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scenery of Switzerland, of the Pyrenees and the Alps, and countries 

 far removed, who never think of exploring the principality, within 

 a few miles only of their reach. We have certainly had intelligent 

 writers on the landscape beauties of Wales, but how very few in 

 comparison with those of foreign countries. Yet we undertake to 

 inform our travelled countrymen that Wales possesses as many 

 natural beauties in upland and in lowland scenery even as the classic 

 regions of Italy. It wants, truly, its delicious climate, for North 

 Wales, in Winter, we must allow, is not very particularly favour- 

 able to thin-skinned frequenters of the south, and that the air is 

 occasionally, in that season, a little sharp — but if a traveller be in 

 health, and can walk sufficiently to keep his blood in circulation, and 

 has a real, a decided, not an aiFected taste for the beauties of nature 

 in the lofty and the grand, he will search the world in vain for a 

 more romantic and rapture-kindling country than Wales. Although 

 not Welchmen, we are extremely fond of the country, of its mutton, 

 its poultry, its fish, its butter, and of its sincere and warm-hearted 

 natives — and we thank Mr. Roscoe, Mr. RadclyfTe, and Messrs. 

 Cattermole, Cox, and Creswick^ for pourtraying with such infinite 

 taste and judgment so many of the landscape beauties with which 

 our favourite country abounds. 



Of the preceeding numbers we have before spoken very highly, 

 and we are now of opinion that the work maintains its ground with 

 a steadiness which must bring it into extensive circulation. A more 

 beautifully illustrated work, at treble its cost, we never beheld, and 

 great praise is due to all the parties concerned in its execution. 



Souvenirs pendant un Voyage en Orient, par A. De Lamartine. 

 Vols III. and IV. London : E. Churton, Holies Street ; and 

 J. B. Bailliere, Regent Street, 1835. 



Amongst the cheap and neatly printed portable volumes which 

 are now become so much in request, is a publication of the Standard 

 French Works, that is of French works which time and general ap- 

 probation have made valuable. De Lamartine is an excellent 

 specimen of the most select and meritorious standard works from 

 France, at a rate even cheaper than that at which they are pro- 

 duced abroad, and with the important advantages of neat and cor- 

 rect typography, and an external form more adapted to the prevail- 

 ing taste. The price, which is no unimportant consideration, is 

 one-third less than the foreign editions, as by the useful aid of com- 

 pression, two volumes are squeezed into one, by which attention to 

 economy the preference given on the score of cheapness will no 

 longer sustain its ground. 



On looking through this double volume of De Lamartine we find 

 it distinguished by remarkable correctness as well as by extreme 

 typographical neatness. The maps, too, on which the adventurous 

 course is traced, are very clearly delineated. We cannot doubt of 

 the success of the publisher in this undertaking. 



