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Narrative of a Spring Tour in Portugal. London: 



Longmans, Green, & Co., 1870. Post 8vo. Cloth, pp. xx., 220. 



This volume, dedicated " To my very dear Mother," is the narrative of a 

 two months' tour made through Portugal in 1869, with his father, in which 

 the country, its scenery, and its inhabitants, so little known to English 

 tourists, are contrasted with Spain and the Spaniards by no means to the 

 advantage of the latter. The author gives a chatty account of his wanderings 

 through the land, from Lisbon to Cintra, Evora, Setubal, Aleobaca, Batalha, 

 Coimbra, Oporto, Braga, and Vianna. As in the " Attractions of the Nile," 

 so here, again, he finishes the book with a valuable chapter on " The Birds of 

 Portugal," in which he gives, for the first time in English, a list with notes, 

 of all the species known to inhabit that country. The book concludes with 

 a good index. 



Narrative of a Modern Pilgrimage through 

 Palestine on Horseback and with Tents, s.p.c.k., 



London. (1873.) Cr. 8vo. Cloth, pp. xxiv., 416. Four coloured litho- 

 graphic views, and twenty-two woodcut vignettes in text. 

 There have been three editions published. 



This narrative of a tour undertaken by the author and his father in the 

 spring of 1865, through the length and breadth of the Holy Land, 

 including Lebanon, Damascus, and Baalbec, is something more than a mere 

 record of travel. It is written, as the author states in the preface, with the 

 hope of bringing home the facts of the Bible history more vividly to the 

 reader's perception. It is full of references to the best authorities on the 

 topography of Palestine, which is most carefully gone into, though it makes 

 no pretension to be a learned book, and is intended for popular reading. It is 

 written throughout in the most reverent spirit, and every page bears evidence 

 of the careful study which was brought to bear upon it. " For myself," 

 says the author, "I shall always look back upon my tour in the Holy Land 

 as of incomparably the highest value of any of my foreign travels .... 

 I feel how impossible it is to appreciate too highly the privilege of such a 

 pilgrimage as this." At the end is an index to Bible references, some 

 thirteen hundred in number, and a general index. 



The Autobiography of an Old Passport chiefly 

 relating how we accomplished many Driving 

 Tours with our own English Horses, over the 

 Roads of Western Europe, before the time of 



Railways. Illustrated. London: Digby, Long & Co., Publishers, 

 18, Bouverie Street, Fleet Street, E.C., 1893. Royal 8vo. Cloth, pp. 

 xviii., 586. 



This is a large thick volume, the scope of which is sufficiently set out in 

 the title, and in the dedication: " To the memory of my dear Father who 



