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Critical Notices Of The Literature Of The Last Three Months,
Eussell Square or tho Regent ' s Park . Some , however , amongst them , fortunately for civilization and the progress of knowledge , are of different metal . Thoy travel with definite objects . Amusement is secondary . A love of science or art is the incentive , and habits of close observation enable them to describe vividly , correctly , and graphically , every matter worthy of observation and note . Of this class Dr . J . D . Hooker , E . N ., * ancl Dr . Hermann Burmeister . f of Berlin , are fitting types . The former
has especially taken tho great Humboldt as his guide ; while the latter , equally capable of describing natural phenomena , has thought fit , in the work to which in this place we are about to allude , to render it moro generally readable , by eliminating the more strictly scientific results of his travels from his present work , and publishing them separately . Dr . Hooker , assisted to a very limited extent by Government , and prompted by a genuine love of science , started from England in 18 < t 7
, with the intention of exploring the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas and the Khasia Mountains , together with as much of the intermediate country as ho could traverse with ordinary safety ; and wonderful indeed are tho records of these travels . Independently of the value , in a scientific point of view , which nationally attaches to his researches , we greatly hope that , commercially and socially , they may largely increase the interest which is nowbeingfeltin our vastEastern dependencies , by every thinking individual
in this country . Conquest becomes a crime , if the conqueror does not strive to improve the condition of the conquered . If the victor comes not also in the character of a benefactor , his triumphs are delusions , which pass away and leave no sign behind them . Eew books of travels that AVO are acquainted with contain as much that is not only interesting to the general reader , but valuable to the man of scientific attainments . Eor those too who only read them for the adventures and hair-breadth escapes which they containhereas old Quarles said' * ' there is plentand that
, , , y , light of digestion . " Dr . Burmeister ' s work is also full of interest . Brazil is a country of whose resources and peculiar character AVO have yet much to learn . As yet little is known about it , except its marvellous vegetation , and the fearful scourge with which it has been during latter years so often visited , which decimates its foreign population , and periodically casts a gloom over the most splendidly situated city in the world . Further south , in the same hemisphere , Mr . Bonelli , J of H . B . M . ' s Legation ,
recites his adventures in a tour across the Pampas to Buenos Ayres ; and very spirited are the pictures he draws of that wild , desolate region , which yet , and not improbably , for all we know to the contrary , watered as it is by some of the finest rivers in the world , may be destined to give birth to nations Avhose energy and industry shall found a ' commerce , the full value ancl importance of which our posterity will not fail to perceive ancl profit by . In the same way we might journey with Mr . Lloyd 5 in Scandinavia ,
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Critical Notices Of The Literature Of The Last Three Months,
Eussell Square or tho Regent ' s Park . Some , however , amongst them , fortunately for civilization and the progress of knowledge , are of different metal . Thoy travel with definite objects . Amusement is secondary . A love of science or art is the incentive , and habits of close observation enable them to describe vividly , correctly , and graphically , every matter worthy of observation and note . Of this class Dr . J . D . Hooker , E . N ., * ancl Dr . Hermann Burmeister . f of Berlin , are fitting types . The former
has especially taken tho great Humboldt as his guide ; while the latter , equally capable of describing natural phenomena , has thought fit , in the work to which in this place we are about to allude , to render it moro generally readable , by eliminating the more strictly scientific results of his travels from his present work , and publishing them separately . Dr . Hooker , assisted to a very limited extent by Government , and prompted by a genuine love of science , started from England in 18 < t 7
, with the intention of exploring the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas and the Khasia Mountains , together with as much of the intermediate country as ho could traverse with ordinary safety ; and wonderful indeed are tho records of these travels . Independently of the value , in a scientific point of view , which nationally attaches to his researches , we greatly hope that , commercially and socially , they may largely increase the interest which is nowbeingfeltin our vastEastern dependencies , by every thinking individual
in this country . Conquest becomes a crime , if the conqueror does not strive to improve the condition of the conquered . If the victor comes not also in the character of a benefactor , his triumphs are delusions , which pass away and leave no sign behind them . Eew books of travels that AVO are acquainted with contain as much that is not only interesting to the general reader , but valuable to the man of scientific attainments . Eor those too who only read them for the adventures and hair-breadth escapes which they containhereas old Quarles said' * ' there is plentand that
, , , y , light of digestion . " Dr . Burmeister ' s work is also full of interest . Brazil is a country of whose resources and peculiar character AVO have yet much to learn . As yet little is known about it , except its marvellous vegetation , and the fearful scourge with which it has been during latter years so often visited , which decimates its foreign population , and periodically casts a gloom over the most splendidly situated city in the world . Further south , in the same hemisphere , Mr . Bonelli , J of H . B . M . ' s Legation ,
recites his adventures in a tour across the Pampas to Buenos Ayres ; and very spirited are the pictures he draws of that wild , desolate region , which yet , and not improbably , for all we know to the contrary , watered as it is by some of the finest rivers in the world , may be destined to give birth to nations Avhose energy and industry shall found a ' commerce , the full value ancl importance of which our posterity will not fail to perceive ancl profit by . In the same way we might journey with Mr . Lloyd 5 in Scandinavia ,