2 VOYAGES AND TRAVELS. 
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truly candid manner. To the visitor of Paris, it would have proved an excellent 
manual, and those who have missed the opportunity of personal inspection, 
may here obtain @ correct and interesting representation of that great metropolis. 
Mr. Carr’s “ Stranger in France’ is also a book of much and peculiar merit, as 
its author seems to have enjoyed freer access to the society of Paris than most 
other British travellers. Mr. Weston’s Praise of Paris, and Mr. Morris’s View of 
Modern France, are entitled to notice ; the former as a light elegant sketch, and 
the latter as containing all that kind of information which it is essential for a travel- 
ler, a stranger, and especially an Englishman, to be acquainted with. The travels 
of M. Karamsin, a young Russian, have been translated into English: from Mos- 
cow he traversed Prussia and Germany to Swisserland, whence he proceeded to 
Paris and London. The principal objects of his attention seem to havé been 
the manners and state of society in the various countries which he visited; but 
without a perfect command of the language, a long residence, and numerous intro~ 
ductions, it is in vain to hope for accuracy in these important, complicated, and 
highly interesting investigations. Mr. Muirhead has presented the public with the 
result of his observations on a journey through Holland, the Low Countries and 
part of Germany. It isa work that indicates the good sense of the author, and 
will be read with satisfaction by those who are not so unreasonable as to expect 
much novelty of description in a route that has been so long worn by the wheels 
of British travellers. Mr. Hunter has republished his travels, with some additional 
letters relative to Hungary ; but they are more calculated to interest his private 
friends than communicate information to the scientific or general reader. The 
Jate Mr. A. Butler’s journey through the Low Countries, France and Italy, in the 
years 1745-6, has been published, we know not why, except perhaps to inform the 
catholics in this country of the religious foundations established by their ancestors 
on the continent, and to prop up the declining reverence for relics and monastic 
institutions. The second volume of Professor Pallas’s tours in the Crimea has 
made its appearance, and compleats our knowledge of this celebrated and interest- 
ing country. 
Egypt being restored to its former anarchy, is no longer ina situation to excite 
the hopes and fears of any European state; and the two warlike nations who so lately 
made it the theatre of their furious contentions, are mustering their forces for nearer 
and more desperate enterprizes. The memory however of our Egyptian cam- 
paign has not yet lost its interest. Captain Walsh’s “ History of the Military Pro- 
ceedings,” (which, on account of its technical nature, we have referred to chap. 
xiv.) isa most valuable and authentic document. ‘The author of the “ Non-mili- 
tary Journal” sketches, with a light though faithful pencil, the principal occurrences 
and objects that presented themselves in the casual imtervals from active service. 
Dr. Wittman, presuming on the indiscriminate curiosity of the public, has riske§ 
his character, by allowing his name tobe prefixed to a work copied, for the mosg 
part, from Maundrel and other travellers. 
Our acquaintance with Africa has not been much increased during the lasg 
year. Those, however, who read with discrimination may collect some pare 
sticulars worth knowing from Dr. Winterbottom’s “ Account of the Settle- 
ment of Sierra Leone ;” from Mr. Curtis’s travels in Barbary, and the trans- 
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lation of M. Golbery’s observations on the country about the Senegal. The 
