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CALCUTTA PAST AND PRESENT.
By KATHLEEN BLECHYNDEN.
Illustrated from Portraits and Engravings, with a Coloured Frontispiece.
Being' an outline Sketch of the principal events which have made a small
trading Settlement into the premier City of India, and containing much interesting
information regarding the old-time Buildings, Inhabitants, Customs, and Life in
general in Old Calcutta.
Capital.— "The authoress has arranged her material so well, that everything
connected with the city and its fortunes passes before the reader in panoramic
array. The social life of the inhabitants is depicted in entertaining fashion, and
the streets, along with the pedigree of their names, will have n new and living
interest to the reader after he rises from the banquet of the book."
Tie Stalttmait. — "She has succeeded in writing a gossipy volume, that will well repay the bestowal of a leisure hour. Miss Blechyndcn has added a pleasantly -eady adorned by the
Crown 8vo., cloth.
HARTLY HOUSE, CALCUTTA.
Reprinted from the Edition of 1789, with Notes by the late
JOHN MACFARLANE
(formerly Librarian of the Imperial Library, Calcutta}.
Introduction by Mr. G. W. BARWICK,
Preface by Mr. H. E. A. COTTON, and a Map.
