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"--_Atlas._ "Entertainingly written, and crowded with steel engravings of a superior character, which combine to make it a very handsome volume."--_Critic._ * * * * * THE NILE BOAT; OR, GLIMPSES OF THE LAND OF EGYPT. Illustrated by Thirty-five Steel Engravings, Maps, and numerous Woodcuts. "There is an actuality about the descriptions, and a beauty about the illustrations, that render this glimpse of Egypt peculiarly charming. The sketches and descriptive maps render the views witnessed in the 'Nile Boat' beautiful realities."--_The Sun._ * * * * * GLEANINGS ON THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Illustrated by Twenty-eight Steel Plates and Maps, and Twenty-three Woodcuts. "The reader will find abundance of interesting and amusing information in the volume. As a work of art, it possesses very considerable merit."--_Chambers's Journal._ "An individual of able research and active observation conveys to us his impressions in language terse, concise, and never tedious; we listen with pleasure to his tale. Well executed pictorial illustrations considerably enhance the merits of this pleasing work."--_Tait's Magazine._ * * * * * JERUSALEM REVISITED. With Twenty-two Steel Engravings and Woodcuts. "A beautiful monument for a lover of Art."--_Athenaeum._ "An interesting book to look through, and a useful book to read,"--_Leader._ "Mr. Bartlett was a remarkably clever and faithful sketcher, and had an unusual power of expressing space and size in the limits of a small vignette."--_Guardian._ * * * * * ARTHUR HALL, VIRTUE, & CO., 25, PATERNOSTER ROW. * * * * * WORKS BY THE AUTHOR OF "MARY POWELL." * * * * * This day, price 7s. 6d., post 8vo., cloth, THE DAY OF SMALL THINGS. By the Author of "Mary Powell." "Close the curtains, draw the sofa by the fire, fit the ottoman to your feet, and adjust the light. If the reader be thus prepared he is ready to commence reading 'The Day of Small Things.' What is this neat and unpretending volume by the authoress of 'Mary Powell?' It is a string of pearls. Yes. Yet the simile will not be perfect unless the thread on which they are strung be golden. Then we will accept the resemblance.... The authoress of 'Mary Powell,' and, we add, 'The Day of Small Things,' feel
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