"I informed my friend that I had just received from England a journal of a tour in the South of France by a young Oxonian friend of mine, a poet, a draughtsman, and a scholar,—in which he gives such an animated and interesting description of the Château Grignan, the dwelling of Madame de Sevigné's beloved daughter, and frequently the place of her own residence, that no one who ever read the book would be within forty miles of the same, without going a pilgrimage to the spot. The Marquis smiled, seemed very much pleased, and asked the title at length of the work in question; and writing down to my dictation, 'An Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone made during the Year 1819, By John Hughes, A.M. of Oriel College, Oxford,'—observed, he could now purchase no books for the château, but would recommend that the Itineraire should be commissioned for the library to which he was abonné in the neighbouring town."—Sir Walter Scott's Quentin Durward.
"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 Dauphiné, 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 Château 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.
HORÆ IONICÆ, 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."
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.