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and Mausoleum at St. Remy--Orgon--Bay of Marseilles--Cannes, where
Buonaparte remained the night of his landing from Elba, and where Murat
sheltered when he fled from Naples, Two View--Maritime Alps, from the
Castle of Nice--Castle of Tende.
*** This Work is sold with or without the Illustrations.
"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 Chateau
Grignan, the dwelling of Madame de Sevigne'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 chateau, but would recommend that the Itineraire
should be commissioned for the library to which he was abonne 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 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
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