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ALL THE WORLD AROUND!

... the prettiest town in South Africa. After -seven years' w ence, a renewed acquaintance tells me I was not mistaken in this estimate. If I were _ Paris, and the golden 'apple were mine to hand to the fairest among South Africa's towns, it is more y; than ...

MR. DU VAL'S BOOK OF TRAVELS

... ago, and now we have Mr. Du Vat's South Africa. Mr. Du Val's work is not quite ready yet, but it is announced for an early date, and from notices of the author's tour, With a Show through Southern Africa, which appeared in the colonial papers at ...

ALL THE WORLD AROUND!

... 51oW TIMOVuG SOM l1I -AFRICA. t1t Riglte Rdselerrc NO. VII. CAPETOWN. CAPETOWy, now that the railway system has beea extended, and the Eastern and the Western lines united, bids fair to become the chief business port of South Africa. The seaports of the ...

LITERATURE

... f- t . SOs'riT AXFRICA( 1y kct7ardl WLSOI-. x.!-7t - ° s'sacics fl'y Aadd non. 'The experience of eight years' duty in ?? e Africa, as narrated by lyr. Wilson, late Sub- e inspector, is At once instructive and interesting. £ g Deeper glances into the social ...

LEAVES FROM A TRAVELLER'S NOTE-BOOK. VIII

... is a lonely island of volcanic origin situated in mid-ocean, far from any other land. The nearest point, on the coast of Africa, is 900 niiles away, and a distance of 780 miles separates it from St. Helena. With the exception of one niountain peak, which ...

ALL THE WORLD AROUND!

... Police, now the Cape Mhlountod Rifles, his political experiences of these colonies in war or peace were botih extensive and varied. WX4e talked of the Transvaal war. Ah.' said Colonel--, my last words to Sir GFeorge Colley before he left Maritzburg ...

LEAVES FROM A TRAVELLER'S NOTE-BOOK

... existed weals openly advocated. At the present time no one talks of sending ,Southl Africa about its business. Irdse nefutly itproved, and thetendeney Tad bitternwon Ihc -he ?? war-11' i r id still upward. and perfect tranquillity reigns, throughout the land ...

THE DUBLIN ARTISANS' VISIT TO THE PARIS EXHIBITION

... ?? llr. 31oran, and Mlr. Powrell, editor of tbe Mid~easd TfE BRITISH IN WEST AFRICA. London. Wednesday. Advices received at Liverpool to-day from &itish Sulymahb West Africa, report that the 17edition secently sent up the Sulymah River by the British ...

LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART

... Tinsley Brothers will publish in Jan- uary, 1 With a Show through Southern Africa, by Mr. Charles H. Du Val. The book will be & record of the author's adventures during the Zulu war. Mr. J. R. Green's new volume on early English history, and 1'rof. I1nxley's ...

THE SCIENCE AND ART MUSEUM

... le Natuiial-EHistory- Museum so that each will contain illustrations of the zoology of a Par- ticular area of Europe, Asia, Africa, America: or Austrahia; and the system of classification will be more thoroughly carried oat us soon as the col'- lections ...

THE JULY MAGAZINES

... th:at h regards the mnan who has not sojouriaci in a ten. as one who hes not thoroughly lived. , deaeon Farrar writes on Africa and the Dr Trade. His article ought to attract tie r.a notice of any in the number if its -:troezatrs are true. The drink ...

IRISH GAELIC BOOKS

... of Africa, while the Telegraph Construceion | 2pany are making a cable fifteen hundred l tea ian length to cosanect Mossemedes wvith Cene TN htis work will he completed in March; j 5t, and then there will be twvo telegrapiic - ttes to South Africa, one ...