Dickens, Charles. American notes. New York, 1842.
Dickens, in 1841, traveled in steamboats from Pittsburg to St. Louis. His dyspeptic comments on life and manners in the United States, at the time grated harshly on the ears of our people; but afterward, they grew strong and wise enough to smile at them. The book is to-day, like Mrs. Trollope's, entertaining reading for an American.
Rubio (pseud.). Rambles in the United States and Canada, in 1845. London, 1846.
A typical English growler, who thinks America "the most disagreeable of all disagreeable countries;" nevertheless, he says of the Ohio, "a finer thousand miles of river scenery could hardly be found in the wide world."
Mackay, Alex. The Western world; or, travels in the United States in 1846-47. London, 1849.
Good for its character sketches, glimpses of slavery, and report of economic conditions.
Robertson, James. A few months in America [winter of 1853-54]. London, n. d.
Chiefly statistical.
Murray, Charles Augustus. Travels in North America. London, 1854, 2 vols.