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CAPTAIN LANAGAN’S LOG.BY EDMUND DOWNEY.This story deals with the light and shade of sea-faring life, and purports to be taken from passages in the experience of a merchant skipper. The book contains a dozen illustration, and is written in a rollicking style, full of interest for boys who are imbued with thespixitof adventure.THE BEGUM'S DAUGHTER.BY KDWIN LA88ETTKB BYWVP,Tbe reader of this book will naturally expect, from its title, to peruse a narrative of scenes in India, or some other oriental place, and will be surprised to find that he is taken back to the early days of New York, when it was as thoroughly Dutch as Amsterdam. The heroine of the story is Catalina, daughter of a Hindoo Begum, married to a prominent resident of the town. The events are laid at the revolutionary time of William and Mary, when the colonies, as well as the mother country, were agitated by the reaotion against the Papists. In the preface the facts of the drama are claimed as based on authentic family records. The book is a very interesting one.
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Sydney Illustrated Sydney News
Sydney, New South Wales, AU
Sat, Oct 10, 1891
Page 10
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