Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), 16th January 1882, Edition 1 of 1, Page 66

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I I WOMEN OF THE BIBLE . Old Testament . By Etty Wooskam . Royal lCmo . I cloth , Is . A Bible Gem . I S . W . PARTRIDGE & CO . 9 Paternoster Row . ( 56 ) ! I , . — i I N . B . —Nearly the whole of the First Edition was sold before publication . j I A WORK OF POLITICAL IMPORTANCE . I I Siberia has long been practically an unknown land to the Englishman ; and the terrors ¦ of its prisons have mine cannot frequentl labour fail to wors y evoke been e than quoted interest death . as . iastances Does A work he b of corroborate y an Russia English ' s cruel the clergyman dread treatment ful who tales of has political given traversed to prisoners the this ¦ ¦ ¦ worl ¦ terra consi d far b incognita y gned as Polish the to refugees ? The extracts given below from , the Times review will answer this question so Author ' s statements nr « concerned . I THROUGH SIBERIA . j Illustrated with 43 By Engravings HENRY , Route and LANSD ¦ Ethnograp EL hical L Maps , , and Photograp h I ' of the Author , in Fish-shin Costume of ¦ the Gilyahs on the Lower Amur . 1 A JOURNEY OF 8 , 000 MILES FRO M THE demy URAL 8 vo . 30 T O THE PACIFIC ¦ , ON THE [ Now RIVERS read ¦ y . I j OBJ , AMUR , AND US 8 URI , AND BY THE HIRE OF A THOUSAND HORSES . | zeal ' of There a man ia who always goes something forth as like a missionary the spirit Fro m . the . knight . The TIME e Rev rrantry . S Henry , Jan Lansdell love . 5 , 1882 romantic visited ¦ . n ad earl venture y all the blended hospitals with . , l tne t . r rvU i itlo ^ ^ of ! \ m I 1 mines ships the country of and Siberia not and without , its busied inhabi dan himsel tants gers f . will witli . . . find the The in geography reader Mr . Lansdell who , history will ' s volumes follow , natural th all is history long that Odyssey can , and interest ¦ whatever , with him all else its about episodes concerned Siberia of — conBiuer the a coim c 0 » "" vj »» ! Uari ) kh . j , h m was now once to , be looked better upon known merely as a land as , a plaoo in many of duranco parts of and prodigious banighment fertility , with ¦ and weeping transcendent ¦ and gnashing beauty of , tooth intended ; but , P ^ } r n * ^ j ^ ot itb % j I almost splendid schools everything and future hospitals of agricultural ho ; saw and — h the « alio prosperity Russian \ vs everywhere people and commercial , the the Government utmost importance anxiety officials to . ¦ contradict Mr , the . Lanadoll ¦ treatment false appears statements of prisoners to have , and , the bee dlapei n manaB < lc" u * v " j . pff t of h . t h . j press udlcea , ngainat * arising that ^ as ho colossal thinks empire , from which the illiberal aspires and to share vindictive the possession feelings of of the the English Asiatic people continent , and with eipec Great iau y of un in ^ ^ yr . . m h i Lanadell , it is evident , if he bo Russophlle , mutt certainly bo bo from conviction . ' { H London : SAMPSON LOW , MARSTON , SKARLK , & RIVINOTON , M Grown Buildings , 188 Fleet Street , E . C . __ - - ^ ^^ H # ¦ ' ¦ z = z = ^^ = ^«

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