A MARINER OF ENGLAND. An Account of 



the Career of William Kicliardsm, from Cabin-l?oy in the M(;rchaiU 



Service to Warrant Officer in the Royal Navy (1780-1817), told in his 



own words. Edited by Colonel Spencer Childcrs, R.E., C.B. 



Demy Svo. los. 6d. net. 



" Worth a dozen of the ordinary memoirs with whicli the market is flooded. For 

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 I'ngli^h sailorman Uuring the moit stirring years in our naval history. . . Wu Iiavc 

 found the book deliglitful reading." — Spcclalor. 



"... Such excellent stuff, and in such racy, straightforward English. . . . Un- 

 commonly good reading;. It ni.ikcs us think of s >me of Captain Manyal's pictures 

 of what they did at sea in the brave days oi o\<i."— Standard. 



ROUND ABOUT THE NORTH POLE. By 



W. J. Gordon. With many Woodcuts and other Illustrations by 



Edward Wiiv.mper. Medium Svo. 15s. net. 



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A WOMAN'S WAY THROUGH UNKNOWN 



LABRADOR. By Mrs. Lconidas Hubbard, Junior. With Map, 



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FROM PEKING TO MANDALAY. A Journey 



from North Cliiua to Burma througli Tibcian Ssuch'uan and Yunnan. 



By R. F. Johnston, M.A., F.R.G.S., District Officer and Magistrate, 



W'ei-liai-wei. Wih numerous Illustrations and Map. Demy Svo. 



15s. net. 



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 of Chinese characters and the Chinese language."— S/>;c/a/o»". 



FROM PEKING TO SIKKIM : Through the 



Ordos, the Gobi Desert, and Tibet. By Count De Lesdain. Wiih 



Map and Illustrations based on the Author's Surveys and Photographs. 



Demy Svo. 12s. net. 



"He gives us an account of the most extraordinary honeymoon the world ha? 

 ever known, and the modesty of the hardened traveller, combined with the lucid and 

 picMiresque style, makes it one of the most absorbingly interesting books of travel 

 published for a long time." — Evening Standard. 



THE INNER LIFE OF THE UNITED STATES. 



By Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Lu'.kod, Author o; 



" Eni|)ires and Emperors." Demy Svo. 12s. net. 



"An exhaustive study of national qualities and characteristics, and represents 

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