HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY^ & TRAVELS. 5 



a translation, tht following War Letters which appeared first in the DAILY 

 NEWS, and were afterzvards published collectivelv, we are offering them a 

 picture of the events of the war of a quite peculiar character. Their com- 

 munications have the advantage of being at once entertaining and instruc- 

 tive, free from every romantic embellishment, and neverthelfss written 

 in a vein intelligible and not fatiguing to the general reader. The writers 

 linger over events^ and do not disdain to surround the great and heroic 

 ^var-pictures with arabesques, gay and grave^ taken from camp-life and 

 the life of the inhabitants of the occupied territory. A feature which 

 distinguishes these Letters from all other delineations of the ^varis that they 

 do not proceed from a single pen, but were written Jrom the camps of both 

 belligerents" " These notes and comments" according to the SATURDAY 

 REVIEW, " are in reality a very well executed and continuous history." 



Dilke. GREATER BRITAIN. A Record of Travel in English- 

 speaking Countries during 1866*7. (America, Australia, India. ) 

 By Sir CHARLES WENTWORTH DILKE, M.P. Fifth Edition. 

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" Mr. Dilke," says the SATURDAY REVIEW, "has written a book which 

 is probably as well worth reading as any book of the same aims and 

 character that ever was written. Its merits are that it is written in a 

 lively and agreeable style, that it implies a great deal oj physical pluck, 

 that no page of it fails to show an acute and highly intelligent observer, 

 that it stimulates the imagination as well as the judgment of the reader, 

 and that it is on perhaps the most interesting subject that can attract an 

 Englishman who cares about his country" " Many of the subjects dis- 

 cussed in these pages" says the DAILY NEWS, "are of the widest interest, 

 and such as no man who cares for the Juture of his race a fid of the world 

 can afford to treat with indifference. " 



Diiref (Albrecht). See HEATOK (MRS. C.) 



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 Selections from the best Authorities. Edited and arranged by 

 E. M. SEWELL and C. M. YONGE. First Series, crown 8vo. 6s. ; 

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