NEW AND CHEAPER EDITION OF ADMIRAL PARRY'S LIFE. A New Edition, in fcp. 8vo., with Portrait and coloured Map of the North-West Passage, price 5s. cloth, MEMOIRS OF ADMIRAL PARRY, THE ARCTIC NAVIGATOR. By his Son, the Rev. E. PARRY, M.A. of Balliol College; Domestic Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of London. Fourth Edition, with an Appendix on the proposal of Union for Prayer in behalf of the Navy. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. "It is with much satisfaction we perceive that Messrs. Longmans have produced this new and cheap edition of a biography, which can never lose its interest for those who feel a pride in the achievements of Englishmen in the paths of discovery, and especially for that profession which Admiral Parry contributed so much to distinguish and adorn.... Few men have lived whose characters present more noble subjects for imitation, than that of this distinguished sailor. He was not more remarkable for energy, intelligence, and resolution, than for a spirit of deep and unaffected piety, which early developed itself, and inspired all his thoughts and governed all his actions. We cannot conceive a book better calculated to exert a healthy and abiding influence on the minds especially of the junior members of the nautical profession, than the modest volume before us. It is the record of one whose life was honourably distinguished and whose end was peace-who served his God as faithfully as he served his sovereign and his country-and who has left a name as remarkable for the strict observance of every Christian duty as for its imperishable association with the honours and rewards of Arctic discovery." "A remarkable insight is given in these pages into the character of the man who accomplished these great enterprises of Arctic discovery.... One of the most exemplary and also attractive pictures that can be presented to the imagination or left for the guidance of youth." LITERARY GAZETTE. "The life of Sir Edward Parry will be a valuable addition to our stores of Christian biography.... His life and death were both in keeping. He fought the good fight of faith. He had cast his anchor within the vail, and looking to Jesus as the Captain of his salvation, he possessed the true secret of happiness both for this world and for eternity." RECORD. MITCHELL'S MARITIME REGISTER. "Admiral Parry's life is an interesting record of successful contest with the billows of the troubled sea of life, no less than with those of the great deep. The portraiture of him here presented is that of an eminent Christian as well as of a gallant sailor." JOHN BULL. London: LONGMAN, BROWN, and CO., Paternoster Row. NEW AND CHEAPER EDITION OF THE LIFE OF THE LATE COLONEL ARMINE MOUNTAIN, C.B. Just published, in One Volume, fcp. 8vo. with a Portrait drawn on stone by R. J. Lane, A.E.R.A. MEMOIRS AND LETTERS OF THE LATE COLONEL A. S. H. MOUNTAIN, C.B. Aide-de-Camp to the Queen and Adjutant-General of Her Majesty's Edited by MRS. MOUNTAIN. Second Edition, revised and corrected. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. "In this brief volume we have the story of a soldier's life, its most prominent characteristic being that it is the life of a true gentleman, who was not afraid to be known as an earnestly religious man. Apart from the interest of a character in which the mildest temper of religion blends itself with chivalrous devotion to the soldier's calling, the book is noticeable for its faithful sketches of things seen and done in the last war with China, for the (favourable) view it takes of Chinese character, and for many facts and incidents contained in it, illustrative of public history." EXAMINER. "Seldom have we read of a more delightful character in every relation. Religion was interfused in every thought and action, and working through a naturally amiable disposition, the result was excellence in every department. A sunny though deeply sensitive temperament (in which we may perhaps trace some impress of his French extraction, being of the family of old Montaigne), strong domestic affections, as son, brother, husband, parent; an unswerving sense of duty; an abiding consciousness of reliance on and responsibility to a higher power, and a continual spirit of self-sacrifice, contribute to form this portrait of a true gentleman and a Christian soldier." GLOBE. "Had we a friend in the army, we know of no book that we should be disposed to put into his hands sooner than the Life of Colonel Mountain. He held very different opinions from our own in matters religious and political; he venerated the Established Church tar more than we pretend to do, but we remember he was the son of one of her bisnops; he avows an ignorant horror of the Manchester school which we do not at all partake, but can easily pardon a soldier for feeling. And he has left us in these letters a very intelligent and instructive view of many Eastern questions of growing importance, whilst his character is a noble example of the Christian gentleman and soldier." FREEMAN. "It would be well if every young officer in service to read these Memoirs. Sure we are the army were bound by the regulations of the that in no way could he learn his duty better, or gain a clearer view of the meaning and greatness of a soldier's character. It is no wonder that an army should be invincible if it contains many such officers as Colonel Moun. tain." MORNING HERALD. "The Memoirs of Colonel Mountain ought to be read by every British officer. Other biographies may be more instructive in military details, or more attractive in records of great exploits, but we know no work that presents a better pattern and example for professional study and imitation.' LITERARY GAZETTE. "This is a pleasing memoir of a good soldier and a good man. The charm of the volume lies in Colonel Mountain's private character, and especially in the simple, unostentatious depth of his religion. To appreciate his character, the volume must be read steadily throughout, and it will repay the trouble. Colonel Mountain writes exceedingly well, and even where he describes familiar things, he communicates the freshness of his own impressions to them." GUARDIAN. London: LONGMAN, BROWN, and CO., Paternoster Row. |