"Should any of our readers care to imitate Mr. Eden's example, and wish to see things with their own eyes, and shift for themselves, next winter in Upper Egypt, they will find this book a very agreeable guide."- Times. "Gives, within moderate compass, a suggestive description of the charms, curiosities, dangers, and discomforts of the Nile voyage.”— Saturday Review. "The subject is treated from an original point of view, and we can safely recommend the little volume to public favour."Examiner. "We have in these pages the most minute description of life as it appeared on the banks of the Nile; all that could be seen or was worth seeing in nature or in art is here pleasantly and graphically set down. It is a book to read during an autumn holiday."-Spectator. "Written in bright and pleasant style, and full of practical common sense."-Notes and Queries. 66 Very pleasantly written. voyage."-London Society. 66 This bright and clever little book."-British Quarterly. "Useful for a traveller An agreeable compagnon de extremely readable for a person A very entertaining who stays at home."-Fortnightly Review. "Stored with useful information. account of a very interesting trip."-Illustrated London News. "Mr. Eden is a first-rate narrator. are of a very high order."-Literary Churchman. DISCIPLINE AND DRILL. VII. His descriptive powers Four Lectures delivered to the London Scottish Rifle Volunteers. By Captain S. FLOOD PAGE, Adjutant of the Regiment, late 105th Light Infantry, and ́ Adjutant of the Edinburgh Rifle Brigade. Fcap. 8vo, cloth gilt, 2s. 6d. 'One of the best-known and coolest-headed of the Metropolitan regiments, whose adjutant, moreover, has lately published an admirable collection of lectures addressed by him to the men of his corps."-Times. Capt. Page has something to say and in every case it is said moderately, tersely, and well."-Daily Telegraph. 66 "A very useful little book on a very important subject, and one which deserves the attention of Volunteers generally. The author is well known as a smart intelligent officer, to whose exertions the London Scottish is greatly indebted for its recognised efficiency."-Notes and Queries. is eminently practical and the style intelligible and unostentatious."-Volunteer News, Glasgow. The matter (4) VIII. ASPROMONTE, AND OTHER POEMS. Second Edition, cloth, 4s. 6d. "The volume is anonymous; but there is no reason for the author to be ashamed of it. The 'Poems of Italy' are evidently inspired by genuine enthusiasm in the cause espoused; and one of them, 'The Execution of Felice Orsini,' has much poetic merit, the event celebrated being told with dramatic force."-Athenæum. “The verse is fluent and free.”—Spectator. "We mention the book for its uncommon lyrical power and deep poetic feeling."-Literary Churchman. "The poems are nearly all worthy of preservation.”—Nonconformist. IX. THE INN OF STRANGE MEETINGS, AND OTHER POEMS. By MORTIMER COLLINS. Crown 8vo, 5s. X. [Fust out. SONGS OF TWO WORLDS. By a New Writer. Fcap. 8vo. XI. THE DREAM AND THE DEED, AND OTHER POEMS. By PATRICK SCOTT, author of "Footpaths between two Worlds." XII. THE SECRET OF LONG LIFE. Dedicated by special permission to LORD ST. LEONARDS. XIII. A New CHRISTMAS BOOK, Entitled 'PLEASURE,' See Announcement on Wrapper. (5) XIV. SCRIPTURE LANDS IN CONNECTION WITH THEIR HISTORY. By G. S. DREW, M.A., Rector of Avington, Winchester. "Mr. Drew has invented a new method of illustrating Scripture history, from observation of the countries. Instead of narrating his travels, and referring from time to time to the facts of sacred history belonging to the different places, he writes an outline history of the Hebrew nation from Abraham downwards, with special reference to the various points in which geography illustrates the history."-Saturday Review. "A reverent faith pervades the whole; and nothing sceptical or calculated to raise painful doubts will be found in these pages, and this is the more important because the writer is so evidently thoughtful, and in every way competent to his work."-Clerical Journal. "The volume contains a large mass of information very carefully collected, and is besides not a mere compendium of other men's observations and ideas, but presents the results of considerable personal research and extensive travel."-New Quarterly Review. 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