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Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone - Made During the Year 1819
by John Hughes
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"The tower of Mauconseil must have been very difficult to express; for the water on the right is between a light coloured stone-quay and the tower itself, also very bright; yet the artist, W.B. Cooke, has contrived to give it a fine and natural transparency entirely in keeping with the scenery around. The second is a simple and lovely landscape, with a sky exquisitely managed: but Avignon is still a greater favourite with us. The rich architectural structures on one hand, the silvery river, the picturesque bridge, the distant Alps of Dauphine, and the little bit of rustic scenery on the foreground of the left, all combine to render this a very charming view; and Mr. Allen has great merit in executing it as he has done. The Chateau Grignan is of a different and darker character, and an extremely interesting performance. Upon the whole, the lovers of elegant art will find this publication well entitled to their attention."—Literary Gazette, No. 309.

A JOURNEY THROUGH ALBANIA and other Provinces of TURKEY in Europe and Asia, in Company with the late Lord Byron; including a Life of Ali Pasha, and illustrated by Views of Athens, Constantinople, and various other Plates, Maps, &c. By JOHN CAM HOBHOUSE, Esq. M.P. Second Edition, with Corrections. 2 vols. 4to. 5l. 5s. boards.

"Both the general reader and the scholar may look for no small portion of information and amusement from the present volume. The work itself will have a standard place in all Collections of Voyages and Travels; a place which it will fully merit, by the industry and ardour of research conspicuous throughout, as well as by the spirit vivacity and good sense of the general narrative."—Quarterly Review, XIX.

"The narrative which he has produced bears unquestionable marks of a curious, capacious and observant mind; and the same may be said of the poetical production of his friend Lord Byron, who accompanied him on his Travels. As Reviewers are sometimes charged with a propensity to cavilling, we will not close these introductory remarks without declaring in round terms in justice to Mr. Hobhouse, and in vindication of ourselves, that we have received as much pleasure and instruction from the perusal of these Travels as from that of any others which have ever come before us," &c. &c.—British Review, No. IX.

HORAE IONICAE, descriptive of the Ionian Isles and Part of the adjacent Coast of Greece, together with other Poems. By WALLER RODWELL WRIGHT, Esq. Third Edition. 7s 6d. boards.

"Wright?[58] 'twas thy happy lot at once to view Those shores of glory, and to sing them too; And sure no common muse inspired thy pen To hail the land of gods and godlike men."

[Footnote 58: 'Mr. Wright, late Consul General for the Seven Islands, is author of a very beautiful Poem just published: it is entitled Horae Ionicae, and is descriptive of the Isles and the adjacent Coast of Greece.'—Lord Byron's English Bards.]

AN HISTORICAL SKETCH of the LAST YEARS of the REIGN of GUSTAVUS the FOURTH, late KING OF SWEDEN, including a Narrative of the Causes, Progress, and Termination of the late Revolution; and an Appendix containing Official Documents, Letters, and Minutes of Conversations between the late King and Sir John Moore, General Brune, &c. &c. 10s. 6d. boards.

BEAUTIES of DON JUAN; including those Passages only which are calculated to extend the real fame of Lord Byron. 10s. 6d.

"This is a very captivating volume with all the impurities of Don Juan expurgated, and yet displaying a galaxy of connected lustre, which is well calculated to throw a halo of splendour round the memory of Lord Byron. It may with perfect propriety be put into female hands, from which the levities and pruriences of the entire poem too justly excluded it in spite of all its charms of genius."—Literary Gazette, 599.

"We cannot conclude our observations without again congratulating the Compiler upon the success which has attended his labour, and strongly recommending the work to those who desire that the female branches of their family should participate in the beauties of this modern Prince of Poesy."—Public Ledger.

AN ACCOUNT of the EMPIRE of MOROCCO and the DISTRICT of SUSE, compiled from Miscellaneous Observations during a long Residence in and various Journies through those Countries. To which is added, an interesting Account of TIMBUCTOO, the great Emporium of Central Africa. By J.G. JACKSON, Esq. Quarto. Second Edition. 2L. 12s. 6d. boards.

"The observations which he has himself made upon these parts, and the notices which he has collected respecting the interior from native travellers, form a work of considerable value both in a commercial and literary view, and leads us to rejoice that merchants who have resided in foreign countries are beginning more and more to communicate information on their return home," &c. &c.—Edinburgh Review.

MELANGES et LITTERATURE D'HISTOIRE de MORALE et de PHILOSOPHIE, par COMTE D'ESCHERNEY. 3 vols. 1l. 1s.

THE WONDERS of a WEEK AT BATH, in a Doggrel Address to the Hon. T. S——, from F. T——, Esq. of that City. Price 7s. boards.

It contains a satirical description of the present style of life and amusements at Bath, with delineations of some individual characters. His lines are easy and flowing, and his general satire not wanting in vivacity," &c. &c.—British Critic.

MEMOIRS of the LIFE of MRS. ELIZABETH CARTER, with a New Edition of her Poems. By the Rev. MONTAGU PENNINGTON, M.A. 2 vols. 8vo. Second Edition. 10s. 6d. boards.

TRAITS and TRIALS; a Novel. 2 vols. 14s. boards.

"A pretty little tale, in which we find more discernment of character and acquaintance with human nature than are usually discoverable in the first attempts of novel writers,"—Monthly Review.

OURIKA; a Tale by the Duchess de DURAS. 2s. 6d.

"About a month ago a very pretty story under this title was published in Paris. It soon not only attracted attention but became quite the rage; and every thing in fashion and drama and picture has since been Ourika. There are Ourika dresses, Ourika Vaudevilles, Ourika prints. Madlle. Mars blacked her face to perform Ourika, but did not like her appearance in the glass, and refused the character. Such an event, like Mad. George's insult, was enough to set all that sensitive metropolis in a flame; and every mouth and every journal has rung and is ringing with Ourika."—Literary Gazette, 383.

THE LAY of the SCOTTISH FIDDLE; a Poem in Five Cantos. 7s. 6d. boards.

"I believe that the nature of this American Poem was known to the proprietor of the Quarterly Review. So far as it was a burlesque on the Lay of the Last Minstrel, I know it was; yet was he as a publisher so anxious to get it, that he engaged Lord Byron to use his utmost influence with me to obtain it for him, and his Lordship wrote a most pressing letter upon the occasion. He asked me to let Mr. Murray, who was in despair about it, have the publication of this Poem as the greatest possible favour."—Dallas's Recollections of Byron, p. 270.

ADRASTUS; a Tragedy: AMABEL, or the Cornish Lovers; and other Poems. By R.C. DALLAS, Esq. 7s. 6d. boards.

ANECDOTES, hitherto unpublished, of the PRIVATE LIFE of PETER THE GREAT, on the Authority of Mons. Stehling, Member of the Council of State to the EMPRESS CATHARINE, and Translated from the French of The Count D'Escherney, Chamberlain to the King of Wirtemberg. 5s. boards.

"These are some very entertaining anecdotes of Peter the Great, and place the private character of that Sovereign in a most amiable point of view," &c. &c.—Gentleman's Mag.

A CATALOGUE of a MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of BOOKS, New and Second-hand, on Sale for Ready Money.

* * * The Public are most respectfully informed, they can be supplied with Clean and Perfect Copies of most of the New and Costly Works as soon us the first demand has subsided, at half the Publication Price.

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