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    there remain X even the M . old , . wooden _ stocks _ throug — - —( t h —

    the holes of which , the feet = of boozy unfortunates w ere

    wont to be unceremoniously thrust in the good

    i old times of rude simi plicitv . ' The most

    enterbook taining , however portions , are the descriptions of wilder scenes , A in Lecture forei gn 'CvcHner lands .

    the Tlio A Caucasus Kingd book of om is travels but of Georgia sli , sensibl htl , k y nown by free Oliver from to E Wardrop the lish hi travellers g . h-falutin Comparativel ' and style totirists of y near narration and thoug , it is h was to the be with reg found ion a view -be in , to making it better known gy that Mr . Wardrop ng wrote the book now under , notice . He speaks

    with well-judged enthusiasm of the country & ri & its people ; of the beauty of its women would , and

    any the * melanchol ^ ay , open y - . nearted Some , open exaggeration -handed , may honest appear , innocent in this folk assertion / whose , but intercourse any one reading cure ^ the

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    Dec . 6 , 188 S f he Publishers Circular 1527

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 6, 1888, page 1527, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_06121888/page/33/