BILLING & SONS, PRINTERS, GUILDFORD.
BY THE AUTHOR OF "ROMANTIC SPAIN."
AN IRON-BOUND CITY; or, Five Months of Peril and Privation. 2 vols. 21s.
"A story of peril, adventure, privation,
Is told, in two vols., to your great delectation,
With shrewd common sense and uncommon sensation!
Here's the painful account of Parisians defeated:
And Paris besieged is most 'specially' treated:
Like a trusty Tapleyan, bright, hopeful, and witty,
O'Shea tells the tale of 'An Iron-bound City.'"—Punch.
"We can listen with unjaded interest to the oft-told tale of the fall of Paris when it is told by so genial and sunny-minded an historian."—Saturday Review.
LEAVES PROM THE LIFE OF A SPECIAL
CORRESPONDENT. 2 vols. 21s.
The great charm of his pages is the entire absence of dulness, and the evidence they afford of a delicate sense of humour, considerable powers of observation, a store of apposite and racy anecdote, and a keen enjoyment of life."—Standard.
"Redolent of stories throughout, told with such a cheery spirit, in so genial a manner, that even those they sometimes hit hard cannot, when they read, refrain from laughing, for Mr. O'Shea is a modern Democritus; and yet there runs a vein of sadness, as if, like Figaro, he made haste to laugh lest he should have to weep."—Society.
"Delightful reading.... A most enjoyable book.... It is kinder to readers to leave them to find out the good things for themselves. They will find material for amusement and instruction on every page; and if the lesson is sometimes in its way as melancholy as the moral of Firmin Maillard's 'Les Derniers Bohemes,' it is conveyed after a fashion that recalls the light-hearted gaiety of Paul de Kock's 'Damoiselle du Cinquième' and the varied pathos and humour of Henri Murger."—Whitehall Review.