An Autumn Tour in the United States and Canada |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
admiration American amongst ARMY Author baggage beautiful Boston bridge caisson Canada cars cent certainly character charges charm Chicago Church civil cloth Cornhill cost course Crown 8vo Demy 8vo dollars East River Edition engineering England English English draught Englishman everywhere Fcap feeling feet Gazette Government House Hudson Illustrated India inferior institutions interest Iowa Island labour Lake lands late London ment miles military mineral Mississippi Missouri Missouri River mixed mathematics Montreal navigation Nebraska Negro Nicholas Hotel nitro-glycerine North offices Pacific Paternoster Row POEMS political politicians population prairies present President Price race railway reader river Roorkee Royal Engineer scenery shillings social society South Southern steamer story streets struggle superior things thought ticket tion tone town train traveller United Universal Suffrage Victoria Bridge vols West whole York
Popular passages
Page 18 - Medical Guide for Anglo-Indians. Being a Compendium of Advice to Europeans in India, relating to the Preservation and Regulation of Health. With a Supplement on the Management of Children in India. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. Limp cloth, price 3* . 6d, MALDEN (HE and EE) Princes and Princesses.
Page 10 - FIRST BOOK OF BOTANY. Designed to Cultivate the Observing Powers of Children. With 300 Engravings, New and Cheaper Edition. Crown 8vo.
Page 5 - Field and Forest Rambles of a Naturalist in New Brunswick. With Notes and Observations on the Natural History of Eastern Canada.
Page 20 - BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG. Brave Men's Footsteps. A Book of Example and Anecdote for Young People. By the Editor of "Men who have Risen.
Page 11 - YOUMANS (Eliza A.). An Essay on the Culture of the Observing Powers of Children, especially in connection with the Study of Botany. Edited, with Notes and a Supplement, by Joseph Payne, FCP, Author of " Lectures on the Science and Art of Education,
Page 12 - Second edition. Large crown 8vo. Cloth, price 7*. 6d, SMITH (Edward), MD, LL.B., FRS Health and Disease, as Influenced by the Daily, Seasonal, and other Cyclical Changes in the Human System. A New Edition.
Page 13 - Makes one understand how going round the world is to be done in the quickest and pleasantest manner, and how the brightest and most cheerful of travellers did it with eyes wide open and keen attention all on the alert, with ready sympathies, with the happiest facility of hitting upon the most interesting features of nature and the most interesting characteristics of man, and all for its own sake." — Spectator. " We can only commend, which we do very heartily, an eminently sensible and readable...
Page 28 - Tales of the Zenana ; or, A Nuwab's Leisure Hours. By the Author of " Pandurang Hari." With a Preface by Lord Stanley of Alderley. 2 vols. Crown 8vo. Cloth, price 2is.
Page 10 - It is but rarely that a school-book appears which is at once so novel in plan, so successful in execution, and so suited to the general want, as to command universal and unqualified approbation, but such has been the case with Miss Youmans
Page 29 - FICTION. 33. 6d. per Volume. IT is intended in this Series to produce books of such merit that readers will care to preserve them on their shelves. They are well printed on good paper, handsomely bound, with a Frontispiece, and are sold at the moderate price of 3s.