THE MUSEUM
is open for the inspection of those who have honoured with their presence the Diorama of Hindostan.
THE END.
LONDON:
GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, PRINTERS,
ST. JOHN’S SQUARE.
Prospectus.
In the Spring of 1852 will be published, in One Vol., royal 8vo, handsomely bound in cloth,
A HISTORY
OF THE
DRESS OF THE BRITISH SOLDIER,
FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE PRESENT TIME.
Illustrated with Fifty Drawings.
BY
LIEUT.-COLONEL JOHN LUARD.
| Price | 30s. 0d. | To Subscribers, 25s. 0d. |
| On India Paper, | 32s. 6d. | To Subscribers, 27s. 6d. |
The object of this work is to describe the numerous changes, which have taken place in the Dress of Military Men; first, during the time when armour was worn, but more particularly since it has been left off; with a view, by accurately delineating the various changes, to induce British Officers to reflect without prejudice on this important subject, and to form a just estimate of what is useful, desirable, and ornamental for a soldier’s equipment, at the smallest expense, both for officers and privates,—taking into consideration the best mode of ensuring freedom of action for the different arms of the service, and for health and comfort, while enduring the various climates of our colonies.
Opinions of the Press.
WANDERINGS OF A PILGRIM,
During Four-and-Twenty Years in the East; with Revelations of Life in the Zenana.
BY
THE ENGLISH REVIEW.
“The tone of bold and careless frankness in which this interesting and instructive work is written, is singularly attractive. ‘Les Indoos peints par eux-mêmes’ might be its title.”
WESTMINSTER AND FOREIGN QUARTERLY REVIEW.
“But we must here take leave of a work in which we have felt a more than ordinary interest; the spirit with which the various events of a prolonged residence in the East are delineated, the beautiful illustrations, and the graphic descriptions of scenery, will ensure for the book a favourable reception from every reader.”
NAVAL AND MILITARY GAZETTE.
“If we admire the book much for its external beauty, we admire it still more for its internal merit—for the infinite variety, curiosity, and interest of its contents.”
THE COURT JOURNAL.
“To the authoress of the twenty-four years’ ‘Wanderings’ has been reserved the honour of superseding the vivacious correspondent of Alexander Pope, and of taking the first rank as the chronicler of the scenes of the Zenana. Nothing of the kind can rival the portraiture of the ‘Pilgrim.’ It is fresh, intelligent, and minutely interesting.”
BLACKWOOD’S LADY’S MAGAZINE.
“We affirm, without fear of contradiction, that so graphic, picturesque, and thoroughly real a delineation of India as a country, and its inhabitants as a people, has never before appeared.”
THE ASIATIC AND COLONIAL QUARTERLY JOURNAL.
“This, in all its phases, is a very splendid, very attractive work, and amply meriting the exceeding favour with which it has been received; exciting and achieving, as it assuredly has, an extended interest and popularity throughout the reading communities of Europe and Asia; the while, receiving Her Majesty of England’s gracious patronage, along with that, to its fullest extent, of those mighty Kings of the East, the Directors of the East India Company.”
THE BRITANNIA AND CONSERVATIVE JOURNAL.
“Now, the great charm and recommendation of the ‘Wanderings’ is their clear and perfect truth.”
THE WEEKLY NEWS.
“She has gone forth with a determination of purpose which none of the perils of Life in India could shake, and in a zealous pursuit of the truth which no sophistry could check; and grasping alike at the loftiest and minutest objects, has contrived to accumulate a mass of information never before comprehended in a single work.”
