f "The Bird"), and engraved by the
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gilt. Price 10s. 6d.

A volume of picturesque description, beautifully illustrated, of garden
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and river scenery, and the sea-coasts, in many and widely varying
lands.

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THE FAMOUS PARKS AND GARDENS OF THE WORLD, Described, and Illustrated.
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A popular description of Remarkable Parks and Gardens, public and
private, ancient and modern, interspersed with illustrative anecdotes
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of Europe and Great Britain, and those which are now most celebrated
abroad and at home.

THE ARCTIC WORLD ILLUSTRATED: Its People, Plants, Animals, and Natural
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and Twenty other Engravings, and Map of the Polar Regions. Royal folio,
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It has been the writer's aim to record the events that have had the
greatest influence on the world's history, and not to gather up every
local detail; to recall those recollections which are of a picturesque
or chivalrous character, and not to imitate the copiousness of the
chronicler. He has not sought to be exhaustive, for that would be
impossible; but rather to touch upon such points as ne