3-078-326 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Deck-quoits, 1895. Illustration from "A Ramble Round the Globe" by Thomas R. Dewar (Chatto and Windus). 'Mr. Dewar is surely one of the most light-hearted among the many who have "put a girdle round about the earth."...From the first page to the last [his book] is spiced with light-hearted and humorous observations. Mr. Dewar treats all countries alike...All things provide him with stories...The delights of Honolulu move him to raptures; he found Samoa perfect, and the voyage thence to New Zealand entirely pleasant. If he was not so fortunate in the passage from Wellington to Hobart he could yet console himself with deck-quoits and the fascinating partners, of whose charms he does not fail to speak in rippling phrases. A similarly happy vein is to be remarked when he writes glowingly of girls in "'rickshas" at Hong-Kong, and, being moved thereby to new efforts of humour, he contrives to come to Charing Cross long before he or his reader has known any fatigue of the ramble. The illustrations to the book are exceedingly numerous and remarkably funny'. Book review by Max Pemberton. Scottish whisky distiller Thomas Dewar travelled the world to find new markets and promote his product. Published in "Illustrated London News", 1895.