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Featuring two poems, 'Heart's Home' and 'Autumn Farewell to Drottningholm',  translated by Anna Mary Howitt. The article attributes these poems to King Oscar of Sweden, presumably Oscar I of Sweden, as Oscar II would not come to the throne until 1872. Other sources attribute the poems to King Charles XV of Sweden, eldest son of Oscar I and the older brother of Oscar II.

Attribution: later republished as  Edward Backhouse Eastwick, Venezuela: or, Sketches of Life in a South American Republic: with the History of the loan of 1864 (London: Chapman and Hall, 1868).

Part of a series of articles on South American by Eastwick published in All the Year Round. See also 'To Venezuela: Sailing on a Friday, All the Year Round, XIV, No. 341, 'At la Guaira', All the Year Round, XIV, No. 343, 'At Caracas', All the Year Round, XIV, No. 344, 'To Puerto Cabello', All the Year Round, XIV, No. 349, 'Traits of Republican Life', All the Year Round, XV, No. 353, 'Valencia Sight-Seeing', All the Year Round, XV, No. 359, 'Ermenia', All the Year Round, XV, No. 366, 'Major Milligan's Mistake', All the Year Round, XIX, No. 461 and 'Carabobo', All the Year Round, XIX, No. 466.

Attribution: reprinted in Andrew Halliday, Sunnyside Papers (London: Tinsley Brothers, 1866).

1) Advertisement for the Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round.
2) Advertisement for the volume publication of Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens.
3) Advertisement for the commencement of 'The Second Mrs. Tillotson' in All the Year Round.

This article is based on Louis Figuier, The World before the Deluge (1863, 2nd edn, 1867).