GUIDE BOOKS.
Reading edition
NEW ENGLAND. A Handbook for Travelers. A Guide to the Chief Cities and Popular Resorts of New England, and to its Scenery and Historic Attractions. With the Western and Northern Borders from New York to Quebec. With 6 Maps and 11 Plans. 13th Edition, revised and enlarged annually. 16mo, $1.50.
It is a small compact volume, with maps and plans and tours; with history condensed, and such illustrations as make it a constant help and pleasure to the tourist. It is admirably put together, and is a vast labor-saving guide for one who wishes to know what to see and what he is seeing.—Rev. Dr. Prime, in New York Observer.
THE WHITE MOUNTAINS. A Handbook for Travelers. A Guide to the Peaks, Passes, and Ravines of the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and to the Adjacent Railroads, Highways, and Villages; with the Lakes and Mountains of Western Maine, also Lake Winnepesaukee and the Upper Connecticut Valley. With 6 Maps and 6 Panoramas, including the new Appalachian Club Map. 12th Edition, revised and enlarged annually. 16mo, $1.50.
Worthy of rank with the best books of its kind. It is complete and exhaustive, its information is exact, and its maps are voluminous. It is not only a good thing for a satchel, but deserves a place in the library.—Outing (New York).
THE MARITIME PROVINCES. A Handbook for Travelers. A Guide to the Chief Cities, Coasts, and Islands of the Maritime Provinces of Canada, and to their Scenery and Historic Attractions; with the Gulf and River of St. Lawrence to Quebec and Montreal; also, Newfoundland, and the Labrador Coast. With 4 Maps and 4 Plans. 9th Edition, revised and enlarged annually. 16mo, $1.50.
By its intrinsic value, copiousness of information, and impartiality it is likely to take the place of all other guides or hand-books of Canada which we know of.—Quebec Chronicle.
You should take a good guide-book (Sweetser's Maritime Provinces is by far the best—containing everything about the various parts of the Provinces).—British American Citizen.
DICTIONARY OF BOSTON. By Edwin M. Bacon. New Edition, revised. With Introduction by George E. Ellis, D. D., and Map. 12mo, flexible cloth, $1.50; boards, $1.00.
One cannot conceive of a more handy book of its kind. For a long time just such a compendious volume, with just such concisely and authoritatively written articles, has been needed.... It is a cyclopædia of the Boston of to-day, interesting and necessary to every Bostonian.—Boston Advertiser.
BOSTON ILLUSTRATED. An Artistic and Pictorial Description of Boston and its Surroundings. Containing full descriptions of the City and its immediate Suburbs, Harbor, and Islands, etc., with numerous Historical Allusions. New Edition, by Edward M. Bacon, revised to date, and containing additional Illustrations and Map. 12mo, paper, 50 cents.
The aim has been to present much information in small compass; to make a ready reference book as well as a handy pocket guide.
SATCHEL GUIDE. For the Vacation Tourist in Europe. Annual Edition, revised to date, with additions, and printed from new Plates. A compact Itinerary of the British Isles, Belgium, and Holland, Germany and the Rhine, Switzerland, France, Austria, and Italy. With Maps of Great Britain and Ireland, Continental Europe, Switzerland, Street Plans of London and Paris, Tables of the Comparative Values of United States and European Moneys, a Traveler's Calendar of Ecclesiastical and Popular Festivals, Fairs, etc. 16mo, roan, flexible, $1.50, net.
The book is indeed a model of perspicacity and brevity; all the advice it gives will be found of immediate service. The "Satchel Guide" tells the reader how to travel cheaply without a sacrifice of comfort, and this feature of the book will recommend it to many tourists.—Pall Mall Gazette.
No voyager to Europe for the first time should fail to take the "Satchel Guide" with him.... The work stands approved by long experience.—New York Evening Post.
It will prove an invaluable companion to any one who wishes to travel quickly, economically, and to the best advantage.—New York Tribune.
It is the first book we should put in the hands of one going abroad, with an assurance that it might be implicitly trusted.—Boston Transcript.
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY, 4 Park St., Boston; 11 East 17th St., New York.
Transcriber's Note
Some inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original document has been preserved.
Typographical errors corrected in the text:
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Page 35 stanch changed to staunch
Page 78 Espagna changed to Spagna
Page 175 boatman changed to boatmen
Page 201 asigned changed to assigned
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