TRAVELS IN EUROPEAN TURKEY IN 1850:
THROUGH BOSNIA, SERVIA, BULGARIA, MACEDONIA, ROUMELIA, ALBANIA, AND EPIRUS; WITH A VISIT TO GREECE AND THE IONIAN ISLES, AND A HOMEWARD TOUR THROUGH HUNGARY AND THE SCLAVONIAN PROVINCES OF AUSTRIA ON THE LOWER DANUBE.
BY EDMUND SPENCER, ESQ.
Author of "TRAVELS IN CIRCa.s.sIA," &c.
"These important volumes appear at an opportune moment, as they describe some of those countries to which public attention is now more particularly directed: Turkey, Greece, Hungary, and Austria. The author has given us a most interesting picture of the Turkish Empire, its weaknesses, and the embarra.s.sments from which it is now suffering, its financial difficulties, the discontent of its Christian, and the turbulence of a great portion of its Mohammedan subjects. We are also introduced for the first time to the warlike mountaineers of Bosnia, Albania, Upper Moesia, and the almost inaccessible districts of the Pindus and the Balkan. The different nationalities of that Babel-like country, Turkey in Europe, inhabited by Sclavonians, Greeks, Albanians, Macedonians, the Romani and Osmanli--their various characteristics, religions, superst.i.tions, together with their singular customs and manners, their ancient and contemporary history are vividly described.
The Ionian Islands, Greece, Hungary, and the Sclavonian Provinces of Austria on the Lower Danube, are all delineated in the author"s happiest manner.
"We cordially recommend Mr. Spencer"s valuable and interesting volumes to the attention of the reader. They are replete with information upon countries of which we know but little; they will be interesting to the military man for the details they give of the strength and defensive positions of the various countries through which the author travelled; to the merchant for the insight given into the state of trade; and to the man of the world as they place before his view the present political and social state of an empire, whose welfare it is the interest of England to promote. The work must be considered a standard production, enriched, as it is, by an excellent map derived from the most authentic modern charts, added to, and improved by the observations of the author during his travels."--_United Service Magazine._
"A work of great merit, and of paramount present interest."--_Standard._
"This interesting work contains by far the most complete, the most enlightened, and the most reliable amount of what has been hitherto almost the terra incognita of European Turkey, and supplies the reader with abundance of entertainment as well as instruction."--_John Bull._
"An excellent and admirable work. Mr. Spencer is a very able writer, a shrewd, experienced and philosophical observer, an eminently thinking and yet practical man. His work forms the most valuable addition that our literature has lately received. He sets forth to inquire and learn: he returns to inform and suggest; and information most valuable and interesting has he here bestowed upon us."--_Tait"s Magazine._
REVELATIONS OF SIBERIA.
BY A BANISHED LADY.
2 vols. Post 8vo., 21s. bound.
"The auth.o.r.ess of these volumes was a lady of quality, who, having incurred the displeasure of the Russian Government for a political offence, was exiled to Siberia. The place of her exile was Berezov, the most northern part of this northern penal settlement; and in it she spent about two years, not unprofitably, as the reader will find by her interesting work, containing a lively and graphic picture of the country, the people, their manners and customs, &c. The book gives a most important and valuable insight into the economy of what has been hitherto the terra incognita of Russian despotism."--_Daily News._
"Since the publication of the famous romance the "Exiles of Siberia," of Madame Cottin, we have had no account of these desolate lands more attractive than the present work, from the pen of the Lady Eve Felinska, which, in its unpretending style and truthful simplicity, will win its way to the reader"s heart, and compel him to sympathise with the fair sufferer. The series of hardships endured in traversing these frozen solitudes is affectingly told: and once settled down at one of the most northern points of the convict territory, Berezov, six hundred miles beyond Tobolsk, the Author exhibits an observant eye for the natural phenomena of those lat.i.tudes, as well as the habits of the semi-barbarous aborigines. This portion of the book will be found by the naturalist as well as ethnologist full of valuable information."--_Globe._
"These "Revelations" give us a novel and interesting sketch of Siberian life--the habits, morals, manners, religious tenets, rites, and festivals of the inhabitants. The details of the author"s painful journey will be perused with feelings of indignation and deep sympathy.
The record of her residence of nearly three years at Berezov, which const.i.tutes the most valuable part of her "Revelations," does credit to her heart and her understanding. Her extraordinary powers of observation, and the graceful facility with which she describes everything worthy of remark, render her "Revelations" as attractive and fascinating as they are original and instructive."--_Britannia._
AUSTRALIA AS IT IS: ITS SETTLEMENTS, FARMS, AND GOLD FIELDS.
