The Lucknow Diary (Containing A Series of Fifty Photographic Views of Lucknow and Its Environs Togethek with A Laege Sized Plan of the City)

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This diary of Lucknow, the Capital of Oudh serves as a pictorial guide of the historical account of the lost heritage of Lucknow. Prostrate columns, broken arches, scathed monuments, neglected gardens are all objects of interest and curiosity to the tourist, antiquarian, historian, archaeologist and the lover of art. This volume may be preserved, for transmission to posterity, as a memorial of the dangers passed and the hardships suffered by the, glorious Garrison of Lucknow.

RUINS, ancient and modern, bearing marks of oriental splendour and extravagance; the relics of Monarchies now passed away: prostrate columns, broken arches, colonnades, fountains, statues, shattered and shot-battered walls, scathed monuments, telling of the horrors of war, rebellion and siege; neglected gardens and roofless, dismantled palaces, fast fall- ing into decay, are all objects of interest and curiosity to the tourist, the antiquary, the historian, the archæologist and the lover of art. The city of Lucknow, the capital of Oudh, abounds with objects of this description in all the intense sublimity of ruin, and evincing the stern decrees of fate that have thus destined them to destruction, and that, but for the present volume, would have ruthlessly consigned them to everlasting oblivion. The thrilling historical or traditionary narratives that from time to time have been published, and the glowing descriptions that have been given by travellers, have, since railway communication became available, had the effect of considerably increasing the number of visitors; the want of an "Illustrated Album," that should also act as a guide, being consequently felt, the present volume has been prepared, at great expense, and profusely illustrated, to supply that want, and the projectors hope that it will. succeed in fostering the spirit of enquiry, to which the his tories of the objects afore mentioned have so manifestly given birth, and to which the educated Natives of India and the travelling public of all nations throughout the civilized world are so much attached.