"He presents THE MOST VERACIOUS AND COMPLETE PICTURE OF OLD JAPAN IN EXISTENCE-the only one, it is not too much to say, now worth regarding. THE BOOK HAS NO RIVAL, while its style is as lively as its matter is interesting. IT READS LIKE A ROMANCE, yet it is the achievement of a scientific traveller, as unique in relation to Japan as the work of Marco Polo was in relation to China. The publishers have rendered a real service to history and to letters." ATHEN EUM. THE "The work will be of special value and interest to historians, antiquarians, and naturalists, as well as to the general reader. Its publication is MOST OPPORTUNE."-ASIATIC QUARTERLY REVIEW. "He must have been a pioneer in ten thousand.”—PALL MALL GAZETTE. "THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT AND AUTHORITATIVE EARLY WORK UPON JAPAN. A more interesting and happier reprint is not to be desired."-NOTES AND QUERIES. "The many Westerners who are endeavouring to learn something— as far as it is possible-about the Japanese, could not do better than commence their studies by a perusal of Dr. Kaempfer's pages."-DAILY MAIL. "Kaempfer's great work on Japan has been justly described as a classic, and a classic it will remain."-GLASGOW HERALD. "IT IS AN AMAZING BOOK; one wonders that a single pair of eyes could have seen so much, that a single brain could have reasoned so much and so well about so many things."-LIVERPOOL POST. "Dr. Kaempfer's work is of great interest apart from its historical and scientific value, the narrative being quaint and brisk."-YORKSHIRE POST. SPECIMEN OF ILLUSTRATION FROM KAEMPFER'S HISTORY OF JAPAN.] 15 Complete in One Volume. 12s. 6d. nett. LITHGOW'S TRAVELS The Totall Discourse of the Rare Adventures, and painefull Pere- W By WILLIAM LITHGOW ILLIAM LITHGOW was born in Lanark in 1582. In 1610 he started on the 'painefull Peregrinations' of which he has left an account, and he states that in the course of the next nineteen years his 'paynefull feet traced over thirty-six thousand and odde miles.' In his various journeys he visited every country in Europe (except Russia), The Holy Land, Asia Minor, Egypt, Algeria and Tunis. On his third journey he was imprisoned at Malaga as a spy by the Spaniards, and his book gives a vivid account of the tortures he suffered at their hands. He died in the parish of Lanark and is buried in the Churchyard of St. Kentigern there. His descriptions of men and manners are of even greater value and interest than his remarkable accounts of the places he visited, and his book has always been eagerly sought for. 16 "The record of his exploits is enchanting. The book has something of the CHARM of 'Eothen' and something of the FIDELITY of 'Robinson Crusoe.' In interest it is inferior to neither of these immortal works."-NOTES AND QUERIES. "This present reprint is VASTLY WELCOME, if only that it includes Lithgow's chapters of quaint comments on the Scotland of the seventeenth century."-PALL MALL GAZETTE. "A FASCINATING REPRINT of the adventures of this traveller who flourished 1582-1645."-THE OUTLOOK. In Two Volumes, 25s. nett. Fine Paper Edition, limited to 100 Copies, 50s. nett. CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH'S TRAVELS The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England, & The Summer Isles with the Procedings of those Severall Col- ROM the day when, a youth of sixteen, he was FR to go where he would, until his final return to London as Admiral of New England in 1615, Captain John Smith had as adventurous a life as the most daring spirits of the time could desire. In his Generall Historie of Virginia' Smith gives an account of his great work of founding the colony of Virginia and protecting it against the savage tribes who again and again endeavoured to destroy it: in his 'True Travels, Adventures, and Observations,' published in 1630, he writes the story of his early adventures against the Turks, and pirates, and in his 'Sea Grammar,' published in 1627, he gives a very valuable treatise on the ship of his time and the manner of sailing and fighting her. These works are all extremely scarce and are now to be reprinted together in a convenient form for the first time since their original publication in 1624-30. WITH THE FIRST SUPPLY IN VIRGINIA A.D. 1607. of men, and behind them as many women, with all their heads and shoulders painted red; many of their heads bedecked with the white downe of Birds; but every one with something: and a great chayne of white beads about their necks. At his entrance before the King, all the people gave a great shout. The Queene of Appamatuck was appointed to bring him water to wash his hands, and another brought him a bunch of feathers, in stead of a Towell to dry them: having feasted him after their best barbarous manner they could, a long consultation was held, but the conclusion was, two great stones were brought before Powhatan: then as many as could layd hands on him, dragged him to them, and thereon laid his head, and being ready with their clubs, to beate out his braines, Pocahontas the Kings dearest daughter, when no intreaty could prevaile, got his head in her armes, and laid her owne upon his to save him from death whereat the Emperour was contented he should live to make him hatchets, and her bells, beads, How Pocaand copper for they thought him aswell of all occupa- hontas saved tions as themselves. For the King himselfe will make his life. his owne robes, shooes, bowes, arrowes, pots; plant, hunt, or doe any thing so well as the rest. They say he bore a pleasant shew, But sure his heart was sad. For who can pleasant be, and rest, Two dayes after, Powhatan having disguised himselfe in the most fearefullest manner he could, caused Capt. Smith to be brought forth to a great house in the woods, and there upon a mat by the fire to be left alone. Not long after from behinde a mat that divided the house, was made the most dolefullest noyse he ever heard; then How PowPowhatan more like a devill then a man with some two hundred more as blacke as himselfe, came unto him and SPECIMEN page of the series.] hatan sent him to James Towne. |