By the Rev. T. Chetwode Eustace.
Seventh Edition. With great Additions and Translations of the various Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors. 3 Vols.
It was the fate of Eustace, like that of Bruce, to see his labours rejected, and his veracity impeached; nor did these painful insinuations originate in the chance of ignorance. His honesty was also called in question. But truth in both instances eventually prevailed, and the writings of both these amiable but injured travellers are now appealed to as standard works. Eustace’s Journey is not only the most accurate in topography, architecture, and politics, but is, par excellence, the classical tour through this land of poetry and painting. Those tourists who would soar above Eustace, have vainly sought to depreciate his learning. Those whose lot was cast below him, have gathered from his rich plumage; but neither had the courage to pass him by in silence. In this edition, which is sold at one-third the cost of the earlier ones, the discoveries made by excavation since the author’s, death have been introduced.
THE EVENTFUL HISTORY OF
THE MUTINY AND PIRATICAL SEIZURE OF THE BOUNTY.
By John Barrow, Esq., Secretary to the Admiralty. With Five Plates from Original Sketches.
“The Author of this little volume has brought into one connected view what has hitherto appeared only in detached fragments—and some of these not generally accessible—the historical narrative of an event which deeply interested the public at the time of its occurrence, and from which the naval service in particular, in all its ranks, may still draw instructive and useful lessons.
“The story in itself is replete with interest. We are taught by the Book of Sacred History, that the disobedience of our first parents entailed on our globe of earth a sinful and a suffering race; in our time there has sprung up from the most abandoned of this sinful family—from pirates, mutineers, and murderers—a little society, which, under the precepts of that sacred volume, is characterized by religion, morality, and innocence. The discovery of this happy people, as unexpected as it was accidental, and all that regards their condition and history, partake so much of the romantic, as to render the story not ill-adapted for an epic poem.”—Author’s Preface.
FAIRY LEGENDS
AND TRADITIONS OF THE SOUTH OF IRELAND.
By T. Crofton Croker. With numerous Cuts.
Fairy Tales epitomize the customs, and manners, and superstitions of a people in by-gone times, and are therefore valuable as auxiliary to the interpretation of history. Mr. Croker’s Irish Legends are rich in that racy humour that characterizes his countrymen, and appear to have exhausted the traditionary treasures of the Emerald Isle. The Illustrations are also redolent of Hibernian wit and genius,—they are spirited designs, and in the happiest manner of Messrs. Brooke and Maclise, with whose merits the public are familiar.