THE 
ANNUAL REVIEW ; 
AND 
HISTORY OF LITERATURE. 
CHAPTER I. 
VOYAGES AND TRAVELS. 
O* comparing the books of voyages and travels, and foreign topography, 
which have been published during the last year, with those that are noticed 
in the former volume of the Annual Review, there will be found a smali increase 
in number, on account of the short cessation of hostilities between Great Britain 
and France. As soon as the treaty of Amiens was signed, multitudes of our 
countrymen were induced by interest and curiosity to visit a nation, doubly strike 
ing from the political changes that it had undergone, and the gigantic energies 
| that it had displayed ; in whose capital were concentrated all those luxuries and 
which an unexampled series of 
‘ elegancies that native ingenuity could invent, or of 
Itineraries and 
victories could compel the surrender from Italy and Germany. 
and plans of Paris, were the first publications that “ 
guides, maps of the roads, 
which during the war had 
dicated the new direction of our moveable population, 
among the watering-places, and the mountains of 
~passed the summer months 
of those who remained at 
“Wales, Cumberland, and Scotland. The eagerness 
home to hear the remarks of their countrymen upon the state of France and its 
was first gratified by the “ Journal of a Party of Pleasure to Paris,” 
“noticed in our former volume: this publication was soon succeeded by others of 
Syarious merit, and the number would doubtless have much increased, if the sudden 
Precommencement of the war had rot again closed the ports of France to British 
visitors. Among the works on this subject which fall within the limits of our 
# present volume, the * Rough Sketch of Modern France” deserves particular 
“distinction: the information communicated is great in quantity, and most judici- 
ously selected; the advantages and inconveniences, the circumstances of pleasure 
or disgust, the vices and the virtues cf mcdern France are stated in an able and 
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