POETRY.
Reading edition
Just published, royal 18mo., price 4s., cloth gilt.
GRISELDA;
A Dramatic Poem,
Translated from the German of Frederick Halm.
By Q. E. D.
“An elegant translation of an elegant German Poem.”—Athenæum.
“In conclusion, we would strongly recommend ‘Griselda’ to our readers; assuring them that, in our opinion, they will not easily meet with anything so deserving of popularity, either from the purity of the style, the interest of the story, the fidelity of the translation, the easy flow of the ryhme, or the elegance of the language.”—Foreign and Colonial Quarterly Review.
Just Published, in Demy 8vo., Price 10s., handsomely bound in cloth.
THE COLUMBIAD.
A Poem in Four Parts.
By Archibald Tucker Ritchie, Esq.
Comprising geographical sketches and a narrative of nautical adventures in the Eastern Seas, including the perils of a storm, and providential escape from shipwreck; with meditations on a future state.
Just Published, in Demy 8vo., Price 6s. bound.
DAYS IN THE EAST.
A Poem in two Cantos, descriptive of Scenery in India, the departure from Home, the Voyage, and subsequent Career of an Officer in the East India Company’s Army.
By James Henry Burke, Esq., of Marble Hill;
Lieutenant Bombay Engineers; Member of the Bombay Branch Royal Asiatic Society.
“The stanzas of Mr. Burke bespeak at once high feeling, a vigorous cultivated intelligence, and delicate poetic taste.”—Morning Herald.
In post 8vo, in sewed cover, price 2s. 6d.
THE ANGLO-INDIAN AND COLONIAL ALMANACK, AND CIVIL, MILITARY, AND COMMERCIAL DIRECTORY For 1845.
The HOME DEPARTMENT of the Almanack will comprise—I. Civil and Ecclesiastical; including the Government offices and the India House; together with the forms of procedure, and educational studies, requisite for obtaining civil appointments, and all matters connected with those appointments, from the commencing salary to the retiring allowance. II. Military and Marine; including information of a similar kind respecting these services, and the Home Establishment of the East India Company. III. Commercial; containing lists of Merchants, Agents, Associations, &c., throughout the United Kingdom; likewise the trades connected with India and the Colonies; and tariff of Indian and colonial produce.
The EAST INDIAN AND COLONIAL DEPARTMENT will embrace—I. Civil: The Government Lists of Bengal, Madras, Bombay, Ceylon, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Mauritius, and the Cape of Good Hope; lists of Civil Servants and their appointments, and of Judicial Establishments, with a detailed account of the Benefit Funds. II. Military: Staff and Field Officers; distribution of the Army, including the Royal Troops; Ecclesiastical Establishment; and all Benefit Funds. III. Commercial: List of Mercantile Firms, Banks, Insurance Companies, Public Institutions, &c., in India and the Colonies; with the respective Tariffs, and Tables of Money, Weights, Measures, &c., and other miscellaneous information.
London: Printed by Stewart and Murray, Old Bailey.
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