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422 NOTICES* OF BOOKS. x
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Foreign Literature.
ting writer noticed himself , ( in a fault any with Eng balanced so lish much periodical by zeal many to . whatever admirable The chief subject qualities fault of he , ) thi is undertakes s the excellent devo- *
that he seems unable to understand that every one may not think it worth the same amount of time and laborious attention ;—and often have to search for the wheat through a considerable
we consider amount o chaff f what althoug readers h l it cannot patient be and denied laborious that , the will wheat be apt when to
, in we order have found to include it is generall as much y of interesting sterling quality matter . as For possible this reason within , _^
inserting some the very of limited the a few particulars disjointed space at that extracts our appeared . disposal in the best , we ordinary worth have g thrown ivin style g , instead but _together it of is
, small only just part to of the the amusing author to and add useful , that these information sketches afforded contain in a very the
volumes themselves . * We now return to the sketches of Cattaro and Montenegro ,
begun in our last chapter . them not " sufficientl As in the making wea y ther favorable ourselves in tlie for acquainted few our first inten days with ded visit after such to our lions Montenegro arrival as the at , lace we Cattaro emp afforded loye , was d
p , not tain amongst torrents which than which , must few hundred flow by no close means yards past be the in omitted length gates from of the the two its town spring rivers . in The or the rather Fiumera mountains moun is
more a , hundred to where fee it falls t broad into . The the wild Ghilf pic of turesque Cattaro— rocky but chasm is frequentl where y it above first makes three shot from the town and there
the its appearance channel is some is not times more nearl than y a dry rifle ; but after rain the gates water , will even suddenly not down with from
fill above it , in bu a t mos welling t astounding up throug manner h the , rocks only , and pouring out of every it conceivable fury if
all added corner the that and mountains when cranny it around , rains from b at must elow Cattaro be as " as well it porous does as from so as in so above good many , earnest so sponges that sending . seems It must down as be
mostl drops y follo wha w t each the peop other le so call closel ' pack y as -thread h to t form be rain one , ' line I believe , but from because , what desi the I saw large tion , I
think I ran out ' rope after , ' one * of cable these rain showers , ' mig , to try and a more get to appropriate a sort of raised p gna latform . had the water flooded all the nei
in streets the bazaar but , bu house t not door only furnished a separate tributary brook ghbouring and the
rocks eruptio abo , n , ve as every _seemed if from to so have many opene main d a thousand pipes jus mouths t turned to on pour . Many forth , a of watery these in beautiful and romantic cascadesand
moun an obli well tain ging streams friend of fall belong the into ing icturesque the to Cattaro gulf villages took us and in villas his gondola with their to visit vineyards them , , '
as as some . p , remember and olive gardens lace called , which Dobro lie t along awhich the s shores tretches of six the Italian gulf . miles I especiall so close y
le to t t t hem foo sel t v es p the down Mon from tenegrin their moun rock , tains fortresses , that the on mountaineers the tempting booty could , below almost . y
of proprietors i It n Montene is such amazing a was dangerous to has pointed see so abode nei much out ghbourhood to to wealth me as are and a . with More luxury illiona some than ire disp , of la one these yed cer of so tainl these unhesitating The y the Dobrota Prince ant ly s
of these villas gro howe t no ver are fully comp prep l ared be turned to defend into their little posessions . fortress occup in case of
need , an * These each of preliminary he houses remarks can readi should y have been ins a erteel last month . . In one
422 Notices* Of Books. X
422 NOTICES _* OF BOOKS . _x
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1858, page 422, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081858/page/62/
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