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About London

Chapter 33: VOLUNTEER REVIEW.
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A collection of lively, anecdotal essays portraying London society, neighborhoods, and institutions through a reporterly eye. Topics range from newspaper culture, spiritualism, and coal supplies to sketches of Highgate, Westminster Abbey, and metropolitan charitable and commercial life; other pieces examine pedestrian habits, transport and cabs, public morals, matrimonial and breach-of-promise cases, volunteers, criminal underworld, and civic improvements such as free drinking fountains. The tone mixes social observation, historical notes, and practical detail, offering panoramic yet personable portraits of urban customs, politics, and everyday scenes for a Victorian readership.

 

notice.

THE WIMBLEDON SHOOTING-MATCH AND THE VOLUNTEER REVIEW.

 

This day is published, the Second Edition, revised, corrected,
and greatly enlarged, of
mr. geo. augustus sala’s
narrative
of the grand

VOLUNTEER REVIEW.

to which is added an account of the
WIMBLEDON SHOOTING-MATCH.

*** This Edition, which has been enlarged by Sixteen Pages, contains a correct list of all the Volunteer Corps that were reviewed by Her Majesty, with the name of the Commander, description of dress, and number of each Company; as well as a full account of the Grand Rifle-Match at Wimbledon.

 

price sixpence, post free.

 

The Morning Advertiser, of June 29th, says:—

“We anticipate an immediate and extensive sale for this opportune and patriotic publication.  It is a beautiful written and graphic narrative of one of the greatest events—perhaps in its political and military bearings the greatest event—of the present century.  Mr. Sala has evidently written out of the fulness of his heart, and the result is an eloquent and vivid literary review of the greatest military Volunteer Review which has ever been witnessed in this or in any other country.  Mr. Tinsley has done good service to his country in perpetuating the details of that great event by so able and popular a pen as that of Mr. George Augustus Sala, and in publishing the little work at so moderate a price as to place it within the reach of all.”

 

NEW NOVEL, BY MR. VANE ST JOHN.

 

now ready, at all the libraries,

UNDER CURRENTS:
a novel of our day.

by
VANE IRETON ST. JOHN,

Author ofSt. Eustace: or, the Hundred and One.”

 

LONDON: W. TINSLEY, 314, STRAND;
And may be ordered of all Booksellers, and at all Railway Station