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rch 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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