BY F. LANCELOTT, ESQ., MINERALOGICAL SURVEYOR IN THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES.
2 Vols. Post 8vo., 21s. bound.
ADVENTURES OF THE CONNAUGHT RANGERS.
SECOND SERIES.
BY WILLIAM GRATTAN, ESQ., LATE LIEUTENANT CONNAUGHT RANGERS. 2 vols. Post 8vo., 21s. bound.
EIGHT YEARS IN PALESTINE, SYRIA, AND ASIA MINOR.
BY F. A. NEALE, ESQ., LATE ATTACHED TO THE CONSULAR SERVICE IN SYRIA.
Second Edition, in 2 Vols., with Ill.u.s.trations, 21s. bound.
"One of the best accounts of the country and people that has been published of late years."--_Spectator._
"A very agreeable book. Mr. Neale is evidently quite familiar with the East, and writes in a lively, shrewd, and good-humoured manner. A great deal of information is to be found in his pages."--_Athenaeum._
"We have derived unmingled pleasure from the perusal of these interesting volumes. Very rarely have we found a narrative of Eastern travel so truthful and just. There is no guide-book we would so strongly recommend to the traveller about to enter on a Turkish or Syrian tour as this before us. The information it affords is especially valuable, since it is brought up almost to the last moment. The narrative, too, is full of incident, and abounds in vivid pictures of Turkish and Levantine life interspersed with well-told tales. The author commences his narrative at Gaza; visits Askalon, Jaffa and Jerusalem, Caipha and Mount Carmel, Acre, Sidon and Tyre, Beyrout, Tripoli, Antioch, Aleppo, Alexandretta, Adana, and Cyprus. Of several of these famous localities we know no more compact and clearer account than that given in these volumes. We have to thank Mr. Neale for one of the best books of travels that we have met with for a very long time."--_Literary Gazette._
KHARTOUM AND THE NILES.
By GEORGE MELLY, ESQ.
Second Edition. 2 v. post 8vo., with Map and Ill.u.s.trations, 21s. bound.
"Independently of the amus.e.m.e.nt and information which may be derived from Mr. Melly"s interesting work, the references to the relations which exist at this time between the Sublime Porte and Egypt are worthy of every consideration which statesmen and public men can bestow upon them."--_Messenger._
"We cannot feel otherwise than grateful to the author of these valuable and useful volumes for having kept so faithful a journal, and for giving the public the benefit of his adventures and experience. The manners and customs of the natives, as well as the natural curiosities, and the relics of antiquity which the travellers visited, in turns engage the reader"s attention; and, altogether, the book is a most entertaining and instructive _vade-mec.u.m_ to the interesting portion of the East of which it treats."--_John Bull._
SCENES FROM SCRIPTURE.
BY THE REV. G. CROLY, LL.D.
Author of "SALATHIEL," &c., 1 v., 10s. 6d. bound.
"Eminent in every mode of literature, Dr. Croly stands, in our judgment, first among the living poets of Great Britain--the only man of our day ent.i.tled by his power to venture within the sacred circle of religious poets."--_Standard._
"An admirable addition to the library of religious families."--_John Bull._
NARRATIVE OF FIVE YEARS" RESIDENCE AT NEPAUL.
BY CAPTAIN THOMAS SMITH,
Late a.s.sISTANT POLITICAL-RESIDENT AT NEPAUL. 2 v. post 8vo. 21s. bound.
"No man could be better qualified to describe Nepaul than Captain Smith; and his concise, but clear and graphic account of its history, its natural productions, its laws and customs, and the character of its warlike inhabitants, is very agreeable and instructive reading. A separate chapter, not the least entertaining in the book, is devoted to anecdotes of the Nepaulese mission, of whom, and of their visit to Europe, many remarkable stories are told."--_Post._
"No one need go elsewhere for information about Nepaul. He will find it all arranged in this intelligent and interesting work with perspicuity and completeness. It will henceforth be the standard work on Nepaul.
Captain Smith"s narrative of his personal adventures is most exciting."--_United Service Gazette._
CANADA AS IT WAS, IS, AND MAY BE.
BY THE LATE LIEUTENANT-COLONEL SIR R. BONNYCASTLE.
With an Account of Recent Transactions,