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The Book of South Wales, the Bristol Channel, and t

An elegantly got-up work of this title, (with the ad-
dendum that it is also " A Companion and Guide to the

Railways, Watering-places, shores, Scenery, Antiquities,
Unexplored Regions, Mineral Districts, Towns, and other
objects of interest throughout the Southern Division of
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the Principality, with a picture of Bristol,) by Charles
Frederick Cliffe, has just made its appearance, illustrated
with maps and fine bold engravings. The author, who is
evidently a keen observer of the beauties and varieties of
nature and art, as well as a pleasing and talented writer,
remarks in his introduction that, " the volume is the
result of observations made at intervals in various parts
of South Wales during the last twenty years. Sometimes
(he continues) I have resided for several weeks on the
sea coast ; at others I have made systematic excursions :
occasionally I have roamed through the mountains with
a fishing-rod, penetrating unfrequented districts in pur-
suit of sport. I have thus progressively picked up more
information relative to the country than falls to the lot of
most men." The author fulfils even more than this an-
nouncement seems to imply. There is an excellent ac-
count of the Iron Trade of South Wales, the South Wales
Railway, a Glossary of the Welsh Language, and the
Tour of the Lower Wye, &c., in addition to the usual
and, in this case, copious amount of description of scenery
and places. Amongst the engravings are views of Tenby,
the Cathedrals of Llandaff and St. Davids. There is also
a copious index to places and subjects. Hitherto we have
seen almost exclusively works on North Wales, and know
comparatively little of the southern division ; but this
k gives us a deep interest in the latter, and bearing
stamp of authenticity, we doubt not but it will bring
part of the country of the Ancient Britons into
vied note amongst travellers and tourists. The
bounds with many historical reminis-
enses and legends.

)k, moreover

he healthy tone of moral 'feeling which has characte-
I this publication from its commencement ; the in-
ctive tendency of its articles, particularly those
thing on history and science; anCh the cheap though
litable form in which it is got up, are sufficient re-

to procure this work a place in every

The Lost Rose Found ; a Tale for Scotchmen in the 19th
Century. London : W. S. Orr and Co.
This is the first number of a new serial, intended, ap-
parently-, to describe the manners and parties in Scotland
,n the years succeeding 1843. It evindes thus far con-
siderable cleverness, but we must see more of it before we
can give a proper judgment. It is illustrated by K. 11.
Brown, better known to the world as " Phiz."

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Isis, inlaid with silver foliage. The Apollo with .his lyre
is femininely beautiful. A Victory standing on a globe ;
a Mercury flying; and a Faun asleep, a drunken faun on
his wine-skin. are wonderfully clever works of art. The
figures ofa goat and bull form a fountain. The busts also are
very fine and characteristic of Sylla, Scipio, Africanus, Com -
modus, Caracalla, Sappho, Tiberius, &c. A statue of Piety,
and the two Discoboli, demand your attention, cum
multis aliis. There are also a few good, among many
mediocre, paintings in this rare museum, as the Judith,
Cain and Abel, and the Marriage of Cupid and Psyche.
The bronze wings that adorn the vases are of beautiful
workmanship ; and the candelabra, six feet high, and
elaborately adorned, are interesting : so are the tripods.
Two angels, or harpies, are curiously fine.
After going through this vast collection, containing
fifteen thousand bronze works of art alone, I strolled on
towards the Castle of St. Elmo, and from its height had
a glorious view of the bay and the city, with its four
hundred thousand busy, noisy souls ; and pensive musings
stole over my mind, as I watched the blue waves of the
Mediterranean, and thought that the bright and sparkling

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My Boston companion had left me abniptly, and I felt
in that city the full import of the word alone. "I am
alone" impressed its meaning on my mind, heart, and
memory. All around, the scenery about Naples, is rich in

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places, carry the mind back to the all-powerful sway of
the Romans. The ruined, but yet vast, remains of the
bridge of Caligula; the temple of Jupiter Serapis, with
its forty-two rooms for its pagan priests, only three of
its huge columns erect, all the others prostrate, broken,

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osity, I -met with a. very- kind and polite German gentle-
man I had known at Rome. He brought me a ticket for
the Grand Theatre of San Carlo, to which I accompanied
him. It is, I think, larger than our Royal Opera-house,
but not more elegant. Its seven tiers of boxes, the
royal box (which is more conspicuously adorned in all
the Italian theatres than in our English ones), and the
ceiling, are very elegant ; so also are those at Florence
and Lucca.

Mr. Hiechiman started off the next day, a very stormy

for him to be gratified.' We visited the Lucrine Lake;
passed Monte Nero ; drank together the rich Falernian
bored the temples of Neptune and Jove, adorned