ODESSA. 



OUR first impression on looking into this work of Mr. IVIoore,* 

 was, that the author had done himself injustice, by printing and pub- 

 lishing his book in a foreign country. On examining the volume 

 more critically, however, we must say, that he appears to have had 

 ample justice at the hands of his publishers, the Messrs. Galignani, 

 and that the corrector of the press has done his duty in a manner 

 highly creditable to the establishment to which he belongs. 



Mr. Moore tells the story of his travels in an easy and pleasing 

 style, indulging occasionally in a tone of subdued and quiet humour, 

 which never allows us to forget that we are receiving our impressions 

 from a gentleman. The general reader will find in his pages an 

 hour's agreeable relaxation : the traveller, who proposes to visit 

 these countries, will have many of his difficulties removed ; and the 

 merchant, who has dealings with Odessa, and the shores of the Black 

 Sea, will obtain a great deal of useful information. 



In going to Odessa, Mr. Moore took the route by Brussels, Dres- 

 den, and Brody ; and from thence by the new road through the 

 Erovinces of New Russia, of which his account excites the antagonist 

 ;elings of interest and repugnance. His return is by the more 

 beaten track of the post-road to Vienna, and from thence to Paris, 

 where he very properly leaves us to find our way home without his 

 assistance. The itinerary subjoined to the volume, by way of ap- 

 pendix, appears to be constructed with extraordinary care, exhibiting 

 both routes in French posies, German miles, Russian wersts, and 

 English miles. Such a work appears to us to have been wanted ; 

 such accounts as have hitherto been published, of that portion of the 

 Russian empire which has been visited by Mr. Moore, being so con- 

 cise or so loose as to border on obscurity. The author's personal ad- 

 ventures on the journey, are extremely well told, and serve as agree- 

 able condiments to the more substantial fare which his pages present 

 to us. The notices of those parts of Poland through which he tra- 

 velled, are not so full as we could have wished ; but they are written 

 in a spirit which no friend of freedom will object to. The anecdotes 

 with which the narrative is enlivened, do honour to our traveller's 

 taste ; and the access which he obtained at Vienna, to the young 

 Duke of Reichstadt, has given him the means of introducing a gra- 

 phic description of the prince's person, which derives a new interest 

 from his untimely end. 



But it is time that we should allow Mr. Moore to speak for him- 

 self. In a letter, from what is called the free city of Cracow, after 

 giving some account of what he had seen on his arrival, our author 

 introduces the following incident. 



* A Journey from London to Odessa, with Notices of New llussia, &c. by 

 John Moore. Paris. Galignani. 1833. 



