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LLOYD'S NEXT OF KIN, UNCLAIMED MONEY, AND INQUIRY OFFICE (First Established Office in Australia) undertakes to Collect and Recover Estates in any part of the world, through their English and Foreign Solicitors, for persons believing themselves entitled, under will or otherwise, and are prepared to make advances thereon during collection. Security, £20,000. Searches of every description undertaken. Wills, &c., procured. £77,000,000 unclaimed. Search through register, 7s. 6d. LLOYD & CO., 56 Little Collins Street East, Melbourne. NOW READY! THIRD EDITION. Cr. 8vo. PICTURE BOARDS. PRICE, HALF-A-CROWN. THE AUSTRALIAN ABROAD By J. HINGSTON. ILLUSTRATED WITH ORIGINAL PHOTO. ENGRAVINGS, PRICE: HALF -A CROWN Some opinions of the Colonial and English Press: The Argus, December, 1879-"Mr. James Hingston, the author of the volume of 'The Australian Abroad,' is a lively and entertaining narrator because he jots down the impressions produced upon his mind, whilst fresh and vivid, and at the same time combines quickness of perception with a humorous method of looking at character and incidents, and a certain quaintness of style in recording such im. pressions. He is not young enough to indulge in gush, nor old enough to have adopted the nil admirari philosophy, nor inexperi. enced enough to imagine, as a good many travellers do, that he has discovered the places which he visits for the first time. An intelligent traveller moving about the world with his eyes open and not looking at men and things through other people's spectacles may succeed in saying something new upon an old subject, and in finding an attentive audience for his narratives. This is the case with Mr. Hingston, in his rambles. He is rarely dull and never tedious, and the quality of the humour with which we have credited him resembles that of mercy, in that it is not strained.' The Graphic, Eng., January 23, says: "There is a bright PRICE: vividness and a certain originality about Mr. Hingston's descriptions, The Athenæum, Eng., January 24, says: "The author acted The Leader, January 10th, 1880.-" Mr. Hingston's book is amusing enough, and speaks highly for the author's accomplish ments. So long as a work of this sort be entertaining it will always find readers, and Mr. Hingston is nearly always entertaining. Some of the passages in The Australian Abroad' are quite as good as anything which Mark Twain has written. The disconnected nature of the work is in itself a recommendation, as one can take it up any. where and read on without reference to anything going before or after. The work is eminently readable and shows that its author is a shrewd man of the world and a keen observer of manners." The Daily Telegraph, Eng., February 7, says: "There is not a dull sentence in the volume from beginning to end. The humour is racy, penetrating, and stimulating to the mental appetite like a fine aroma or pungent relish. It is a humour all of Mr. Hingston's own, and not borrowed or imitated from anybody else. A fine quaintness of expression, a diction rich and flowing, and a lucid style are his. Nothing can be better of its kind." The Illustrated London News, Eng., September 25, says of second volume:-"Among clever, original, and amusing books of travel, a prominent place must be assigned to 'The Australian Abroad.' A more pleasant book and a more readable one is not often published." HALF -A CROWN PUBLISHERS: WILLIAM INGLIS & CO., MELBOURNE, HOBART, DUNEDIN, and LONDON. SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. |