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    is dwelt uprtn long , and only the surface of every thing is skimmed . The author visited France , Italy , Sicily , Austria , Gfreece , Turkey , Switzerland , England ( or rather London ) , and Scotland . To read the impressions such a route left on the mind of an American of education , cannot fail to be

    interesting , particularly as the style in which he write * is eaay , and generally unaffected . We notice , as particularly good , hia descriptions of Pompeii , of Vesurius , of Florence , and of Comtaatinople . He celebrates the beauty of the Boaphorus —~ < f The Italians say , ' See Naples and die ! ' but for Naples I would read Stamboul and the Bosphorus . " He celebrates , too , the large , dark , peculiar eyes of the women , with which they

    gaze so fixedly at whatever attracts their curiosity , themselves completely hid by their veils , all but these bright unwinking eyes— " they watch the stranger ' s countenance , and if he takes out his glove , or pulls out his purse , take it up and look at it without ever saying , " by your leave . " Their enrioeity

    often extends to your dress , and they put out their little heana-atained fingers , and pass them over the sleeve of your coat with a gurgling expression of admiration at its fineness ; or if you have rings , or a watch-guard , they lift your hand , or pull out your watch , with no kind of scruple . 1 have met with several instances of this in the course of my rambles , " yet when , in return , he says , on one occasion , " I did my

    prettiest at an oriental salaam , to my mortification the lady only gathered up her i / ash ? nacfc 9 and looked surprised out of her great eyes at my freedom . "—Vol . ii . p . 290 and 294 It seems strange to find in an American such decidedly aristocratic sympathies as are evinced by Mr . Willis . He talks , indeed , now and then of the " president" and " republicanism , " but he appears to have been quite dazzled by the polish and glitter of fashionable manners in this country , lie , in . fact , describes no others , with the exception of an occasional notice of literary society . The Duke of Cx , Lord D— ,

    Lady B , Lord A , &e . < kc . occupy far more of his pages than any of the aristocracy oi ^ nature . Like aim , we can perceive the beauty of such a " broad expanse " as the park at Gordon Castle presents to the eye , with the " shaven sward " extending " a mile from the castle wall , " " hill and valley

    spreading to the horizon , and " all one princely possession , " but it is to us a cold and cheerless beauty , darkened over by the prevailing idea of selfish , grasping * possession . c < I passed the morning / ' he says , " in threading the lovely alleys and avenues of the park , miles after miles of gravel walk extending away in every direction . # # ? ? This , I thought to myself , a& I Bped on through light and shadow , is very like what is called happiness . "— -Vol . iii ., p . 265 . It does iK > t seem so to us .

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    100 CJrifoal Notice * .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1836, page 190, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2655/page/62/