434 MONTHLY REVIEW OF LITERATURE. 



Wanderings through Wales. By THOMAS ROSCOE, Esq. Em- 

 bellished with highly-finished Engravings. Part I. Simpkin, and 

 C. Tilt, London. 



Mr. Roscoe has done that which we were ourselves preparing to do; 

 and we thank him, and willingly give him the pas. We have been wan- 

 derers through the land of the Cymri not travellers, but wanderers ; 

 and have visited once and again most of its more lovely scenes, and the 

 spots rendered memorable by historical events. 



Well says Mr. Roscoe, that " in its monumental grandeur, with the 

 foot of heroic nations every where upon its soil, no country presents ob- 

 jects of more peculiar and varied interest, than Wales ;" and when to this 

 is joined its bold and romantic scenery, ennobled by brave and gallant 

 deeds, for it was long the stronghold of independence, the step of the 

 passer-by is often arrested ; and he pauses to people the now lonely and 

 sequestered place with images of wise or heroic men for nature is still 

 there, with its wild sublimity, scarcely changed in appearance from what 

 it was in by-gone ages. 



Mr. Roscoe is just the man to describe such a country. He has a 

 mind properly attuned to feel the beauties and harmonies of nature; and 

 the slight touch of romance that mingles with his descriptions gives an 

 additional charm to the work. 



The plates are admirable, and worthy the text no slight merit. " The 

 dying Llewellyn " is finely drawn, and the accessories remarkably good. 

 What a history does his drooping figure and sinking eye recall ! The 

 lovely Eleonora his gallant arid unfortunate career a perishing coun- 

 try all rise before one, and the eye lingers upon the dying monarch till 

 the paper seems instinct with life. 



The next plate, the " Vale of Llangollen," is a gem of quiet loveliness, 

 and contrasts well with the ruder yet equally characteristic " Caunant 

 Mawr," forming the first plate. 



The number altogether richly deserves the patronage it is certain to 

 procure, and we most warmly wish it every success. 



Letter from an Ex-M.P. to his late Constituents, &c. &c. James 



Ridgway and Sons, London. 



This is a political manifesto from Mr. Peter, late member for Bodmin. It 

 is, on the whole, calmly and temperately written; but its chief value will 

 be found in its forming a condensed estimate of the sayings and doings 

 of the Whig Administration ; being, in short, a kind of summary of 

 the Reform Bill and the Reform Ministry. 



A Letter to the Right Hon. Lord John Russell. By a Beneficed 

 Clergyman of the Protestant Church of Ireland. James Ridgway 

 and Sons, London. 



One of the worst stains upon our ecclesiastical policy is the present 

 condition of the Irish church, and the man who can suggest a practical 

 remedy for its manifold evils will deserve little short of an apotheosis. 



The pamphlet before us is of value of value because it comes from 

 a man who knows what he is writing about, and because he looks on 

 both sides the picture. The following simple announcement speaks a 

 volume : 



" Having passed a considerable part of my life in Ireland, and having 

 resided at a benefice, where I built a glebe-house, and superintended the 

 building of a church, in a parish where there was not a single prot estant 



