Mr. Taylor’s work is at once an absorbing record of personal adventure, and a real contribution to history, for it presents to us, from the pen of a principal actor, the most complete account we have of a great blockade in the early days of steam. As a picture of exciting escapes, of coolness and resource at moments of acute danger, of well-calculated risks, boldly accepted and obstinately carried through, it has few rivals in sea story.
HISTORICAL MEMORIALS OF CANTERBURY: The Land of Augustine, The Murder of Becket, Edward the Black Prince, Becket’s Shrine. By the late Dean Stanley. With Illustrations.
“No pilgrim to Canterbury need now content himself with the meagre historical information of the guide-books when he can get Dean Stanley’s fascinating work for one shilling.”—The Church Times.
LIVINGSTONE’S FIRST EXPEDITION TO AFRICA. A popular account of Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. By David Livingstone, M.D. With Map and numerous Illustrations.
This is the great missionary-explorer’s own narrative of his first travel experiences in Africa, and consists chiefly of a full account of his wonderful journeys in the years 1849-1856, in the course of which he discovered the Victoria Falls, and crossed the continent from west to east. Many books have been written on the subject of Livingstone and his travels, but all who are interested in the greatest of African travellers should read this record.
THE GATHERING OF BROTHER HILARIUS. By Michael Fairless.
Through this little book runs the road of life, the common road of men, the white highway that Hilarius watched from the monastery gate and Brother Ambrose saw nearing its end in the Jerusalem of his heart.
The book is a romance. It may be read as a romance of the Black Death and a monk with an artist’s eye; but for the author it is a romance of the Image of God.
JAMES NASMYTH, Engineer and Inventor of the Steam Hammer. An Autobiography. By Samuel Smiles. Portrait and Illustrations.
“We should not know where to stop if we were to attempt to notice all that is instructive and interesting in this volume. It will be found equally interesting to students of human nature, to engineers, to astronomers, and even to archæologists. Among other merits, there are few books which could be put with more advantage into a young man’s hands, as affording an example of the qualities which conduce to legitimate success in work.”—The Quarterly Review.