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SERVICE MEMORIES IN FOUR CONTINENTS.
By Surgeon-General Sir A. D. HOME, K.C.B., V.C.
Demy 8vo. With Portrait. 12s. 6d. net.
These interesting reminiscences of an Army Surgeon on active service cover a wide field of work. Beginning with early years of service in the West Indies, the author soon proceeded to the Crimea, where he remained until peace was declared. A year or two afterwards he joined the expeditionary force destined for China, which was deflected to India by the news of the Mutiny. He was present at the Relief of Lucknow, and won the Victoria Cross for his “persevering bravery and admirable conduct” on that occasion. In 1860 we find him in the East again during the China War, advancing with the Allied Forces to Pekin. At the close of 1861, when the Civil War in America seemed likely to embroil Great Britain, Surgeon Home was sent out to Canada, in readiness for anything that might occur. Fortunately the clouds lifted, and before his return to England the author was able to visit Baltimore and Washington, where he gained many interesting impressions of the war then in progress. The volume concludes with an episode in the Maori War in New Zealand in 1864.
NEW FICTION.
TANTE.
By ANNE DOUGLAS SEDGWICK
(Mrs. Basil de Sélincourt),
Author or ‘Franklin Kane,’ ‘Valérie Upton,’ etc.
Crown 8vo. 6s. Fourth Impression.
“I stand amazed by the qualities of the author’s genius. She really can create characters, quite original, and, as it were, not fanciful, not fantastic, but solid samples of human nature. When one lights on something really good in contemporary fiction one has pleasure in saying how excellent one finds the rarity.”—Mr. Andrew Lang in the Illustrated London News.
“‘Tante’ is a fine piece of work, well thought out, well constructed, and full of human nature. There is no possible doubt that it will stand out among the most distinguished novels of the year.”—Daily Telegraph.