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a deposit bank: Self-Protecting Policies, also introduced by this Society, embracing by one policy and one rate of premium a Life Assurance, an Endowment, and a Deferred Annuity. No forfeiture. Loans with commensurate Assurances. Bonus recently declared, 20 per Cent. EDW. FRED. LEEKS, Secretary. {516} * * * * * NEW WORKS PUBLISHED BY ADDEY & CO., 21. OLD BOND STREET. * * * * * In One Volume, post 8vo., price 10s. 6d. cloth, AUSTRALIA VISITED AND REVISITED: A Narrative of recent Travels and old Experiences in the Golden, Pastoral, and Agricultural Districts of Victoria and New South Wales. By SAMUEL MOSSMAN, Author of "The Gold Regions of Australia," &c. and THOMAS BANISTER, Author of "England and her Dependencies," &c. With Maps by A. K. JOHNSTON, Geographer to Her Majesty. "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._ * * * * * In fcap. 4to., printed and bound in the style of the period, price 21s., or in morocco, 36s. 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
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