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PALL MALL GAZETTE.
“ Au exceedingly interesting and well-illustrated volume.”
DAILY NEWS .
“ Nothing can be more complete than the account of the scientific results
of these voyages, which are fully illustrated hy woodcuts of the strange forms of
life brought from the dark depths of the ocean, by charts of soundings, and
elaborate tables of the deep-sea temperature. The book is another admirable
example of that mingling of literary interest with the scientific completeness
and value which is the only true form of what is called in lumbering but expressive
phrase, “ the popularization of science.”
BRITISH QUARTERLY.
“ I t is a rare treat to the reviewer to be able to introduce to tbe public of
this age a book whicli really enlarges the boundaries of our knowledge, and
is the result of original investigation, conducted with the care, and caution, and
independence, which are elements which compose the atmosphere of true science.
. . . . The description of the instruments used are so simple and void of
technicalities, their defects are so candidly pointed out, and the gradual advances
by which that which was defective in the constniotion of the earlier
ones have been remedied, are so explained, that, with the aid of the admirably
clear illustrations also given, any' man of common sense can estimate tbe trustworthiness
of the observations, and will be enabled in future to follow all the
accounts of the operations of the deep-sea explorers of the ‘Challenger,’ or any
other subsequent expedition of the like character. ”
SCOTSMAN.
“ A volume which, to all who are able to appreciate its facts to the naturalist,
the geologist, and the student of physical geography, is certain to prove of surpassing
interest, and to give them a foretaste of the still greater results which
may be anticipated from the great dredging expedition, which has just left our
shores, under the scientific direction of Sir Wyville Thomson. The work is
well furnished with maps and charts, which are indispensable to the proper
understanding of the texts ; while the woodcuts, illustrating chiefly the more
interesting of the new species added to onr marine fauna, are both numerous and
splendidly executed.
FIELD.
“ The illustrations arc admirable, we have rarely seen figures on wood so exquisitely
drawn and engraved, or so carefully printed. Take it all in all, ‘The
Depths of the Sea’ is a work of rare merit, and will be of enduring utility ; it
does infinite credit to all concerned in its production.
F I F T H AND C H E A P E R E D I T I O N .
Crown 8vo. 6s.
L O G - L E T T E E S
FROM
T H E “ O H A L L E N G E E . ”
BY LORD GEORGE CAMPBELL.
W ITH COLOURED MAP.
EXAMINER.
“ It is the ever fresh and exhaustless enjoyment of life, which gives the
great charm of this book, and we do not hesitate to say that anything so
fresh, so picturesque, and so generally delightful as these log-letters has not
appeared among books of travel for a long time.”
STANDARD.
“ A more lively and amusing record of travel we have not had the fortune to
read for some time. The whole book is pervaded by a spirit of life, animation,
and fun . . . . while the descriptions of scenery, and especially of sky and light
effects, are given with a vividness and power of language which is rare indeed.”
NATURE.
“ A thoroughly good and most original observer he is, with a faculty of telling
what he has seen in snch a way as keeps the reader in a constant state of
exhilaration..............A more entertaining, a more genuinely bracing book, it
would be difficult to find, and the reader who goes carefully to the end of it
will have added considerably to his knowledge of the earth’s surface. ”