_The last three are in preparation_.
“We could not do better than consult one of these cheap
Handbooks.”—_Times_.
“Those Half-Holiday Handbooks are very useful. But why not ‘Whole
Holiday Pocket Books,’ showing where to go, when to go, and how to go
it? If Mr. Fisher Unwin doesn’t look sharp, we shall have this
series out ourselves about Whitsuntide.”—_Punch_.
“Will be a boon to the weary Londoner, anxious to commune with
nature.”—_The Inquirer_.
“Capital guides to walks in the districts.”—_Daily Chronicle_.
“A pleasant and convenient series of books for the guidance of the
pedestrian.”—_Literary World_.
“An idea with which we and our fellow-naturalists heartily
sympathise. The series is one marked by that feeling for nature
which it is so desirable to extend.”—“H. W., in _Bayswater
Chronicle_.
“The publishers have hit upon a good idea in their Half-Holiday
Handbooks, which are likely to become popular favourites.”—_Graphic_.
“The publishers have done well in issuing these little readable
manuals for the guidance of the Londoner, who, pent up all the week
over his desk, or otherwise debarred from the sight of more natural
objects than city sparrows, seeks in the short space granted him by
the Saturday half-holiday movement, or on the feast-days of St.
Lubbock, that closer acquaintance with the rural delights so
necessary for his bodily and mental health. It is, of course,
impossible in the short space of some seventy or eighty small pages
to do more than indicate the chief attractions of localities so
pleasant by nature as those above named; but these are very fairly
set forth, and being illustrated by sections of a map on the scale of
nearly one and a half miles to the inch, will be found of decided
utility to the pedestrian in search of an object.”—_The Field_.
“Fulfil their purpose thoroughly as a tourist’s companions in his
rambles about districts within a short distance from
London.”—_Bookseller_.
“They combine the useful information of the hackneyed local
guide-book with something which is rarer and more difficult to
present—the fostering of a love of nature and the kindling of some
enthusiasm for the objects generally passed unheeded by the run of
holiday excursionists, because they have had no chance of learning
how to observe, nor have tasted the delights of it. . . . The
information is very closely packed, and justice is done to the lovely
scenery and scientific novelties of the neighbourhood. The books are
certainly cheap and well got up.”—_Nonconformist_.
“The best guides of the kind we have yet seen.”—_Lund and Water_.
“Will be found to add much interest to a Saturday afternoon walk into
the country.”—_Nature_.
“Should achieve a wide popularity.”—_Court Circular_.
“All models of what a gossiping guide-book should be.”—_South London
Press_.
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GENESIS THE THIRD: History, not Fable. Being the Merchants’ Lecture for
March, 1883. By EDWARD WHITE. Crown 8vo., Cloth extra. 1s. Sewed 6d.
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SISTER EDITH’S PROBATION. By E. CONDER GRAY, Author of “Wise Words.”
Small 8vo., cloth extra. 1s.
“The three tales of which this volume is composed are not only well
written, but cannot fail to strengthen those who read them,
especially the young, in pure and holy living.”—_Literary World_.