. A diplomat in Japan; the inner history of the criticial years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored. Pollards book has the attraction of a brightand pleasant style, which reveals at times a happy sense of humour, a characteristicfeature not always very marked in this branch of literature.—frVaj-^i^w Herald. Nosuland is a very interesting region. . Mr. Pollard has some awkward , of course, makes his narrative all the more lively and interesting.—Liverpool Post. Mr. Pollard during his travels held his life in his hand from day to day, an
. A diplomat in Japan; the inner history of the criticial years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored. Pollards book has the attraction of a brightand pleasant style, which reveals at times a happy sense of humour, a characteristicfeature not always very marked in this branch of literature.—frVaj-^i^w Herald. Nosuland is a very interesting region. . Mr. Pollard has some awkward , of course, makes his narrative all the more lively and interesting.—Liverpool Post. Mr. Pollard during his travels held his life in his hand from day to day, and owed hisnitimate safety to his own conciliatory prudence.—Manchester Guardia7i. Full of adventure and strangeness, with many excellent readable and valuable -Daily Mail. Admirably printed and generously illustrated. ? Bristol Times and Mirror. SEELEY, SERVICE Sf CO., LTD., 38 GREAT RUSSELL STREET, MODERN TRAVEL A Record of Exploration, Travel, Adventure <S* Sport in all Parts of the World During the Last Forty Years Derived from Personal Accounts by the Travellers BY NORMAN J. DAVIDSON, (Oxon.). A Malayta Spearman Demy 8vo. With 53 lUustrations S-10 Maps. Price 25s. Nett SOME EARLY REVIEWS. A veritable classic of travel. —/?««<&* Courier. A wonderful record, beautifully illustrated. The whole book is Ipacked with epicadventure.—Aberdeen Journal. The author has collected his material from the accounts of travelers in widely-diversified regfions. . He has a light touch and a turn for picturesque and clear narrationthat keep his book from becoming a mere dull file, and makes it a glowing and adventurousrecord. . Sumptuously produced with more than fifty illustrations. ... A Teritable classicof travel. —Dundee Courier. _ Mr. Davidson has a kten sense of what is of general as opposed to specialistinterest, and the result is a fascinating book, well illustrated and mapped. Birmingham Gazette. A veritable library. Opening with chapters
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