Days near Paris . s, this book is a thing of beauty. The illustrationsespecially are of marvellous delicacy, and though the range is necessarilylimited, the variety of them is great. The book itself is a most amusingburlesque of the unveracious gasconading to which their hot blood impelsthe natives of the South of France.—Glasgow Herald. The illustrations are full of delicate characterization, of sharp satire,of artistic grace and skill; the page is narrow and admirably broken up bya great variety of small cuts, and the typography leaves nothing to bedesired. It is a long time since so complet
Days near Paris . s, this book is a thing of beauty. The illustrationsespecially are of marvellous delicacy, and though the range is necessarilylimited, the variety of them is great. The book itself is a most amusingburlesque of the unveracious gasconading to which their hot blood impelsthe natives of the South of France.—Glasgow Herald. The illustrations are full of delicate characterization, of sharp satire,of artistic grace and skill; the page is narrow and admirably broken up bya great variety of small cuts, and the typography leaves nothing to bedesired. It is a long time since so complete and fascinating a work hascome from the press.—7%^ JBook Buyer, New York. George Routledge & Sons, JVew York and LondoJi. Tartarin on the Alps T37 left hand; and at each turn of the carriage,streams, and valleys, from which uprosechurch steeples, were seen; and in the distancethe snowy peak of the Finsteraarhorn sparkledin the beams of the invisible sun. After a while the road became shaded,, 6e4 T-,.,,^. and of a wilder aspect. On one side wasgloomy shadow, a chaos of trees planted onthe slope, twisted and irregular, amongstwhich the splashing of a torrent was audible:on the right an immense rock overhung thepath, bristling with branches which sprungfrom the crevices in its sides. They were not laughing in the landau now : F 2
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