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"If beauty of design and execution, combined with elegance of narrative and trustworthy description, can be any recommendation to a book, it is sufficient to say that this excellent volume possesses every one of these features, and establishes its own character without the need of any further praise."--_Bell's Messenger._
THE PILGRIM FATHERS;
OR, THE FOUNDERS OF NEW ENGLAND IN THE REIGN OF JAMES THE FIRST.
With Twenty-eight Ill.u.s.trations on Steel, and numerous Woodcuts.
"This is a good thing well done; a book that ought to be a household treasure in the family of the more than _fifty millions_ of Englishmen and Americans, who are, if right-minded men, most deeply interested in the history it details. The story of the plantation of British America is, with the sole exception of the Sacred Records, the most important narrative in the annals of the world. No discovery of new lands like that of Columbus--no discovery in science, or in arts, approaches it in the magnitude of its glorious results."--_Standard._
"We can commend Mr. Bartlett's book as handsomely issued, carefully got together, and full of interesting reading. The ill.u.s.trations are sufficiently varied--alternating between the Fens of Lincolns.h.i.+re, the flats of Holland, and the scenery of Plymouth Sound."--_Athenaeum._
PICTURES FROM SICILY.
Ill.u.s.trated with Twenty-three Engravings on Steel, and several Woodcuts.
"As a work of reference it is of the highest utility; as an ornamental book it is unsurpa.s.sed; and as a guide to the traveller it has no equal in the English language."--_Observer._
"This is a very handsome and pleasing pictorial hand-book of the beauties of Sicily. The ill.u.s.trations do honour alike to the artist, engraver, and publishers--and the style is, generally speaking, graphic and faithful ... with an interest beyond its pictorial claims."--_Athenaeum._
FORTY DAYS IN THE DESERT;
ON THE TRACK OF THE ISRAELITES;
OR, A JOURNEY FROM CAIRO BY WADY FEIRAN TO MOUNT SINAI AND PETRA.
Ill.u.s.trated with Twenty-seven Engravings on Steel, a Map, and numerous Woodcuts.
"Mr. Bartlett has made a book, pleasant in letter-press, as well as attractive in its ill.u.s.trations--delicately finished line engravings of subjects particularly well chosen."--_Athenaeum._
"A very handsome volume, copiously and cleverly ill.u.s.trated in the vignette style; an elegant table-book, or most acceptable present."--_Atlas._
"Entertainingly written, and crowded with steel engravings of a superior character, which combine to make it a very handsome volume."--_Critic._
THE NILE BOAT;
OR, GLIMPSES OF THE LAND OF EGYPT.
Ill.u.s.trated by Thirty-five Steel Engravings, Maps, and numerous Woodcuts.
"There is an actuality about the descriptions, and a beauty about the ill.u.s.trations, that render this glimpse of Egypt peculiarly charming.
The sketches and descriptive maps render the views witnessed in the 'Nile Boat' beautiful realities."--_The Sun._
GLEANINGS ON THE OVERLAND ROUTE.
Ill.u.s.trated by Twenty-eight Steel Plates and Maps, and Twenty-three Woodcuts.
"The reader will find abundance of interesting and amusing information in the volume. As a work of art, it possesses very considerable merit."--_Chambers's Journal._
"An individual of able research and active observation conveys to us his impressions in language terse, concise, and never tedious; we listen with pleasure to his tale. Well executed pictorial ill.u.s.trations considerably enhance the merits of this pleasing work."--_Tait's Magazine._
JERUSALEM REVISITED.
With Twenty-two Steel Engravings and Woodcuts.
"A beautiful monument for a lover of Art."--_Athenaeum._
"An interesting book to look through, and a useful book to read,"--_Leader._
"Mr. Bartlett was a remarkably clever and faithful sketcher, and had an unusual power of expressing s.p.a.ce and size in the limits of a small vignette."--_Guardian._
ARTHUR HALL, VIRTUE, & CO., 25, PATERNOSTER ROW.
WORKS BY THE AUTHOR OF "MARY POWELL."
This day, price 7s. 6d., post 8vo., cloth,
THE DAY OF SMALL THINGS.
By the Author of "Mary Powell."
"Close the curtains, draw the sofa by the fire, fit the ottoman to your feet, and adjust the light. If the reader be thus prepared he is ready to commence reading 'The Day of Small Things.' What is this neat and unpretending volume by the auth.o.r.ess of 'Mary Powell?' It is a string of pearls. Yes. Yet the simile will not be perfect unless the thread on which they are strung be golden. Then we will accept the resemblance.... The auth.o.r.ess of 'Mary Powell,' and, we add, 'The Day of Small Things,' feels her own power, and knows how deeply trifles, when judiciously introduced, will tell.... It is a cornucopia filled with rich moral fruits of every kind; and, though small are the hints thrown out here and there, or the advice casually given, still in the aggregate their voice becomes powerful, and we find that we have been reading a powerful lesson while we were scanning the jottings of a diary.... The work is worthy of its author, and will be a general favourite."--_Atlas._
New and Cheaper Edition, post 8vo., price 7s. 6d., cloth gilt,
POPLAR HOUSE ACADEMY.
"A tale as touching and alluring as it is simple--a tale sure to interest, whether by its sweet scenes of pathos, its continuous interest, its exquisite traits of nature, or its unaffected, un.o.btrusive tone of true piety."--_Literary Gazette._
