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D. APPLETON & CO.'S PUBLICATIONS. 



"HE LIFE OF SIR RICHARD F. BURTON. 



By his Wife, ISABEL BURTON. With numerous Portraits, Illus- 

 trations, and Maps, and two colored Plates. In 2 vols. Svo. 

 Cloth, $12.00. 



The career of the late Sir Richard F. Burton, the distinguished traveler, 

 and editor of " The Arabian Nights," was perhaps the most adventurous and 

 romantic of any Englishman of the last generation. He was an encyclopedic 

 scholar, and much more than a scholar. He knew and had seen more of 

 dark Africa than most men, and more of Mohammedan lands than any man. 

 It seemed a simple thing for him to travel in disguise among fanatics where 

 discovery meant death, but his life was many-sided, and his biography illus- 

 trates a remarkable variety of interests. Lady Burton has proved her literary 

 ability before, and in these volumes she has done justice to an exceptional 

 opportunity. 



" Richard Burton was so fascinating a man, his virility was so gigantic, his intellec- 

 tual powers so remarkable, his activity so ceaseless, his courage so splendid, his adven- 

 tures so numerous and so thrilling, that his ' Life ' can not fail to partake of all these 

 qualities. No man has ever been a specialist in so many subjects soldier, linguist, 

 explorer, swordsman, translator, ethnologist, politician; if he had been only one of 

 these his career would have been interesting reading, and the present work deals, of 

 course, with them all. Everybody will read it." London Chronicle. 



" Few men of our time have led a more romantic and adventurous life than the late Sir 

 Richard F. Burton. A consummate linguist and intrepid traveler, without a rival in his 

 varied knowledge of men, races, and religions, the hero of innumerable adventures, 

 and of more than one almost impossible undertaking, Burton stands forth in these hum- 

 drum days as a rare and almost unique personality. No one is so well qualified to do 

 justice to his strange and eventful career as his devoted wife, the sharer nnd inter- 

 preter of his inmost thoughts, his associate in not a few of his singular experiences. . . . 

 The book presents a striking and faithful portrait of a very remarkable man and a stir- 

 ring record of a very romantic career." London Times. 



" The volumes abound in interest of every sort, and they constitute an almost per- 

 fect course of modern geography and travel for those children of a larger growth who 

 will insist on having their knowledge of this kind in an entertaining form." London 

 Daily Neivs. 



" This remarkable book stands out in bold relief against the monotonous back- 

 ground of conventional biography. Not even the wild, adventurous theme can account 

 for its individual air. It is a free lance, so to speak, departing from accepted models, 

 and all the more entertaining in consequence. . . . The descriptions of tent life are 

 deeply interesting; the desert pictures will be hard to match. The man himself was as 

 interesting as anything he did, and therefore the reader feels grateful for the informal 

 personality revealed in this memoir. . . . Maps, portraits, and other illustrations ac- 

 company this unique memorial, the true story of a life as marvelous as any of the 

 adventures depicted in 'The Thousand and One Nights,' which he restored to their 

 original character of Arabian romance." Philadelphia Ledger. 



"The greatly extended memoir is a deeply interesting work, written in a style 

 which forbids criticism, but delightfully entertaining, and containing very little v\hich 

 one would wish to have thrown out. Reading these two great volumes is livinr over 

 again the campaigns in which Sir Richard engaged and entering into the adventures 

 which characterized his life." Boston Herald. 



" Lady Burton has animation of style, and she has good command of words. Not 

 a line that she writes is dull reading. ... A stirring, varied, and picturesque story." 

 New York Times. 





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