Singapore and Bombay,— and so home by Egypt and Italy. The book is pleasantly written throughout, and with the picturesque variety that cannot but belong to the description of a succession of such scenes, is also full of interesting and instructive... Vivia, a journal - Strona 13autor: Georgiana Anne Dalrymple - 1854Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1854 - Liczba stron: 426
...coast,—passes to China,—afterwards to Singapore and Bombay,— and so home by Egypt and Italy. The book is pleasantly written throughout, and with the picturesque...shelf—even for that shelf which is devoted to ' Voyages Hound the World.' Pleasanter reading, we repeat, need not be offered than our sketcher brings."—Athenxum.... | |
| Sir William Nott - 1854 - Liczba stron: 510
...variety of information, make it an equally admirable book of learning and amusement." — Standard. " The garment in which this book comes forth seems to...table as its place of destination. The nature of its contents — cheerful, lively letter-press — will assure it a ready welcome there. Yet it is not,... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1854 - Liczba stron: 426
...variety of information, make it an equally admirable book of learning and amusement." — Standard. " The garment in which this book comes forth seems to...table as its place of destination. The nature of its contents — cheerful, lively letter-press — will assure it a ready welcome there. Yet it is'not,... | |
| Elizabeth Caroline Grey - 1854 - Liczba stron: 502
...variety of information, make it an equally admirable book of learning and amusement." — Standard. " The garment in which this book comes forth seems to...table as its place of destination. The nature of its contents — cheerful, lively letter-press — will assure it a ready welcome there. Yet it is not,... | |
| Agnes Strickland - 1854 - Liczba stron: 764
...variety of information, make it an equally admirable book of learning and amusement." — Standard. "The garment in which this book comes forth seems...table as its place of destination. The nature of its contents — cheerful, lively letter-press — will assure it a ready welcome there. Yet it is not,... | |
| L. Hugh De Bonelli - 1854 - Liczba stron: 356
...variety of information, make it an equally admirable book of learning and amusement." — Standard. " The garment in which this book comes forth seems to...table as its place of destination. The nature of its contents — cheerful, lively letter-press — will assure it a ready welcome there. Yet it is not,... | |
| Frances Milton Trollope - 1854 - Liczba stron: 338
...variety of information, make it an equally admirable book of learning and amusement." — Standard. " The garment in which this book comes forth seems to...table as its place of destination. The nature of its contents — cheerful, lively letter-press — will assure it a ready welcome there. Yet it is not,... | |
| Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1854 - Liczba stron: 358
...variety of information, make it an equally admirable book of learning and amusement." — Standard. " The garment in which this book comes forth seems to...table as its place of destination. The nature of its contents — cheerful, lively letter-press — will assure it a ready welcome there. Yet it is not,... | |
| Mrs. Matthew Hall - 1854 - Liczba stron: 468
...variety of information, make it an equally admirable book of learning and amusement." — Standard. " The garment in which this book comes forth seems to...table as its place of destination. The nature of its contents — cheerful, lively letter-press — will assure it a ready welcome there. Yet it is not,... | |
| Caroline Grantoff - 1854 - Liczba stron: 342
...variety of information, make it an equally admirable book of learning and amusement." — Standard, " The garment in which this book comes forth seems to...table as its place of destination. The nature of its contents — cheerful, lively letter-press — will assure it a ready welcome there. Yet it is not,... | |
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