“An amusing farrago of anecdote, and will pleasantly recall in many a country parsonage the memory of youthful days.”—Times.
“Daily News.”—THE WAR CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DAILY NEWS, 1870. Edited, with Notes and Comments, forming a Continuous Narrative of the War between Germany and France. With Maps. Third Edition, revised. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d.
This volume brings before the public in a convenient and portable form the record of the momentous events which have marked the last six months of 1870.
The special value of letters from camps and battle-fields consists in the vividness with which they reproduce the life and spirit of the scenes and transactions in the midst of which they are written. In the letters which have appeared in the Daily News since the Franco–Prussian War, the public has recognized this quality as present in an eminent degree.
The book begins with a chronology of the war from July 4th, when the French government called out the army reserves, to December 4th; the detailes of the campaign are illustrated by four maps representing—1. The battles of Weissenburg and Wörth. 2. The battles of Saarbrücken and Speiecheren. 3. The battle-field before Sedan. 4. A plan of Metz and its vicinity.
THE WAR CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DAILY NEWS continued to the Peace. Edited, with Notes and Comments. Second Edition, Crown 8vo. with Map, 7s. 6d.
Dicey (Edward).—THE MORNING LAND. By Edward Dicey. Two vols. crown 8vo. 16s.
“An invitation to be present at the opening of the Suez Canal was the immediate cause of my journey. But I made it my object also to see as much of the Morning Land, of whose marvels the canal across the Isthmus is only the least and latest, as time and opportunity would permit. The result of my observations was communicated to the journal I then represented, in a series of letters, which I now give to the public in a collected form.”—Extract from Author’s Preface.
Dilke.—GREATER BRITAIN. A Record of Travel in English-speaking Countries during 1866–7. (America, Australia, India.) By Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, M.P. Fifth and Cheap Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s.