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816 13, Great Marlborough•atreet. MESSRS. HURST and BLACKETT, Successors to Mr. Colburn, have just published the ful. lowing NEW WORKS:— THE OXONIAN IN NORWAY ' • or, Notes of Excursions in that country. By the Bev. ERF.DERIC K METCAI.FE, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. 2 Nole., with Illustrations, 21s. EASTERN HOSPITALS and ENGLISH NURSES : the Narrative of Twelve Months' Exper ience in the Hospitals of Koulale and Scutari. By a L &DY VOLUNTEER. Second Edition, 2 vols.. 21e. " A production which not only in the subject matter, but in its treatment, is filled with the purest and best evidence of wo manly tenderness. ' Eastern Hospitals and English Nurses' will no doubt commaud a good circulation." -- The Times, August 12. LAKE NGA M I; or, Explorations and Discoveries in South• Western Africa. By CHARLES JOHN ANDERSSON. Second Edition, royal Bvo., with Fifty Illus. trations of Sporting Scenes, Subjects of Natural History, &c. sOs. bound. 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Plato gives us the feast of reason ; North the flow of soul The result is a series of dialogue4, in exuberance of life delightful, in dramatic truth perfect, full of the most salient descriptions, the most searching ciiticisin, withering satire, manly pathos, and broadest humour."—Timea. "The ' Noctes ' are a valuable contribution to our literature. They are the effusions of a powerful mind—wide and various in the 'r subject. embracing the current topics of their time, and throwing no small light on its history. They give the impres sion, in a degree rarely equalled, of being written out of the author's fulness, flowing spontaneously and without effort, and bringing the reader into intercourse, not with a literateur but with • man, while yet they are constructed with admirable dramatic skill in the embodiment and discrimination of the persona who take part in them. 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PERIOD. let Year, ending Nov., 1851 .. 2nd Year, ending Nov., 1862 .. 3rd Year, ending Nov., 18153 4th Year, ending Nov., 1454 .. sth Year, ending Noe., 1856 .. Six Month., ending J une, 1858 No. of Policies. b 73 1,247 d2O Amount Assured. 095,783 198,863 268,A0 193,370 388,335 198,991 Amount Insured. 142,398.994 7,428,01 a 7,546,043 4,891,t'48 Producing in Annl. Prms. 13,0921 b 9 6,381 1 7 8,648 15 2 6.160 15 7 12,517 5 2 6,077 5 10 U 2,877 17 1 3,056 111,339,801) For Prospectuses and further information apply to THOMAS H. BAYLIS, Managing Director. EAGI,E INSURANCE COMPANY. Established 1.07. Empowered by Act of Parliament, 53 tiro. 111., and regulated by Deed enrolled in the High Courtof Chancery. _ . 3, Crescent, New Bridge-etreet, Blackfriars, London. DIRECTORS. CHAS. THOS. HOLCOMBE, Esq., Chairman. RICHARD HARMAN LLOYD, Esq., Deputy Chairman. Charles Bischoff, Esq. Joshua Lockwood, Esq. Thomas Boddington, Esq. W. Anderson Peacock, Esq. Thomas Devas, Esq. Ralph Charles Price, Esq. 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