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FIRST SEEIES OF TALES OF THE COLOXIES. 

 tasjSS op the coLorsriES; or, the adventures 



OP AW EMIGRANT. 



By Charles Rowcroft, Esq., a late Colonial Magistrate. The Fifth 

 Edition. In foolscap 8vo., price 6*. cloth. 



" 'Tales of the Colonies ' is an able and inlereslnij,' book. The author has the first 

 great requisile in ficlion— a knowledge of the life he undertakes lo describe; and iiis 

 matter Is solid and real." — Spectator. 



" This is a book, as distinguished from one of the bundles of waste paper in three 

 divisions, calling themselves 'novels.' " — .Ithenaum. 



" The narration has a deep and exciting interest. No mere romance, no mere 

 ficlion, however skilfully imagined or powerfully executed, can surpass it. The work to 

 which it bears the nearest similitude ;s Robinson Crusoe, and it is scarcely, if al all 

 inferior to that extraordinary history." — John Bull. 



" Since the time of Robinson Crusoe, literature has produced nothing like these 

 ' Tales of the Colonies.' " — Metropolitan Magazine. 



" .... Romantic literature does not supply instances of wonderful escape more 

 marvellous. . . . The book is manifesily a mixture of fact and fiction, yet it gives, we 

 have every reason to believe, a true picture of a settler's life in that country; and is 

 thickly interspersed w ith genuine and useful information." 



Chambers's Edinburgh Journal. 



" The contents of the first volume surpass in interest many of the novels of Sir 

 Walter Scott." — Wesfviinster Review. 



" An exceedingly lively and interesting narrative, which affords a more striking view 

 of the habits of emigrant colonial lll'e than all the regular treatises, statistical returns, and 

 even exploratory tours which we have read. ... It combines the fidelity of truth with 

 the spirit of a romance, and has altogether so much of De Foe in lis character and cora- 

 posillon, that whilst we run we learn, and, led along by the variety of the incidents, 

 become real ideal settlers in Van Diemen's Land." — Literary Gazette, 



SECOND SEEIES OF TALES OF THE COLONIES., 



THE 3USHHAKGE11 OF VAN DIEMEN'S LAND. 



By C. RowCROFT, Esq., Author of " Tales of the Colonies." In 3 vols, 

 post 8vo. price \l. \\s. Gel. 



" These volumes have the same qunlilies that gained so much popularity for the 

 Author's previous work ' Tales of the Colonies.' No one has dcpicled colonial lilc, as 

 manifested in the selllemenls of Australia, with so much vigour and truth as ^Ir. Rowcroft. 

 He rather seems to be a narrator of actual occurrences than an inventorof imaginary ones. 

 His characters, his maimers, and his scenes are all real, lie has been compared to De 

 Foe, and the comparison Is just." — Britannia. 



" These volumes form a second series of ' Tales of the Colonies,' and the pages 

 are marked by the same vigorous and graphic pen which procured such celebrity for the 

 first series. The Interest, generally well sustained throughout, is occasionally of the most 

 absorbing and thrilling kind. Altogether, there is a freslmess about these volumes which 

 brings them out In strong contrast to the vapid productions with which the press is 

 teeming." — Globe. 



" The story contains all the merils of the ' Tales of the Colonies' as regards style ; 

 being simple and Crusoite, If we might use the term, in its narrative. Mr. Rowcroft 

 possesses invention to an extraordinary degree. In the manner in which he manages 

 the escapes of the bushranger, — and he produces, by llie simplest incidents, most 

 inleresliiig scenes ; — piclures of nature and of a society totally dillerent from anything lo 

 be found elsewhere." — If'eekli/ Chronicle. 



FAKN'Z THE LITTLE MILLINER ; OR, TI-IE RICH AND 

 THE POOR. 



By Charles Rowcroft, Esq. In one vol. Svo., handsomely bound in 

 cloth gilt, with Plates, price Mn. — The twelve parts may be had 

 separately, price Is. each, sewed. 



