“Old Roads and New Roads.—(Chapman and Hall, London.) No. I. of ‘Reading for Travellers.’ A first-rate little volume, printed with large type, and just the thing for a railway ride. The publishers have acted wisely in calling to their aid a scholar and a writer of the highest order.”
The Leicestershire Mercury.
“Messrs. Chapman and Hall have re-entered the field of Railway Literature, and have very fittingly commenced their series of ‘Reading for Travellers’ with a graphic historical sketch of Old Roads and New Roads. It is at once scholarly and popular in style and contents——yet free from the slightest tinge of pedantry or affectation. The narrative is by no means a mere dry record of facts and dates. It is abundantly diversified and relieved with illustrative anecdotes and sprightly observations—philosophy and pleasantry combining with genuine erudition to make this one of the most useful and entertaining of the volumes of railway reading with which we have met.”
MAGIC
AND
WITCHCRAFT.
| “Somnia, terrores magicos, miracula, sagas, Nocturnos lemures, partentaque Thessala rides?” Hor. Epist. ii. 2. 208. |
LONDON:
CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193, PICCADILLY.
1852.