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Critical Notices Of The Literature Of The Last Three Months,
Andalusia . " * Her ladyship , pursuing her vocation of an amateur landscape artist , has found in Spain all that she could wish for ; and in grateful return for the scenes of surpassing loveliness with which Dame Nature gratified her insatiable love of the picturesque , we have a book teeming with admiration for all that is good and excellent in that favoured land ; and gently forgetful of the many drawbacks which a bad goA emment and
a mutative spirit of commercial monopoly has entailed upon it . From old Spain the genius of travel bids us accompany her across the ocean to a distant continent , and with Mr . Palliser explore the prairies of America , t in pursuit of the buffalo and the grisly bear . Like a true hunter , as he doubtless is , this gentleman seems to have rambled over hill and elide , rifle in hand , content to dine off wolf chops preparatory to an encounter with the evil spirit of the Rocky Mountains , in the shape of
a huge bear , or a still more terrible brush with a band of Red Indians . Yet in spite of these little excitements , Mr . Palliser seems to have had an eye to the scenery in the midst of which they took place , and of which he lias given us several living sketches . A description also of Indian and trading life forms a part of the work ; and several shrewd observations , showing that the author is something of a naturalist as well as a hunter , are interspersed with incidents of travel on the Western rivers , in the neighbourhood of slai'e-loving New Orleans . Altogether , the book furnishes an amusing narrative of field sports in the far West , well deserving
the perusal of those who have a taste for them . Dr . Forbes , ^ also , has favoured us with a sketch of his traA'els , somewhat nearer home than those of Mr . Palliser , and in default of bears and wolves , has provided a genial sketch of the state of Ireland , through the length aud breadth of which he and his companions strolled together during the autumn , of last year . Like the tour in Switzerland , by the same author , the book is more than a pleasing account of a vacation trip .
It abounds , in truth , with the careful results of shrewd observation upon men and things ; ancl is calculated , if people will only read it as it deserves to be read , to dispel many foolish prejudices against Ireland , aud to open up to English lovers of the picturesque and beautiful many a pleasing journey , as far out of the line of ordinary tourists as Norway , or the Arctic regions . Moreover , it will set to rights a few very wrong notions about Irish landlordism and tenantism , and some few other isms bearing
on the political and social condition of the sister isle , which cannot be too soon got rid of . Properly speaking , Colonel Churchill ' s " Mount Lebanon" § has no very distinct claim to be ranked amongst travels , since it is rather the result of a long residence tinder the cedars of that noted mount than of any journeying thither or thence . Unfortunately , also , the work is rather a heavy one , although full of valuable information upon a vast variety of
subjects ; and for this reason a summary of its . contents is altogether out of the question . The least we could say of it , were Ave to attempt the task , would occupy more space than we can conveniently spare , and certainly more than our readers could get through with anything like patience ; for
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Critical Notices Of The Literature Of The Last Three Months,
Andalusia . " * Her ladyship , pursuing her vocation of an amateur landscape artist , has found in Spain all that she could wish for ; and in grateful return for the scenes of surpassing loveliness with which Dame Nature gratified her insatiable love of the picturesque , we have a book teeming with admiration for all that is good and excellent in that favoured land ; and gently forgetful of the many drawbacks which a bad goA emment and
a mutative spirit of commercial monopoly has entailed upon it . From old Spain the genius of travel bids us accompany her across the ocean to a distant continent , and with Mr . Palliser explore the prairies of America , t in pursuit of the buffalo and the grisly bear . Like a true hunter , as he doubtless is , this gentleman seems to have rambled over hill and elide , rifle in hand , content to dine off wolf chops preparatory to an encounter with the evil spirit of the Rocky Mountains , in the shape of
a huge bear , or a still more terrible brush with a band of Red Indians . Yet in spite of these little excitements , Mr . Palliser seems to have had an eye to the scenery in the midst of which they took place , and of which he lias given us several living sketches . A description also of Indian and trading life forms a part of the work ; and several shrewd observations , showing that the author is something of a naturalist as well as a hunter , are interspersed with incidents of travel on the Western rivers , in the neighbourhood of slai'e-loving New Orleans . Altogether , the book furnishes an amusing narrative of field sports in the far West , well deserving
the perusal of those who have a taste for them . Dr . Forbes , ^ also , has favoured us with a sketch of his traA'els , somewhat nearer home than those of Mr . Palliser , and in default of bears and wolves , has provided a genial sketch of the state of Ireland , through the length aud breadth of which he and his companions strolled together during the autumn , of last year . Like the tour in Switzerland , by the same author , the book is more than a pleasing account of a vacation trip .
It abounds , in truth , with the careful results of shrewd observation upon men and things ; ancl is calculated , if people will only read it as it deserves to be read , to dispel many foolish prejudices against Ireland , aud to open up to English lovers of the picturesque and beautiful many a pleasing journey , as far out of the line of ordinary tourists as Norway , or the Arctic regions . Moreover , it will set to rights a few very wrong notions about Irish landlordism and tenantism , and some few other isms bearing
on the political and social condition of the sister isle , which cannot be too soon got rid of . Properly speaking , Colonel Churchill ' s " Mount Lebanon" § has no very distinct claim to be ranked amongst travels , since it is rather the result of a long residence tinder the cedars of that noted mount than of any journeying thither or thence . Unfortunately , also , the work is rather a heavy one , although full of valuable information upon a vast variety of
subjects ; and for this reason a summary of its . contents is altogether out of the question . The least we could say of it , were Ave to attempt the task , would occupy more space than we can conveniently spare , and certainly more than our readers could get through with anything like patience ; for