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NOW READY , in One Demy 8 vo . Vol . cloth extra , 18 s . QUEEN'S HIGHWAY " FROM OCEAN . TO OCEAN . By STUART CUMBERLAND , F . R . G . S ., Author of * The Rabbi ' s Spell' < fec . WITH NUMEROl & S ILLUSTRATIONS AND GOOt > MAPS . ¦ V ¦ ¦ ' ¦ V ; ¦ : ' ¦ ¦ ; - ' ; ¦ pi nions of gtwincnl Qxttfyotiius . The Right Hok . Sir Henry HoLLAifD , Secretary orstai ; e for the Coiqnies , 5 ay ^ : — < J ? m ^ y about 'out booh the " with Great interest Highway arid v * amusement or , d &' you call . I it think , ^ The it Qaee a valuable w ^ s Hig ' h addition way ' , to * tliebooln and papers Lord LAKSDOWNE , Governor-General of Canada , says i— I shall never forget tlie splendour of the than scenery your ordinary or the beauties " readers of tile the account Pacific coast you have , and given I $ 7 iaU of these read with sin ^ , idarl probab y attr ly even active more regions appreciation ? The Maequis op Lorse ^ ex-Gqvernor-General of Canada , says : —* I have read " The Queen ' s Highway " from end to end , and I thinji it gives a , capital andconcise > account , not only of the great railway and its history ' , bidoj'the mainfeaturesof Canadi & n life and policy , ' Mb . Henry XiAbouchere says ( in Truth ) : —* A very readable booh . ... . I recommend Mr . Stuart Cumberland ' s record . It is replete ? vith information , and anyone reading it will be able to form a clear notion respecting the scenery and capabilities of the Great North-West ? enlarg Mr ing . Gladstone my knowled say ge ? s : — ' You Jiave given me ¦ ;; a p _ leasing . opportunity _ of refreshing my memory and § o \ ne Opinions of i \) c l ^ fress . ' The author of " The Queen ' s Highway" was the first person to make the journey from the Antipodes to England over the new route . He was commissioned by a syndicate of Australasian and Indian and English newspapers to give a description of the new line . He has admirably fulfilled his instructions . He not only proves to demonstration the advantages of the Canadian Pacific Railway in point of convenience to travellers and in economy of time over the American lines , but he energetically , and we think successfully , shows that the opening of the new channel of communication between our Pacific and Atlantic colonies must tend , not only to a large exten-: sion of our Imperial commerce , but to the material strengthening of the bonds of kinsmanship which must not he be rightly underrated says is . a " consideration ¦ There are possible which , circumstances "in these days in of which disunion even and India rumours mig of ht disunion find the , new line the only safe road by which she could have touch with Great Britain . To China and Japan " The Queen ' s Highway" opens facilities which will hardly be neglected for reciprocal exchanges with the Dominion of Canada . These are matters on which Mr . Cumberland speaks with of the the much simp -calumniated le eloquence Hudson of well ' - s assured Bay Company conviction is particularl The y deserving writer ' s summary of praise of . the There history is an that excellent we have chapter no space in this to book quote on from Winni it peg , or , the from halfway the admirable -house on descri the Queen ptions 's Hi of g M hway ontreal . We , Quebec regret , and Ottawa , and of Nova Scotia , " the Ireland of Canada . "'—Saturday Eeview . thoroug ' Mr . hl Cumberlan y trustworth d has y and reall thoroug y done hl his y interesting work well . His own Mr . experi Stuart ences Cumberlan are vividly d is for and the racily part - most described prominent ; he lets men us and see the their lan op d inions and the . ' — people Scotsman , and . ne makes us acquainted with some of its Canadian * This handsome Pacific Kail volume from may Ocean be said to to Ocean present with a pan abundant orama of information the country as along to the the resources line of and the emp commerce ire at l of arg each e province way AH , are its freshly social features put , .. , , . its . With position respect in regard to political to the questions Dominion the and tone the of the book is healthily and broadly patriotic' —St . James's Gazette . . .. - London : SAMPSON LOWMARSTONSEAELE EIVINGTON St . Dunstan's House , , Fetter Lane , Fleet Street , * E . G . , II
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Sept. 1, 1887, page 968, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01091887/page/26/
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