“If beauty of design and execution, combined with elegance of narrative and trustworthy description, can be any recommendation to a book, it is sufficient to say that this excellent volume possesses every one of these features, and establishes its own character without the need of any further praise.”—­Bell’s Messenger.

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THE PILGRIM FATHERS;

OR, THE FOUNDERS OF NEW ENGLAND IN THE REIGN OF JAMES THE FIRST.

With Twenty-eight Illustrations on Steel, and numerous Woodcuts.

“This is a good thing well done; a book that ought to be a household treasure in the family of the more than fifty millions of Englishmen and Americans, who are, if right-minded men, most deeply interested in the history it details.  The story of the plantation of British America is, with the sole exception of the Sacred Records, the most important narrative in the annals of the world.  No discovery of new lands like that of Columbus—­no discovery in science, or in arts, approaches it in the magnitude of its glorious results.”—­Standard.

“We can commend Mr. Bartlett’s book as handsomely issued, carefully got together, and full of interesting reading.  The illustrations are sufficiently varied—­alternating between the Fens of Lincolnshire, the flats of Holland, and the scenery of Plymouth Sound.”—­Athenaeum.

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PICTURES FROM SICILY.

Illustrated with Twenty-three Engravings on Steel, and several Woodcuts.

“As a work of reference it is of the highest utility; as an ornamental book it is unsurpassed; and as a guide to the traveller it has no equal in the English language.”—­Observer.

“This is a very handsome and pleasing pictorial hand-book of the beauties of Sicily.  The illustrations do honour alike to the artist, engraver, and publishers—­and the style is, generally speaking, graphic and faithful ... with an interest beyond its pictorial claims.”—­Athenaeum.

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FORTY DAYS IN THE DESERT;

ON THE TRACK OF THE ISRAELITES;

OR, A JOURNEY FROM CAIRO BY WADY FEIRAN TO MOUNT SINAI AND PETRA.

Illustrated with Twenty-seven Engravings on Steel, a Map, and numerous Woodcuts.

“Mr. Bartlett has made a book, pleasant in letter-press, as well as attractive in its illustrations—­delicately finished line engravings of subjects particularly well chosen.”—­Athenaeum.

“A very handsome volume, copiously and cleverly illustrated in the vignette style; an elegant table-book, or most acceptable present.”—­Atlas.

“Entertainingly written, and crowded with steel engravings of a superior character, which combine to make it a very handsome volume.”—­Critic.

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THE NILE BOAT;