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REV. HENRY COLMAN'S NEW
vi BOOK ON EIJROPEg

have IN press, and will soon issue an
exceedingly well written and interest
ingwork, descriptive of European Life
and Manners" It is from tho pen of
Rev. Henry Colman, gentleman we'll
and favorably known to our readers, as
nintelligent and accomplished clergy
man, and an Interesting, gifted and pow
erful writer. We have been favored
blythe publishers with a sight Of some
of the proofshoots of the Forthcoming
volumes, and are thus enabled to speak
with, knowledge Of the interest which
this work cannot fail to create when it
shall appear. It is to appear in two
large and handsome octave volumes.
In paper, Typography and general ex-
ccution, it is, like every thing that
issues from the press of these publish
ers, Weldon and a credit 20 the Bos-
ton press. In this respect, it leaves
nothing to be desired.
With regard to intrinsic merits Of the
work itself, we need not say much. All
our readers are already aware of the
remarkable facilities and unequallcd op-
portunities Mr.. Colman has enjoyed,
during his residence in Europe, to gath
erSmostt ample materials for a work of
this kind, and we have all seen that no
man is better fitted by his natural pow
ers of observation and his ease and
freedom of style, to turn these rich
stores to their best account. 1t could
not fail, therefore, that such combina-
ton Of opportunity and ability, as in the
present case, should result in the pro.
%Action Of just such work as the two
volumes whose proof sheets now lie upon
our table.
1t is full Of varied, interesting and
often most valuable observation. We
forbear any more comments of our own,
and in evidence of the correctness Of
our favorable opinion of the work, de-
vote the rest of our space to q few brief
and disconnected extracts from its pa
ges, selected at random and hastily,
without, in any case, taking any pains
to give what may seem to be the best
portions.
LoNDoN--ITs Marrow STREETS
Sometof the streets, lined with shops
full of the most brilliant collections and
varieties Of goods, and others stretch.
ing through long ranges of stalls and
shops full Of meats, vegetables, fruits
and groceries, are actually, by my own
measurement, not in width more than
foot beyond what l could reach with my
outstretched arms; and these places so
thronged with people that it requires
considerable skill, and q constant move
lnent onward to avoid running other
people down or being run down your
self. A street twice as wide as Thea
tro Alley in Boston, at its entrance
from Milk street, with n gutter in the
middle, and lined with stores as thick
as they can stand, and torrent of peo-
pie pressing through them in opposite
currents side by side, is specimen Of
some Of the busiest thoroughfares in
this modern Babylon. But this is one
side Of the. picture. IfLondon has its
narrow streets, it has likewise its broad
and magnificent passages, ,of o width a
third greater than Broadway in New
York, in, its widest parts running for
miles, with stores and shops of almost
unimaginable splendor, and in their rich
ness and magnifcencc realizing the
brightest fictions of poetry. a.a@ jss
!, THE EXTENT OF LoNDoN.---i It is
absolutely impossible to communicate
to ono who has not seen it any justidca
Of It. have said to myself several
times twe1l, now, / have seen the whole,