Normandy Picturesque Part 14

_'Extremely readable,--a lively picture of Spain as it is.'_--London Review.

_'A truthful and pleasant record of the adventures of a party of ladies and gentlemen--an accomplished and artistic little company of friends.'_--Era.

_'This unpretending but practical volume is very readable.'_--Standard.

_'Not only to be admired, but read.'_--Ill.u.s.trated London News.

_'A lively and interesting sketch of a journey through Spain.'_--Builder.

_'Very useful as well as entertaining.'_--Observer.

_'A most amusing book, profusely ill.u.s.trated.'_--John Bull.

_'The dullest of books--a thing of shreds and patches.'_--Morning Star.

THE PYRENEES

_With One Hundred Ill.u.s.trations by_ GUSTAVE DORe.

Opinions of the Press on "The Pyrenees."

_'This handsome volume will confirm the opinion of those who hold that M. Dore's real strength lies in landscape. Mr. Blackburn's share in the work is pleasant and readable, and is really what it pretends to be, a description of summer life at French watering-places. It is a_ bona fide _record of his own experiences, told without either that abominable smartness, or that dismal book-making, which are the characteristics of too many ill.u.s.trated books.'_--Pall Mall Gazette.

_'The author of this volume has spared no pains in his endeavour to present a work which shall be worthy of public approbation. He has secured three elements favourable to a large success,--a popular and fascinating subject, exquisite ill.u.s.trative sketches from an artist of celebrity, and letter-press dictated by an excellent judgment, neither tedious by its prolixity, nor curtailed to the omission of any circ.u.mstance worth recording.'_--Press.

_'Mr. Blackburn has accomplished his task with the ease and pleasantness to be expected of the author of "Travelling in Spain." He writes graphically, sometimes with humour, always like a gentleman, and without a trace or tinge of false sentiment; in short, this is as acceptable a book as we have seen far many a day.'_--Atheneum.

_'A general, but painstaking account, by a cultivated Englishman, of the general impression, step by step, which an ordinary Englishman, travelling for his pleasure, would derive from a visit to the watering-places of the Pyrenees.'_--Spectator.

'_Mr. Blackburn has an eye for the beautiful in nature, and a faculty for expressing pleasantly what is worth describing; moreover, his pictures of men and manners are both amusing and life-like.'_--Art Journal.

_'Readers of this book will gain therefrom a great deal of information should they feel disposed to make a summer pilgrimage over the romantic ground so well described by the author.'_--Era.

_'One of the most exquisite books of the present year is Mr. Henry Blackburn's volume, "The Pyrenees;" it is brightly, amusingly, and intelligently written.'_--Daily News.

_'Few persons will be able to turn over the leaves of the pretty book before us, without a longing desire for a nearer acquaintance with the scenes which it depicts.'_--Guardian.

_'A pleasant account of travel and summer life in the Pyrenees.'_--Examiner.

_'The author has ill.u.s.trated M. Gustavo Dore's engravings very successfully.'_-The Times.

_'This is a n.o.ble volume, not unworthy of the stately Pyrenees.'_--Ill.u.s.trated London News.

_'A singularly attractive book, well written, and beautifully ill.u.s.trated.'_--Contemporary Review.

London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston.