The lost children; or, A night's adventure, Volume 2311868 |
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Page 93 - This little book we can cordially recommend, not only for young readers, but for those of larger growth. The descriptions of the Celestial Empire are fascinating; the adventures and 'scapes hair-breadth, are exciting enough to make everybody who reads it wish to go to China almost as earnestly as Robinson Crusoe made him long for a Desert Island and a man Friday 1"— Attienseum.
Page 4 - Ah ! gentle pair, ye little think how nigh Your change approaches, when all these delights Will vanish, and deliver ye to woe ; More woe, the more your taste is now of joy...
Page 91 - We can sincerely recommend this story to children of the 'larger growth' — say above fifteen." — Freeman. " It is well, however, for those who have the guardianship of the young, to be very careful as to what books they give them for perusal ; there are many issued which are better calculated to injure than to profit. We are pleased to say, however, that 'Bertram Noel
Page 94 - The volume before us is every way beautifully and tastefully got up. It is a book of life, replete with incidents and circumstance, calculated to arrest the attention of young people. It is very much some such a book as might have been looked for from the practised and dexterous pen of Peter Parley. The Book will form an elegant present to young persons of either sex " — Christian Witness. '' As a gift-book to educated children of either sex, it is unexceptionable and we hope it will brighten many...
Page 91 - It is brilliantly written ; the characters are drawn by the hands of a master; there are scenes described, bathed at times in a glow of genius that remind me of Dickens's best efforts ; while, amid and above the gloom, and sorrow, and tragedy, and folly, and crime, there shine with a sweet celestial lustre, what cannot be found in the writings of the great modem Hedonists, the ' Stars' of religious hope, trust, and aspiration. Whoever desires a treat of a high order should read this work.
Page 62 - Thomas Evans, I arrest you for the murder of Daniel Randolph. I have to warn you that anything you say will be taken down in writing and may be used in evidence at your trial.
Page 3 - These albums are invaluable to collectors of postage stamps, and from their very reasonable price are within the reach of any of our boys whose inclinations lean in that direction They are got up in a neat and elegant style, and unlike too many articles of the same sort, do not fall to pieces after they have been opened half-a-dozen times. In fact, without occupying space unnecessarily to indulge in ecstacies, we can heartily say that they are everything that can be desired.
Page 91 - Dickens's best efforts ; while, amid and above the gloom, and sorrow, and tragedy, and folly, and crime, there shine with a sweet celestial lustre, what cannot be found in the writings of the great modern fictionists, the ' Stars' of religious hope, trust, and aspiration. Whoever desires a treat of a high order should read this work.