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Page 8 - FRASER (Donald). Exchange Tables of Sterling and Indian Rupee Currency, upon a new and extended system, embracing Values from One Farthing to One Hundred Thousand Pounds, and at Rates progressing, in Sixteenths of a Penny, from is.
Page 2 - We have in these pages the most minute description of life as it appeared on the banks of the Nile ; all that could be seen or was worth seeing in nature or in art is here pleasantly and graphically set down. . . . It is a book to read during an autumn holiday.
Page 7 - The Medical Guide for Anglo-Indians. Being a Compendium of Advice to Europeans in India, relating to the Preservation and Regulation of Health. With a Supplement on the Management of Children in India. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. Limp cloth, price 3* . 6d, MALDEN (HE and EE) Princes and Princesses.
Page 7 - Interesting even to the general reader, but more especially so to those who may have a special concern in that portion of our Indian Empire.
Page 6 - No one who reads these sermons will wonder that Mr. Brooke is a great power in London, that his chapel is thronged, and his followers large and enthusiastic. They are fiery, energetic, impetuous sermons, rich with the treasures of a cultivated imagination.
Page 118 - ... passengers on the whole than in the proportion of one statute adult to every five superficial feet, clear for exercise, on the upper deck or poop, or...
Page 135 - May be recommended as manly, sensible, and pleasantly written." — Globe. THE NILE WITHOUT A DRAGOMAN. By Frederic Eden. Second Edition. In one vol. Crown 8vo, cloth. Js. 6d. " Should any of our readers care to imitate Mr. Eden's example, and wish to see things with their own eyes, and shift for themselves, next winter in Upper Egypt' they will find this book a very agreeable guide.
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Page 115 - Passengers during the Voyage, including an adequate Supply of disinfecting Fluid or Agent, together with printed or written Directions for the Use of the same...