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DLCEMBER 17, 1853. THE PRESS. SECOND EDITION, ENIAROED.--This ti,oy is *0- l'Hoe 14c. THE RUSSIAN SHORES OF THE BLACK SEA IN THE AUTUMN OF 1P52; With a VOYAGE down the VOLGA and a Torn through the Country of the DUN COSSACKS. By LAURENCE OLIPHANT, Author of a " Journey to Nepaul." With 31 EnoTavinga on Wood. Enlargeti Mar of the Crimes, and tap of the r• Author's Route. " The latest and the ba4“ areonnt of the actual state of Lues.ll." —4toodpril. _ _ in no rhapsodies; we infer that be has few illusionr. Ilia toner are grey and his lamitioapes those of the daguerreotype—nature re. produced with her OULlia•Scorreel, and wit the loss of it hired colour. lie may be taken 1111 8 pretty Salo guide till'oligh a part of Russia little traversed by his men—the hue of the Volga betweeti Novgorod and !litho% kit and the l'Oullitlek kteppe between that town 888 the cruu,m ; hilt. Ilia 01.., , Evit• lion* at lissastopol, Odessa, and other vaunted place.; of thu Itls. k. See. etrike us as equally inlet worthy. //wooers,. " The facts 'a Welt he details In iiiipport of his iew o f the Russian tiov ("tit, and the considerations by which lie en deavours to arouse the V.figll , sh public to a souse of the dangers of Rusk/hut aggresbion, are both worthy of the most serious anew tion."—tTharifialt. we have at ailed ourselves so often of late of the opportune information afforded by Mr. Oliphant, that we have left ourselves, as critics, little to say of his volume The information collected by Mr. Oliphant during hie hasty tour war conaaleraide (the field is almost untrodden), and is the more worthy of ere deuce that he gives it for exactly what it is worth—frankly telling what his sourecs were, mid pointing out their inailoquitcy when not entirely to be relied upon. The book bears Cr fads India puteble marks of the shrewdness, qulek-sigliteiltiess, candour, mid veracity of the author. It is the production of a gentleman in the true English sense of the word. —Doily Neer.. " Mr. Oliphant caw mach that no recent observer has described. and he relates his experlenceit in a style fresh, interesting, and often very graphic. He bad evidently no bias for or against Hunts, and he says whet lle has to say in the Mut and impartial tune of a reporter, which Lest befits such a subject at such a tune." This lee book of travels dist in:01;411okt front the majority of such hooks by the freshness of its matter, the importance of its political information, especially et this time, and the unusual simplicity and trustworthiness uf its treatment. lir. Oliphant has not only travelled whore few Etirol.eau travellers have been before him, but he has wandered amid • 11(.4 of which every elm is 1131110U6 to hear."—Leader. " Mr. tiltpliant iA a traveller oft he sober, ingakitive. and useful, rather than the sentimental and deseripUre school. 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