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Vol. I.
BERNIER’S TRAVELS IN THE MOGUL EMPIRE. Anentirely new edition, with illustrations, and reproductions ofmaps from early editions. By Archibald Constable, Mem.As. Soc. Bengal, F.S.A.Scot. Cr. 8vo, pp. liv + 500. Price6s. nett.
The old translation has now been revised and edited in very scholarlyfashion.—The Times.
This is a scholarly volume, and bodes well for the success of the Miscellany.—TheScotsman.
The New Miscellany ... has been right worthily inaugurated by a reprintof Bernier’s Travels in India, which must delight the scholar and lover of books.—TheBombay Gazette.
An almost perfect instance of careful, painstaking, and judicious editing.—ThePioneer.
The excellent editing, as well as outward get-up ... are a guarantee thatthis new venture ... will supply a long-felt want.—The Times of India.
The student will know how to prize the work, and the general reader will findit very interesting reading.—The Manchester Guardian.
Since their first appearance in Paris, in 1670, many have been the reprints andtranslations of Bernier’s Travels.... With all this, however, the book itselfis not easily accessible. In offering the English Public a new edition of it,Messrs. Archibald Constable and Company have therefore no need to apologise.It is a fact that until this publication no really satisfactory edition has existed. Itis now edited not only with great care, but also with a laudable regard to theneeds of the general reader.—The Anti-Jacobin.
The book abounds with curious scenes and anecdotes of native life in India,amusing in themselves and interesting for comparison with the ways, habits, andideas of modern India.... The running glossary of Indian terms and words isvery useful; so are the brief notices of distinguished persons and remarkable[2]places mentioned in the text; there is also a chronicle of Bernier’s life, a bibliographyof his works, and an excellent index.—The Speaker.
The book is of almost indispensable necessity to the reader of history, beingaccurate and painstaking to a high degree.—The Academy.
The volume has been admirably edited and illustrated. The numerousallusions in the text to individuals, places, productions of art and industry, etc.,are well explained in brief but sufficient notes, which contain the results of carefulresearch in contemporary historians, and of an intimate personal acquaintancewith Indian life and industry at the present day.—The Scottish GeographicalMagazine.
Vol. II.
POPULAR READINGS IN SCIENCE. By John Gall,M.A., LL.B., late Professor of Mathematics and Physics,Canning College, Lucknow, and David Robertson, M.A.,LL.B., B.Sc. With many Diagrams, a Glossary of TechnicalTerms, and an Index. Cr. 8vo, pp. 468. Price 5s. nett.
The authors lay no claim to originality, but have exercised a judicious choicein the selection of subject-matter.... The narrative style which has beenadopted by the authors will make the book acceptable to general readers who areanxious to make acquaintance with modern science.—Nature.
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