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    276 NOTICES OF BOOKS.

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    jEZm Herhst in Wales. (A.n Autumn in Wal...

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    Foreign Literature. Tagehuch Of A Journe...

    an serves tiqui as ty guard that it -room is scarcel , with y possible a game of to cards tell one , tlie suit cards from being another of . such " ,

    hoaryof It this is holiday hardly necessary character to but say involve that d the considerable journey "was fati not gue altogether , though _,

    , little or nothing that could be called hardship . The present volumehoweveronly brings us to the arrival of

    , , the expedition at Albuquerque on the Rio Grande . For the account of the more toilsome and dangerous march across the almost

    unknown regions between there and the Pacific , we must wait for

    the forthcoming part of the narrative . _^

    276 Notices Of Books.

    276 NOTICES OF BOOKS .

    Jezm Herhst In Wales. (A.N Autumn In Wal...

    jEZm Herhst in Wales . ( A . n Autumn in Wales . ) By Julius Rodenberg . The desire of sympathyor the love of approbationor whatever

    name we may choose to , give to that principle of our frail , nature , on whichthe power of Mrs . Grundy is chiefly based , generally disposes

    us to , like to hear what other people say of us . We will say nothing in the English Woman ' s Journal about the pleasure of looking in the

    glass , which indeed may or may not be a pleasure according to circumstances ; but , however we may account for the fact , it is well

    known that few foreign books are more eagerly read in England , than those which treat of England itself , and tell us what in most

    cases we knew before . There are indeed tourists to whom this objection cannot be made ,

    who present us persons and things familiar to us from our cradles , with such an astoundingly novel air about them , that we should

    never have guessed what they were meant for , and so they are as good as new ; but we are not now speaking of these very imaginative

    travellers , who seldom come from Germany , but of more simple and honest chroniclers . Mr . Rodenberg ' s book will not minister in the

    smallest degree to the ndgetty desire to know what foreigners think of us and our institutions , he is even curiously silent on all such

    topics . The " Autumn in Wales" is merely an account of a holiday excursion , which we are induced to notice because such books are

    likely to be in special request this year . When the season arrives ¦ ¦ in " Puss which in we the are Corner accustomed " it is supposed to play that our the grand corners national selected game will of

    , be mostly in our own island ; and , without having recourse to foreignersthere is often some difficulty in obtaining information

    con-, cerning them , by any other method than personal inspection , it being an understood fact that the guide books are precisely those by which

    nobody thinks of being guided . There is not indeed much that can be called information to be

    obtained from this volume— -it is half filled with Welsh traditions and fairy lore , not to mention the poetical effusions in which Mr .

    Julius Rodenberg is himself accustomed to vent his feelings , and when

    * A Translation is already announced .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1858, page 276, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061858/page/60/