Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1861-11-01
New Publications.

y RUN THROUGH ErRorE. By Erastus c..
Benedict New York D. Appleton S Go
publishers. PIP. 5j2.
In this handsome volume. the readers of
, the Free Press will find no, altogether new
ac1uaintance, some 100 pages Of it being a
compilation, somewhat condensed, of the
Letters from Europe which for many
months. year OF more back formed an IL
tertsting and welcome feature in the columns
of the Free Pass. 1t forms the record of
/ a rapid journey, going and returning, over
ninety degrees Of longitude and sixteen dc
srees of latitul. in the Old World, ''be-
tween New York and Nieanu, between Pom
peii and Edinburgh from Boulogne to Mar
ssillcs. from Naples 10 Berlin, from Leips;c
to Chamouni, from Geneva TO Amsterdam,
from the Isle of Wight to Glasgow. and
from Lough Neal to Dublin run"
through five and twenty kingdoms and Sow
ereignties, all in the most genial, beautiful
and luxuriln, time of the year The author
says
Nothing was further from my mind
when | went Ut when | returned, than pub
fishing book Of these rapid and commons
place travels. / wrote to my fdmily-many
hundred miles apart in several States-using
the columns OF q public Journal read by
them all. Letters thus written abroad and
printed for the common benefit. and others
written from cOpiouS notes and full memories,
with some amplifications, have by my pub
Usher and myself been made into book"
1t is not fox Us, under the circumstances,
to review the book but we may be allowed
to copy one Of the very many aPpreciatiye
notices with which it has been welcomed by
the Press, as a fresh and truly valuable ad-
dition t, the store Of works Of European
travel The following is from the Literary
Notices" of Harper's Magazine
\ Run through Europe, by ERAsTUs c.
BENEDICT published by d. Appleton q
Co. Mr.. Benedict needs no apology,in these
days of prOfuse spawning of travellers sto-
ries, for inviting the public to a share Of the
enjoyment with which he has made 4 rapid
visit to the principal objects Of intelligent
curiosity on a European tour. He had the
advantage of precisely knowing what he
/ most wished to see no time was lost by lre
quent changes in the prescribed route Of
travel he cherished no ambition to make
new discoveries he carried with him no
| fastidlOus preiudices; with the ripe expert
enee of manhood, and yet unworn youth
ful spirit. he was prepared to admire with
discrimination and the record which he has
here given Of his foreign experience, for
freshness, animation. lively description, and
iudicious comment has rarely been surpassed
in the legion of books of travel, which arc
annually submitted to or rather inflicted on,
long suffering public by the swarm of
American tourists.
Mr.. Benedict, in addition 70 his excellent
sketches of Partisan life, offers some forcible
suggestions on the present political and So
| ciaI condition of that metropolis. In spite
of the unfavorable impressions which are
usually received by an American traveller on
! his first visit to Paris, there is deeper and
| better life which. on the surface, appears to
| be pivcn over to utter and hopeless friyolty.
! There is a sobriety and reality in the real
currents of Partisan life which do not suffer
| in comparison with London and New York.
In every large city, especially every gay cap
| ital, vice and irreligiOu assume the most
/ agreeable manners, and press themselves for
| ward into the best circles and most conspic-
uous places. With the same sort Of romano
ers and ephemeral scribblers London and
! New York, Boston and Philadelphia, would
! easilv furnish materials for character as
loose as that Of Paris While these cities
boast of preponderating religious, moral,
and worthy population which saves them
| from the character Of dissolute capitals, so
the vast majority of the inhabitants of Paris
and of France are not justly chargeable with
| the vices which have gIyen them a bad rep
utation from the conduct Of the few. Paris,
according to the observations Of Mr.. Bene-
! dict, has never been in more favorable con-
/ ditIon than it now is under the rule of Ma
pnleOn III. No government has ever been
more popular than the present. The most
admirable order prevails in the city. Never
was the smooth and easy routine when ali
classes of Parisians love so much more com.
| plete than at this moment. win plenty OF
work for the trades, plenty OF customers tor
the shops, and plenty OF amusements at the
| theatres and gardens, there Is no fear OF
popular outbreaks and bloody fusiiades Then
any one that pleases may govern the French,
they have no desire to govern themselves.
The Partisan coaehman, with whom Mr.
Benedict loved TO have in occasional quiet