MR. REEVE'S LIST OP PUBLICATIONS. 15 



WORKS ILLUSTRATED WITH STEREOGRAPHS. 



40. 



Narrative of a Walking Tour in Brittany. 



By JOHN MOUNTENEY JEPHSON, B.A., F.S.A. Accompanied by Notes 

 of a Photographic Expedition by LOVELL REEVE, F.L.S. 

 Royal 8vo, with Map by Arrowsmith, and Stereoscopic Frontispiece, price 12*' 



" Now, my reader if I am so fortunate as to obtain one has to make up his mind to 

 be my fellow-traveller for five weeks. He will be called upon to sympathize with me in 

 prosperity and adversity, in shine and shower, in picturesque scenes and in tame, in bad 

 inns and in good. He must watch with me the joyous peasants of Finisterre gathering in 

 the harvest, among rows of apple-trees loaded with rosy fruit, or beating out the grain 

 in the homestead with measured stroke, or dressed in all the splendour of their traditional 

 costume, threading the mazes of the ronde as their forefathers did in the days of Chaucer 

 and Froissart. He must traverse with me the savage plains of Morbihan, bristling with 

 the monumental granite of the Druids, and rough with entrenchments where Caesar's 

 legionaries pitched their tents. We must pace together the dim mysterious cloisters of 

 the medieval cathedral, and climb the purple mountain, and penetrate the hollow bridle- 

 road, and linger beside the brown rocky stream, the sculptured well, the wayside cross, 

 the grotesque Calvary, and the ruined donjon, which a Du Guesclin held against a Chandos 

 or a Chandos against a Du Guesclin. We must rest together on the farmer's settle, and 

 the bench of the village inn, while the tailor plays the biniou, or the white-capped peasant- 

 girl sings the plaintive sone of her country, or relates the Celtic fairy-tale or the medieval 

 legend. We must mingle our regrets when our only fare is a gigot which has helped to 

 carry the patriarch of that flock of white-eyebrowed goats which we passed in the morning, 

 across the rocky hills of Fiuisterre, and rejoice together when a talented chef exhausts all 

 the resources of his art to serve us with a refreshing potage, a delicate fricandeau a I'oseille, 

 or a savoury canard aux olives." FEOM THE INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 



%* Issued separately are Ninety Stereoscopic pictures, mounted on cards for 

 use in the ordinary Stereoscope, in box with lock and key, price 5. 5-y. 



Teneri/e. 41 - 



An Astronomer's Experiment ; or, Specialities of a Residence above the 

 Clouds. By Prof. PIAZZI SMYTH, Her Majesty's Astronomer for Scotland. 

 Second Thousand, in One Vol., 450 pages, 20 Stereographs, price 21*. 



" The special interest of this work lies in the fact that it supplies the first example of the 

 application of the principle of the stereoscope to book-illustration. A neat little folding 

 stereoscope, called the Book Stereoscope, accompanies the volume, and may stand beside it on 

 the book-ahelf, not occupying more space than a pamphlet. When opened for use, the Book- 

 Stereoscope is exceedinglylight, andean, with the most perfect ease and comfort totheperson 

 using it, be applied over the pair of stereoscopic photographs which form each illustration. 

 There are twenty of such illustrations, which would cost more than the price of the work 

 which contains them, if sold in the ordinary way as stereoscopic slides. A more interesting 

 series no dealer in these wares could produce ; nearly all the pictures have been taken at 

 heights of from seven to twelve thousand feet above the level of the sea, and on the lower 

 ground we are shown a dragon-tree walk, a cactus-garden, cochineal-gatherers at work, 

 and other scenes never before realized in this manner to eyes in England. The scientific 

 results of the expedition have been communicated to the Royal Society. The details inte- 

 resting to the public and Professor Piazzi Smyth is by no means a Dryasdust in science 

 appear in the volume before us, and deserve a cordial welcome.'' EXAMINER. 



" Mr. Smyth's illustrations being stereographs are of course literal, and owe nothing to 

 the embellishment of the artist, and his descriptions have the same genuine character." 



EXPRESS. 

 ii 



42. 



Stereoscopic Views in North Wales. 



Photographed by R. FENTON, M.A. With Descriptive Letterpress. 

 One vol. 8vo. Twenty-one plates, 21$. 



