LIFE AND LETTERS OF WILIAM BEWICK, THE ARTIST. By Thomas Landseer, A.E. 2 vols. 8vo, with Portrait by Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A. (Just Ready.)
THE FALL OF THE SECOND EMPIRE; or, Romance and Reality of Imperial France. By Azamat-Batuk, Special Correspondent of “The Pall Mall Gazette.” 2 vols. post 8vo. (Just Ready.)
FAIR FRANCE: Impressions of a Traveller. By the Author of “John Halifax, Gentleman,” &c. 8vo. 15s.
“A book of value and importance, and which is very agreeable reading. It is bright and spirited, and evinces as much as ever the acuteness of perception and the powers of observation of the writer.”—Post.
“A pleasant book, conceived in a large, kindly, and liberal spirit.”—Daily News.
“This volume will be found pleasant reading.”—Athenæum.
“A good book on France is just now most welcome, and this is emphatically a good book. It is charmingly readable.”—Globe.
“This is a truly fascinating volume. The book has nothing to do with the present crisis. It is La Belle France:—Paris, with its quiet churches and its gay carnival crowds, and the old provincial cities like Caen and Chartres—that is here described as it was before the black waves of invasion rolled over the land. Years must pass before it will be possible for any to see Fair France as our author was privileged to see her; and this lends a special interest to the pictures here presented to us. There is much that is very beautiful and charming in these recollections. This it is hardly necessary to say to any who know and can appreciate the author of ‘John Halifax.’”—Echo.
FREE RUSSIA. By W. Hepworth Dixon, Author of “New America,” “Her Majesty’s Tower,” &c. Third Edition. 2 vols. 8vo, with Coloured Illustrations. 30s.
“Mr. Dixon’s book will be certain not only to interest but to please its readers and it deserves to do so. It contains a great deal that is worthy of attention, and is likely to produce a very useful effect. The ignorance of the English people with respect to Russia has long been so dense that we cannot avoid being grateful to a writer who has taken the trouble to make personal acquaintance with that seldom-visited land, and to bring before the eyes of his countrymen a picture of its scenery and its people, which is so novel and interesting that it can scarcely fail to arrest their attention.”—Saturday Review.