_Hints to Travellers--Everyday Expressions--Arriving at and Leaving a
Railway Station--Custom House Enquiries--In a Train--At a Buffet and
Restaurant--At an Hotel--Paying an Hotel Bill--Enquiries in a Town--On
Board Ship--Embarking and Disembarking--Excursion by Carriage--Enquiries
as to Diligences--Enquiries as to Boats--Engaging Apartments--Washing
List and Days of Week--Restaurant Vocabulary--Telegrams and Letters,
etc., etc._
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The contents of these little handbooks are so arranged as to permit
direct and immediate reference. All dialogues or enquiries not
considered absolutely essential have been purposely excluded,
nothing being introduced which might confuse the traveller rather
than assist him. A few hints are given in the introduction which
will be found valuable to those unaccustomed to foreign travel.
London: WALTER SCOTT, LIMITED, Paternoster Square
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NEW EDITION IN NEW BINDING.
In the new edition there are added about forty reproductions in
fac-simile of autographs of distinguished singers and instrumentalists,
including Sarasate, Joachim, Sir Charles Hallé, Stavenhagen, Henschel,
Trebelli, Miss Macintyre, Jean Gérardy, etc.
_Quarto, cloth elegant, gilt edges, emblematic design on cover, 6s._
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The Music of the Poets:
A MUSICIANS’ BIRTHDAY BOOK.
EDITED BY ELEONORE D’ESTERRE KEELING.
This is a unique Birthday Book. Against each date are given the names of
musicians whose birthday it is, together with a verse-quotation
appropriate to the character of their different compositions or
performances. A special feature of the book consists in the reproduction
in fac-simile of autographs, and autographic music, of living composers.
The selections of verse (from before Chaucer to the present time) have
been made with admirable critical insight. English verse is rich in
utterances of the poets about music, and merely as a volume of poetry
about music this book makes a charming anthology. Three sonnets by Mr.
Theodore Watts, on the “Fausts” of Berlioz, Schumann, and Gounod, have
been written specially for this volume. It is illustrated with designs
of various musical instruments, etc.; autographs of Rubenstein, Dvorâk,
Greig, Mackenzie, Villiers Stanford, etc., etc.
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“To musical amateurs this will certainly prove the most attractive
birthday book ever published.”--_Manchester Guardian._
LONDON: WALTER SCOTT, LTD., Paternoster Square.
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_ATTRACTING GREAT ATTENTION._
A NEW SOCIETY NOVEL.
_Foolscap 8vo, in Elegant Paper Cover, 1s. 6d.; cloth, 2s._
TWO WOMEN
AND A MAN:
_A SOCIETY SKETCH OF TO-DAY_.
BY ELLAM FENWICKE-ALLAN
(MRS. CHARLTON-ANNE).
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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