Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), 15th July 1882, Edition 1 of 1, Page 630

MAGYARLAND . A NARRATIVE OF TRAVEL THROUGH THE SNOWY CARPATHIANS , AND GREAT ALFOLD OF THE MAGYAR . BY A FELLOW OP THE CARPATHIAN SOCIETY ( Diploma of 1881 ) , and Atjthob of ' The Indian Alps . ' 2 vols . royal 8 vo . cloth extra , with about 120 Woodcuts from the Author ' s own Sketches and Drawings , 38 s . SOME PRESS OPINIONS . Prom the SATURDAY REVIEW . * We have to thank the writer for a book that is pleasant to read and pleasant to look at from beginning to end . ' From tlie TIMES . 1 We have indicated that the authoress is a born artist , both with her pen and pencil ; and through all there is a pervading S 3 mpathy with life in every guise , such a tender eye for human joy and sorrow , so much true pathos and genuine humour , and such perfect skill in grouping , that the work stands as far above the ordinary tourist ' s narrative as a picture gallery does above an atlas . " Magyarland " is certain to become a permanent favourite . ' From » the ATHENJEUM , February 18 . ' The author is gifted with considerable powers of description , the stvle being further enlivened by happy and unexpected turns of humour . .... Pen and pencil alike show the artistic feeling of the writer . The numerous illustrations are clever , and some of them beautiful . .... Throughout the narrative , too , we find a series of wordpictures , to the composition of which the natural features of the country seem to lend themselves , where there are eyes to see them , in no common degree . Among them are the glorious tints of sunrise or sunset on the vast plains ; reapers working by moonlight or by the ruddy glow of fires , which arc often fed by sheaves of Indian corn ; gipsy bands of music ; groups of shepherds by the wells , or of peasants in church , or market-place , the subtlest details of their costumes finding in the author an able expositor . . . . . Out of these materials the author has , with the aid of a gipsy encampment and a magnificent " afterglow , " evolved some of her prettiest idyllic passages . Our gratitude for these attractive volumes / From the ACADEMY , March 4 . * Really charming episodes of mountain travel , which the authoress portrays even more deftly with her pen than her pencil , although many of the sketches scattered through her handsome volumes are both clever and characteristic ' London : SAMPSON LOWMABSTONSEARLE & RIVING TON , £ Crown Buildings , , 188 Fleet _ , Street , E . C . , ^ _ — L ^ - * J

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