The Last Message From Andrée
The following message from Andrée shows the progress made by the hardy explorer. We reproduce it in facsimile.
(1)—The Andrée Polar Expedition to the “Aftonbladet” Stockholm.
July 13th, 12.30 p.m., 82°2´ north latitude, 15°5´ east longitude. Good journey eastwards, 10° south. All goes well on board. This is the third message sent by pigeon.
Andrée.
The Pupils of Peter the Great
A History of the Russian Court and Empire from 1697 to 1740
By R. NISBET BAIN
Author of “Gustavus III. and His Contemporaries,” “Charles XII.” “Hans Christian Andersen: A Biography”
WITH PHOTOGRAVURE FRONTISPIECE AND PORTRAITS
“LIGHT ON A LYCEUM PLAY.”
“Mr. Nisbet Bain’s new volume about the makers of Russia could not have appeared at a time more opportune for the attraction of popular interest than the moment when Sir Henry Irving has taken it upon him to interpret for us, on the stage of the Lyceum, the character of Peter the Great. His familiarity with the history and politics of Northern Europe in the last century renders him peculiarly fitted for the task of presenting us with a picture of the Russian Court and Empire up to the death of the Empress Anne.”—Daily Chronicle.
“Mr. Bain has here put together from authentic sources an interesting and useful book. Without attempting the picturesque, he has written a book that attracts the reader; his judgment is sound, he is unprejudiced and tolerant, and he understands the strange world that he is depicting. His portraits have the great merit of fidelity, and he has a good knowledge of contemporary European politics.”—Manchester Guardian.
“An excellent piece of historical study, founded entirely on original research, sober, broad, and sympathetic in treatment, with a fine sense of historical proportion, and most illuminating as respects the light it throws on a dark and ill-known time and country.”—Spectator.
“A lucid and masterly sketch of the slow development of the modern Russian State between the year 1697 and 1740.”—Daily News.
“Mr. Nisbet Bain is, without question, the best informed student of Northern history who now writes for the British Public, and the volume before us will add to his reputation.”—Manchester Courier.
WESTMINSTER
Archibald Constable and Co
2 WHITEHALL GARDENS
1898
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Life of Sir Charles Tilston Bright
By EDWARD BRAILSTON BRIGHT, C.E., AND CHARLES BRIGHT, C.E., F.R.S.E.
With many Illustrations, Portraits, and Maps. 2 vols.
Debateable Claims
A Series of Essays on Secondary Education
By JOHN CHARLES TARVER,
Dante’s Ten Heavens
A Study in the Paradiso
By EDMUND GARDNER.
A French View of English Contemporary Art
By E. DE LA SIZERANNE. Translated by H. M. Poynter.
Highland Dress and Ornament
By LORD ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL.
Andrée and his Balloon
By HENRI LACHAMBRE and ALEXIS MACHURON
With coloured Frontispiece and 40 full-page plates.
This volume contains an accurate account of the making and equipping of Mr. Andrée’s balloon, and a detailed account of the first attempt made in 1896, when, owing to the bad weather, Andrée and his two companions could not start, and a detailed and authoritative account of the final preparation and start for the famous flight into the Unknown.
The volume is fully illustrated, and contains a short biography of Andrée.
The two authors accompanied the Expedition to Spitzbergen, the one author in 1896, and the other in July, 1897.
The volume is of very great general interest, containing as it does the only authoritative account of the expedition up to date, and is of special value to all interested in ballooning, as the authors are acknowledged experts.
This work is being published simultaneously in four different languages.
The Kingdom of the Yellow Robe
By ERNEST YOUNG.
Fully Illustrated by E. A. Norbury, R.C.A., and from Photographs.
Constable’s “Hand Gazetteer of India”
Uniform with Constable’s “Hand Atlas of India.”
A BOOK OF
Travels and Life in Ashantee
By R. AUSTIN FREEMAN, F.R.G.S.
Fully Illustrated, from drawings by the Author, and from Photographs. 2 Maps.
A Northern Highway of the Czar
By AUBYN TREVOR BATTYE, Author of “Ice-bound on Kolguev.”
The dedication of this volume has been graciously accepted by His Majesty the Czar of Russia.
Our Troubles in Poona and the Deccan
By ARTHUR TRAVERS CRAWFORD, C.M.G., late Commissioner of Poona.
Few of the troubles we have had in India from time to time have assumed so serious an aspect as the recent disturbances in Poona; but the extreme alarmist view taken by the press at home and the public utterances of certain ill-informed “globe-trotters” have had a mischievous effect in confusing the mind of the British Public as to the rights and wrongs of the case. The Author of this book, having a large experience of the districts affected, has written this work in order to make the situation clear.
Two Native Narratives of the Mutiny in Delhi
Translated from the Originals by the late
CHARLES THEOPHILUS METCALFE, C.S.I. (Bengal Civil Service).
These two narratives are a unique and interesting contribution to the literature of the Indian Mutiny—inasmuch as they are the only ones from a purely native source.
One is the diary, kept daily throughout the Siege of Delhi in 1857 by Munshi Jeewan Lall. This man, who was an official in the employ of the Governor General’s Agent in Delhi, was all along loyal to us, and remained, till his death, an honoured servant of the British Government. He gave the original diary to the translator on the occasion of the Imperial Assemblage at Delhi in 1877. The other narrative is by an educated native nobleman—Nawab Mainodin Hassan Khan. He threw in his lot with the rebels, and had eventually to fly, with a price on his head. After some years of exile he returned to India, stood his trial, and was acquitted of complicity in murder, and pardoned for his share in the fighting. This result was brought about mainly through the influence of Sir T. Metcalfe, whose life he had saved during the Siege. The Nawab subsequently drew up the narrative from materials in his possession, and gave it in the original to the translator. Mr. Metcalfe having died before the papers were ready for publication, they are now edited and brought out by his widow.
Constable’s Hand Atlas of India
A NEW SERIES OF SIXTY MAPS AND PLANS PREPARED FROM ORDNANCE AND OTHER SURVEYS UNDER THE DIRECTION OF
J. G. BARTHOLOMEW, F.R.G.S., F.R.S.E., &c.
“It is tolerably safe to predict that no sensible traveller will go to India in future without providing himself with ‘Constable’s Hand Atlas of India.’ Nothing half so useful has been done for many years to help both the traveller in India and the student at home. ‘Constable’s Hand Atlas’ is a pleasure to hold and to turn over.”
—Athenæum.