V. 

 A SPEING EAMBLE IN NOEMANDY. 1 



TT is probable that Normandy has been more 

 often the subject of works widely different 

 in their character than any other part of France. 

 Some of them, it is true, are rather worthless, 

 and it is not very creditable to modern travel- 

 lers that their writings should be inferior to 

 those that were composed years ago. Thus Mr 

 Henry Blackburn's ' Normandy Picturesque ' 

 will bear no comparison with Mr Dawson Tur- 

 ner's ' Letters from Normandy.' But consider- 

 ing how so much literature has been devoted to 

 this small part of France, and how accessible it 

 is from England, it is singular that it is not by 

 any means overrun by English travellers, and 



1 1878. Reprinted by permission of Messrs Sampson 

 Low & Co. 



