 | sir James Porter - 1854 - 510 páginas
...itself the best qualities of a library volume, with that of a gifthook, is Mr. Elwes' ' Sketcher's Tour.' It is an unaffected, well-written record of...and fro among the strange and exciting scenes of the Pacific, — thence sails to the Australian coast, — passes to China, — afterwards to Singai,ore... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1854 - 342 páginas
...itself the best qualities of a library volume, with that of a giftbook, is Mr. Elwes' ' Sketcher's Tour.' It is an unaffected, well-written record of...and fro among the strange and exciting scenes of the Pacific, — thence sails to the Australian coast, — passes to China,- — afterwards to Singapore... | |
 | Heberden Milford - 1854 - 362 páginas
...itself the best qualities of a library volume, with that of a giftbook, is Mr. Elwes' ' Sketcher's Tour." It is an unaffected, well-written record of...and fro among the strange and exciting scenes of the Pacific, — thence sails to the Australian coast, — passes to China, — afterwards to Singapore... | |
 | Margaret Oliphant Oliphant - 1854 - 342 páginas
...itself the best qualities of a library volume, with that of a giftbook, is Mr. Elwes' ' Sketcher's Tour.' It is an unaffected, well-written record of...and fro among the strange and exciting scenes of the Pacific, — thence sails to the Australian coast, — passes to China,' — afterwards to Singapore... | |
 | George Landmann - 1854 - 346 páginas
...itself the best qualities of a library volume, with that of a giftbook, is Mr. Elwes' ' Sketcher's Tour.' It is an unaffected, well-written record of...and fro among the strange and exciting scenes of the Pacific, — thence sails to the Australian coast, — passes to China, — afterwards to Singapore... | |
 | Sir William Nott - 1854 - 500 páginas
...itself the best qualities of a library volume, with that of a giftbook, is Mr. Elwes" ' Sketcher's Tour.' It is an unaffected, well-written record of...and fro among the strange and exciting scenes of the Pacifie, — thence sails to the Australian coast, — passes to China, — afterwards to Singapore... | |
 | Caroline Grantoff - 1854 - 342 páginas
...itself the best qualities of a library volume, with that of a giftbook, is Mr. Elwes' ' Sketcher's Tour.' It is an unaffected, well-written record '...and fro among the strange and exciting scenes of the Pacific, — thence sails to the Australian coast, — passes to China, — afterwards to Singapore... | |
 | Mrs. Matthew Hall - 1854 - 468 páginas
...itself the best qualities of a library volume, with that of a giftbook, is Mr. Elwes' ' Sketcher's Tour.' It is an unaffected, well-written record of...and fro among the strange and exciting scenes of the Pacific, — thence sails to the Australian coast, — passes to China, — afterwards to Singapore... | |
 | Henrietta Keddie - 1854 - 326 páginas
...itself the best qualities of a library volume, with that of a giftbook, is Mr. Elwes' ' Sketcher's Tour.' It is an unaffected, well-written record of...and fro among the strange and exciting scenes of the Pacific, — thence sails to the Australian coast, — passes to China, — afterwards to Singapore... | |
 | Sir William Nott - 1854 - 510 páginas
...itself the best qualities of a library volume, with that of a gifthook, is Mr. Elwes' ' Sketcher's Tour.' It is an unaffected, well-written record of...and fro among the strange and exciting scenes of the Pacifie, — thence sails to the Australian coast, — passes to China, — afterwards to Singapore... | |
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It is an unaffected, well-written record of a tour of some 36,000 miles, and Is accompanied by a number of very beautiful tinted lithographs, executed by the author. These, as well as the literary sketches in the volume, deal most largely with Southern... 
