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peculiar atmosphere of a primitive South Sea Island, 

 where beauty and horror fight for the first place. 



The author has taken an interest in every shape of 

 human life in the islands, in the unique condominium 

 (the joint government of England and France), in the 

 economical development of the wilderness, in the work 

 of the Mission, in the life of the Trader, and especially 

 in the fascinating mystery, of the extraordinary customs 

 and beliefs of the aborigines. 



Many exciting adventures have happened to the 

 author, which he describes always fascinating and in- 

 structive. We see the natives in their daily life, in 

 their gardens and round their fires. We join them for 

 fishing expeditions and trading cruises, penetrate into 

 savage cannibal districts, assist at their dances and 

 religious ceremonies, follow them to their meetings, 

 where secret brotherhoods perform the mysterious rites 

 of hitherto unknown religions. 



Memories and Adventures. 



By MADAME HERITTE-VIARDOT. With 20 Illus- 

 trations. Demy 8vo. los. 6d. net. 



The house of so great a singer as Madame Viardot 

 Garcia was, as a matter of course, the meeting-place of 

 all that was most distinguished in art and literature, 

 and her daughter, Madame Heritte- Viardot, recounts in 

 her Memoirs many interesting anecdotes of the brilliant 

 circle in which she moved in her early youth. Her 

 famous uncle, Manuel Garcia, Ary Scheffer, Gounod, 

 Rubinstein, Henry Martin, Dickens, George Sand, Ber- 

 lioz, Rossini, Verdi, were among those who frequented 

 her mother's house at Paris or at her country seat, 

 Courtavenal, where many a merry trick was played on 

 the unsuspecting guests, and private theatricals were 

 performed with the most perfect casts. Another very 

 intimate friend was Turgenieff, and the author enters 

 fully into the history of his relations with her parents, 

 which have been exposed to so many misconceptions. 

 Madame Heritte- Viardot, herself a very gifted musician, 



