"The narrative is of a truthful, matter-of-fact character. The writers tell us what they saw, with little if any colouring or exaggeration. Wherever there is any interest in the things themselves, it is preserved in the book, whether it relates to the appearance of the gold-diggings and the diggers or their mode of life—to the places frequently depopulated of men by the gold fever pervading the colonies, to the night bivouac of quiet people to avoid the close atmosphere and riotous companions at the roadside inns from the crowds rushing to or returning from the diggings, or to many other more permanent scenes of still or animated life. With the actual are mingled remarks on Australia, and advice to emigrants, the latter of which is of a judicious kind."—Spectator.
"The authors of this compact volume have well worked out the purpose they had in view, as put forth in the preface, making the book a real book, indulging in no flights of imagination lest injury should be inflicted thereby upon the uninformed and ingenuous.... This straightforward and eminently practical book."—Lloyd's Weekly News.
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THE DIARY AND HOURES OF THE LADYE ADOLIE,
A FAYTHFULLE CHILDE, 1552.
Edited by the LADY CHARLOTTE PEPYS.
"This work resembles several productions of the last few years. The Diary professes to be written by a noble young lady of the sixteenth century. 'Lady Adolie' has an advantage over most of its precursors in the greater depth and variety of the incidents. The Journal begins just before the accession of Bloody Mary, and ends with the martyrdom of the youthful writer at Smithfield.... The book is charmingly written; the kindly, simple, loving spirit of a girl in her teens, thrown much upon her own resources, is truthfully depicted, as well as the firm piety of that age."—Spectator.
"The familiar conversation of the day, as sought to be reproduced in this Diary, wears an appearance of singular truthfulness, and whether the topic be the deathbed of good King Edward, the merits of Somerset, Ladye Jane Grey, her Grace the Ladye Elysabeth, the Queen herself, or the demeanour of her Spanish husband, the proceedings of Cardinal Pole, the doings at the Tower prison, the volume reflects as in a faithful mirror the opinions current in the national mind."—Globe.
BY THE AUTHOR OF "CHILD'S PLAY."
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