the mass of fresh materials by which this really
new world is made accessible to us. The followers, too, of all the
'ologies' will meet with something in these graphic pages of peculiar
interest to them. It is a noble work."--_Athenæum._
MEMORIALS OF ADMIRAL LORD GAMBIER, G.C.B., with Original Letters
from Lords CHATHAM, NELSON, CASTLEREAGH, MULGRAVE, HOLLAND, Mr.
CANNING, &c. Edited, from Family Papers, by LADY CHATTERTON. Second
Edition. 2 vols., 8vo., 28s.
STUDIES FROM LIFE. By the Author of "JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN," &c.
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A BOOK ABOUT DOCTORS. By J. C. JEAFFRESON, Author of "Novels and
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arranged; and out of hundreds of volumes, collected thousands of good
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DOMESTIC MEMOIRS OF THE ROYAL FAMILY, AND OF THE COURT OF ENGLAND,
CHIEFLY AT SHENE AND RICHMOND. By FOLKESTONE WILLIAMS, F.R.G.S.,
F.G.S., &c. 3 vols., with Portraits, 31s. 6d.
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variety of its trustworthy information."--_Examiner._
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