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HESPEROTHEN.*

... from wearisome dinners and civilities, his book is often interesting and thoroughly readable. His description of the Yosemite Valley, for instance-repeatedly as this has been before described-is well worth careful reading and copious quotation, did our ...

THE READER

... and special accounts by Anthony Trollope and others of trips, to Niagara, the White Mountains, Yellowstone Park, the Yosemite Valley, &c., is Ihe Englishman's Illustrated Guide to the United States (longnian and Co.). For the intending emigrant, too ...

ODDS AND ENDS

... weeks yet. l{. F. D.: I'll ?? Bulletlin. Aecording to the Cycle the largest tree in tibe world is to be found in tlhe Yosemite Valley, California. It is celled the Grizzly, and is M~ft. in ditunteroand 3t0ft. high. Within an area of fifty acres no fewer ...

THE READER

... and the United States, is the author's account of the famous Yosemite valley, the carriage road into which was opened for the first time on the day of his arrival. The rides through the valley, the various waterfalls from Cholock to the Bridal Veil, the ...

TERESINA PEREGRINA.*

... worth describing. We meet her first among the Mormons, where she inquires into the workings of polygamy. She visits the Yosemite Valley, trans- ports herself to the Sandwich Isles en ?? to the Flowery Land, looks in on Macao and the coolie baracoons on her ...

AROUND THE WORLD

... reached the hotel at San Francisco within an hour of the time he had named some weeks before. From thence he visited the Yosemite Valley, which Around the World; Sketches of Travel through Many Lands and over Many Seas. By E. D. C.. Prime, D.D. With mimerous ...

THE DRAMA IN AMERICA

... tire OGarden Waol at his house. The People's Theatre winds up the season on Jiune Lt. Manager Miners has gone to the Yosemite Valley for a vacation. On Monday J. I. Emmett opens a month s engagement at the Thalia Theatre with his play Fritz. The Academy ...

Published: Saturday 30 May 1885
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1647 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

CURRENT LITERATURE

... Fountains and At Home in Fiji under new and interesting conditions. 1 The narrative describes a visit to the far-famed Yosemite Valley, better known as Yellowstone Park. How this adventurous end indefati- ?? lady travelled, lived, enjoyed bard work, anu ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... close of August, the fresh and pleasant contributions of Mliss C. F. Gordon Gumnming, descrip- tive of the wonderful Yosemite Valley, makes one long for the sound of Yosemnite Falls and the verdant wildness of the' Mereed banks. Very truthfully and in ...

RECENT BOOKS OF TRAVEL.*

... Lima. Thence he sailed, touching at various points, for San Francisco, from which city he paid a visit to the famous Yosemite Valley, and visited the giant trees, the grove of Sequoia (called by us Wellingtonia) gigantea. of Calaveras. A height of 325 ...

MAGAZINES FOR NOVEMBER

... of incident, at and rich in gossipy allusion, grave and gay. w C. F. Gordon Cununings description of the ut wonderful Yosemite Valley is graphie and ot appreciat>ive. There are awlso other sketches of to interest, independenbly of the continued stor~r ...

MAGAZINES FOR JULY

... Uacmillan this month. Under the title of The Valley of Waterfalls, Mr. Curzon gives a brief but comprehensive sketch of the conflicts with the Indians which ended in the dedication of the Yosemite Valley, California, to the public use; and follows it ...